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Inter-Agency Research on Strengthening Community Based Child Protection for Vulnerable Children in Sierra Leone

关于加强塞拉利昂弱势儿童社区儿童保护的机构间研究

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J017663/1
负责人：
Michael Wessells
金额：
$ 31.07万
依托单位：
Columbia University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ017663%2F1
关键词：
Inter Agency Research Strengthening Community

项目摘要

In many parts of the world, widespread abuse of children's rights to care and protection is hindering progress in alleviating poverty and ensuring the poorest and most vulnerable children are able to gain their basic rights. Across contexts, children face widespread protection risks including family separation, displacement, attack, sexual exploitation and abuse, recruitment into or use by armed forces and armed groups, trafficking, child labour, neglect and lack of care among many others. These violations have significant and lasting harmful effects on children's well-being and long term success. How to respond to prevent and mitigate these risks on a wide scale is a profound yet unanswered problem that is being explored in new interagency research in Sierra Leone.Alongside government and the family, the community is a crucial source of potential support for children vulnerable to child protection risks. A significant gap is that community protection for children are often not backed by effective support from aspects of the government system such as social workers and police. This research will for the first time systematically evaluate the effect of community-led interventions to better link communties with government services and systems to support vulnerable children. Importantly the research will develop and measure children's protection and well-being outcomes, that is the real changes that children experience in their health, safety and happiness. The research will provide a unique opportunity to tell us if and how these community-led interventions are effective, how they can be sustainable and also how they can be taken to scale to impact on larger numbers of vulnerable and marginalised children.Using a public health approach this research will develop population-based measures of children's protection and well-being outcomes. This inter-agency evaluation brings together in collaboration for the first time, key international organisations who are implementing and funding child protection programmes. It is therefore an extraordinary opportunity to fill some of the significant evidence gaps and inform deep changes in policy and practice across these organisations and more widely. Through this inter-agency evaluation initiative, the following critical questions for child protection policy will begin to be answered:1. Do community-led interventions to strengthen linkages with formal systems improve children's protection and well-being outcomes? 2. How can changes in the effectiveness of child protection mechanisms be measured using population based measures of children's protection and well-being be that reflect a mixture of local understandings and also international child protection standards?The research will run from 2012 to 2014 in two Districts in Sierra Leone - Moyamba and Bombali Districts. The research is led by the Columbia Group for Children in Adversity in partnership with Save the Children.

在世界许多地方，普遍存在的侵犯儿童获得照顾和保护的权利的现象阻碍了在减轻贫困和确保最贫穷和最弱势儿童能够获得基本权利方面取得进展。在各种情况下，儿童面临着广泛的保护风险，包括家庭分离、流离失所、攻击、性剥削和性虐待、被武装部队和武装团体招募或使用、贩运、童工、忽视和缺乏照顾等。这些侵权行为对儿童的福祉和长期成功具有重大和持久的有害影响。如何在大范围内预防和减轻这些风险是塞拉利昂新的机构间研究正在探讨的一个深刻而尚未解决的问题。社区与政府和家庭一样，是易受儿童保护风险影响的儿童的重要潜在支持来源。一个重大差距是，社区对儿童的保护往往得不到社会工作者和警察等政府系统各方面的有效支持。这项研究将首次系统地评估社区主导的干预措施的效果，以更好地将社区与政府服务和系统联系起来，以支持弱势儿童。重要的是，这项研究将发展和衡量儿童的保护和福祉成果，即儿童在健康、安全和幸福方面经历的真实的变化。这项研究将提供一个独特的机会，告诉我们这些社区主导的干预措施是否有效，以及如何有效，如何可持续，以及如何扩大规模，以影响更多的弱势和边缘化儿童。使用公共卫生方法，这项研究将制定以人口为基础的儿童保护和福祉成果措施。这一机构间评价首次将执行和资助儿童保护方案的主要国际组织聚集在一起进行合作。因此，这是一个非凡的机会，可以填补一些重大的证据空白，并为这些组织和更广泛的政策和实践的深刻变化提供信息。通过这一机构间评价举措，儿童保护政策的下列关键问题将开始得到解答：社区主导的加强与正规系统联系的干预措施是否改善了儿童保护和福祉成果？2.如何利用基于人口的儿童保护和福祉措施来衡量儿童保护机制的有效性变化，这些措施既反映了当地的理解，也反映了国际儿童保护标准？这项研究将于2012年至2014年在塞拉利昂的两个区-莫扬巴区和邦巴利区进行。这项研究是由哥伦比亚逆境儿童小组与拯救儿童组织合作领导的。