Findings from Cambodia’s Violence Against Children Survey 2013

Ministry of Women’s Affairs, UNICEF Cambodia, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This report presents findings from the 2013 Cambodia Violence Against Children Survey (CVACS) which provides national estimates that describe the magnitude and nature of sexual, physical and emotional violence experienced by girls and young women and boys and young men in Cambodia.

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Cambodia Country Report: Poverty alleviation with a focus on vulnerable peoplethrough strengthening collaboration between the social welfare and health services

Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation

This report from the Cambodian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation outlines the efforts of the Cambodian government to address the needs of vulnerable people.

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Understanding, preventing and minimizing consequences of childhood disability in rural Cambodia

Betsy VanLeit PhD, Project Manager for Handicap International Belgium and Assistant Professor, University o f New Mexico

This presentation given to the World Bank in May 2007 describes a study conducted in Cambodia on the situation and needs of children with disabilities and their families.

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Care for Child Development in rural Malawi: a model feasibility and pilot study

Melissa Gladstone, John Phuka, Richard Thindwa, Fatima Chitimbe, Kate Chidzalo, Jaya Chandna, Selena Gleadow Ware, Kenneth Maleta - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

This paper describes the piloting of Care for Child Development through six health surveillance assistants (HSAs) in group and individual sessions with 60 caregivers and children <2 years and assessed recruitment, frequency, timings, and quality of intervention.

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Implementation of Reach Up early childhood parenting program: acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility in Brazil and Zimbabwe

Joanne A. Smith, Helen Baker‐Henningham, Alexandra Brentani, Rose Mugweni, Susan P. Walker - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

This paper presents an evaluation of an early childhood parenting training package implemented in Brazil and Zimbabwe, called Reach Up, with the aim of providing an evidence‐based, adaptable program that is feasible for low‐resource settings.

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Promoting Early Childhood Development Through Combining Cash Transfer and Parenting Programs

Ana-Maria Arriagada, Jonathan Perry, Laura Rawlings, Julieta Trias, and Melissa Zumaeta - World Bank Group

This note and the accompanying full technical paper examine the existing evidence and the potential for bringing together cash transfer programs and parenting interventions to improve child development outcomes, notably cognitive performance.

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A socioecological approach to children’s experiences of violence: Evidence from Young Lives

Kirrily Pells, Virginia Morrow, M. Catherine Maternowska & Alina Potts - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This paper highlights findings from a a 15-year longitudinal cohort study of children growing up in poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.

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The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children: An overview

M. Catherine Maternowska & Deborah Fry - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This paper describes the underpinning principles and frameworks of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children conducted by national research teams comprising government, practitioners and academic researchers in Italy, Peru, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe.

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Applying the child-centred and integrated framework for violence prevention: A case study on physical violence in Viet Nam

Le Hong Loan, Vu Thi Le Thanh and M. Catherine Maternowsk - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article presents the findings of a study that set out to understand what drives violence in Viet Nam as part of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children.

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The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Peru: The process and its outcomes

Patricia Ames, Jeanine Anderson, Amanda Martin, Rosario Rodriguez & Alina Potts - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article presents the Peru results as part of the Multi Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children.

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The transformative process of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Italy

Erika Bernacchi & Marco Zelano - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article reflects on the process of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Italy.

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The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Zimbabwe: Using a mixed methods, multi-stakeholder approach to discover what drives violence

Noriko Izumi and Line Baago Rasmussen - UNICEF - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article presents an overview of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children (VAC) process – including some of the challenges faced and how these were addressed – and a snapshot of the specific findings which helped stakeholders further their understanding about the drivers of VAC in Zimbabwe and what can be done to address them.

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The effect of the colonialist terms “orphan” and “adoption” on the citizenship status of indigenous Fijian adoptees within their own community

Erica Newman - AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

This article investigates the colonialist definitions of the terms “orphan” and “adoption”, contrasting them with how the traditional practice of child circulation in Fiji cared for orphaned children.

The Face of Grief in Foster Care

Angela Look - Journal of Humanistic Psychology

In this article, the author provides a synopsis of some current statistics about foster care and the experience of the foster care system in the US and offers an overview of a handful of relevant grief theories and expend a call to those within the field to develop more unique grief theories and interventions for children in the foster care system.