Exploratory Study on Family Resilience and Its Implication on Child Protection: The Case of Poor Families in Woreda 10 of Kirkos Sub-City, Addis Ababa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kebede, Wassie (PHD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tegegne, Asrat | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-18T12:35:32Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T12:02:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-18T12:35:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T12:02:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | From field work experiences on areas of child protection programs which were undertaken by different non-governmental organizations, the author of this thesis paper understood that most of the human service practitioners actually imposed their own brand of program strategies and polices on the community of concern rather than being well informed by the realities of the target groups upon engaging their active participation in all endeavors and building up on the existing potentials. Most of the time, destitute people are not believed to have talents of their own to cope up with adversities and strive for better life. Their half empty side is rather made bold. Such practices, at least until to date, made most intervention efforts ineffective and short-term bound. On the other hand, a great deal of literatures shows that destitute people such as families in poverty have their own strengths as informed by both nature and their ecological environments. Such hidden talents of people in distressing situations which help them cope up with it and strive for good futurity are known by social scientists as resilience. Thus, the overall premise of this thesis paper was to explore the resilience of poor families and its implication in child protection thereby to promote resilience-based intervention initiation to be undertaken by both State and non-state actors. Qualitative research with case study design was used and small number of information-rich cases of poor families (five households) and two community workers were selected purposively for in-depth interview. Observation and review of secondary data were the additional data gathering tools employed. Multiple protective factors were explored, but they were found far from being easily accessed and utilized by the poor. There were also lots of risk factors identified. The distressing situation was found as the central point in each household of the poor families to unite them together than was before which in turn was understood to strengthen their capacity to jointly cope up with the distressing situation. Families in poverty were found seeking opportunities for self-reliance up on their own efforts than relying on mere support from actors. Thus, the information embedded in this thesis is believed to be significant for human service actors as it will help them review their approach that they used to working with the poor as well as for prospective researchers because the very essence of the research created the foundation for the need of further exploration as per the recommendations suggested at the end of the page | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/1366 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social Work | en_US |
| dc.title | Exploratory Study on Family Resilience and Its Implication on Child Protection: The Case of Poor Families in Woreda 10 of Kirkos Sub-City, Addis Ababa | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |