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Child-sensitive Social Protection in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
A publication by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), prepared in collaboration with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as part of a series of background papers written to inform The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2013. The paper explores soci
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Tackling Childhood Poverty and Vulnerability: making the Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme more effective for children
This report is a product of the project: The impact of cash transfers on the rights and well-being of children in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It presents findings from a mixed methods study of the effects of the Palestinian National Cash Transfe
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Situation Analysis of Young People at High Risk of HIV Exposure in Thailand
Led by a research team from Thammasat University, this report sets out to review the situation of young key affected populations’ HIV risk behaviours in Thailand, to review the present policy and programmatic response for those populations, identify gaps
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in Tanzania: A pressing development challenge
Tanzania has sustained high rates of economic growth in recent years, but it has had limited direct impact on the majority of Tanzanians’ lives. Despite attempts at policy level to create a national social protection agenda, little concrete progress has b
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in Kenya: Greater coordination and better targeting needed
Child malnutrition represents a significant and pressing development challenge in Kenya. Even before the most recent food crisis, Kenya was classified as having a serious hunger problem. Limited progress in both child and maternal nutrition remains a seri
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The Structural Determinants of Child Well-being: An Expert Consultation Hosted by the UNICEF Office of Research
This paper describes the outcomes of an expert consultation on The Structural Determinants of Child Well-being hosted by the UNICEF Office of Research. The two-day meeting brought together twelve participants to discuss the underlying causes of child well
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in India: Undernutrition remains a silent emergency
India’s impressive economic growth in the post-liberalisation era has been accompanied by a much slower decline in the numbers of undernourished people and has failed to elevate the condition of millions of poor, vulnerable and marginalised people across
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia: Realising the nutrition potential of social protection- progress and challenges
Ethiopia has made significant progress towards reducing poverty over the last several years. However, it remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with rural areas suffering from pervasive levels of deprivation and seasonal hunger. Children are p
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Putting Progress at Risk? MDG Spending in Developing Countries, The Government Spending Watch Report
A little over two years remain for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report is the first ever to track what developing countries are spending on the MDGs. It finds that recent spending increases explain the rapid progress on the MDGs.
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A rough guide to emerging consensus and divergence in post-2015 goal areas
This paper by Gina Bergh and Jonathan Couturier, from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), offers a rough guide to emerging consensus and divergence in post-2015 goal areas, based on an analysis of where key proposals so far come together and where t
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Universal Health Coverage: A Commitment to Close the Gap
A report by the Rockefeller Foundation, Save the Children, UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) focuses on how and why inequity – unfair and avoidable inequalities – should be prioritised as countries progress on the p
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Children and social protection in the Middle East and North Africa: Project Briefing
This project briefing presents findings from an earlier study mapping social protection in the Middle East and North Africa region, with focus on policies and programmes that impact children and how they can be strengthened. The key points from this artic