Child Abuse Programme
Learning Initiative
The programme will invest in learning both through its own learning programme and through grant support to its partners. For its own programme of work, four areas for global learning have been selected:
- Learning from the life experience of children, families and communities to inform our understanding of resilience.
- What motivates negative actors in the chain of sexual abuse/exploitation.
- How communities protect their children where there are no official services.
- What do we know about children’s vulnerability to sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and related trafficking.
Child Resilience
A multi-country research project, the Bamboo project, is currently being developed with the support of an International Steering Committee. It is within this context that the following documents have been developed. Please click on the hyperlinks to download them.
- Towards an operational definition of the resilience approach. A working synthesis of an Oak-sponsored discussion held in 2007.
- A Review of Literature on the Evidence of Impact of the Resilience Approach. Psychosocial Support and Children’s Rights Resource Center (PST CRRC),Manila, Philippines. Emily A. Palma and Faye G. Balanon, May 2007.
- Approaches based on resilience: their impact on prevention programmes and therapeutic care giving, in particular in the field of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children. A review of literature, Edited by Enza Morale, CNRS, l’Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST), Nancy, France, June 2007.
- Les approches basées sur la résilience: leur impact dans les programmes de prévention et les prises en charge thérapeutiques, en particulier dans le champ des abus sexuels subis dans l’enfance et de l’exploitation sexuelle des enfants. Dossier de synthèse documentaire rédigé par Enza Morale, psychologue, ingénieur CNRS, l’Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST), Nancy, France, Juin 2007.
Occasional Papers
- Working together with children Stimulating multi-level responses for children and families Oak Foundation, Geneva, April 2006
In preparation (for publication in 2008)
- Working together for child protection – programme sharing from Ethiopia, by Andrew Wright, Oak Foundation and Emmanuel Development Association
- Sexual exploitation of children: a review of recovery and reintegration strategies by Stewart Asquith, Elspeth Turner, a study commissioned by Oak Foundation