The disconnect between community-based child protection mechanisms and the formal child protection system in rural Sierra Leone: Challenges to building an effective national child protection system
The disconnect between community-based child protection mechanisms and the formal child protection system in rural Sierra Leone: Challenges to building an effective national child protection system
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塞拉利昂农村地区基于社区的儿童保护机制与正式儿童保护系统之间的脱节：建立有效的国家儿童保护系统面临的挑战
DOI：
10.1080/17450128.2012.708798
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.1
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Sarah
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作者：
M. Wessells;D. Lamin;D. King;Kathleen Kostelny;L. Stark;Sarah
加强国家儿童保护制度的努力经常遇到当地人使用率低的问题。塞拉利昂两个区的一项快速人种学研究记录了当地对伤害儿童的看法，以及人们在应对和预防伤害方面使用了哪些机制。主要危害包括未婚少女怀孕、失学儿童、繁重劳动以及虐待没有与亲生父母住在一起的儿童。绝大多数人使用传统的家庭和社区机制来应对这些伤害。即使是在刑事犯罪方面，他们也很少使用正式的儿童保护机制，如儿童福利委员会，以及2007年《儿童权利法》规定的警察和政府社会工作者。人们实际使用的地方机制与政府主导的国家儿童保护制度之间的脱节，部分是由于获得机会的问题，但也是因为文化和社会规范以及对正式制度的负面看法。需要进行更多的研究，包括关于社区驱动的干预措施，以便将社区和正式机制联系起来，以确定消除这些障碍的有效手段，并使内生机制和正式机制能够协调一致。
Efforts to strengthen national child protection systems often encounter problems of low utilization rates by local people. A rapid ethnographic study in two districts of Sierra Leone documented local views of harms to children and which mechanisms people used in responding to and preventing the harms. Key harms included teenage pregnancy out of wedlock, out of school children, heavy labor, and maltreatment of children who do not live with their biological parents. Overwhelmingly, people used traditional family and community mechanisms in responding to these harms. Even in regard to criminal offenses, they very seldom used formal child protection mechanisms such as the Child Welfare Committees, and the police and government social workers as mandated under the 2007 Child Rights Act. This disconnect between the local mechanisms that people actually use and the government-led aspects of the national child protection system owes partly to problems of access but also to cultural and social norms and negative perceptions of the formal system. Additional research, including on community-driven interventions for linking communities and formal mechanisms, is needed to identify the effective means for addressing these obstacles and enabling the alignment of the endogenous and formal mechanisms.