Children’s welfare in Senegal
Legal depository - Country: Senegal / Body: African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child / Year: 2014
This case addresses the plight of as many as 100,000 children (known as talibés), who while attending Qur’anicschools (daaras) in Senegal, are forced by some instructors to beg in the streets, to secure their own survival and enrich the teachers. The children live away from their families, often in...
Read MoreA Rejoinder to ‘Pro-Poor and Pro-Development Transparency’
Expert commentaries - Date: 15 Apr 2014 / Author: Charles Lwanga-Ntale
Charles Lwanga-Ntale is the Regional Director and Special Adviser for East & Central Africa at Development Initiatives. A Rejoinder to ‘Pro-Poor and Pro-Development Transparency’ Issa Luna Pla’s article Pro-Poor and Pro-Development Transparency Laws and Policies makes well-founded points about the limited use of access to information laws by poor...
Read MorePro-Poor and pro-Development Transparency Laws and Policies
Expert commentaries - Date: 15 Apr 2014 / Author: Issa Luna Pla
You many also be interested in the rejoinder to this commentary by Charles Lwanga-Ntale from Development Initiatives. Access to information laws are not being effectively utilized by the poor—the most technologically marginalized population—to exercise their rights to social protection. Across countries we learn that sectors using these laws are...
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