Nigeria

This dissertation is composed of four papers. It builds on the postcolonial and post-development theories to provide a critical and a multifaceted approach to understand volunteer tourism as a poverty business.

In this summative report from Young Lives, an international study of childhood poverty, authors Kirrily Pells and Virginia Morrow highlight the study’s key findings on violence affecting children, exploring what children say about violence, how it affects them, and the key themes that emerge from a systematic analysis of the children’s accounts from study countries of Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.

Through qualitative interviews with local child protection workers, this paper indicates that traditional values assist legislative intervention and that significant potential exists in better integration of Indigenous approaches into practice.

This study asked three primary questions: 1) What is the nature of crisis children encounter on the street? 2) What are the ranges of informal caregiving practices? 3) What social network characteristics facilitate or complicate caregiving?

This brief presents key takeaway messages from a mixed methods study examining how substance use affects child welfare systems across the country.

This paper presents the results from a Youth Lead Project on the voices and participation of children in state care in Ontario Canada.

UNICEF is seeking a child protection consultant in Nigeria. 

UNICEF is seeking a Chief of Child Protection in Pakistan. 

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist in Liberia. 

UNICEF is seeking a National Consultant to support the periodic reporting of Albania to the Committee on the Rights of Child.