System Strengthening to Improve Alternative Care for Neglected and Child Survivors of Violence in Uganda: Critical Areas for Consideration

Walakira, Eddy; Kikulwe, Daniel; Luwangula, Ronald; Riley, Mark; Bukenya, Badru; Ddumba-Nyanzi, Ismael

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48535-5_13

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“…This study has also demonstrated that several factors hinder young people’s transition from care to independent or self-sustaining livelihoods. These include lack of capital to start up a business, lack of affordable business premises, lack of access to credit facilities, the high interest rates on loans, discrimination, limited family support, and insecurity associated with slum areas (Van-Breda, 2016; Van-Breda & Dickens, 2016; Walakira, Dumba-Nyanzi, & Luwangula, 2016). Others include involvement of some youth in looking after their sick parents or loss of parents who would have supported them more so in countries affected by HIV/AIDS (Uganda AIDS Commission, 2014; Van-Breda & Dickens, 2016).…”

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Facilitating the Transition of Adolescents and Emerging Adults From Care Into Employment in Kampala, Uganda: A Case Study of Uganda Youth Development Link

Bukuluki

Kamya

Kasirye³

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Emerging Adulthood

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Uganda has an increasing number of vulnerable youth in care who require support to transition into adult life. This article explores the agency enablers and the factors which hinder adolescents and emerging adults transitioning from care to adulthood, with an emphasis on the transition into work taking a case study of the Uganda Youth Development Link. Cross-sectional and case study designs were employed using structured questionnaires, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews. Results show that care programs helped care leavers gain skills that facilitated self-reliance through employment in the formal sector and self-employment, a savings culture and expansion of social networks. Enablers included the mentors, exchange learning visits, placements with businesses, and positive social support networks. Unaffordable business premises, stigma and discrimination, limited access to credit, and insecurity inhibited successful post care transition. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of agency and structure in the transition out of care in Uganda.

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Facilitating the Transition of Adolescents and Emerging Adults From Care Into Employment in Kampala, Uganda: A Case Study of Uganda Youth Development Link

Bukuluki

Kamya

Kasirye³

et al. 2019

Emerging Adulthood

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“…The need for family support and child protection services to be provided within the context of extended families and communities has also been identified by Krueger et al (2014) in their mapping exercise of child protection arrangements in five West African countries. Poor provision for alternative care is an issue highlighted as of particular urgency in Uganda by Walakira et al (2017b): Uganda is developing a National Alternative Care Action Plan 2016-2021 to address reliance on institutional care (Uganda Bureau of Statistics and ICF, 2018).…”

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“…Poor provision for alternative care is an issue highlighted as of particular urgency in Uganda by Walakira et al . (2017b): Uganda is developing a National Alternative Care Action Plan 2016–2021 to address reliance on institutional care (Uganda Bureau of Statistics and ICF, 2018).…”

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“…The PSW system has been in operation in Uganda for over a decade. It was initiated in response to recognition that increasing the very low ratios of professional social workers to vulnerable children was prohibitively expensive (Walakira et al, 2017b). During implementation of the National Strategic Programme Plan of Interventions for Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC) between 2010 and 2016, over 6500 PSWs were trained through Makerere University (Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD), 2017).…”

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The Role of Para Social Workers in Rural Communities in Uganda: Strengthening Community Resilience for the Protection of Children

Driscoll

2020

Child Abuse Review

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Para social workers (PSWs) are widely used in African nations to address inadequate capacity in the professional workforce, but there is to date very little academic commentary on the effectiveness of their role. This article considers the potential efficacy of the PSW model in strengthening child protection at community level in Uganda. Twenty interviews were conducted with local government officers, civil society organisation staff and PSWs (10 in each of 2 rural areas), together with four supplementary expert interviews. The data were analysed using a framework of community resilience. The findings suggest that the model has considerable potential to strengthen community-level protection of children in circumstances in which the operation of formal systems is limited by resource constraints and outside interventions may struggle to gain understanding and acceptance within communities. Challenges include the potential for conflicts of interest to arise and the implications of increased reporting of child maltreatment for the response of the formal child protection system, including alternative care arrangements. Given its widespread and developing usage, further research to understand the conditions under which the PSW model is most effective and sustainable in different social, economic, political and cultural contexts is essential. KEY PRACTITIONER MESSAGES: • PSWs can provide significant additional capacity to community-level child protection arrangements at little cost in a culturally appropriate fashion. • A key strength of the PSW model lies in its potential to regenerate community resources through the engagement of community members. • Developing sustainable community-based child protection arrangements requires that attention is paid to balancing fiscal considerations against community ownership and also the response of the formal child protection system to increased reporting of child maltreatment.

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“…These facts both problematize the very notion of “orphan” as a salient local category and fail to explain trends in institutionalization: by 2009, the number of children in institutions had skyrocketed to 40,000, and by 2013, it had jumped to 50,000 (Walakira et al, 2015: 1). 5 Meanwhile, the number of childcare institutions increased from 212 in 2009 to over 600 in 2012 (Riley, 2012).…”

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Blood binds: Confronting the moral and political economies of orphanhood and adoption in Uganda

Cheney

2015

Childhood

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Strong extended-family fostering traditions and beliefs about "blood" as a substance that not only binds kin but also carries pathogens like HIV and certain character traits make formal adoption of unrelated children rare. Even so, there is strong public sentiment against the increasing number of foreigners seeking to adopt Ugandan children in the wake of other African countries closing adoption programs. Institutionalized orphans are thus in a double "blood bind,"-where, on one hand, they are nobody's children but, on the other, they are Uganda's children-rekindling Ugandan debates about orphan care against the hegemonic, international moral and political economies of adoption. This article examines how the situation is confronting Ugandan conceptions of kinship, belonging, and child protection-the moral and political economies of Ugandan "blood binds."

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System Strengthening to Improve Alternative Care for Neglected and Child Survivors of Violence in Uganda: Critical Areas for Consideration

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Facilitating the Transition of Adolescents and Emerging Adults From Care Into Employment in Kampala, Uganda: A Case Study of Uganda Youth Development Link

Facilitating the Transition of Adolescents and Emerging Adults From Care Into Employment in Kampala, Uganda: A Case Study of Uganda Youth Development Link

The Role of Para Social Workers in Rural Communities in Uganda: Strengthening Community Resilience for the Protection of Children

Blood binds: Confronting the moral and political economies of orphanhood and adoption in Uganda

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