Dear colleagues,

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October 2020 presents an opportunity for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, activists working on child poverty to raise awareness on the importance of ending child poverty, and call on countries to take urgent and immediate actions to address it as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.

This year on the IDEP, we hope to bring greater attention to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on child poverty, the need to expand social protection coverage for children and build stronger national systems. Please find below social media guidance and resources to support your communication and advocacy activities on October 17th and beyond.

Hashtags

• #EndChildPoverty 
• #IDEP2020

Twitter handles

• @globalcoalition 

Media assets

1. Briefing paper: 2020 Voluntary national reviews analysis (Embargoed until Oct 17, 2020, 9 AM ET)
2. Call to action on expanding children’s access to social protection in the wake of COVID-19

Suggested social media messages

• Millions of children have been pushed into poverty due to the #COVID19 pandemic – and the poorest are getting poorer. Now is the time to rapidly expand social protection systems, to mitigate the impact of the crisis on children.
• For children, poverty is more than just a lack of money. The number of children living in multidimensional poverty has soared to 1.2 billion – a 15% increase since the pandemic hit earlier this year.
• #COVID19 threatens to push 150 million additional children into poverty. Now more than ever governments must maintain and scale up their investments in child-sensitive social protection to avoid failing an entire future generation.
• To prevent #COVID19 pandemic from turning into a #childpoverty crisis, we are calling governments to:
  • Expand access to social protection
  • Scale up investments for social protection
  • Build shock-responsive and inclusive systems.  
• On this #IDEP, we’re calling governments to urgently expand social protection measures for children, their parents and caregivers - and to build stronger national systems that can be scaled up to mitigate future crises.
• Children have the right to adequate standard of living, yet 1.2 billion boys and girls are not enjoying this basic right. To #endchildpoverty, countries must rapidly expand social protection coverage #foreverychild
• 385 million children globally are struggling to survive on less than $1.90 a day. Addressing child poverty effectively starts with solid data and measurement, and expansion of child sensitive social protection programmes. 
• DYK that half of the world’s poor are children? Poverty affects children disproportionately and more brutally with lifelong negative impacts. To end poverty for good, we must #endchildpoverty first. 
• Tackling child poverty is not only the right thing to do – it’s also the smart thing to do. By investing in nutrition, health and education countries can prevent intergenerational transmission of poverty + build prosperous societies.