April 2015

Strengthening community formal and non- formal systems to prevent violence against children in East Africa: What is working?

This article focuses on Violence against Children (VAC) as a growing public health and social development problem globally. It provides a summary of the framework and model focusing on addressing VAC which World Vision is implementing in East Africa. The systems approach and the Child Protection and Advocacy (CPA) model were considered in addressing VAC. In different ways communities are demonstrating enormous progress...

Author(s): Richard W Wamimbi and Rhoda Kasimbu