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Child poverty
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The Comic Book ANA
About 300,000 people- of whom one in three are children- migrate from Central America to the United States every year. These children cross through increasingly dangerous routes in order to avoid immigration controls and are mainly fleeing poverty, violen
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Childhood in the Time of COVID-19
A generation of children in America are experiencing multiple hardships brought on by the coronavirus. Many millions more children are now hungry, missing out on school, and worried about their family’s economic future. For children who were struggling be
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Millenniebarnen: En studie om ekonomisk utsatthet bland barn under hela uppväxten
Att växa upp i fattigdom påverkar barns levnadsvillkor och möjligheter att tillgodogöra sig sina rättigheter. Därför anser Rädda Barnen att det är viktigt med en ökad förståelse för de skilda uppväxtvillkor som olika grupper av barn har i dagens Sverige.
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Child Sensitive Social Protection in south Rajasthan, India, Project Brief 2020
Dungarpur is a small poverty-struck tribal district in south Rajasthan, India, where malnutrition, child labour, school dropout, and lack of appropriate care are some of the challenges that children face early in life which negatively affect their long-te
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Child Development Grant Programme: Strengthening social protection systems in Nigeria
This three page brief summarises how Save the Children has been working with the government of Nigeria and partners to expand and strengthen its social protection system using an evidence-based approach. The brief first details some of the major challenge
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Child Sensitive Social Protection in Nepal Project Brief 2020
The Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) project was initiated in 2011 in Nepal and is built on the understanding that government social protection programmes can play a key role in advancing the development of children. For this to materialise, poor
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A Parenting Programme for the Child Grant: Facilitator Guide
The Child Grant is a government of Nepal cash transfer programme for children under 5 years aiming to reduce underweight. Save the Children has developed a parenting programme for the families receiving this grant focusing on improving nutritional outco
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Mid-term Meta-Review of Save the Children Finland’s Child-Sensitive Social Protection Programme
Save the Children Finland’s Global Programme 2017-2021 places special emphasis on the themes of child poverty, in particular Child-Sensitive Social Protection, and Child Protection. In 2019, an internal Mid-Term Review was carried out of seven projects in
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Children in Monetary Poor Households and COVID-19: Technical note
Children suffer from poverty differently from adults. Their needs, expectations, and aspirations are different. As children are not supposed to earn a living, it is important to assess directly their material shortcomings and deprivations – in other words
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The Land of Inopportunity: Closing the childhood equity gap for America's kids
Where a child grows up can determine their prospects in life more than you might guess. In most states across America, there are stark differences between communities that provide children the childhoods they deserve, and those where childhoods end too so
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COVID-19 and Children in Indonesia: An agenda for action to address socio-economic challenges
The measures to control the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia are having a widespread impact on the economy, but also the daily lives of the population. For some children, the impact will be life-long. Existing inequalities may be exacerbated, particularly
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Briefing note: Securing Access to Government Social Protection Programmes in Dungarpur, India
This brief gives a general description of the approaches developed by Save the Children to promote access to government social protection in India.