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Arusha, Tanzania: 10-14 December 2007
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Session 44:
Households’ and communities’ coping mechanisms to multiple shocks

Wednesday, December 12
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Kagera
Ngorongoro Wing. 7th Floor
Chair: Kokou Vignikin, Université de Lomé
Discussant: Thérèse Locoh, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

1. Changes in the traditional family system, poverty and associated parenting challenges on adolescent behavioural outcomes  •  Grace A. Adejuwon, University of Ibadan

2. Women's responsibilities and function changes during the conflicts in Congo Brazzaville  •  Pierre Chetel Kouanga, Union pour l'Etude et la Recherche sur la Population et le Développement (UERPOD)

3. Orphans and their households in Mali: vulnerable populations and safety nets harshly tested  •  Richard Marcoux, Université de Laval; Jean-François Kobiané, Université de Ouagadougou; Mamadou Kani Konaté, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur la Population pour le Développement (CERPOD)

4. Study of the household adaptation mechanisms in the face of climatic shocks, according to their food sufficiency in a Senegalese rural setting (Niakhar) between 2000-2003  •  Céline Vandermeersch, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD); Audrey Naulin

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