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End Child Poverty @10 campaign launch event – June 16
By Arigatou International
Arigatou International will kick-start on 16 June 2022 an End Child Poverty@10 Campaign, commemorating 10 years of its Interfaith Initiative to End Child Poverty. This event marks the beginning of a campaign to celebrate global progress made towards overcoming child poverty over the last 10 years; share this journey, appreciate champions, including volunteers and partners, and advance knowledge relevant to ending child poverty. Find out more.
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A Practical Guide to Monetary Poverty Analysis
By UNICEF
Monetary child poverty analysis can lead to tangible recommendations and national responses to reduce child poverty. This note provides guidance to expand the child poverty analytical toolbox, with the objective of guiding and influencing policies to address and reduce monetary child poverty. It was developed with the aim of supporting stakeholders working in the area of child poverty as they advance reduction in child poverty.
→Read the publication.
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News highlights and events
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Bristol Poverty Institute Showcase Event
By Bristol Poverty Institute
On Thursday 30th June 2022 the Bristol Poverty Institute (BPI) is bringing together friends, colleagues, and associates from a range of organizations to showcase, celebrate and explore poverty-relevant research at the University of Bristol and beyond. Join this event in Bristol (UK) for an engaging afternoon of presentations, posters, and networking opportunities. Registration is free via Eventbrite.
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Public Spaces for Children in Latin America
By Equity for Children
On 20 April, Equity for Children organized the first webinar of a series on Public Spaces for Children in Latin America. Read the report (in Spanish). A panel of experts from Lima, Peru, and Rosario, Argentina made powerful statements about the role that public spaces can and should play in the lives of urban children, particularly those who are impoverished, underserved, and marginalized. The second webinar was held on 31 May. Read more.
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Major community climate resilience project launches in Vanuatu
By Save the Children
Save the Children has signed an agreement with the Green Climate Fund to deliver, with the Government of Vanuatu, a large investment in community-based climate change adaptation in the Pacific region. The US$32.6 million (NZD$51 million) climate finance deal will help Vanuatu communities adapt to the growing threat of climate change by boosting access to knowledge; providing technical assistance and equipment to support climate-resilient agriculture and fisheries; and improving livelihood opportunities for rural and remote communities. Find out more.
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An adjustment to Global Poverty Lines
The World Bank has updated the global poverty lines. As differences in price levels across the world evolve, the global poverty line is periodically updated to reflect these changes. Since 2015, the last update, we have used $1.90 as the global line. As of fall 2022, the new global line will be updated to $2.15. Find out more.
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Job opportunities
By UNICEF and Save the Children
UNICEF is hiring a Social Policy Manager (P-4), in Bucharest, Romania. The deadline for applications is 01 June 2022. Apply here, check out all job openings at UNICEF here.
Save the Children is hiring a Senior Social Protection Advisor in London, UK. Find out more and apply here.
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Report card
Places and Spaces: Environments and children's well-being
By UNICEF
UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Data show that far too many children are deprived of a healthy home, irreversibly damaging their current and future well-being. Children in poorer households experience even greater environmental risk. To provide all children with safe and healthy environments, governments, policymakers, businesses and all stakeholders are called to act on a set of policy recommendations.
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Country Profiles
A series of country profiles
By Eurochild and ISSA
The First Years, First Priority Campaign, co-lead by Eurochild and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA), launched a series of country profiles and an accompanying cross-country analysis highlighting a need for better data and greater investment in public policies for early childhood development. Each profile provides a snapshot of the state of early childhood development within the country and includes sections on six key areas – child poverty, maternal and child health and nutrition, child’s safety and security, early learning including early childhood education and care, parenting and family support, and cross-sectoral coordination for early childhood development.
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Article
Behavior change communication for child feeding in social assistance: A scoping review and expert consultation
By the Institute of Development Studies
To increase the effectiveness of social assistance on child nutrition programmes are increasingly combined with behavior change communication for improved infant and young child feeding. But there is limited knowledge about which behavior change communication strategies are most effective when combined with social assistance. A systematic scoping review and an expert consultation were conducted to describe the landscape of strategies within low‐and middle‐income countries and to examine the effects of these on practices and child nutrition.
→Read the full article for more.
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Report
Mapping of slums and identifying children engaged in worst forms of child labour living in slums and working in neighbourhood areas
By the Institute of Development Studies
Findings of national survey reports suggest there is a high concentration of child labour in the slums of Dhaka, linked with the global supply chain of products. To understand the drivers of child labour in the slum areas of Dhaka, a research team formed by the Grambangla Unnayan Committee (GUC) with ChildHope UK designed and conducted a mapping and listing exercise, in consultation with CLARISSA consortium colleagues.
→Find out more about the results.
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Brief
Save the Children’s Social Protection Brief: Asia-Pacific
By Save the Children
Save the Children believes that prioritizing investments in improving coverage and impacts for children in social protection systems, and taking steps towards universal child benefits, is an economically sensible investment. This document is an overview of Save the Children’s engagement with Child Sensitive Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific.
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Report
A Dangerous Delay 2: The Cost of Inaction
By Save the Children
More than a decade since the delayed response to the 2011 famine that killed more than 260,000 people in Somalia – half of them children under five – the world is once again failing to avert catastrophic hunger in East Africa. Today, nearly half a million people across parts of Somalia and Ethiopia are facing famine-like conditions. In Kenya, 3.5 million people are suffering from extreme hunger. Urgent appeals are woefully funded, as other crises, including the war in Ukraine, are worsening the region’s escalating hunger crisis.
→Read more on this 2022 follow-up report that examines the changes in the humanitarian aid system since 2011.
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Report
Improving Family Budgeting Practices in Households with Meagre Incomes: Child-sensitive social protection initiatives in Asia
By Save the Children
This paper presents the overall results from a study on family budgeting practices in households that are part of child-sensitive social protection initiatives developed by Save the Children in India, Nepal, and the Philippines.
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Report
Impact Evaluation of the Child Grant Parenting Programme in Nepal
By Save the Children
This report presents the results from a quasi-experimental evaluation of a parenting programme implemented with beneficiaries of the government Child Grant Programme in Nepal. The Child Grant is a cash transfer programme being delivered in 25 districts in Nepal aimed at reducing malnutrition in children below the age of five.
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Report
Impact Evaluation of a Parenting Programme for the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in the Philippines
By Save the Children
This report presents the results from a quasi-experimental (pre-and post-intervention assessment) evaluation of a parenting programme delivered to the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in the Philippines. 4Ps is a nationwide conditional cash transfer programme aimed at breaking intergenerational transfer of poverty by supporting poor households with cash transfers and encouraging them to invest in the health, nutrition, and education of their children.
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Report
WASH: Improving Provision for Urban Children - Cities4Children
By Cities4Children Global Alliance
Billions of people in the global South remain unserved by adequate provision for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Some of the most significant challenges in addressing the backlog are in urban areas, where high densities complicate conditions. This briefing highlights the problems related to urban WASH access and presents research findings on the impact on children of different ages, especially young children and adolescent girls. This briefing includes guidance for NGOs for supporting improved access to WASH and hence living conditions for children in urban contexts.
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Modules
Savings Groups: Empowering Mothers, Protecting Children
World Vision International
World Vision has developed supplementary child protection education modules focusing on budgeting for child wellbeing; child protection; preventing child labour and preventing child marriage.
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Savings for transformation
By World Vision
The savings for transformation e-workshop is a 14-week facilitated online learning programme. Designed to support practitioners whilst implementing their programmes, the workshop steps participants through the key phases of savings for transformation using case studies, reflection on practice, and group work, drawing on the experience of its participants and guided by leading experts. In addition, the learning community provides peer-to-peer support to practitioners. Find out more.
Farmer managed natural regeneration
By World Vision
The farmer-managed natural regeneration e-workshop is a 15-week facilitated online learning programme. The workshop steps participants through the key phases using case studies, reflection on practice, and group work, drawing on the experience of its participants and guided by leading experts. Find out more.
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