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In-depth analysis of the situation of working street children in Moscow
In today's Russia street children are becoming a prominent social problem.Over the last ten years, as the country struggled with sweeping economic declineand a shift in values, it has also had to cope with a side effect of this massivetransformation: homeless and neglected children. Away from home, deprivedof shelter and parental care, these children are becoming a new cheap workforceand easy prey for the rampant criminal world. Today, both the state and nongovernmentalorganizations (NGOs) are striving to respond adequately to theproblem. Yet it is evident that there is not enough capacity to tackle it. Thecommunity remains largely ignorant of and passive towards it. This reportreflects one of the few initial attempts at in-depth analysis of the street childrensituation in Moscow, the capital and industrial centre of the country.

In-depth analysis of the situation of working street children in St. Petersburg 2000
This report on St. Petersburg is one of the first attempts to carry out a thorough analysis of the problem of working street childrenin a modern Russian metropolis.This report has been prepared with the support of the International Labour Organizationwithin the framework of its International Programme on the Eliminationof Child Labour (IPEC). The main aim of the research is to provide a quantitativeand qualitative evaluation of the experiences of working street children; to examinethe social and economic issues behind the problem; to evaluate the types andforms of child labour; and to focus on the dangers to children.s health and to theirphysical, moral and intellectual development. The report concludes by proposingways to solve the problem of working street children.

In-Depth Analysis of the Situation of Working Street Children in the Leningrad Region
In today.s Russia street children are becoming a prominent social problem.Both the state and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) arestriving to respond adequately. Yet it is evident there is notenough capacity to tackle it. The community remains largely apathetic andpassive. Meanwhile, the working street children phenomenon has crossed theboundaries of industrial centres into smaller localities and rural areas.This report reflects an initial attempt at an in-depth analysis of the street childrensituation in an area with a predominantly rural population. For that purpose,two districts in the Leningrad Region were selected for a case study.

Life without Basic Service ''Street Children Say''
This study builds on the learning of Street Diary (Save the Children UK, 2001), giving theopportunity for a group of children to represent their own analysis of their situation. Itexamines the human and emotional dimension of life on the street. This is not astatistical or quantitative research but is representative of the feelings of children livingon the street about their lives and organisations working with them.

Moscow's Railway Station Children
An outline of a social work project carried out by the Russian Charity NAN. The study outlines techniques for social workers in communicating with homeless and 'at-risk' youth living and working near the country's train stations. It is designed to help them identify the needs of the children, with a focus on those developing and living with a chemical dependency of some kind.

Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Manual

Organizational Diagnosis for Advocacy
When groups are considering advocacy, it is helpful for them to assess what advocacy actually can offer their organization, what some of the benefits and risks might be and what organizational barriers might influence their success.

Street Children in Moscow: Using and Creating Social Capital
The paper analyses the strategies of homeless street children in Moscow connected with the accumulation of social capital. Based on recent empirical research, it looks at the involvement of children in non-criminal and criminal subcultures as a way to get access to important networks and resources, and shows how young people use their social skills and appropriate subcultural norms and values in order to build alternative careers. It demonstrates that children's social background plays an important role in their trajectories in the urban informal economy and society, and that they should not be viewed, as it is usually suggested in the social exclusion literature, as a single dispossessed mass which has fallen through support networks in various risk scenarios. Research data is reviewed to provide evidence that Moscow's homeless children are resourceful and deeply social agents who find surrogate families and ad hoc social memberships.

The Social Sector: A Failure of the Transition
This article deals with the many general social and economic issues raised since the collapse of communism in the former Soviety Union and countries of East and Central Europe, and the inadequacy of governments to provide basic social welfare. Street children are considered to be the product of a troubled, transitional economy in this context.

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