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Tsegaye, Shimelis
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Measuring and Monitoring: Accountability to Children: A compilation of selected papers
One of the major challenges to ensuring respect for children’s rights is the absence of adequate systems for monitoring implementation and assessing progress. In recent years, institutions have sought to develop the methodologies and tools for measuring a
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The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2013: Towards greater accountability to Africa's children
The 2013 African report on child wellbeing, prepared under the theme "Towards greater accountability to Africa's children", by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), reports that Africa has become a better place for children compared to five years ago, al
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Early Childhood Wellbeing in Africa
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of early childhood development and to understand the reasons behind the differential performance of African countries on early childhood wellbeing. The paper begins with a discussion of the serious
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Budgeting for children in Africa: Rhetoric, Reality and the Scorecard. Supplement to The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2011
This report by The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) entitled 'Budgeting for Children in Africa: Rhetoric, Reality and the Scorecard', is a supplement publication to The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2011: Budgeting for Children. In addition to furthe
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Educating children with disabilities in Africa: Towards a policy of inclusion. Addis Ababa: The African child Policy forum.
A preliminary investigation, carried out by The African Child Policy Forum prior to this review, revealed that most African countries lack a proper law and policy strategy for the schooling of children with disabilities that complies with the requirements
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The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2011. Budgeting for Children
This 2011 edition of The African Report on Child Wellbeing is the second in a series of reports published biennially by The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) as their contribution to putting Africa’s children on the public and political agenda, and to hol
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The Lives of Children Heading Families
Developed while researching child-headed households in five Ethiopian towns and their rural surroundings, this book presents the experiences and stories of individual child household heads. The stories are a sample of experiences of millions of children l
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Reversed roles and stressed souls. Child-headed households in Ethiopia
In many parts of Ethiopia, children as young as nine are carrying the burden of supporting their siblings. Child-headed households live a life of hardship and often misery, as they struggle to make ends meet, suffer emotional trauma and cope with a high c