Putting Children First: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 2017
This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa, and in inspiring action towards change. The conference offered a platform for bridging divides across sectors, disciplines and policy, practice and research.
World renowned American actor Will Smith bungee-jumped from a helicopter over the Grand Canyon on his 50th birthday to raise funds for the education of girls, boys and youth who live in conflicts and crises!
"Ayurjeevanam Sewa Samiti" is working ceaselessly with Government of India and its other partners to save protect and improve the lives of children in India.
You can help people escape from the bonds of poverty through our sponsor programme. Your valuable contribution guarantees that a sponsor person receives benefits alters his/her course of life.
Hereby ‘Our Society’ Ayurjeevanam raises the standard of average health in India. If you feel for any of these, then take time out to participate in their events. A few hours in your busy life can change the life of another human being.
Our goal is to create unforgettable experiences for children and their families through our wish granting process. But we can’t do it alone. Every single donation helps to ensure that every child’s one true wish comes true.
By donating to Needy person, you help transform lives. You give children with life-threatening medical conditions a reason to hope for a brighter future. And most of all, you help make their magical wishes come true.
Ayurjeevanam Sewa Samiti (Rampur) Society managed by Dr. Kuldeep Singh Chauhan & their Volunteers, which is part of the corporate social responsibility activities Government, Project Nanhi Kali supports over 57,000 students.
Project Nanhi Kali sees educating girls and women as a way to positively impact India in the long run. Dr. Kuldeep Singh Chauhan & Smt. Shabana, the Secretary of the non-profit organisation, told the Daily News and Analysis in an interview that "we wanted to create global awareness about the plight of young girls in the country who are denied their basic right."
Students who are selected for Nanhi Kali receive both financial and academic support. They attend special classes to learn math, science, and language concepts. Nanhi Kali pays for the hidden costs of their education, including pencils, notebooks, uniforms, school bags, clothes, and shoes. Funding is from individual and corporate donors, who sponsor a particular child and receive regular updates on her progress at school. Sponsors can also go to the online "Girl Store" to purchase particular items for a student. Ayurjeevanam Sewa Samiti sponsors the education of 11,000 girl children through Project Nanhi Kali.
Third-party assessments show that Nanhi Kali has a significant impact on the girls' lives. Over a one year period, Nanhi Kali students' improvement in learning outcomes ranged from 40 percent in Rampur, Moradabad, Kanpur to 78 percent in Ghaziabad
World renowned American actor Will Smith bungee-jumped from a helicopter over the Grand Canyon on his 50th birthday to raise funds for the education of girls, boys and youth who live in conflicts and crises!
"Ayurjeevanam Sewa Samiti" is working ceaselessly with Government of India and its other partners to save protect and improve the lives of children in India.
You can help people escape from the bonds of poverty through our sponsor programme. Your valuable contribution guarantees that a sponsor person receives benefits alters his/her course of life.
Hereby ‘Our Society’ Ayurjeevanam raises the standard of average health in India. If you feel for any of these, then take time out to participate in their events. A few hours in your busy life can change the life of another human being.
Our goal is to create unforgettable experiences for children and their families through our wish granting process. But we can’t do it alone. Every single donation helps to ensure that every child’s one true wish comes true.
By donating to Needy person, you help transform lives. You give children with life-threatening medical conditions a reason to hope for a brighter future. And most of all, you help make their magical wishes come true.
Ayurjeevanam Sewa Samiti (Rampur) Society managed by Dr. Kuldeep Singh Chauhan & their Volunteers, which is part of the corporate social responsibility activities Government, Project Nanhi Kali supports over 57,000 students.
Project Nanhi Kali sees educating girls and women as a way to positively impact India in the long run. Dr. Kuldeep Singh Chauhan & Smt. Shabana, the Secretary of the non-profit organisation, told the Daily News and Analysis in an interview that "we wanted to create global awareness about the plight of young girls in the country who are denied their basic right."
Students who are selected for Nanhi Kali receive both financial and academic support. They attend special classes to learn math, science, and language concepts. Nanhi Kali pays for the hidden costs of their education, including pencils, notebooks, uniforms, school bags, clothes, and shoes. Funding is from individual and corporate donors, who sponsor a particular child and receive regular updates on her progress at school. Sponsors can also go to the online "Girl Store" to purchase particular items for a student. Ayurjeevanam Sewa Samiti sponsors the education of 11,000 girl children through Project Nanhi Kali.
Third-party assessments show that Nanhi Kali has a significant impact on the girls' lives. Over a one year period, Nanhi Kali students' improvement in learning outcomes ranged from 40 percent in Rampur, Moradabad, Kanpur to 78 percent in Ghaziabad
Our unique approach has earned us the chance to enrol
over 200 displaced and improvised children to schools within their community.
We leveraged on a smarter way to encourage education in the penultimate year of 2018 by launching our EduTech program where YSC initiated learning with the use of smart devices. This program had positively impacted over 500 children.
With help of our sponsors and mentors, we provided relief resources to 400 internally displaced children.
#LETSDOMORE2020
Putting Children First: Session 2.4.A Louise Yorke - Rural girls educational ...The Impact Initiative
Putting Children First: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 2017
This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa, and in inspiring action towards change. The conference offered a platform for bridging divides across sectors, disciplines and policy, practice and research.
Food and Hunger in Children’s Everyday Lives in Ethiopia: Evidence from Young...Young Lives Oxford
" 'I cannot attend class properly if I am hungry....’ Food and Hunger in Children’s Everyday Lives in Ethiopia: Evidence from Young Lives"
Presentation by Virginia Morrow at International Childhood & Youth Research Network10-12th June 2015
European University
Cyprus
Universal Primary Education is extremely important in creating a better world for our children. Many children that should be in school, aren't. This needs to be addressed and fixed
Gender norms and changing childhoods: evidence from Young Lives multi-country study tracking inequalities in girls’ and boys’ trajectories
By Gina Crivello, Senior Researcher
(Young Lives, University of Oxford0
Presented at thw Conference on Gender Equality Norms and the Politics of Development Cooperation,
At DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies
Copenhagen, 18-20 May 2016
Adolescent Boys and Gendered Social transitions in Ethiopia (7 September, 2015)Young Lives Oxford
"Adolescent boys and gendered social transitions: Findings From the Young Lives Study in Ethiopia" by Gina Crivello and Nikki van der Gaag.
Presented at the Annual Development Studies Association Conference, Bath, UK
7-8 September 2015
What affects boys’ trajectories through school and work, including their aspirations, agency, place, and changing roles and responsibilities within family and community contexts? What obstacles do adolescent boys face as they seek to transition into young adults?
These questions were addressed in a presentation by Gina Crivello and Nikki van der Gaag at the UK Development Studies Association conference on 7 Sept 2015.
In recent years, adolescence has risen high on the global agenda, but boys are marginalised by an overwhelming focus on female adolescence. While there has been much focus on the harms that social norms and expectations can cause for girls’ well-being, what it means to be a boy in any given time and place is also socially constructed and dynamic. This paper shows how boys too can be disadvantaged by sexual stereotypes, social norms and economic adversity, and how gender norms become more entrenched as adolescents develop into young adults. In particular, we see how boys’ aspirations decrease over time while girls’ aspirations increase, particularly after age 15.
Securing paid work is key to boys’ transitions to adulthood, and at age 19, they strive for financial independence. They consider paid work to be a ‘protective factor’ in the sense that working prevents idleness and stagnation which they fear and resist. They also see themselves as ‘in-between’ childhood and adulthood – with a growing sense of responsibility and maturity, yet lacking adult authority and access to adult networks. Focusing much less on the promises of education for boys becoming men, work promises ‘change’ and represents persistence, hope and moral fortitude. But the reality of work is usually very different; a continual struggle to provide enough for themselves, their families, and their futures.
Compatibility of Work and School: Informal School–Work Arrangements in Centra...Young Lives Oxford
Presentation from international meeting on children's work and child labour hosted by the Africa Child Policy Forum, Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, and Young Lives in Addis Ababa, 20-21 March 2014
Our unique approach has earned us the chance to enrol
over 200 displaced and improvised children to schools within their community.
We leveraged on a smarter way to encourage education in the penultimate year of 2018 by launching our EduTech program where YSC initiated learning with the use of smart devices. This program had positively impacted over 500 children.
With help of our sponsors and mentors, we provided relief resources to 400 internally displaced children.
#LETSDOMORE2020
Putting Children First: Session 2.4.A Louise Yorke - Rural girls educational ...The Impact Initiative
Putting Children First: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 2017
This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa, and in inspiring action towards change. The conference offered a platform for bridging divides across sectors, disciplines and policy, practice and research.
Food and Hunger in Children’s Everyday Lives in Ethiopia: Evidence from Young...Young Lives Oxford
" 'I cannot attend class properly if I am hungry....’ Food and Hunger in Children’s Everyday Lives in Ethiopia: Evidence from Young Lives"
Presentation by Virginia Morrow at International Childhood & Youth Research Network10-12th June 2015
European University
Cyprus
Universal Primary Education is extremely important in creating a better world for our children. Many children that should be in school, aren't. This needs to be addressed and fixed
Gender norms and changing childhoods: evidence from Young Lives multi-country study tracking inequalities in girls’ and boys’ trajectories
By Gina Crivello, Senior Researcher
(Young Lives, University of Oxford0
Presented at thw Conference on Gender Equality Norms and the Politics of Development Cooperation,
At DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies
Copenhagen, 18-20 May 2016
Adolescent Boys and Gendered Social transitions in Ethiopia (7 September, 2015)Young Lives Oxford
"Adolescent boys and gendered social transitions: Findings From the Young Lives Study in Ethiopia" by Gina Crivello and Nikki van der Gaag.
Presented at the Annual Development Studies Association Conference, Bath, UK
7-8 September 2015
What affects boys’ trajectories through school and work, including their aspirations, agency, place, and changing roles and responsibilities within family and community contexts? What obstacles do adolescent boys face as they seek to transition into young adults?
These questions were addressed in a presentation by Gina Crivello and Nikki van der Gaag at the UK Development Studies Association conference on 7 Sept 2015.
In recent years, adolescence has risen high on the global agenda, but boys are marginalised by an overwhelming focus on female adolescence. While there has been much focus on the harms that social norms and expectations can cause for girls’ well-being, what it means to be a boy in any given time and place is also socially constructed and dynamic. This paper shows how boys too can be disadvantaged by sexual stereotypes, social norms and economic adversity, and how gender norms become more entrenched as adolescents develop into young adults. In particular, we see how boys’ aspirations decrease over time while girls’ aspirations increase, particularly after age 15.
Securing paid work is key to boys’ transitions to adulthood, and at age 19, they strive for financial independence. They consider paid work to be a ‘protective factor’ in the sense that working prevents idleness and stagnation which they fear and resist. They also see themselves as ‘in-between’ childhood and adulthood – with a growing sense of responsibility and maturity, yet lacking adult authority and access to adult networks. Focusing much less on the promises of education for boys becoming men, work promises ‘change’ and represents persistence, hope and moral fortitude. But the reality of work is usually very different; a continual struggle to provide enough for themselves, their families, and their futures.
Compatibility of Work and School: Informal School–Work Arrangements in Centra...Young Lives Oxford
Presentation from international meeting on children's work and child labour hosted by the Africa Child Policy Forum, Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, and Young Lives in Addis Ababa, 20-21 March 2014
Boyden modernity, mobility and the reshaping of childhoodYoung Lives Oxford
Professor Jo Boyden, Director of the Young Lives study, was invited by the CESS-UNICEF Division for Child Studies and the Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Studies in Hyderabad to give a Distinguished Guest Lecture on 24 Septebmer 2014.
Illiteracy is a big problem because the illiterate people are unable to understand the new techniques of social life. They do not understand the new policies. Every individual has right to get education in better institutions. Illiteracy minimizes the social relations in the society which leads to less development of resources. Illiterate person is unable to read books, magazine, articles, and other reading materials.
The society does not develop, if there is a number of a person un-educated. Illiteracy is a barrier in the social progress among people for betterment of the society.
Photo Journal:
Participating children were briefed to take photos that represent their daily life and to write an accompanying story that describes their life. A selection of these photos and quotes from these stories are presented here.
The photos in this presentation were taken by 18 children from the Amajuba district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The Photo Journal initiative was designed as an advocacy tool, with the intention of giving participating community members a channel with which to voice their life experiences.
By inviting children to share their views of life, the intention was to show the day-to-day reality of a sample of Amajuba’s children, who represent the lives of so many others living in the district and around South Africa.
In sharing their realities, these children set out to remind local government and non-governmental organisations about the type of challenges South African children face each day.
The photos are not air-brushed nor photographically perfect , they were taken by children with disposable cameras. Many of these children had never used a camera before.
Call to Action:
The variety of challenges highlighted by the children in the Photo Journal process illustrates the need for service delivery responses from a multiplicity of local government departments (Water and Electricity, Housing,Transport, Health, Social Development, Home Affairs, Education, Public Works).
The Photo Journal initiative forms part of a call for local government departments to come together to develop an integrated child welfare management plan for the Amajuba district.
Currently, few municipalities and local government departments participate in the National Integrated Plan (NIP) forum, which has been identified at a national level as a mechanism for planning the delivery of services for orphans and other vulnerable children.
Without the participation of each government department, most departments continue to act in silos and activities are duplicated across annual plans – whilst the vulnerability of children persists.
To have any hope of effectively impacting on the lives of children like those in this presentation, there is a need for all local government departments to participate in the National Integrated Plan (NIP) forum and in the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) planning cycle.
Both of these forums have been established in the Amajuba district, but are not fully operational owing to a lack of departmental participation.
Guest lecture given by Virginia Morrow to students on the Masters in Childhood Studies and Children's Rights at the Freie Universititaet, Berlin, 3 December 2014.
http://www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/einrichtungen/weitere/enmcr/news/Gastvortrag-Virginia-Morrow.html
Tracing Young People's Wellbeing, Care and Support in Contexts of Orphanhood ...Ruth Evans
Presentation by Gina Crivello and Patricia Espinoza Revollo, Young Lives, University of Oxford, at workshop "Putting the 'social' back into young people's psychosocial wellbeing, care and support", hosted by ODI and the University of Reading, London, 22 November 2016.
Growing up in poverty young lives r4 findings_20march2015Young Lives Oxford
Overview of findings and data presented by Ginny Morrow at visit to Oxford by Baroness Northover, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Development, 20 March 2015
Putting Children First: Session 3.1.C Nicola Jones - What shapes adolescent p...The Impact Initiative
Putting Children First: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 2017
This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa, and in inspiring action towards change. The conference offered a platform for bridging divides across sectors, disciplines and policy, practice and research.
Power of partnership conference: Poster: Impact of social pensionsThe Impact Initiative
Power of partnership conference: Poster: Impact of social pensions on multiple dimensions of poverty, subjective wellbeing and solidarity across generations
Power of partnership conference: Poster: Governing food systems to alleviate ...The Impact Initiative
Power of partnership conference: Poster: Governing food systems to alleviate poverty in secondary cities in Africa: Consuming urban poverty: Kisumu case study
Power of partnership conference: Poster: Energy on the move: Longitudinal perspectives on energy transitions among marginal populations (a comparative study)
Power of partnership conference: Poster: Poverty alleviation and women refuge...The Impact Initiative
Power of partnership conference: Poster: Poverty alleviation and women refugees in the Middle East: Empowerment through grassroots micro-entrepreneurship?
Power of partnership conference: Presentation: Women’s labour supply in rural...The Impact Initiative
Power of partnership conference: Presentation: Women’s labour supply in rural areas of Bangladesh: Does participation in poverty alleviation programmes influence women’s involvement in outside paid work?
Power of partnership conference: Presentation: Labour markets in village econ...The Impact Initiative
Power of partnership conference: Presentation: Labour markets in village economies: Can one time asset transfers reduce poverty? Evidence from Bangladesh
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
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What is the point of small housing associations.pptxPaul Smith
Given the small scale of housing associations and their relative high cost per home what is the point of them and how do we justify their continued existance
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
1. www.theimpactinitiative.net/
Children’s experiences of poverty-related shame:
Implications for anti-poverty policies
Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo & Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi
(School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University)
Elaine Chase
(University College London Institute of Education)
‘Putting Children First’ Conference 23-25 October 2017, Addis Ababa
2. www.theimpactinitiative.net/
Children in extreme poverty
• Reported recovery and economic growth
in SSA over the last two decades
BUT
• Marginal reduction in poverty at
grassroots level
• 52% of 385 million children living in
extremely poor households in 2013
were from SSA
• Uganda: 55% of children aged 0-5
years; 30% of the children aged 6-17
years
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Methodology
• Part of larger study : Shame, Poverty and Social Exclusion: A
comparative study in seven countries:
• Poverty-Shame nexus in cultural media
• Lived experiences of poverty
• Analysis of anti-poverty policies
• Interviews with children in Uganda, India and UK
• 30 children and young people
• Not core focus of study but lays foundation for further work in this
field
5. www.theimpactinitiative.net/
Spaces and dynamics of shame
• Different spaces
• Homes ( types of housing, lack of basic needs, reflection on parents)
• School (rubber shoes ‘nigina’; no lunch; no uniforms or equipment)
• Community (can’t hide your poverty so avoid social functions)
• Internal and external
• Vectors (reflect parents and home)
• Mediators (protect family/parents; altruistic narrative)
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Home as an arena of shaming
Which father fails to build his children a decent house? Can you call
this a home? Sometimes I regret why I was born here
(Gofrey, age 18, Uganda)
My parents separated and my fathers’ hut got burnt. I live in a grass
thatched makeshift structure with my mother. It is also in a poor
condition. When friends come to visit I feel very ashamed.
(Rose, age 14, Uganda)
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School as an arena of shaming
The head teacher sent me home to remind my parents about the examination fees balance
that I owed. He categorically told me not to return to school without the money. I went home
feeling rather low not only because my classmates remained learning, but also for being
exposed as a school fees defaulter. My father gave me the money after two days but declined
to escort me back to school as requested by the Head teacher. I have a feeling the purpose of
summoning him was to shame him as well
(Irene, age 16, Uganda)
If you don’t have a piece of correct uniform, they will send you home to get changed. I decided
that because I haven’t got any school trousers at the minute I’m not going to come in until I get
them. What they’re not understanding is that I can’t always go out and buy new things that I
need…I don’t like the teachers, I think they’re cruel
(Harry, age 14, UK)
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School as an arena of shaming
Yes I know, mid-day meals (uchakkanji) are available in the school.
Somehow I am not comfortable and I don’t like to go for mid-day meal in
the school. Because, no one else in my class goes. Therefore, I feel shame
thinking what others will think about me. If at least one student goes, I
too will go for the lunch
(Shani, Age 12, Gujarat, India)
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Community as an arena of shaming
I was grossly embarrassed and rudely reminded of my poverty. I sneaked
away in the middle of the function and returned home crying. I’ve vowed
never to attend any function in the community again
(Rebecca, aged 16, Uganda)
My parents income is very low, we are always hungry and poor, I feel
ashamed by engaging in casual labour to supplement family income.
(Bernard ,aged 16 Uganda)
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Implications for anti-poverty policies
Gubrium et al (2014) ‘The Shame of It’ –
• Framing, design and implementation are key phases for shame-
proofing policies
• Being aware of unintended consequences:
• Universal primary education --- ‘ schools for the poor’
• Free school meals
• Rubber shoes (Uganda); labelled equipment (India) as symbols of poverty
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Shame-proofing policies for children in poverty
• Work is beginning to highlight the impact of shame on the experience of poverty
and possible implications for policy (Walker, 2014; Chase and Bantebya, 2015)
• Children experience, channel and mediate shame in their daily lives
• The impact of shame on children living in poverty remains invisible in policy and
programming
• Emerging evidence suggests that the psychosocial impacts of poverty on children
may be significant (e.g Ridge; Dornan & Orgando)
• What implications for the framing, structure and delivery of policies:
• How and in what ways might anti-poverty policies have a detrimental impact on child
psychosocial wellbeing (labeling, stigmatising , accentuating difference)
• What would policies look like if we apply a shame-proofing lens from the perspective of
children ?
• E.g Poverty-proofing the school day (UK) http://www.povertyproofing.co.uk/