Stories of Changes from Open Diaries: The Joint Effects of Radio Messaging and Group Discussions to Fight Child Marriage
Anchor Academic Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-95489-320-1 (ISBN)
The study contains a comprehensive literature review, comprising several findings regarding the magnitude of child marriage practices. Using the hybrid qualitative method of thematic analysis, it highlights important features and drawbacks of potential approaches to mobilising the community against child marriage. Moreover, a detailed description of multimedia intervention procedures is included, which can serve as a guideline for media practitioners and social development initiatives.
The author Getnet Eshetu graduated in Biology from Addis Ababa University and was awarded his master s degree in Educational Psychology by Bahir Dar University. He served as a high school teacher for 6 years and has worked for the Gondar Education Media Center for the past 20 years up to the present. His media experience encompasses the areas of management, training and research as well as designing and implementing media projects on different social and development issues. Among his research papers is the study Involving Children for Hand Washing Behavior Change: Repeated Message Delivery to Foster Action, which has been published by Anchor Academic Publishing in 2013.
Chapter 2, Review of related Literature:
2.3, Steps taken to Stop child marriage:
In general, early marriage of girls greatly affects the realization and enjoyment of virtually all of their rights. The imposition of marriage on children or adolescents who are in no way ready for married life deprives them of freedom, opportunities for personal development, health and well-being, education, and participation in civic life.
Ethiopia accepted international laws as well as developed local legal frameworks and implementing multiple intervention strategies including making partnership with international organizations to stop child marriage. One of such initiatives that Ethiopia accepted is Beijing Platform of Action United Nations, (1996) which is the cooperation and collaboration of GOs and NGO s to gender mainstreaming, advocacy, capacity building and creating grassroots women movements. Based on this many international and local NGOs are involved in different intervention activities including research, training and preventive measures. NPPE also encourage GO and NGO s involved in social and development programs that they incorporate gender and population content in their activities (Fikremarkos, 2008). WHO Media Center (2013), states that despite the fact that 158 countries have set the legal age for marriage at 18 years, laws are rarely enforced since the practice of marrying young children is upheld by tradition and social norms. Salih (2013), coating UNICEF advisor Malhotra said that laws alone have proven ineffective at preventing child marriage for instance countries like Bangladesh, India, and Indonesia have had minimum age of marriage laws for decades but still have under18 age rates of girls married 66.2, 44.5, and 22 percent respectively. Research findings indicate a significant number of persons who strongly disapprove of the child right violation practice publicly, but still follow the practice in their homes (PFI-Ethiopia, 2006). The study SCN (2011) also dismissed lack of knowledge of the consequences of early marriage as a reason for its continued practice. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on WHO Media Center (2013), say that I urge governments, community and religious leaders, civil society, the private sector, and families - especially men and boys - to do their part to let girls be girls, not brides . Therefore, coordinated collaborative home grown measures should be implemented to mobilize communities change those norms and to stop it.
Although Economist Magazine (2013), said it is much harder to change norms and practice on societal and cultural level than to adapt or conform to them, particularly with regards to relationships and health people in Ethiopia are open to change. This change in Ethiopia observed especially when changes are beneficial to their children (SCNE, 2005). Particularly, urban women more likely to discuss domestic duties, maternity service and HIV/AIDS with their husbands than were rural women (Population council, 2010). In addition to this there are some indications of Children do fought for their right in rural areas. For instance in a document SCNE (2005) a girl history is a good example: I heard at school that my parents had planned for me to get married. I was afraid. I didn t want to get married. When I came home from school that day, I cut off all my hair. Girls with short hair go to school. I thought when my parents saw my hair they would cancel the marriage and let me keep going to school. But when my father saw me, he just hit me with a stick (story of Kabanesh, p.16).
Kabanesh father hits her because she was against the deep rooted traditional practice. In the same document SCNE (2005), one child described this situation as ... our parents don t intend to harm us. They do these things because they learned them from their ancestors. They simply don t know better .
The Girl students club in Schools is one structure, which works to teach the community about early marriage
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.9.2014 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 220 mm |
| Gewicht | 242 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie |
| Schlagworte | Multimedia |
| ISBN-10 | 3-95489-320-7 / 3954893207 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-95489-320-1 / 9783954893201 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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