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Rethinking orphanhood and vulnerability in Ethiopia

01/06/2012

12 pages long

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‘Orphans’ became a category of vulnerable children deserving special protection in the context of the global AIDS epidemic, and currently the notion of ‘orphans and vulnerable children’ (OVC), dominates much of the policy for protecting children across sub-Saharan Africa. Analysis of survey and qualitative data from Young Lives in Ethiopia found that parental death does […]

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‘Risky lives’: risk and protection for children growing-up in poverty

01/06/2012

11 pages long

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Child protection has focused on responding to interpersonal violence and abuse. This approach can detach children from the broader socio-economic and political structures which shape their life chances, by concentrating on the symptoms of risk rather than the underlying causes. Drawing on the Young Lives study of childhood poverty, this paper argues that poverty and […]

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Child protection: a role for conditional cash transfer programmes?

01/06/2012

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Drawing on empirical data from a community-based study with children and adults in rural Peru, the paper analyses the everyday experiences of a conditional cash transfer programme, called ‘Juntos’. The findings show that social protection programmes like Juntos address certain child vulnerabilities by making eligibility for their cash transfers conditional on behaviour-related to child protection-related […]

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Children’s migration for work in Bangladesh: the policy implications of intra-household relations

01/06/2012

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Drawing on empirical data from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bangladesh, this paper examines intra-household relations, and the roles and responsibilities of children in this context. The findings offer several contributions to current debates and approaches in child protection. First, there is a need for greater recognition of intergenerational interdependence both within households among children and […]

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Children’s responses to risk in agricultural work in Andhra Pradesh, India

01/06/2012

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This paper discusses protection of children from hazards in agricultural work. International and national policies aim to protect children by eliminating all child labour. Previous literature on hazardous child labour tends to focus on single industries or crops, overlooking the variety of activities that children undertake in subsistence farming. We analyse survey and qualitative data […]

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Introduction: development, children, and protection

01/06/2012

10 pages long

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This paper introduces the special issue. It first places the protection of children in the context of development studies. It goes on to outline current international trends in the protection of children and raises questions about them. Finally, it introduces the papers in the issue and highlights how they speak to the questions raised. This […]

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Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand

01/06/2012

13 pages long

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Traditional approaches to protecting children are insufficient to meet the complex issues they now face, and inter-sectoral, child-centred strategies are needed. Addressing this, the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) developed the Circle of Rights (COR), a participatory action research approach to involve children in ‘bottom-up’ protection work. This paper describes COR in […]

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Educating the (neo-liberal) citizen: reflections from India

01/05/2012

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Citizenship has gained considerable popular currency in development and is increasingly being used to represent its objectives and outcomes. The popular conceptualisations of citizenship have not remained unaffected by neo-liberalism, which has established itself firmly as the dominant development framework. In mapping the neo-liberal influences in conceptualisations and expressions of citizenship – evidenced in the […]

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Measuring development results: lessons from Ethiopia

01/05/2012

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Development agencies are faced with the challenge of measuring and reporting the results of their contributions to promote equitable and sustainable development. Part of this is that agencies forecast ambitious development goals and then commit themselves to measuring what they could not have achieved by the end of their programmes or projects. The present article […]

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Designing food security projects: Kapchorwa and Bukwo, Uganda

01/05/2012

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Designing food security projects: Kapchorwa and Bukwo, Uganda

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Food security is a key aspect of human development. The present article explores the shortcomings of agricultural interventions in two districts in eastern Uganda. Our study shows that these interventions have achieved only minor successes in relieving rural poverty and strengthening food security. Programmes that support prominent farmers with the aim of commercial development are […]

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