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From the Day They are Born: A qualitative study exploring violence against children with disabilities in West Africa
Despite the building evidence on violence against children globally, almost nothing is known about the violence children with disabilities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience. The prevalence of violence against children with disabilities
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Nutrition in the WHO African Region
Today, nutrition is considered a fundamental pre-requisite to health and well-being, and a primary indicator of future human capital development. The first 1000 days of a child's life is especially crucial. Physical growth and cognitive development within
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The Added Value of Protective Accompaniment of Children
Terre des Hommes Foundation Lausanne decided to tackle the problem of undocumented child migration by launching a regional project in 2008 whose aim was to offer migrant children better protection. The project was implemented, through local and strategic
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Locally-Developed Child Protection Practices Concerning Mobile Children in West Africa
This study, commissioned by Terre des homes and co-edited by the Regional Working Group on Child Protection in West Africa, represents a summary of information available about locally developed (or ‘endogenous’) practices that have the effect of protectin
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Home Truths: Wellbeing and vulnerabilities of child domestic workers
This report presents the findings of a multi-country study into the psychosocial wellbeing of child domestic workers (CDWs) across three continents. The study was conducted in Peru, Costa Rica, Togo, Tanzania, India and Philippines during 2009 with around
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Which protection for children involved in mobility in West Africa
Summary translation of of the report "Quelle protection pour les enfants concernés par la mobilité en Afrique de l’Ouest?", which analyses the mobility of youth and children in West and Central Africa. The publication documents a two year research project
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Internal Displacement in West Africa: A Snapshot
This paper offers an overview of internal displacement in the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) region—which consists of 15 countries—including displacement resulting from conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations; natura
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Atelier des experts sur la formation des agents des forces de sécurité aux droits de l'enfant en Afrique francophone
Report from a 5-day workshop held in Dakar, Senegal, 19-23 September 2011, organised by the International Bureau for Children's Rights (IBCR) in collaboration with UNICEF and Save the Children Sweden. The workshop brought together some forty international
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In the Best Interest of the Child: Harmonising Laws on Children in West and Central Africa. Addis Ababa: The African Child Policy forum
This report reviews the extent to which a number of West and Central African countries have harmonised their laws along the lines of what is required under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the rights and Welfare o
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Learning for Life: The State of the World's Girls 2012
The sixth report in Plan’s annual State of the World’s Girls series, ‘Learning for life’, takes a critical look at the state of girls’ education. The report argues that behind the success of global parity in primary education enrolment figures lies a cris
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6 month Newsletter. Creating a step change in the monitoring and evaluation of child participation
6-month Newsletter: Creating a step change in the monitoring and evaluation of child participation. In response to the need to develop better approaches to monitoring and evaluating children’s participation, a pilot project has been launched by Save the C
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Because I am a girl. Meeting the Millennium Development Goals? Real Choices, Real Lives
The 'Real Choices, Real Lives' study was set up in 2007 to follow 142 girls from birth until their 9th birthday in 2015. Now in its 4th year, it continues to follow 130 girls in 9 different countries across the world- Brazil, El Salvador, Dominican Republ