The broad-ranging benefits of cash transfers are now widely recognized. However, the evidence base highlights that they often fall short in achieving longer-term and second-order impacts related to nutrition, learning outcomes and morbidity. In recognitio

Social protection in Nepal has rapidly expanded to become part and parcel of the response to poverty and vulnerability. It is also considered a key policy option for addressing issues of child poverty and deprivation. Evidence that social protection inter

Despite most national governments ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the following Guidelines on Alternative Care for Children, evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suggests that the rights to adequate care are being violated in th

This research investigates the links between the Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP), child well-being, children’s care and family reunification. It is part of a wider study on the linkages between social protection and children’s care in Rwanda, Ghana a

Written by Keetie Roelen and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, this publication explores the current norms of the child-sensitive approach to social protection. The authors argue that three types of vulnerabilities demand more customized thinking about social prote

Recent years have witnessed widespread acknowledgement in both academic and policy circles that children deserve a special focus in poverty measurement. It is now generally accepted that children have different basic needs from adults and are harder hit,

This paper describes and empirically tests a number of candidate measures of cumulative deprivation to monitor child well-being in the EU.The authors posit that the ideal measure should be sensitive to changes in the depth of cumulative deprivation and, g