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  Child justice in Africa: a guide to good practice

  Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2004

  [File size 97910Kb] This manual presents innovative examples of applied local practices of child justice in Africa. The topics mainly relate to programme delivery, to the expansion of services to children and to integrating human rights practice in criminal justice processes. The manual is aimed at policy makers and non-governmental organizations.
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  Integrated management of childhood illness by outpatient health workers: technical basis and overview

  World Health Organization, 1997

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, describes the technical basis for the guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), which are presented in the WHO/UNICEF training course on IMCI for outpatient health workers at first-level health facilities in developing countries.
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  Adolescent programming in conflict and post conflict situations

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2004

  Nine case studies are presented in this paper to demonstrate how participation in peace building enhances the protection of adolescents in conflict and post conflict situations. It also aims to illustrate how participation contributes to the success of UNICEF’s approach to human rights-based and results-based programming.
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  Stolen children: abduction and recruitment in northern Uganda

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report discusses the current situation in Uganda in relation to child abduction and recruitment into warfare.
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  No safe place to call home: child and adolescent night commuters in northern Uganda

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2004

  An estimated 50,000 people known as night commuters, most of them children, adolescents and women, abandon their homes each night for town centres seeking safety from attack by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a fractional group in Uganda.This report examines the growing number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Uganda, making key recommendations to help alleviate the cur
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  Creating youth-friendly sexual health services in sub-Saharan Africa

  Advocates for Youth, 2002

  This paper, produced by Advocates for Youth, explores the barriers that frequently deter African youth from obtaining urgently needed sexual and reproductive health services. Research shows that barriers relate primarily to specific aspects of reproductive and sexual health services: the characteristics of the facilities, the design of services, and providers’ attitudes and actions.
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  Measuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?

  BioMed Central, 2003

  This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other indices, all based on household assets, to analyse data from Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Responses by faith-based organizations to orphans and vulnerable children: preliminary study of six countries in Africa

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This study, published by UNICEF and the World Conference of Religions for Peace, draws attention to the roles of faith-based responses to HIV/AIDS in the six African countries it surveyed (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Uganda).
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  Where has all the education gone in Uganda?: employment outcomes among secondary school and university leavers

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This report analyses the results of surveys of the labour market experiences of high school leavers and university graduates in Uganda in order to examine the usefulness of secondary and university education.
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  Teacher training: essential for school-based reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education: focus on sub-saharan Africa

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2004

  For teaching information and skills related to HIV/AIDS, teacher training is essential, and complex. In sub-Saharan Africa, up to half of all new HIV infections are occurring among youth under age 25. Since most youth attend school at least for primary education, school-based programmes are a logical place to reach young people.

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