The report has a dual purpose:

  • improve understanding of street children by identifying recent advances in an academic scholarship which began in the 1970s
  • identify priority areas for academic research on street children in order to build a stronger strategic base for the development of advocacy, policy and programme design initiatives.

The report divides into four parts and a total of 12 sections, which reflect the most interesting advances in the academic research over the last 10 years:

1. Understanding Street Children: Old Myths and New Realities - numbers, definitions, characteristics and voices form the streets

2. Sreet Childre nand Everday Lives - The Wider Picture: relationships, migration and mobility, experiences on the streets and ageing into youth

3. Policies and Interventions for Street Children

4. Street Children's Rights, Laws, Budgets, Funding

The report's findings are summarised at the end of each part and drawn together in the Executive Summary

 

This report addresses these problems head-on: bringing together and making easily available to practitioners and researchers alike a comprehensive collection of street children literature from the last decade. It draws on more than 400 pieces of research written by scholars, development practitioners and NGOs working with street children.

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