Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Development Studies)

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    Child Protection Responses and Transformative Social Protection in Kenya and South Africa: Can social grants improve the wellbeing of children affected by violence and neglect?
    (University of the Western Cape, 2023) Nyamu, Irene Katunge; Conradie, Ina
    This research critically explores how children from low income neighbourhoods in Kenya and South Africa experience formal child protection interventions couched within a child rights framework in response to violence and neglect. The study also considered the role that social assistance grants play in mediating children’s wellbeing outcomes as a means for addressing child maltreatment and vulnerabilities. The main thesis of the research is that despite a close link having been established between violence against children and poverty in the causation of complex vulnerabilities and ill-being for children in Africa, solutions addressing the twin challenges appear to be mutually exclusive. While social assistance grants in the form of cash transfers remain a popular strategy for alleviating short to medium-term poverty, their potential for addressing neglect and violence against children which is linked to poverty has remained fairly unexplored. To examine this question critically, the Wellbeing in Development framework by Gough, McGregor and Camfield (2007) was used. The framework dynamically conceptualises poverty as multi-dimensional, and wellbeing as both a process and an outcome through which individuals can self-evaluate what constitutes happiness and a good life in a given social and cultural context.
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    Political affiliation, collective agency and structural opportunities for lumley market women in Sierra Leone
    (University of the Western Cape, 2023) Bockarie, Abioseh Maddie; Conradie, Ina
    This thesis examines the interaction between the political affiliations, collective agency and structural opportunities of market women in the Lumley Market, which is in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown (2019). Informal marketplaces in Sub - Saharan Africa are spaces of opportunities for market women. However, it is difficult for one trader to use her personal agency to translate the opportunities in the marketplace into achievements. There are numerous structural challenges, like poor market infrastructure, norms and traditional practices that make it difficult for her to reach out for these opportunities. So this study refers to the collective opportunities that are available to market women as “structural opportunities” (Conradie, 2013, p.29), because they are embedded in the structures of the marketplace. It is difficult to identify the opportunities that are available to the Lumley market women because opportunities are just potentials (Des Gasper, 2002). Therefore, the study examines the five achievements commonly identified by the Lumley Market Women Association (LMWA) in 2019 to indicate their opportunities. The first objective of this study is to describe these five achievements.
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    The synergy between gender relations, child labour and disability in the post-war Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda
    (University of Western Cape, 2020) Nakijoba, Rosemary; Conradie, Ina
    After a war of nearly two decades in the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda many families and communities were physically, socially, economically and psychologically devastated. A myriad of other concomitant effects of the war such as distorted gender relations in households and undue exposure of vulnerable children to the menace of hazardous child labour manifest in the communities today. A plethora of non-government organisations has worked in the Acholi subregion trying to transform the communities after the war, but these challenges remain thus compromising social justice and the well-being of children.