The National Strategy to End Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy, 2014/2015-2019/2020 PDF Download

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Category : Teenage marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: Sierra Leone
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Category : Child marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Author: Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development
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Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Mel Gray
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317029380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book focuses solely on the unique African context engaging with issues relating to social work and development more broadly thus enabling a deeper examination and more complex and nuanced picture to emerge. Unlike most academic works, this book highlights multiple practitioner voices, with authors or co-authors that have recently been or are currently practising social workers. As an edited book, it draws from both academic research as well as lived practice experience, supported by strong theoretical positioning and guidance in introductory chapters, drawing on African literature, wherever possible. Looking at case-studies from Lesotho, Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania and covering established areas of practice such as child protection; working with older people; working with people with disabilities; mental health; and mainstream services targeting women as well as emerging areas of developmental social work practice, such as humanitarian assistance in post-conflict situations; work with immigrants and refugees; and the training of community-based workers, this book takes a future-oriented perspective that aims to move beyond well-worn critiques to envision constructive and sustainable futures for social work and social development in Africa from a critical perspective.

Author: Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN: 1849291616
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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The Judicial Bench Book on Violence Against Women in Commonwealth East Africa situates VAW in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. By placing VAW within the socio-cultural and legal context of the region, the bench book will enhance the ability of judicial officers to handle cases of VAW, both within a human rights as well as a gender perspective.

Author: David Lawson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315407086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Access to justice is a fundamental right guaranteed under a wide body of international, regional and domestic law. It is also an essential component of development policies which seek to adequately respond to the multidimensional deprivations faced by the poor in order to improve socio-economic well-being and advance the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals. Women and children make up most of Africa’s poorest and most marginalized population, and as such are often prevented from enforcing rights or seeking other recourse. This book explores and analyzes the issue of gendered access to justice, poverty and disempowerment across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and provides policy discussions on the integration of gender in justice programming. Through individual country case studies, the book focuses on the challenges, obstacles and successes of developing and implementing gender focused access to justice policies and programming in the region. This multidisciplinary volume will be of interest to policy makers as well as scholars and researchers focusing on poverty and gender policy across law, economics and global development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, the volume provides policy discussion applicable in other geographical areas where access to justice is elusive for the poor and marginalized.

Author: Auma Okwany
Publisher: Maklu
ISBN: 9044134795
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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The educational experience reproduces gender ideologies and social norms, which interact with schooling for girls in very particular ways and are implicated in their persistent gendered exclusion and marginalization. The authors in this volume focus on this link by taking a social norms approach to profile the processes, strategies of and research on community-led interventions. The chapters are paced around a pilot project that critically adapted a successful model in India to develop context-appropriate integrated approaches to universalizing secondary education for girls in purposively selected rural and urban poor contexts in Kenya and Uganda. The analyses provide reflexive documentation of the successes and challenges of project implementation activities that have successfully contested girls’ exclusion and marginalization in education. This requires a sustained focus on the link between social and educational institutions and policies and working in an integrated manner with a range of policy actors including young people and targeted communities to bring about significant and sustainable change.

Author: Korrie de Koning
Publisher: Kit Pub
ISBN: 9789460222382
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Since the end of the civil conflict in 2002, Sierra Leone has worked hard on rebuilding its health and social system. Although progress has been made in reducing maternal mortality, the number of women who die as a result of complications during pregnancy and/or childbirth is still one of the highest in the world. The high number of pregnant girls and teenage mothers has severe health and social consequences and contributes to the problem of maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. KIT and partners in Sierra Leone and the Netherlands have joined forces with the Government of Sierra Leone to investigate and address teenage pregnancy through knowledge sharing capacity building and the development of interventions. This work is carried out within the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Sierra Leone, one of the programs that make up the MDG5 Meshwork for improving Maternal Health*. This report includes the justification, methodology, results and recommendations of a qualitative study interviewing teenage girls who were pregnant or had been pregnant, and focus group discussions with their peers, elders and leaders in various communities in Moyamba, Kailahun, Kambia and Bo. The report describes the stories of the girls who became pregnant, the reasons for their pregnancy and the consequences of their pregnancy for them, their family and the man/boy who impregnated the girl. These stories were used in the training of health workers and for the development of a community education strategy. The report formulates implications and recommendations for further policy and strategy development for adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Sierra Leone. The latter are also based on the outcomes of a discussion of implications during a dissemination meeting of the results in Sierra Leone. *Part of the knowledge strengthening component of the MDG5 Meshwork Public Private Partnerships Programme for the improvement of Maternal Health in Sierra Leone.

Author: Oladejo, Mutiat T.
Publisher: Reamsworth Publishing
ISBN: 9789743459
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Social Protection is an area of policy and development in Africa responsible for ensuring inclusive growth and the provision of social needs which sustain human well-being. This book contains essays which analyse the role of government and non-government organisations in the provision of social protection needs for citizens in Africa, and reflect the socio-political and economic considerations underlying policy implementation. The essayists come from various disciplines such as geography, history, technology, political science and gender studies.

Author: David Kaawa-Mafigiri
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319485350
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country. Bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise, this volume addresses a vast range of topics related to child abuse and neglect in Uganda. Exploring areas from the protection of street children to cultural proverbs related to child maltreatment, this volume examines issues both specific to the Ugandan contexts as well as broadly experienced in child maltreatment work in non-Euro-American countries. This book surveys the breadth of the child protection field, covering issues of children’s universal rights, challenges of protection and ethical quandaries in researching and addressing maltreatment.