Saturday, March 20, 2010

CWISH to survey on child protection




Diwakar Pyakurel
Kathmandu, 19 March

CWISH, a human-rights organization, is going to conduct a survey on child protection among urban poor women next week.
The organization has planned to conduct 'Study on Child Sexual Abuse: Understanding & Protection Practices among Urban Poor Women' among 200 women from different 10 sites of the Kathmandu valley.  
According to the researcher organization, the outcome of the survey will help assess women's understanding and practice of child protection, service of service-provider agencies and also recommend for effective policies.
In the survey, the women's understanding, and practices on protection of children from abuses will be assessed, according to Writu Bhatta, Program Coordinator of CWISH. The questionnaire of the survey focuses on women's understanding of child sexual abuse (CSA) and protection of children from it. According to Bhatta, 100 of total participants will be already aware of child protection issues, while rests 100 might not be familiar with it. "Therefore it works as a comparative study of their understanding", she says.
For the survey, 10 enumerators are already selected and they are going to begin the research on coming Sunday.
The data collection stage is planned to finish by next Saturday. However, it takes some more time to analyze and present it, the source said.


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