dc.contributor.author | Onwong’a, Carren Morangi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-27T14:54:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-27T14:54:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Master Of Arts (rural Sociology And Community Development) | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/60819 | |
dc.description.abstract | The study sought to establish the socio – political factors affecting street children in Eldoret town
after the 2007/2008 Post Election Violence (PEV) in Kenya. The study was guided by the
following three specific objectives. First to establish the social and political factors that affect
street children in Kenya; second to identify challenges facing the promotion of children rights
with regard to the legal provisions and thirdly to establish interventions adopted to alleviate the
problem of street children in Eldoret by the government and NGOs.
Chapter two comprised of the literature review which covered social and political factors
affecting street children, challenges associated with children rights, street child focused
interventions which include government and non – government interventions. The theoretical
framework and conceptual framework are also given in this section.
Chapter three presents the research methodology and the research design was descriptive survey
which targeted street children, social workers from NGOs and officers and from department of
Children and Eldoret municipality. Data was collected using questionnaires for street children,
Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with three groups of street children and one FGD with social
workers and key informant interviews were conducted with children officers and municipal
officers.
Study findings show that street children in Eldoret face myriad social challenges which included
poor access to health facilities where they were discriminated against and were also required to
buy medication prescribed to them by health providers. Security was also a major problem where
they were constantly at risk of facing violence from themselves, security agents, business
community and the public. The study further established that there was poor coordination and
duplication of services provided by the government and non – government organisations which
often had a poor impact on the street children situation.
The study suggests that government and other stakeholders should conduct community
awareness creation and sensitization on the challenges facing street children at the
community level; need for a sector-wide training approach for service providers involved
in dealing with street children at all levels be developed, by the government in
collaboration with stakeholders to provide holistic services to street children; government
agencies mandated with street children services should be well staffed to enable them
deliver quality services to street children and an establishment of information desks at
police stations to identify, track and follow up with street children whom are picked up
from the town streets and protection of street children from politically influenced
conflicts which often leads to their vulnerability as victims and perpetrators of ensuing
violence.
The study suggests need for further research to identify the number of Charitable Children
Institutions (CCIs) in Eldoret Town and the services provided to street children and the
impact they have had; what assistance street children from Eldoret Town would benefit
from and further research on health cases and challenges that street children experience in
Eldoret Town | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.title | Social-political Factors Affecting Street Children in Kenya after the 2007/2008 Post Election Violence: A Case of Street Children in Eldoret Town | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |
local.publisher | Department Of Sociology And Social Work | en |