Four Family for Every Child members from Africa met face to face in Kigali in December 2019 to develop a regional project together. The project aims to influence the AU’s agenda on children on the move to include a greater focus on protection and care, and influence the four national governments’ laws, policies and practice for protecting children on the move in source, transit and destination locations.
The project will be preceded by two studies: 1) a global mapping of quantitative data collection methods for children on the move, and 2) participatory consultations with children on the move in each country. These two studies respectively will 1) enable advocacy on what national, routine quantitative data collection for children on the move should look like and 2) inform national debate and improved understanding of the complexity of the issues faced by children on the move and the responses they need.
The first study will be the focus of this consultancy.
In light of the recently launched International Data Alliance on Children on the Move it is anticipated that this project will link to and add value to the initiative of the Alliance by focussing on the Africa region in particular, and by focussing on movement within counties, rather than between countries, which is the focus of the Alliance, to encourage comprehensive data to be used in strong prevention efforts in source locations, as well as in transit and destination locations.
It is anticipated that a large proportion of the studies to be included in this global mapping will focus on street children. It is hoped that this would enable the project to have the added value of generating a more up-to-date estimated figure of the number of street children globally, which is currently lacking. Therefore ideas on how to make this possible as part of the review would be welcomed.
The following broad initial research questions have been identified:
1. What models exist to collect quantitative data on children on the move and which ones are the most effective?
2. Which model would be effective in the 4 African countries (South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Ghana)?
Deliverables
1.Hold initial meetings to discuss the scope of the project and understand what people expect from it; submit inception report including proposal for review.
2.Conduct review of data collection methods; submit draft report and provide presentation to key stakeholders (members and secretariat staff).
3.Submit final report; Engage in final comments around revisions and sign-off and participate in any dissemination activities.
The application deadline is 10 March 2020.