Publications by Author: Jacqueline Bhabha

2019
Jung, H.R. (M.) & Bhabha, J., 2019. Friends-International: A Response to the Plight of Children in the Aftermath of Cambodia’s Atrocities, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Download free of chargeAbstract

In the aftermath of the atrocities endured by the Cambodian people, Friends-International (FI) was established in 1994 to address some of the many protection needs faced by the country’s marginalized children and youth. In the intervening quarter century, FI has grown substantially, both in the scope and complexity of its operations. The organization’s core mission consists of providing comprehensive, innovative, and high quality services to children, youth, and their families, based on a child rights-based approach that informs all of the organization’s programs. FI has established a strong and highly respected presence in Cambodia, building social services for children, operating effective social businesses, and initiating the global ChildSafe Movement. Over time, they have expanded their community-based model to multiple countries. But amidst their expansion, FI has continued to face financial insecurity and a constantly shifting landscape of challenging child protection concerns. At what point might they have been trying to do too much, possibly unduly stretching themselves across too many sectors and borders? Innovation had been a core strength of FI, but was it always appropriate to innovate? The case addresses these common problems.

2016
Milstein, D. & Bhabha, J., 2016. Kids in Need of Defense (KIND): The Challenges of Child Migration to the United States, Harvard Business Publishing: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health case collection. Available from Harvard Business PublishingAbstract
Since the flood of child migrants from Central America burst upon the southern United States in the summer of 2014—a vast rise in arrivals dubbed “the Surge”—Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) had been facing overwhelming demand for its legal services. Wendy Young, KIND’s president, explained that the organization’s primary mission was to ensure that no child appears alone in immigration court, but KIND also wanted to provide leadership, research, and advocacy to protect these “children on the move” from laws and practices that threatened their fundamental human rights. Ms. Young was facing a critical juncture in the organizational life of KIND: where and how should it focus its resources for greatest effectiveness in protecting child migrants? What limits must the organization set on its activities when facing an almost unlimited need for legal, social, health, and educational support of these vulnerable children?
Sirali, Y. & Bhabha, J., 2016. Turkey’s Child Protection Crisis and the Mother Child Education Foundation (Anne Çocuk Eğitim Vakfı—AÇEV), Parts A & B, Harvard Business Publishing: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health case collection. Available from Harvard Business PublishingAbstract
While violence against children in Turkey was widespread, people across the country were shocked by the news of seven atrocious child molestation cases,one after another over the course of a week in April 2010. Ayşen Özyeğin, Founder and President of the Mother Child Education Foundation (in Turkish, Anne Çocuk Eğitim Vakfı—AÇEV), a nonprofit organization devoted to supporting disadvantaged children and their families and promoting early childhood education, called a Board meeting to discuss whether the organization should assume a role in addressing the child protection crisis. ACEV’s leaders prepared to present recommendations to their fellow Board Members and to consider decisions critical for both the agency’s future and for Turkey’s children.