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    Using the 'protective environment' framework to analyse children's protection needs in Darfur

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    Date
    2009-10
    Author
    Ager, Alastair
    Boothby, Neil
    Bremer, Megan
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    Ager, A., Boothby, N. & Bremer, M. (2009) Using the 'protective environment' framework to analyse children's protection needs in Darfur, Disasters, vol. 33, , pp. 548-573,
    Abstract
    A major humanitarian concern during the continuing crisis in Darfur, Sudan, has been the protection of children, although there has been little in the way of comprehensive analysis to guide intervention. Founded on a situational analysis conducted between October 2005 and March 2006, this paper documents the significant threats to children's well-being directly linked to the political conflict. It demonstrates the role of non-conflict factors in exacerbating these dangers and in promoting additional protection violations, and it uses the 'protective environment' framework (UNICEF Sudan, 2006a) to identify systematic features of the current environment that put children at risk. This framework is shown to provide a coherent basis for assessment and planning, prompting broad, multidisciplinary analysis, concentrating on preventive and protective action, and fostering a systemic approach (rather than placing an undue focus on the discrete needs of 'vulnerable groups'). Constraints on its present utility in emergency settings are also noted.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01087.x
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    https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/4058
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