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JULY 2023
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Dear readers,

We wanted to start this newsletter by sharing some news on changes in the chairing of The Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, with current co-chairs Silvia Paruzzolo from Save the Children and David Stewart from UNICEF leaving their roles. As a Coalition, we have immensely appreciated their leadership and contributions ever since the early days of this collaboration, all the way back to 2014. Working with them was a great pleasure; we wish them all the best in their future endeavors and know they will continue to be great champions and advocates for children living in poverty.

The work of the Coalition, of course, continues! And we welcome the new co-chairs, David Lambert Tumwesigye from Save the Children and Sola Engilbertsdottir from UNICEF.

Warm regards,
The Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
Top picks
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Webinar - the experiences of children and their families living in poverty - Qualitative methods to assess child poverty
By Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
Innovative methods for assessing poverty are ever-increasing. While quantitative methods like household survey analyses provide crucial information on poverty and are the most common tool to measure poverty, qualitative methods like life history interviews and others can help build and share an understanding of the daily lives of children living in poverty, which numbers alone can fail to do.

Happening on July 20, this webinar will showcase various qualitative methods to measure child poverty and explore how they can complement quantitative measures for impactful policy advocacy. Register here ([link removed]) .
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Too little, too late: An assessment of public spending on children by age in 84 countries
By UNICEF
Examining practices in 84 countries across the world representing approximately 58 per cent of children and young people worldwide, the report finds that expenditure on children is:

* Too little: Public support to meet children’s needs is grossly inadequate in most places. Low- and middle-income countries, particularly, provide inadequate social services and social protection.
* Too late: Investment is also made far too late in the life course. In more than half of the countries studied, expenditures are concentrated later in childhood and youth at the expense of the early years.
* Vastly unequal: The study reveals deep inequalities, both among and within countries. Within countries, failing to provide critical resources in the younger years– while making zero-sum investments in education – benefits families already at a relative advantage. Differences across countries by income level are also stark.
* Incoherent: Even where countries provide for the youngest children, a particularly disturbing observation is the ‘age 2 gap’ whereby too few dollars are invested in the period after infancy and before preschool.

The report recommends coordinated and corrective actions to address this incoherence between the evidence and practice and calls for improved disaggregated data to ensure regular monitoring to inform policies and programmes. Find out more ([link removed]) .

News highlights and events
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Launch of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023: Unstacking global poverty: Data for high-impact action
By OPHI and UNDP
The annual update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index will be launched at an official Side Event of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on 11 July at 18:30 ET. The Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations will kindly host this event. This year’s event will launch the report and findings of the 2023 global Multidimensional Poverty Index update. Panelists will discuss how these data can be shared and used alongside other data sources to reduce poverty in all its forms. The event will also be webcast live via UN WebTV ([link removed]) . Find out more ([link removed]) .

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Mapping and research to comprehensively measure child vulnerability worldwide
By World Vision International and partners
In September 2022, World Vision International ([link removed]) and the Institute of Economics and Peace ([link removed]) (IEP) began an innovative project to track, compare and visualize a variety of child vulnerability measures across the world. This initiative forms part of World Vision’s ongoing effort to enhance the scope, targeting, and impact of its humanitarian, development, advocacy, and peacebuilding programming, particularly in relation to the quadruple threat ([link removed]) of urban fragility, climate change, gender inequality, and social exclusion. The work will also be highlighted as part of a side event at the High-level Political Forum. Check out the maps for more information ([link removed]) .

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Poverty-focused mixed methods research and evaluation online course
By the Institute of Development Studies
This course, taught by highly experienced professionals in Bangladesh, the UK, and Zambia, will help understand, design, and implement mixed methods research and evaluations amidst contexts of rapid change. The course will run from 4 October 2023 until 25 October 2023. Application deadline: 4 September 2023. Find out more and apply ([link removed]) .


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Promoting dialogues on social protection, care policies, and child poverty in Mexico
By UNICEF
UNICEF Mexico supported the Government of Mexico City in organizing a high-level symposium to highlight the local experience with “Mi Beca Empezar ([link removed]) .” The programme, which reaches 1.2 million children, has received UNICEF support for evidence generation since 2019 and constitutes a major step towards consolidating child-sensitive social protection in the city. UNICEF also partnered with the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) to produce a series of studies and international dialogues on childcare policies ([link removed]) and child poverty ([link removed]) .

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Second Arab Multidimensional Poverty Report
By UN ESCWA, League of Arab States, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, OPHI, and other partners
This report describes and analyses the extent, characteristics, and evolution over time of multidimensional poverty in Arab countries, including a focus on child poverty. Child poverty remains prevalent, affecting about a quarter of children in the six middle-income Arab countries towards the end of the 2010s, but has seen some improvement compared to earlier in the same decade, when the multidimensional child poverty rate was around 30 per cent. Over a fifth of children live in dwellings not connected to a water network, and a quarter live in overcrowded housing. Average national poverty rates obscure significant disparities within countries, as children in rural areas and those from the lowest wealth quintile are severely disadvantaged. Read more ([link removed]) .


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Improving outcomes for children in poverty
By Poverty Unpacked
In this episode of the Poverty Unpacked podcast, the host Keetie Roelen speaks with Naomi Eisenstadt, who was the director of the Sure Start programme in the UK, a popular scheme that provided services to children and their parents in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The discussion highlights making support to low-income families work for children. Listen to the podcast episode ([link removed]) .
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