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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.
In 2018 the Child Poverty global theme launched three organisation wide common approaches driving forward our best work and best thinking to ensure we achieve more for children in more places across the world. Our common understanding is helping to ensure best programming for new born age upwards. We work to provide cash plus for better nutrition of children in the first 1000 days of life; we work to strengthened understanding of family economic situations to determine if households have the food and cash they need to survive and prosper; and we work to ensure young people acquire the core life skills to identify and capitalise on decent life and work opportunities in the future.
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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I Support My Friends: A training for children and adolescents on how to support a friend in distress
“I Support My Friends” builds on the principles of Psychological First Aid to equip older children and adolescents with the skills and knowledge to support their friends in distress, under the mentorship and guidance of trusted adults. The four-part resou
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Save the Children’s COVID-19 Response: Our impact in 2020
This report details progress on our four key pillars of the global COVID-19 response from Q2 to Q4 2020. It uses data collected from countries against each of the indicators set out in the COVID-19 response plan and uses children’s stories to highlight ou
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Falling Through the Cracks: The impact of inconsistent Social Cash Transfers on children in Lufwanyama district, Zambia
About 60 percent of the children live in poor households in Zambia. Most of these children live in rural areas where the incidence of extreme poverty is five times higher at 76.6 percent than urban levels at 12.8 percent, raising the need and significance
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Adolescent Wellbeing Framework- A Critical Opportunity to Fulfil Human Rights and Drive Change
Today, around 1 billion adolescents live in developing countries and 145 million live in extremely poor households. Save the Children is committed to ensuring that every one of these children is supported and empowered to achieve their full potential an
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Gender-sensitive Study on Urban Child Labour in Istanbul
A child laborer makes a most casual sight in Istanbul. In many sectors from construction to textiles, Turkey's business capital is where thousands of children go to work on any day. In this huge metropolis of over 15 million residents, child labor has lon
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Livelihoods Assessment of Vulnerable Households Affected by the Socio-economic Impact of COVID-19
The livelihoods assessment will support the design of a child-sensitive livelihood assistance program to prompt livelihoods restoration and prevent, or reduce, the use of negative coping strategies, which are potentially harmful for children. The program
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Adolescent Wellbeing Framework Catalogue of Key Resources
Catalogue of key resources to the Adolecent Wellbeing Framework. Resources are based from Save the Children’s experience working with and for adolescents as well as that of other organisations around the world. The resources are organised according to the
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Poverty and Social Protection
Save the Children carried out a global survey of children and their families to determine the impact of COVID-19 on the access to health, education, livelihoods and protection, and to collect the views of children. It is the most complete and exhaustive s
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Cash on the Move: Adapting Multi-Purpose Cash ‘Plus’ Assistance to support people on the move
This case study documents the implementation of the 2019 Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) ‘Plus’ Nutrition and Protection program targeting Venezuelan migrants in Peru, funded by USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (formerly FFP and OFDA). It is d
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Youth Empowerment Bulgari Final Project Evaluation
The Youth Empowerment Bulgari (YEB) project was delivered over a five-year period (January 2016 – December 2020) and aimed to empower marginalised and deprived adolescents and youths (AYs) in Albania, Bolivia, Nepal and Uganda to develop essential life sk
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FCF | REACT Cash & Livelihoods Monitoring Post-Distribution Monitoring 1 Report
This report is a follow-up study related to post-distribution monitoring (PDM1) of the cash transfer component of the program from the previous baseline (+PDM) conducted. It is important to note that between the data collection undertaken for the baseline
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Skills to Succeed Vietnam's E-Learning Program on Employability Skills for Youth
The Skills to Succeed (S2S) Vietnam program delivers employability skills training to migrant students in vocational colleges to help them successfully transition into the job market. The training covers topics such as self-exploration, job search skills,