Avoiding the "Care Cliff": Life for Girls and Young Women Rescued from Commercial Orphanages in Uganda
Researcher: Esther Bott (esther.bott@nottingham.ac.uk)
Esther Bott has been awarded a twelve-month British Academy ODA Global Innovations Fellowship, to commence in September 2025.
The project, titled ‘Avoiding the “Care Cliff”: Life for Girls and Young Women Rescued from Commercial Orphanages in Uganda’ will enable Esther to continue her research on the effects of anti-trafficking interventions in the orphanage tourism industries of the Global South.
Building on her extensive research in Nepal, the fellowship will involve empirical research on the experiences of care-leaving girls/women in Uganda, where anti-orphanage interventions have been particularly rapid and widespread, and where social and economic marginalization is especially threatening to girls and young women.
In partnership with AfriChild, the project will involve participatory, co-creative research activities with the user group to uncover their narratives and help amplify them among a range of governmental and third-sector policy stakeholders.