Why measuring child-level impacts can help achieve lasting economic change

This paper is intended as a starting point for discussion and advocacy around measuring the impacts of economic strengthening on children, in order to ensure their wellbeing and break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

Until recently, the development community has operated with the assumption that greater household economic wellbeing leads to improved child wellbeing, but the evidence base for this impact is mixed.Supporting Transformation by Reducing Insecurity and Vulnerability with Economic Strengthening (STRIVE) and the Child Protection in Crisis (CPC) Network seek to launch a wider evidence-based discussion in the development community about the role of children and youth in achieving the goal of sustainable poverty alleviation.