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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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Convention on the Rights of the Child Webinar Series
These webinars published by the Diplomacy Training Program on the Convention of the Rights of the Child addresses several topics such as the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty, children participation, child right governance and climate change.
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Skills to Succeed: Program Achievements
Skills to Succeed (S2S) equips deprived and marginalized adolescents and youth with the skills and job linkages they need to find decent jobs or build their own businesses and break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. Since 2011, S2S has served more t
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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 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 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 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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Supporting Parents to Strengthen Children's Early Learning: Sharing evidence and practice from the independent evaluation of Save the Children’s Families Connect programme
Research shows that parents that interact with their children in both quality and quantity influences their children’s learning and development the most. However, living in poverty can prevent families from engaging in their children’s early learning. In
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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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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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Children’s Voice 2020: Impact of families’ financial situation on the daily lives, leisure time and well-being of children
According to the Children’s Voice Survey, negative experiences due to poverty, such as anxiety, inferiority and stress are more prevalent among children of families with limited means compared with others. In Finland, more than 110,000 children live in lo