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International Child Welfare: Deconstructing UNICEF's Country Programmes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2005

Siobhan E. Laird
Siobhan E. Laird
Affiliation:
Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

There has been exhaustive scrutiny of the policies of the Bretton Woods institutions and the United Nations Population Fund. UNICEF, despite a prominent role in agenda setting for children's welfare in developing countries, has not been subject to comparable scrutiny. This paper argues that the Country Programmes promulgated by UNICEF to improve children's welfare reflect ethnocentric conceptualisations of the family. As a case study, Ghana's Country Programme 2001–2005 is considered in detail. Anthropological studies are adduced to highlight underlying ethnocentric assumptions around social organisation. The ramifications of these assumptions are then considered.

Type
Themed Section on Transnational Social Policy
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 457 - 466
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2005

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