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MARCH 2024
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Tracking every child's right to social protection
By Save the Children, ILO, and UNICEF

To bolster efforts to monitor and reduce the gaps in child benefit coverage, Save the Children, ILO, and UNICEF launched the Global Child Benefits Tracker ([link removed]) , an online platform to monitor children’s access to benefits and advocate with governments and donors to close the gaps. This launch comes at a critical time when most recent data shows that 829 million children globally are living in households with per-person incomes below US$3.65 a day, and progress on child poverty reduction has largely stalled.

As part of the launch of the Global Child Benefits Tracker, newly released data showed that worldwide 1.4 billion children aged 0-15 lack any form of social protection, leaving them vulnerable to disease, poor nutrition, and poverty. Explore the data on the tracker ([link removed]) , watch the launch event ([link removed]) at the Commission for Social Development, and read the press release ([link removed]) for more information.

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Report Card 18 – Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth
By UNICEF

Report Card 18, looking at children’s well-being in OECD and EU countries, finds that Poland and Slovenia are faring best in efforts to tackle child poverty, followed by Latvia and the Republic of Korea. In contrast, some of the richest countries in the report are lagging behind, near the bottom of the country rankings.

The report presents the most up-to-date, comparable picture of poverty affecting children in OECD and EU countries and analyses governments’ income support policies for families with children. It finds that, despite overall decreases in poverty by nearly 8 per cent across 40 countries between 2014 and 2021, there were still over 69 million children living in households earning less than 60 per cent of the average national income by the end of 2021. Read more ([link removed]) .

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A Disproportionate Burden: Children in Poverty Bearing the Brunt of the Climate Crisis
By the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty

The climate crisis is not a distant risk but is already threatening children’s rights and their well-being here and now.

This analysis shows how child poverty and climate change can become a vicious cycle—poverty makes children more vulnerable to shocks like severe weather and floods, and these crises also impoverish them more. 6 out of 10 children already living in multidimensional poverty are expected to experience at least one climate risk a year, and 3 out of 10 children live in provinces with very high climate risks as well as a high concentration of children living in multidimensional poverty. Read more ([link removed]) .

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Poverty and Social Justice in a Post-COVID World
By Bristol Poverty Institute

On June 5 and 6, 2024, the Bristol Poverty Institute will be bringing together a multi-sector audience for our conference exploring poverty and social justice in a post-COVID world. We will be exploring poverty in its multiple dimensions, with a specific focus on areas including health, education, livelihoods, and structural inequalities. Registration will open in the spring, and more information is available on the BPI website ([link removed]) .

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Improving Child and Family Poverty Measurement
By Equity for children - The New School

The New School University conference, ‘Improving Child and Family Poverty Measurement,' was co-organized by Equity for Children in partnership with UNICEF and the Bristol Poverty Institute at the University of Bristol, UK. Each is collaborating on a research program to improve the international measurement of child and family poverty. Read more ([link removed]) .

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Measuring multidimensional child poverty
By OPHI

A paper on child indicators and household survey questions from OPHI ([link removed]) , as part of a scoping exercise on data availability for multidimensional poverty measurement produced as part of 9 papers on key dimensions of multidimensional poverty, was presented on 7–9 February 2024 at the University of Oxford during an Expert Workshop on ‘Improving the Collection and Availability of Multidimensional Poverty and Wellbeing Data ([link removed]) .’

It discusses the data gap in household surveys to measure dimensions of child poverty in multidimensional poverty measures.

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We Deserve Better: Unlocking the Power of Social Protection for Women and Girls
By UNICEF and partners

Making social protection respond to the needs of women and girls is critical in addressing poverty and gender inequality. Last year, UNICEF embarked on the We Deserve Better initiative with partners worldwide to listen to women and girls about how social protection systems succeed and where they fall short of promise.

During the 68th Commission on the Status of Women, the We Deserve Better side events, in collaboration between UNICEF, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, amplified the voices of women and girls with social protection systems and pathways for participatory policymaking in social protection and included inspiring examples from Australia, Jordan, Malawi, Morocco, and the UK. Watch the event recording ([link removed]) and see the trailer ([link removed]) of the mini-documentary.

High-level events
By ChildFund Alliance

On 12 February 2024, the event “Empowering Communities for Inclusive Development: Breaking Barriers, Fostering Social Justice, and Strengthening Resilience ([link removed]) ,” examined how ChildFund Alliance members are accelerating socio-economic development in vulnerable communities, with a focus on migrant and refugee children, through an emphasis on fostering community empowerment through education, caregiving, and strengthened social cohesion.

At the CSW68 on 12 March 2024 a side event on The Importance of Care in Achieving Gender Equality: Early Childhood Development (ECD) ([link removed]) , Parenting Services and Policies took place. It highlighted the critical intersections between ECD, care equality, and gender equality at the global and national level, as well as their contributions to nurturing children’s wellbeing, especially of those living in poverty.

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Children's Rights: Political will or won't? - Eurochild 2023 report on children in need across Europe
By Eurochild

The report aims to identify good and promising practices, working solutions, and country-specific recommendations for EU decision-makers and national governments to draw from when addressing children’s needs. Read more ([link removed]) .

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