Right To Play/IICRD Baseline Jam Suka
Early Qualitative Findings
Research Orientation and Initial Results
October, 2016
Dr. Philip Cook, Michele Cook
IICRD
Research Goal of Mali Jam Suka
Mission
The research aims of the September 18th – October 4th Mali visit were to:
1) Finalize list of indicators from Jam Suka PMF and tie these indicators to
appropriate quantitative and qualitative research tools
2) Conduct baseline training with RTP staff and baseline enumerators
3) Begin and oversee Household survey process
1) Gather baseline qualitative data in all three regions
2) Begin data analysis
Research Goal of Mali Jam Suka
Mission
Context
• Need for baseline research to initiate Jam Suka project (submit report
to GAC)
• Inform Jam Suka programming in strengthening local protection
mechanisms in mitigating risks
• Strengthen links between monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Team of 4 IICRD staff visited Mali from Sep. 18th – Oct. 4th
• Bamako enumerator HH training (Sep. 23 – 26)
• Qual. Research in Yanfolila (Sekasso), Kenieba (Kayes), and
Badiagara (Mopti) (Sep. 27 – Oct. 4)
An Ecological Approach of Childhood
Development, Risk and Protection
Risk factors can pile up
Protective factors can mitigate risks
Research Methods
 Household (HH) Survey
(Quant) (1680T/560R)
 Ethnography (Qual)
 Participant Action Research
(Qual)
That draws on:
 IICRD and other global
experience in CP M&E
 New child and youth centred
approaches to CP M&E (IICRD
CAPE)
 Community engagement in CP
M&E (Wessells)
Household Surveys (Quant)
 Adolescent (1200T/400R)
 Caregiver (400T/100R)
 Vulnerable adolescent
(180T/60R)
 Practitioners (45T/15R)
 Tablet based/POIMAPPER
 Each survey approx. 1
hour/practitioner 20min
 Informed consent
 Resources available upon
request
 Completion: Oct. 18 (Adol
10, VA 13, CG 16, Pr 17)
Qualitative data per region
 Focus groups with vulnerable
children (approx. 20 boys/girls)
 Key informant interviews with
vulnerable children (4 boys/girls)
 Walking tour using POIMAPPER to
map risk and protective factors
 Focus group with caregivers (20
men and women)
 KII with CG (2-4)
 Focus group with practitioners and
local leaders (20 men and women)
 Spidergram on issues of
accessibility and barriers with
children, caregivers and
practitioners (45)
 KII with practitioners (2-4)
(Summary Data Analysis)
Initial Findings
1. High levels of risk for boys and girls (FGM, early
marriage, child labour)
2. Emphasis on poverty and entrenched social norms
3. Week government protective systems
4. Generally week civil society protection (stronger in
Yanfolila than Kenieba)
5. Need for RTP and Jam Suka child protection
program
6. Need for creative partnership with local community,
CBO’s and government (formal/non-formal systems)
Findings (cont’d)
7. Need to examine interventions to increase protective
factors while mitigating risk factors
8. Focus on unique needs and situation of MVC
9. In many cases FGM now happens in infancy, implications
for work with adolescents
10. Sensitization with economic strengthening
11. Need to work closely with Social Opinion Leaders for
issues like early marriage and FGM
12. Deep engagement with children, especially
Findings: The subjective understanding and
experience of psychosocial support
1. Key role of family in buffering children from risk
2. Role of non-formal supports (e.g. women’s groups,
religious organizations, sports clubs etc) in
providing psychosocial
3. Important role of gender and peer relations as risk
and protection factor
4. Children’s unique strategies to mitigate social
isolation and desire to return home
Findings: The subjective understanding and
experience of psychosocial support
5. Lack of opportunity and social and physical space
for protection and formal and non-formal education
6. Importance of secondary risk factors experienced in
Lebanon equal to, or greater than, psychosocial
stressors from war in Syria
7. Importance of education and play in recovery and
resilience
Findings: The role of play in psychosocial
recovery, resilience and social justice
1.
Important of discriminating between
diverse forms of play (sport, creative
arts, theatre and role play, imagination,
See Hughes, 2002)
2.
Spectrum of psychosocial positive
outcomes from healing, recovery,
resilience, social justice
3.
Adapting interventions considering
relation between physical space and play
(refugee centre, community space,
football pitches)
4.
Emergence of local games and child lead
games (e.g. math games)
Findings: The role of play in psychosocial
recovery, resilience and social justice
5.
Virtuous circle from play, to learning, to resilience, to play
6.
Spectrum of communication skills from experience, reflect, connect,
apply healing, recovery, resilience, social justice
5.
Role of children’s rights in broadening role of play to include systemic
issues of social justice
6.
Importance of competition in play and recovery
7.
Fertile, untilled ground of culture in Lebanese and Syrian contexts
8.
Role of play in strengthening protection (reducing symptoms) and
promotional (enhancing well-being) factors
Next steps
• Focus for next visit (one on one interviews with children and care
providers, interviews with coaches, interviews with key experts)
• Process for pilot testing of new tools
• Reinforcing and articulating child rights contribution to child and
family recovery
• Explore and enhance local cultural values (e.g. modesty, bravery,
compassion)
• Partner with local academic institutions
• RTP’s contribution to global learning on play, psychosocial
support, protection – link programming, policy, advocacy EIE/CP
Thank You/Shukraan