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This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan, by using data from a large nationally representative household survey. The methodology employed is a switching probit model that accounts for the endogeneity and self-selection of migration and remittance with respect to school enrollment. Counterfactual situations are constructed for children belonging to households with and without migrants, remittance receiving and nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of…
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This paper, produced for the Know Violence global learning initiative, looks at the violence children experience in closed institutions in the Central Asian countries, specifically the former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In these countries, despite considerable efforts to develop alternatives, the number of children placed in various residential care units remains extremely high. In-depth interviews with local experts and focus group discussions in these four countries were the main method of gathering data as well as desk research focussing…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of Tajikistan’s periodic report to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This report is Result 4 of a two-year EU funded project “An Early Years Support Centre (EYSC) service in Dushanbe: Reducing poverty, empowering vulnerable families, strengthening partnerships and advocating for rights”. It will outline the model of support that was developed through the EYSC project in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.
The authors envisage that this document will be used as a guide/template to recapitulate best practice and assist the development of EYSC services in Tajikistan and elsewhere in Central Asia. In addition, it will help to consolidate the learning of…
Background
The Transformative Monitoring for Enhanced Equity (TransMonEE) Database captures a vast range of data relevant to social and economic issues relevant to the situation and wellbeing of children, young people and women in countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The database is updated every year, thanks to the collaboration of National Statistical Offices (NSOs).
NSOs that are part of the TransMonEE regularly come together in network meetings with the aim of strengthening collaboration and enhancing the quality and usefulness of national data on key indicators of child…
I. Purpose of the report
The Keeping and Finding Families Project
The purpose of the report is to provide an initial evaluation of the process of setting up a pilot fostering project in Tajikistan. The EU-funded and commissioned project was initiated and led by HealthProm, supported and match-funded by UNICEF, working with local NGO partners and Government departments. Fostering (by strangers as opposed to kin) is virtually unknown in Tajikistan1 . Likewise state-funded community social services are at a very early stage of development and the subject…
The present analysis has been developed by the UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States as a discussion paper for the 2nd Child Protection Forum on Building and Reforming Child Care Systems. It relied heavily on an independent evaluation commissioned by UNICEF in 2007 which was carried out by Oxford Policy Management and is also informed by the official submissions of Governments on recent changes in child care reform.
The countries of Central Asia and Azerbaijan reviewed in this analysis (…
A Model for Assessing Social Care Services for Children: Lessons from Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) declares that, ‘the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment’. Many parties to the Convention are reforming their child welfare system so that children in difficulty have a better chance of staying in a family. For many former Soviet republics this represents a major shift in approach. A Model for Assessing Social Care Services for Children: Lessons from Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan documents model for assessing the status of child care reform and…
In this context, the Child Protection section of the RO for CEE/CIS organized a seminar between the 29 and 30 September in connection to the annual Regional Management Team meeting (RMT). The aim was to clarify how one area of child protection concerns in the CEE/CIS region, namely de-institutionalisation of child protection approaches, is linked to a broader agenda of social policy reform. It was argued that social policy reform that is based on the principles of human rights, has a set of components which contribute to building a protective environment for children in the region.
Hence,…
The primary objective of this study was to present a national picture of the existing division of responsibilities regarding decision-making and service production as well as the financial flow and expenditures in connection with institutional care for children deprived of family care. The study combined a protective-environment approach and a rights-based framework in order to initiate a dialogue on policy for the purpose of further developing alternatives for institutional care in Tajikistan.
As this and many other international studies show, the institutional care of children is costly…