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‘And then they left’: Challenges to child protection systems strengthening in South Sudan

International child protection work has undergone a paradigm shift, moving from addressing issues such as trafficked children, street children and child labor separately to a more integrated systems approach. As a young nation still marked by conflict, South Sudan offers insight into how the interplay between a fragile national child protection system in a conflict-affected country and the efforts of international humanitarian actors can promote or undermine systems strengthening.

Author(s): 
Mark Canavera, Kiryn Lanning, Katherine Polin, Lindsay Stark
Year of Publication: 
2016
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Resource Type: 
Journal article - abstract only
Language: 
English
Section: 
Resource Database