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Time Spent on the Streets before Registration – Phnom Penh 2009
300
250
66
Category
SLC
SWC
SLF
YM
NGO
200
150
90
100
67
67
168
65
42
50 31
46 45
24
12
30 37 32 18 18
26
0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 6
Under two Between Between One year Two years Three Over three No
weeks two weeks two and six
years years Information
and one months
month
The trend regarding how long the children/youth spend on the streets before getting
registered at one of the CSCN service centres in Phnom Penh points to a majority
of less than one year. More precisely 47.8 percent of the children/youth spent less
than one year, 22.5 percent spent one year or more, and 29.7 percent were not able
to provide information on the matter. The fact that the children/youth spend relatively
short periods of time on the streets consolidates the positive contributions of the CSCN
outreach efforts. However, there appears to be a need to target the category of SLC
spending more than one year on the streets.
According to the CSCN members’ analysis, a feasible explanation of why one third of
the chil-dren/youth were unable to provide any information is because a lot of them
have difficulties evaluating the time that they have spent on the streets. A suggestion to
overcome this meth-odological problem is to use event based time benchmarks such as
the P’chum Ben or Chaul Chnam (Khmer New Year).
CSCN
CSCN Street Children Profile 2009
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