Children and family dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa.

14:00-14:30. Opening of the seminar

· Magda Tomasini (Directrice de l’Ined, France) andOlivia Samuel (Printemps / Université de Versailles St Quentin, France)

14:30-15:30. Keynote presentation

· Who protect the child? by Doris Bonnet (Ceped / IRD, France)

16:00-17:30. Grasping the family environment of children: methodological issues

· Distance or location? How the geographic distribution of kin networks shapes support given to single mothers in urban Kenya / À distance ou sur place ? by Sangeetha Madhavan (University of Maryland, US), Shelley Clark (McGill University, Canada), Malcolm Egan (McGill University, Canada) and Donatien Beguy (APHRC, Kenya)

· Dwellings, domestic units and households: intersecting views on the family environment of children in Mali by Pascaline Feuillet (Ined, France) and Véronique Hertrich (Ined, France)

· From potential to observed kinship resources around children: Census and genealogical data combined with microsimulations by Aurélien Dasré (Cresppa-GTM / Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France) and Bruno Masquelier (DEMO / Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique)

09:00-12:00. The role of extended kin in the life of children

· Childcare practices in the Kumasi metropolis, Ghana by Samuel Asiedu Owusu (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)

· Effects of family structure on child mortality in SADC countries: Insights from Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) by Stephen Kumwenda (University of Malawi, Malawi)

· Intergenerational care for and by children: Reciprocity and impacts on children’s wellbeing in rural Uganda by Enid Schatz (University of Missouri, US), Janet Seeley (LSHTM, UK) and Flavia Zalwango (Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda)

· New living arrangements in three- to four-generation households in Africa and their impacts on the life of children: evidence from observations in Lomé by Kokou Vignikin (URD / Université de Lomé, Togo)

· Children’s family network and dynamics: a longitudinal study in rural Mali by Aurélien Dasré (Cresppa-GTM / Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France) and Olivia Samuel (Printemps / Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France)

13:30-16:30. The presence of mothers and fathers: to what extent do they matter for children?

· Father’s child care activities and women work status in sub-Saharan Africa by Frank Audrey Tchokonthe (Institute for training and demographics research, Cameroon), Jean Galbert Ongono Olinga (University of Clermont Ferrand I) and Soazic Elise Wang Sonne (United Nations University – Maastricht Economics, Netherlands)

· Do father matter? Paternal absence and child health in northern Tanzania by Anushé Hassan (LSHTM, UK) & al.

· Influence of the child status on schooling and child labor in Cameroon and Senegal by Théophile Armand Fopa Diesse (CARE-IFA / MINEPAT, Cameroun) and Honoré Mimche (IFORD, Cameroun)

· Child fostering in Senegal: Insights from an original longitudinal survey by Philippe De Vreyer (PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine, LEDa-DIAL, France), Sylvie Lambert (PSE / INRA, France) and Karine Marazyan (UMR « Développement et Sociétés », IEDES-P1, France)

· Child migrations and family structures in Mali by Marie Lesclingand (Urmis / Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)

17:00-17:30. Invited lecture

· The child and his kin in the oral storytelling tradition by Cécile Leguy (Lacito / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France)

09:00-12:00. How do school, work and child health interact with family structure?

· Living arrangements and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa by Bilampoa Gnoumou Thiombiano (ISSP / Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

· Investigating between- and within-family differences in children’s time allocation to schooling and work in northwestern Tanzania by Sophie Hedges (LSHTM, UK) & al.

· Schooling and family structures in Mali by Marc Pilon (Ceped / IRD, France), Marie Lesclingand (Urmis / Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France) and Emma Lherm (Ined, France)

· Gender and evolution of schooling from 1997 to 2008 in Madagascar by Jean Baptiste Tarzan Ndremitsara (Instat, Madagascar), Lina Rakotoson (Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar) and Arsene Ravelo (Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar)

· The impact of familial structures on schooling and the children’s activities in rural areas of the highlands in Madagascar by Antonia Verger (Ceped / Université Paris Descartes, France)

13:30-15:30. Questioning the detrimental impact of specific family contexts on children

· Family situations and vulnerability of children by Valérie Delaunay (LPED / IRD, France)

· Who helps single mothers in Nairobi? The role of kin support by Shelley Clark (McGill University, Canada) & al.

· Incarceration and parental relationships: the case of under-age children in the detention facility in Bollé, Mali by Seydou Keita (CNRST, Mali)

· Polygynous marriage and child health in sub-Saharan Africa: What is the evidence for harm? by David W. Lawson (Department of Anthropology / University of California, US)

16:00-16:30. Closing session

· Results and prospects by Claudine Sauvain-Dugerdil (IDESO / Université de Genève, Suisse) and Marc Pilon (Ceped / IRD, France)