Improving surveillance of attacks on children and education in South Kivu: a knowledge collection and sensitivity analysis in the D.R. Congo
Improving surveillance of attacks on children and education in South Kivu: a knowledge collection and sensitivity analysis in the D.R. Congo
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改善南基伍省对儿童袭击和教育的监测：刚果民主共和国的知识收集和敏感性分析
DOI：
10.1080/17450128.2016.1139221
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
L. Roberts
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作者：
Cyril Bennouna;Ihotu Ali;Marius Nshombo;Gang Karume;L. Roberts
对教育机构的武装袭击影响着世界各地的学生和学校工作人员。据认为，刚果民主共和国东部的南基伍省袭击教育机构的事件发生率特别高，但由于目前没有有效、精简和务实的方法来监测袭击教育机构的事件，因此难以对发生率作出可靠的估计。这项研究利用儿童保护和教育部门各组织的大量信息，对南基伍各地的主要线人进行了半结构化访谈，列举了在两个不同时期发生的袭击事件。在这两轮研究中，在南基伍记录了405起袭击教育机构的事件，其中167起据报发生在2009年12月25日至2010年8月期间，238起发生在2012年12月25日至2014年8月期间。通过对学校负责人、教师和村干部的访谈，对这些报告进行了有目的的抽样现场核实，第一期的确认率为53%，第二期为79%。对袭击教育机构的行为进行实时监测，可以大大提高这些确认率，因为大部分无效报告事实上得到了证实，但发生在研究所涉期间之前。这些研究结果表明，使用较短的回忆期与关键线人进行半结构化访谈，然后确认报告的子样本，是监测攻击教育的可行、可靠和相对敏感的方法。
ABSTRACT Armed attacks on education affect students and school personnel around the world. South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is thought to have particularly high rates of attacks on education, but robust prevalence estimates are challenging, as there are currently no validated, streamlined, and pragmatic methods available for monitoring attacks on education. Drawing on the wealth of information across organizations within the child protection and education sectors, this study used semi-structured interviews with key informants throughout South Kivu to enumerate the attacks that took place during two separate periods. Over the two rounds of this study, 405 attacks on education were documented in South Kivu, with 167 reportedly occurring between 25 December 2009 and August 2010, and 238 between 25 December 2012 and August 2014. Purposive samples of these reports were verified on site through interviews with school directors, teachers, and village leaders, and a confirmation rate of 53% was achieved for the first period and 79% for the second. Real-time monitoring of attacks on education could achieve sizeable improvements in these confirmation rates, as a large proportion of the invalidated reports were in fact corroborated, but had taken place before the study period. These findings suggest that semi-structured interviews with key informants using a short recall period, and then confirming a subsample of the reports, constitutes a feasible, reliable, and relatively sensitive method for monitoring attacks on education.