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Harmful Traditional Practices and Child Protection. Contested Understandings and Practices of Female Child Marriage and Circumcision in Ethiopia. Working Paper 93
This paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia. Both practices are widespread still, despite international and national efforts to eradicate them, and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values r
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Learning about children in urban slums: A rapid ethnographic study in two urban slums in Mombasa of community based child protection mechanisms and their linkage with the Kenyan National Child Protection System
This 2013 report presents findings from a rapid ethnographic study about community-based child protection processes and mechanisms in two urban slums in Mombasa. It is the first in a series of reports from Kenya by the Inter-Agency Learning Initiative on
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Aspiration Failure: A poverty trap for indigenous children in Peru? Young Lives Working Paper No. 116
This paper aims to contribute to understand the mechanisms underlying the complex exclusion process of indigenous people in Peru, by analysing the role played by aspirations in the investment in education of indigenous children. Aspirations of indigenous
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Breaking the Cycle of Exclusion: Roma children in Southeast europe
UNICEF's report 'Breaking the cycle of exclusion' addresses the key issues involving social exclusion of Roma children in eight South eastern European countries. It highlights the severity and the causes of exclusion of children and identifies the most c
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From Policy to Implementation: An In-Depth Exploration of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Andhra Pradesh [Working paper No. 82]
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was rolled out across India in 2008. Following positive appraisals of MGNREGS based on quantitative data (e.g. Uppal 2009), this paper uses household survey data from adults and from
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UNICEF Briefing paper on Children working in West and Central Africa
This briefing paper focuses on children in the Sahelian countries, who are enrolled in Qur’anic schools and beg as part of this education. In this region, Islamic education predates colonization and the establishment of mission and secular state schools.
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The Millennium Development Goals Report. Gender Chart 2012
The biennial MDGs Gender Chart depicts the situation of women and girls in developing regions as reflected in a number of indicators that are used to monitor the Millennium Development Goals. It shows that although there has been some progress in a number
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¿Quién se queda atrás? Resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Tercera ronda de encuestas en el Perú
This report presents initial findings from the third round of data collection by Young Lives in Peru, carried out from late 2009 to early 2010 with two age cohorts of children. It gives a broad outline of some of the key indicators of childhood poverty an
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Do Extra Classes Improve Cognitive Test Scores? Evidence from Vietnam
This paper examines whether participation in extra classes improves children’s cognitive test scores, using data from the second and third rounds of the Young Lives survey in Vietnam. Using a standard value-added model, we find that that the number of hou
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Protect my future: The links between child protection and equity
This paper, commissioned by Family for Every Child and written by Andy West and Emily Delap is part of an inter-agency series on the links between child protection and major development goals. This series is contributing to a global inter-agency campaign
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Is School Education Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Children? Factors Shaping Education Inequalities in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
School education is held up as an ‘escape route from poverty’. Millions of poor children and families are buying into this promise and often investing scarce resources in going to school, in the hope that it will lead to a better life. This paper looks at
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Children and adolescents without parental care in Latin America: Contexts, causes and consequences of the deprivation of the right to community- family- based care
This paper is based on the Latin American Report 'Children and adolescents without parental care in Latin America- Contexts, causes and consequences of the deprivation of the right to community- family- based care', which was prepared using reports from 1