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The purpose of the Institute for the African Child Working Paper series is to provide a forum for discussion and review of pertinent information regarding the African Child. The Working Papers serve as an avenue for disseminating knowledge and to receive feedback on current research and work that is being done. All copyrights remain with the authors.

We view this series of Working Papers in African Child Studies as a useful publishing option in our field. Submissions are welcome from across the range of disciplines that concern Africa's children, and from practitioners in governmental and non-governmental organizations. Papers are generally reviewed anonymously and edited by a faculty committee at Ohio University's Institute for the African Child. We wish to particularly encourage our colleagues in Africa to use this forum to bring their work to the attention of those also working in this field.

We see the Working Papers in African Child Studies series as representative of a new wave of publishing for the twenty-first century. We have followed the lead of our sister institution, Michigan State University, which publishes a prestigious and  well-known Working Papers series on Women in Development. The Working Papers model serves our purpose in disseminating meaningful information to African practitioners and the academic community. We distribute information about the series on our website, at conference, to current and prospective student and faculty, and to prospective
donors of the Institute for the African Child. Readers choose the topics that interest them the most, and order only those papers which are pertinent to their own research. The cost of printing the series is absorbed by the user fees of our client base. This ensures both the sustainability of our publishing operations and the targeted dissemination of research in  African Child studies.

Guidelines for submitting a paper for the IAC Working Papers in African Child Studies series

Submitted papers should follow the guidelines below and sent to:

Ghirmai Negash
Assistant Director
Institute for the African Child
Center for International Studies
Yamada International House
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
E-mail: negashg@ohio.edu
Submissions should include:

Author's contact address
Phone and fax numbers and e-mail address
Title Page (including title, author (s), and author's affiliation (s) )
Abstract (150 words or less)
Author Bio
Text
Tables and figures
References

All tables, figures, and graphs should be saved as individual pdf* files. Notes may be included as either footnotes or endnotes, but must be consistent. Paper should be submitted on an IBM formatted disk in Microsoft Word.

If you are unable to save in pdf, save each table, figure or graph as an individual Word file. If your article is selected for publication, we will return your article to you with notes and comments for your revision and acceptance.
Once we receive changes and updates to your paper, it will be sent for publishing.