Changing Livelihoods, Changing Childhoods: Patterns of Children's Work in Rural Southern Ethiopia

Abebe, Tatek

doi:10.1080/14733280601108205

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“…animals and fruit trees) at their disposal. Similar observations have been made in Ethiopia where children worked on other people's farms and engaged in other informal work activities in towns and market places (Abebe, 2007).…”

Section: Children Cope Through Household Sustaining Activitiessupporting

confidence: 50%

Orphan competent communities: A framework for community analysis and action

Skovdal

Campbell

2010

Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

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Vulnerable children in Africa have traditionally been absorbed and supported by their communities. However, in the context of AIDS and poverty, communities are increasingly stretched, compromising the quality of care available to children affected by AIDS. This calls for an understanding of the processes that best facilitate the capacity of communities to provide good quality care and support. In the interests of furthering debate and practice in this area, we seek to develop an analytical framework that builds on two interlinked strands. Firstly, we emphasise the need to acknowledge the active coping and resilience of children affected by AIDS, rather than seeing them as passive victims. It is through taking account of children's and communities' indigenous coping strategies, and the complex dynamics between children and fostering families, that interventions have the best chance of supporting communities so that they can best facilitate resilience and well-being of AIDSaffected children under their guardianship. Secondly, we highlight six psychosocial resources that we argue should be promoted in communities to improve the quality of support available to children affected by AIDS, and thereby enhance the coping and resilience of children.

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Section: Children Cope Through Household Sustaining Activitiessupporting

confidence: 50%

Orphan competent communities: A framework for community analysis and action

Skovdal

Campbell

2010

Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

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“…Parents and children offered insights into both the virtues and challenges of combining school and work, corroborating other research in rural Ethiopia on patterns of children's work (Abebe, 2007) and elsewhere (Boyden and Crivello, 2012). The role of gender in this balancing act, particularly in Ethiopia has also been observed in other research.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Poor Children in Rich Households and Vice Versa: A Blurred Picture or Hidden Realities?

Roelen

2018

Eur J Dev Res

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An expanding evidence base suggests that children experiencing monetary and multidimensional poverty are not the same. This article breaks new ground by providing a unique mixed methods investigation of drivers of child poverty mismatch in Ethiopia and Vietnam, considering the role of measurement error and individualistic and structural factors. The analysis capitalises on large-scale secondary quantitative panel data and combines this with purposively collected primary qualitative data in both countries. It finds that factors at the household and structural level can mediate the effects of monetary poverty in terms of multidimensional poverty and vice versa, but that the size and sign of these effects are specific to place and time. The policy mix aiming to reduce all forms of child poverty need to be targeted on the basis of a multidimensional assessment of poverty and reflect the complex and contextspecific interactions between determinants of child poverty.Une base de données croissante suggère que les enfants qui connaissent une pauvreté monétaire sont différents de ceux qui connaissent une pauvreté multidimensionnelle. Cet article ouvre une nouvelle voie en fournissant une analyse unique sur les facteurs entrainant un déséquilibre de la pauvreté infantile en É thiopie et au Vietnam, en utilisant des méthodes mixtes et en considérant le rôle de l'erreur de mesure et des facteurs individualistes et structurels. L'analyse s'appuie sur des données d'un panel quantitatif secondaire à grande échelle et les combines avec des données qualitatives primaires recueillies délib-érément dans les deux pays. Elle constate que les facteurs au niveau des ménages et de la structure peuvent agir comme médiateurs des effets de la pauvreté monétaire en termes de pauvreté multidimensionnelle et vice et versa, mais que le taille et le signe de ces effets sont spécifiques au lieu et au temps. Le dosage des politiques visant à réduire toutes les formes de pauvreté infantile doit être ciblé sur la base d'une évaluation multidimensionnelle de la pauvreté et refléter les interactions complexes et contextuelles entre les déterminants de la pauvreté infantile.

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“…Rather, the type, nature and intensity of work in the Ethiopian context are affected by the intra-household factors of sibling 5 We note that the working lives of urban children have been more frequently studied in qualitative work -see for example, Poluha (2007a); Abebe (2007); Abebe and Kjǿrholt (2009) -despite the fact that the country is overwhelmingly rural. Between 80 and 85 per cent of the population is associated with farming (Poluha 2007b).…”

Section: Children's Work In Ethiopiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Abebe (2007Abebe ( , 2009 found that the drop in coffee prices in the global market resulted in an increase in the out-migration of adult household members to secure off-farm employment which, in turn, led to an increase in child work. Commercial farming has been seen by the government as a strategy for poverty alleviation.…”

Section: Children's Work In Ethiopiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Between 80 and 85 per cent of the population is associated with farming (Poluha 2007b). In addition, more is known about particular ethnic and religious groups (in particular, Oromo and Amhara children and Orthodox Christians) than others (Poluha 2007a composition, birth order and household composition (Abebe 2007(Abebe , 2009 Contributing to one's household is also a moral undertaking: it brings status and is an important part of what it means to be a 'good' and 'obedient' child and to show respect to one's parents and elders (Poluha 2007b;Nurye 2007;Abebe and Kjørholt 2009;Camfield and Tafere 2009). These norms are imbibed over the process of growing up -particularly from within the family, but also through interactions with friends and peers -and they become increasingly important as children get older.…”

Section: Children's Work In Ethiopiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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