Assessment of the Right to Development of Urban Refugee Children: A Case Study of Jesuit Refugee Service

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2021-01

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Addis Ababa University

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This research aims to analyse the practice and challenges of ensuring the developmental rights of urban refugee children. The study has specific objectives of assessing the developmental needs of the urban refugee children, the ways their developmental rights are being ensured, the challenges and barriers associated with ensuring the developmental rights, the strength of the urban refugee children that would be vital in ensuring their rights and the response of the urban refugee children regarding the protection of their developmental rights. The research is a qualitative study applying instruments of data collection such as observation, in-depth interviews, and key informant interviews. The study followed a case study method. Although there are different types of case studies, illustrative case study type has been applied. The researcher applied both primary and secondary data sources. The study area of this research is a Jesuit Refugee Service, an international non-governmental organization with the only child protection centre that focuses on refugee children. Purposive sampling was applied to select the participants of the study as the participants of this study were administrative bodies of these organizations. There was a total of thirteen participants, both from the services users and organization staff. The findings of this research indicated that urban refugee children just like any other child possess various developmental needs and different efforts are being carried out in order to fulfil the developmental rights of urban refugee children. However, at times both the urban refugee children and the organization that provides services for them face different social and institutional challenges. Based on the findings, the researcher has concluded that even though the efforts to ensure the developmental rights of urban refugee children have shown great strides, there are concerns that should be given due attention in order to provide quality care for urban refugee children and ease their transition. Finally, Implications for Social Work practice and policy makers have been forwarded.

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Assessment of the Right to Development of Urban Refugee Children: A Case Study of Jesuit Refugee Service

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