Jennifer Eloundou
Topic: Children's voices in conflict zones: investigating the impact of conflict on education in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. This research project explores the challenges faced by children in the ongoing armed crisis in Cameroon's Anglophone regions. The study aims to be a conduit for the voices of these vulnerable children, utilising qualitative interviews, participatory methods, and child-friendly approaches to uncover the multifaceted implications of conflict on access to education. By giving agency to children’s voices, the study will illuminate barriers they face, ranging from disrupted schooling to physical safety concerns. It seeks to inform child-centric policies and interventions to protect and promote the right to education in conflict zones.
Tasks: In this research project, the collaboration partner will contribute by conducting literature reviews, collecting and analszing data, offering critical feedback and actively participating in project meetings and discussions to advance the research goals.
Requirements: A master’s student, PhD Student, research assistant or professor with a background in international relations or international law .Ideally, the project partner is familiar with children’s rights, education or conflict.
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Dr. Garima Tiwari and Dr. Shambhavi Sinha
Topic: The research project will study the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and children in India. This horrific and forced practice has severe physical, and psychological implications. At present, India has no laws prohibiting FGM. The research aims to assess the existing legal and judicial position on FGM in India and learn from comparative perspectives in other countries. Using peer advocacy and involvement of child victims of FGM, the project aims to create safe spaces for experience sharing by children. Through field work, community engagement, and policy recommendations, the project hopes to create awareness, intergenerational dialogue, challenge social norms, and ensure a brighter, FGM-free future.
Tasks: The collaboration partner would be involved from the first stage of developing the proposal to the completion of the project. We hope to involve our collaborating partner in knowledge creation, analysis of the material collected through interaction with children, workshop and report making.
Requirements: Student or faculty with a background in law or social science who is passionate about child rights issues particularly from a socio-legal perspective.
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Matthias A. Seisay
Topic: The research aims to improve adolescent girls’ lives through easy-to-use, relevant reading materials, community engagement, and advocacy skills in the Moyamba district, southern Sierra Leone. The objectives are to: 1) raise greater awareness among girls and community members in Moyamba district on removing the barriers inhibiting the girls’ progress through face-to-face talks, town hall meetings, and reading and advocacy materials in a pilot program; 2) arrange peer-to-peer meetings among girls to suggest practical and creative ways of addressing gender-based violence, including early or forced marriage; 3) to produce eye-catching posters addressing gender-based violence and early and forced marriages.
Tasks: The collaborating partner will be the point person to coordinate the research program from the CRR/UM end. This will involve arranging meetings to discuss thematic aspects of the research and a timeline on when to achieve each benchmark. Considering that we live on two different continents, it will also be important to clearly establish expectations/responsibilities with the collaborating partner.
Requirements: At least a master’s degree, with experience in qualitative and quantitative research. Strong communication and writing skills, and willingness to travel overseas on research field visits as necessary.
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Mukhobeh Moses Khaukha
Topic: This case study of Bududa District, Eastern Uganda, is about the implementation of Children voice at Home. In Uganda, Bududa District in particular, most homes and adults consider children as naïve about what they want, what they go through, the challenges they experience and cannot define their future aspirations. This has left many young people growing up without confidence, falling into traps of those regarded as elders’/sugar dads., and indeed Many girls have ended up in early marriages, dropping out of school and many children are experiencing child labor yet with nobody to defend them, nobody on their side, and nobody listening to their voice. The extent to which children voice is listened to in this community is not documented. Hence there is a need to conduct a study to evaluate the extent children voices are implemented and incorporated in the day today running of homes. The big question in this study is on when, on what, do children’s voice count at household level. In the study suggestions, and adoptable recommendations will be sought to promote children voice at household level and in society they live in.
Tasks: The partner will get involvement of study protocol, Lobbying for funding, development of study tools, guide in field data collections, lead Data processing, report writings, and publication
Requirements: The partner should have at least Master’s Degree in fields related to Child rights, Social Work, Social Sciences, development studies, Communality development, or related field.
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Jeannette Wöllenstein-Tripathi
Topic: Recognising substantial gaps in legal and practical protections for children born through surrogacy, ISS engaged in an extensive consultation process leading to the development of international guiding principles known as "The Verona Principles" (March 2021), available at: https://iss-ssi.org/surrogacy/. Despite various legislative efforts, children and other involved parties continue to face risks of exploitation and rights violations. Within a multifaceted project, ISS aims to conduct research on current surrogacy trends (national and global scale), and remaining challenges for children’s rights. This research, as an integral component of the project, will inform the latter’s priorities and implementation.
Tasks: The researcher would conduct qualitative research aimed at understanding current and future surrogacy trends, with the objective to gather further data on laws/policies, and in general practices on international and domestic surrogacy in its various forms. The researcher is asked to adopt a child-rights-approach within the wider human rights framework.
Requirements: A master’s student, PhD Student, research assistant or professor with a background in children’s rights, private international law and/or international human rights law. Dynamic professional who thrives to work within a team of multilingual child rights specialists from different backgrounds.
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Anna Rodriguez
Topic: Since 2019, DEI Belgique has worked with children and young people with experience of migration in order to collect their experiences, opinions and recommendations, with the view to address key gaps in protection (found during their migration journey, but also in reception centres as well as after gaining international protection status or other forms of legal residence) and improve prevention, safety and support to victims through integrated child protection responses. As part of these activities, we have for example worked closely with young people to co-create education and awareness-raising materials on the topic of gender-based violence, as well as advocacy messages and tools in innovative formats, such as this illustrated Manifesto, denouncing multifaceted structural violence.
Tasks: Overview and inputs into DEI Belgique’s proposed methodology, help designing questionnaires or guidelines for key activities (interviews, data collection or staff training guidelines).
Requirements: Experience in social sciences and specifically, conducting research with and for young people; solid knowledge and background in child safeguarding standards, familiarity with theories of participation (Hart’s ladder of youth participation) and the evaluation of a participative process, willingness to work on migration-related / children in fragile contexts issues.
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