Urban Girls
Empowerment in especially difficult circumstances
This book offers practical approaches to improve and empower the lives of at-risk, low-income, urban-based girls and young women. It does this by presenting successful projects from around the world which clearly demonstrate what can be done on a broad range of fronts, and answers the two key questions: what do at-risk urban girls and young women need?; what kind of programmes have been successful in meeting those needs? The book begins with a comprehensive overview of the plight of young disadvantaged women, and defines who they are, why they need special attention and most importantly, the four main contributing factors working against these women: poverty, age, gender and ethnicity. In the rest of the book, the authors use real case studies and models based on projects from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa and the USA, and illustrate how they have been successful in combating these four factors and empowering young women against them. These examples include income generation and vocational training schemes, formal and non-formal education programmes and health and mental well-being programmes. The book concludes with important and authoritative recommendations for both advocacy and service delivery work which will be essential reading for all agencies working with young women.
Published: 2000
Pages: 152
eBook: 9781780440491
Paperback: 9781853394751
| Foreword | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| About this publication | |||
| Acknowledgments | |||
| Introduction 1 | |||
| Ch. 1 Especially Difficult Circumstances 7 | |||
| Street girls 8 | |||
| Urban girls at work 12 | |||
| Commercial sexual exploitation 17 | |||
| Teenage mothers 21 | |||
| Identifying needs and programme responses 25 | |||
| Ch. 2 Income Generation and Vocational Training 29 | |||
| Case study: Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative (YSEI), Street Kids International (SKI); Zambia 30 | |||
| Case history: Profile of three participants of the Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative 34 | |||
| Model programme: Servol Life Centres: Education for life and work; Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies 36 | |||
| Model programme: Child Welfare Society of Kenya: Empowering domestic workers 38 | |||
| Model programme: The SIMMA Vocational Training Institute and the WACAR Foundation: Empowerment of women for better prospects and sustainable development; The Gambia 40 | |||
| Elements of success: Income generation and vocational training 42 | |||
| Ch. 3 Formal and Non-formal Education 45 | |||
| Cause study: Adolescent Mothers Programme of the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation: A second change for education 46 | |||
| Case history: Ellorine, from teen mother to nurse: Jamaica 49 | |||
| Model programme: Enda: Literacy for domestic workers; Dakar, Senegal 50 | |||
| Model programme: Paaralang Pantao; Children's Laboratory for Drama in Education and The People's School; Manila, The Philippines 51 | |||
| Elements of success: Formal and non-formal education 54 | |||
| Ch. 4 Health and Mental Wellbeing 57 | |||
| Case study: Casa de Passagem: Health outreach by and for girls; Recife, Brazil 58 | |||
| Case history: Betania, form street girl to mother; Brazil 61 | |||
| Model programme: Kabalikat, Philippines: Health education for street children and bar workers; Manila, the Philippines 62 | |||
| Model programme: Undugu Society of Kenya: 'Outward bound' for street girls; Nairobi, Kenya 64 | |||
| Elements of success: Health and mental wellbeing 65 | |||
| Ch. 5 Culture 67 | |||
| Case study: Sasha Bruce Teen Mothers Programme: Rites of passage for African-American girls; Washington, DC, USA 68 | |||
| Model programme: FACT: AIDS education through art; Bangkok, Thailand 72 | |||
| Model programme: African Culture International: Theatre of change, theatre of tradition; Dakar, Senegal 74 | |||
| Model programme: Kapatiran-Kaunlaran Foundation: Linking the elderly and youth; Manila, the Philippines 75 | |||
| Elements of success: Culture 76 | |||
| Ch. 6 Advocacy and Protecting Girls' and Young Women's Rights 79 | |||
| Model programme: The Kamla Project: Preventing sexual exploitation of girls; Thailand 81 | |||
| Model programme: ECPAT: Legislation against cross-border sexual exploitation of children; Worldwide network 83 | |||
| Model programme: Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children: Confronting harmful traditions 85 | |||
| Model programme: Heart-to-Heart: Preventing sexual abuse among adolescent mothers and their children; Chicago, USA 86 | |||
| Elements of success: Advocacy and rights 88 | |||
| Ch. 7 Involving Boys and Men in Efforts to Improve Young Women's Lives 91 | |||
| Reflections on working with adolescent boys in the reproductive-health field 92 | |||
| Reflections on involving men in the prevention of domestic violence 94 | |||
| Programme examples in working with adolescent boys 95 | |||
| Case study: The experience of SIDH in India 95 | |||
| Case study: ECOS's experience in Brazil 95 | |||
| Case study: The experience of the Ounce of Prevention Fund in the USA 96 | |||
| Lessons learned from work with adolescent males in gender equity 97 | |||
| Ch. 8 Conclusions 101 | |||
| Advocacy recommendations 101 | |||
| Service recommendations 103 | |||
| Looking to the future 106 | |||
| References and Bibliography 107 | |||
| Consortium for Street Children-Profile 119 | |||
| CSC members working with at-risk girls and young women 120 |
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