Learning Resources

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Our Learning Resources section includes a number of useful resources and materials which have been compiled by ChildHope and our local partner organisations.

Advocacy

Advocating Livelihood Security Strategies For Vulnerable Children And Households
This booklet is part of the Child Advocacy Project’s series on collaborative approaches to advocacy. It looks at practical ways in which to promote livelihood security with the aim of influencing government strategies. (CINDI 2009)

Advocacy Partnerships
This booklet is part of the Child Advocacy Project’s series on collaborative approaches to advocacy. Intended for use by organisations and government departments working to promote the access of vulnerable children to their basic rights, it promotes partnerships amongst NGOs to engage collectively in policy and legislation changes at national level. (CINDI 2009)

Advocacy Through Community Engagement
This booklet is part of the Child Advocacy Project’s series on collaborative approaches to advocacy. It presents a range of community engagement methods in order to inspire community-based advocacy initiatives. (CINDI 2009)

Managing Joint Advocacy Projects
This booklet is part of the Child Advocacy Project’s series on collaborative approaches to advocacy. It aims to encourage networking to improve the lives of children by providing a model for effective collaboration on joint projects. (CINDI 2009)

Protecting The Future Report
(EveryChild, ChildHope and other INGO's 2010)

A Chance For Every Child Report
(DFID/CSO Child Rights Working Group)

Child Rights Climate Report
(DFID/CSO Child Rights Working Group)

Alternatives to Institutional Care

Advocating For Alternatives To Institutional Care For Vulnerable Children
This booklet is part of the Child Advocacy Project’s series on collaborative approaches to advocacy. It critically assesses institutional care for children affected by HIV / AIDS and makes recommendations to governments and organisations involved in supporting such children. (CINDI 2009)

No Place Like Home
A Research Study of the Operations, Management, and Care Offered by Residential Facilities for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children. (BESG 2007)

Caregiving

Men's Participation As Fathers In Latin America And The Caribbean
Literature review about the issue of Paternity in Latin America and the Caribbean, existing policies and recommendations for male engagement in the exercise of paternity. (Promundo 2008)

Elderly Caregivers Consultation Report
A participatory consultation with elderly caregivers in order to outline how they may be assisted in caring for children infected or affected by HIV / AIDS. (CINDI 2007)

Literature Review Of Foster Care
This literature review is the first step towards acknowledging the role of informal foster care in Tanzania and investigating the possibilities for a formal foster care programme. (Mkombozi 2005)

Education

Street Business Toolkit
Designed for front-line youth workers to use directly with groups of street youth at local agencies, this toolkit raises their economic literacy and enables them to create or improve their own income-generating activities. (Street Kids International 2005)

Practice Handbook: Methodology For Delivering And Practicing Non-Formal Education In Tanzania
A practical handbook aimed at assisting education systems work towards building learners who are collaborators, communicators, learners and productive members of society. (Mkombozi 2007)

Participatory Action Research: Local Causation Of Primary School Drop-Outs And Exclusions In Kilimanjaro Region (Vol 1)
A documentation of the processes and learning from Mkombozi’s participatory action research into providing appropriate education for marginalised children. (Mkombozi 2007)

Gender

Because I Am A Girl: The State Of The World’s Girls 2009
Plan’s annual report looks at girls and the global economy, at the possibilities it presents and the obstacles they will need to overcome to become active and equal economic citizens. (Plan 2009)

Literature Review And Call To Action: Men, Masculinities, Sexual Exploitation And Sexual Violence
Literature review about the issue of sexual exploitation and violence through a gender and masculinities lense. (Promundo 2008)

General

ChildHope's Training Cycle Management Guidelines and Toolkit

Part 1, Part 2 and 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

ChildHope's Organisational Assessment For Development Planning

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

CHITCHAT Newsletter - October 2010 (unavailable)

CHITCHAT Newsletter - September 2010 (unavailable)

CHITCHAT Newsletter - August 2010 (unavailable)

CHITCHAT Newsletter - July 2010 (unavailable)

CHITCHAT Newsletter - June 2010 (unavailable)

CHITCHAT Newsletter - May 2010b (Issue 2)

CHITCHAT Newsletter - May 2010b (Issue 1)

CHITCHAT Newsletter - January 2010

CHITCHAT Newsletter - December 2009

CHITCHAT Newsletter - November 2009

Mkombozi Census 2006
The rhetoric and reality of Tanzania's street children - Social construction of a "problem" masks an udgent need for policies and services for vulnerable youth. (Mkombozi 2006)

What Works In Street Children Programming: The Juconi model
A report examining cutting edge issues in youth development and aiming to provide practitioners, policy makers, donors and others supporting street youth initiatives with insights into effective practices and innovative approaches impacting young people around the world. (International Youth Foundation 2001)

How Mkombozi Undertook The Process Of Localising Management
A paper considering the rationale for localising management in NGOs and the imperatives that drove the process. It also addresses the issues Mkombozi faced as it undertook the change. (Mkombozi 2004)

Health

Literature Review: Enhancing Resilience In Tanzanian Youth Separated From Their Families
This paper examines the literature on resilience and describes the methodology to be used in a study of the resilience patterns amongst children and youth who formerly / currently live on the streets in Tanzania. The study explores whether youth who receive an integrated package of care services demonstrate more positive resilience trajectories than those who receive adhoc services and remain on the streets. (Mkombozi 2009)

Enhancing Resilience In Vulnerable Children: A Primer For Child Care Professionals
This paper from Tanzania gives an overview of resilience and its attributes with a view to suggesting lines of inquiry for practitioners working with children in Africa. It suggests changes that a resilience perspective would entail for development discourse and policymakers, and raises questions about the applicability of the resilience perspective with African children. (Mkombozi 2009)

Sexuality And Reproductive Health
Comprehensive guidelines on how to structure a workshop on the issue of men’s sexuality and reproductive health. Includes a review of the relevant literature, direct program experiences and group activities and discussions.

Preventing And Living With AIDS
Comprehensive guidelines on how to structure a workshop for young men on the issue of preventing and living with AIDS. Includes a review of the relevant literature, direct program experiences and group activities and discussions.(Promundo 2002)

Enhancing Resilience In Children Affected By HIV And AIDS
An exploration of children’s experiences of family, community and cultural practices and how they offer opportunities to build the child’s resilience prior to, during, and after loss, crisis or adversity. (Human Sciences Research Council 2007)

Eating Well For Young Children
Important information on how to help children in your family eat better including advice on good nutrition for HIV positive children. (CINDI 2007)

Health Education and Life Skills Program for Children and Youth - Currently unavailable
Lesson plans in English and Kiswahili to teach health education and life skills to street children in a non-formal education setting. (Mkombozi)

How AIDS Affects Me – Children Speak
A selection of essays and quotations giving a voice to the children and youth of KwaZulu-Natal which has one of the highest levels of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. (CINDI 2001)

Living And Eating Well
A comprehensive set of guidelines in Zulu and English providing basic education on food and nutrition aimed at improving the general health of a community. (CINDI 2004)

Reduction And Management of Stigma Towards Children Affected By HIV And AIDS
A research project addressing the issue of how stigma against children and families affected by HIV / AIDS can be managed and reduced. (Sinani 2007)

Reasons and Emotions- Currently unavailable
Theoretical and methodological discussions seeking to provide a practical framework to investigate the mental health needs of young men, with a particular focus on substance abuse and suicide. (Promundo 2002)

Monitoring and Evaluation

Handbook On Monitoring And Evaluation
A comprehensive handbook to be distributed at learning sessions to promote a greater understanding of M&E concepts and processes. (CINDI 2006)

Violence / Abuse

Advocating For Sexual Abuse Free Classrooms
This booklet is part of the Child Advocacy Project’s series on collaborative approaches to advocacy. It looks critically at the current risk factors for sexual abuse of children and makes recommendations to governments and organisations involved in supporting communities affected by high rates of sexual abuse. (CINDI 2009)

From Violence To Peaceful Coexistence
Comprehensive guidelines on how to structure a workshop on the issue of moving from violence to peaceful coexistence. Includes a review of the relevant literature, direct program experiences and group activities and discussions. (Promundo 2002)

Together We’ll Be OK: Help, Hope, Healing – From Sexual Abuse
Three pages of information and advice for children and young people suffering from sexual abuse. (CINDI)

Responses To Child Vulnerability
This paper explores the issue of child migration by researching the policies and practices of international, national and local agencies concerning this highly vulnerable group of children. (Mkombozi 2005)

State Of the World’s Street Children: Violence
Annual report from CSC, Consortium for Street Children, which aims to promote a better understanding of street children’s lives and civil society initiatives to support them. It encourages policy makers and service providers to take effective action to prevent and reduce violence suffered by these children. (CSC 2007)