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Child Poverty
Globally, around 600 million children live in extreme poverty. When families don’t have enough money they cannot invest in their children – such as buy food or clothes. Neither can they afford to take their children to see a doctor when they get sick or to keep them in school.
Furthermore, when already poor families are hit by unexpected shocks – such as drought, earthquakes, increased food prices, death of livestock, or conflict – their livelihoods suffer but it is children that suffer most as families are often forced to pull them out of school to work.
Even though it is the children who are suffering most from poverty’s effects, child poverty is often missing from overall national strategies for poverty reduction. Save the Children wants the world to put children and young people at the heart of its action to reduce poverty; to strengthen the low and insecure incomes that prevent children from surviving, learning and being protected; and thereby stop the transmission of poverty to future generations.
Save the Children works with partners and governments and directly with families and children to reduce the numbers of girls and boys in extreme poverty and seeks to increase young people’s hopes and skills for better lives.
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How Families Cope With Poverty in Asia: Lessons from a multi-country review of Household Economy Analysis and Cost of the Diet Assessments, 2011-15
In order to understand better the food security and livelihoods challenges in Asia, and how these relate to undernutrition and broader child wellbeing, Save the Children has conducted a retrospective synthesis review of its analyses in the region. This re
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"Cash Plus" Programmes for Children
This paper provides a resource on "Cash Plus" interventions for children. These interventions combine household cash transfers with complementary, context-relevant interventionsn in order to address the multiple drivers of childhood deprivations and gener
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Child Sensitivity in Poverty Alleviation Programming: An analytical toolkit
Child-sensitive policies, programmes and interventions explicitly aim to maximize the benefits for children and minimize any harm. However, increasing income and assets at the household level does not always result in positive impacts for children. Some p
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Adaptation and Response for Children Affected by Droughts and Disasters
Weather-related stresses associated with El Niño in 2015–2016 have severely impacted 60 million people. Governments across the globe are dealing with the consequences as they affect food security, livelihoods, and the well-being of their populations. Seve
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Electronic Transfers in Humanitarian Assistance and Uptake of Financial Services: A synthesis of ELAN case studies
Cash transfers are playing an increasingly large role in humanitarian responses. Mobile money, using a mobile device to access financial services, is growing across the globe and humanitarian agencies are taking advantage of this trend to deliver cash tra
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Disinherited: Childhood inequality, equal opportunities and public policy
"Disinherited" begins by describing the current inequality affecting children living in Spain and its relation to the possibility of social mobility according to the income and social and cultural capital that children inherit from their parents. The repo
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Mobile Money in Liberia: Save the Children's lessons learned
Learn how Save the Children used mobile money for emergency assistance to 5,000 households affected by Ebola in Liberia. Speakers share insights including the importance of the banking sector to mobile money humanitarian programs, consider the role of sup
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Child Poverty Strategic Plan 2016-2018
This publication lays out Save the Children’s Child Poverty Strategic Plan. The Plan will work between 2016 and 2018 to build a cohesive approach for Save the Children to help children escape from poverty. It will enhance the economic dimension of Save th
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Child Poverty: What drives it and what it means to children across the world
This new, flagship report looks at the situation of children living in poverty in countries around the world, shining a light on the drivers of child poverty and exploring why it persists, even in some of the wealthiest places. We also hear from children
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Save the Children's Global Strategy: Thematic Areas Key Messages
Save the Children will do whatever it takes for the right of every child to achieve three breakthroughs: to survive, to learn, and to be protected from all forms of violence. By integrating our five areas of expertise through a child-centered approach we