Author: Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Child Marriage and Adolescent Pregnancy in Mozambique
Author: Child Marriage and Adolescent Pregnancy in Mozambique
Author: Teenage Pregnancy and Education in the Global South
Author: Francesca SalviPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351124749
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Teenage pregnancy is seen as a problem by researchers and policymakers alike all over the world, but particularly so in the context of developing countries. Here, it is seen as an obstacle to personal and national development, exacerbating the gender gap in education, and placing an additional financial burden on low income families. This book considers the opposition between pregnancy and parenthood on the one hand, and education on the other, using the specific case of in-school pregnancy in Mozambique. Drawing on the voices of young people, their families, and their teachers, this book aims to build an understanding of how individuals and communities react to in-school pregnancy policies. The result is a critical challenge of current policy guidelines that indicate pregnant schoolgirls should be transferred to night courses, initially set up to boost adult literacy. The book also demonstrates that young people operate within a range of constantly shifting and interweaving normative frameworks, and that a nuanced understanding of their agency can only be achieved by synthesising their individual perceptions with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which they operate. Concluding by stepping outside of the Mozambique case, this book aims to appeal to scholars and policymakers looking at development, gender, and education within Mozambique, but also within the Global South more generally.
Child Marriage, Adolescent Pregnancy and Family Formation in West and Central Africa. Patterns, Trends and Drivers of Change
Author: Natacha Stevanovic FennSocial Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309048974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.
National Strategy for the Reduction of Adolescent Pregnancy and Child Marriage, 2018-2022
Author: Sierra LeonePublisher:
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Category : Child marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
National Strategy for the Reduction of Adolescent Pregnancy and Child Marriage 2018-2022
Author: Sierra Leone. Ministry of Health and SanitationPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
State of the World's Children
Author: UNICEF.Publisher: UNICEF
ISBN: 9280644424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.
Measuring Empowerment
Author: Deepa Narayan-ParkerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821360574
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Large-scale poverty reduction depends on the effective empowerment of poor people themselves. This publication sets out a conceptual framework that can be used to monitor and evaluate empowerment programmes, based on papers written by practitioners and researchers in a wide variety of fields, including economics and political science, sociology and psychology, anthropology and demography. These papers draw on research and practical experience at different levels, from households to communities to nations and in various regions of the world.
Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Mozambique
Author: Chata MalePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Measures of child marriage are high in Mozambique. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 51.5 percent and it has increased over time. However the share of women marrying very early, before the age of 15, has declined, but not rapidly. Child marriage is associated with lower wealth, lower education levels, and higher labor force participation. These are however only correlations, not necessarily causal effects. In order to design programs and policies to reduce child marriage, information is needed on the trend in the practice over time, where it is most prevalent in a country, and what the characteristics of girls marrying early are.