2019 PUBLICATIONS

Returning Home? The Reintegration Challenges Facing Children and Youth Returnees from Libya to Nigeria

Vasileia Digidiki and Jacqueline Bhabha

This report from the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and International Organization for Migration (IOM) finds that young migrants who return home from Libya to Nigeria often face serious challenges in their efforts to reintegrate into society. The report, “Returning Home? The Reintegration Challenges Facing Children and Youth Returnees from Libya to Nigeria,” highlights the dangers and risks that a particularly vulnerable population, children and young people from Sub-Saharan Africa, faces while migrating.

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Before, Not After: An Evaluation of Aangan Trust’s Preventative Approach to Child Protection in India

Report cover with photo from Koina India of people by the riverElizabeth Donger, Jacqueline Bhabha, Ayesha Mehrotra and Miriam Chernoff

This report makes an evidence-based case for prioritizing prevention. It documents and evaluates the work carried out by the children’s rights nonprofit Aangan Trust since late 2015 in Konia, a peri-urban slum area in Varanasi, a large city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The FXB study involved a mixed-methods quasi-experimental design. It shows just how difficult harm prevention work is, but also shows that Aangan’s harm prevention model has considerable potential to yield benefits to at-risk children.

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