The Girl-Child and Government Service Provision.pdf - Tanzania ...

Annex 4: Questions forfocus-group discussionswith children at schoolAnnex 5: Questions forfocus-group discussionswith village leaders1. What social services for use by children exist in thiscommunity?2. Are there any problems associated with governmentservices in education or health?3. Does the family receive any regular visits from governmentworkers connected with the children or anyother form of help?4. Do/did all girls at your village attend school? (If not,why?)5. Are there any children working or living outside theirhome? (What do they do? Their ages and sex?)6. What roles are filled by girls at home?7. What roles are filled by boys at home?8. Have there been times when a child was sick and thefamily failed to take the child to the health centre? (Ifyes, why? What was the age of the child? the sex?)9. Who is given attention by the family when sick, a girlor a boy? Why? Are there signs of discrimination?10. What keeps many girls out of schools (primary, secondaryand college)? What keeps girls performing wellin this village?11. What opportunities exist for girls after school?12. Do families believe that their daughters have the opportunityto achieve as much as their sons? (Do parentsexpect girls to perform well? Do they motivatetheir girls?)13. Do families think girls can contribute to the future oftheir country? In what ways?1. Name of the village?2. As community leaders, how do assess the well-beingof children in this community (health, education, moraland so forth)? Is their condition good? bad? Why?3. What social services exist in the community for use bychildren? Who provides which services?4. What are the main problems in the community as faras health services and/or facilities for children are concerned?5. Are there any practices in the community that indicategirl children are discriminated against by parents? Ifyes, what practices? How do they lead to discrimination?Why do they continue?6. Does the community have any child-protection facility(against exploitation, abuse and so on)?7. Are there any bylaws in the community that protectchildren? What are they?8. What more should the government do to improveprimary health care for children within the community?9. What are the main education problems facing childrenin the community?10. What are the main problems in the community as faras education services and/or schools are concerned?11. What needs to be done to solve these problems?12. What more should the government do to improveeducation for children within the community?14. In what ways do parents and/or the community expressdiscrimination against girls? (Hint: birth preferenceof boys vs. girls, inheritance patterns and so on)15. In order to improve the condition, environment anddevelopment of children, especially girls, what shouldbe done?The Girl-Child and Government Service Provision 51