'Keeping Families Together' and Reducing Orphanage Placement in Cambodia:

“让家庭团聚”并减少柬埔寨的孤儿院安置：

• 批准号: 1901291
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1901291
• 关键词: Keeping; Families; Together; Reducing; Orphanage

The harms caused to children placed in residential care institutions (RCI) are well documented, and this awareness is reflected in the shift in international child care policy and programming to regard long-term residential care for children as an option of last resort, and prioritize efforts to deinstitutionalise child welfare.Despite this, it is estimated that tens of thousands of children in Cambodia are currently living in residential care, with the number of orphanages in the country increasing by 60% between 2005 and 2015. This increase is at odds with a declining poverty rate and falling numbers of genuine orphans over the same decade.Existing studies commonly identify 'poverty' and 'access to education' as root causes of family separation and RCI placement in Cambodia but, from a pragmatic policy perspective fail to adequately or empirically structure these problems into politically and operationally plausible and actionable problem definitions and suggested solutions.The interpretative methods used in this research aim to generate new knowledge that fills this gap and is being conducted in the context of the Cambodian Government's broader agenda to reduce the placement of children in residential care, and to support family-based care.

寄宿照料机构对儿童造成的伤害有充分的记录，这种认识反映在国际儿童保育政策和方案的转变中，将儿童的长期寄宿照料视为最后的选择，并优先考虑儿童福利非机构化的努力。2005年至2015年间，该国孤儿院的数量增加了60%。这一增长与同一个十年中贫困率的下降和真正孤儿人数的下降不一致。现有的研究通常认为“贫困”和“受教育机会”是柬埔寨家庭分离和RCI安置的根本原因，从务实的政策角度来看，未能充分或经验性地将这些问题结构化为政治上和操作上合理的和可操作的问题定义和建议的解决方案。这项研究中使用的解释方法旨在产生新的知识，填补这一空白，并在柬埔寨政府更广泛的议程背景下进行，以减少将儿童安置在寄宿照料中，并支持以家庭为基础的照料。