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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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What Can HEA Do for You: Economic resilience measurement
Building poor households’ economic capacity to withstand shocks is crucial in Save the Children’s efforts to help children survive and stay in school, and to protect them from the damaging coping strategies that households may have to resort to in a crisi
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What Can HEA Do for You: Project monitoring and evaluation
Measuring the impact of a project on its intended beneficiaries is a key component of the project cycle. It is part of being accountable to beneficiaries, donors and partners. Without evaluating our work we cannot ensure its quality or improve what we do.
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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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A Parenting Programme for the Palanhar Yojana- Beyond Cash: Making social protection deliver more for children in Rajasthan, India- Facilitator guide
The Palanhar Yojana (caregiver scheme) is a government of Rajasthan (India) cash transfer programme aiming to reducing the vulnerability of children with limited parental care. Save the Children has developed a parenting programme for the families rece
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The Child Endowment Fund: A local government cash transfer for vulnerable children in Nepal
This brief gives a general description of how local government in Nepal is establishing a cash transfer programme for vulnerable children with the help of Save the Children.
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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.
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What Can HEA Do for You: Forecast-based action
Since 2012, Save the Children has been investing in ‘early action’ and forecast-based contingency planning. This means intervening in response to forecasted need, before a situation develops into a crisis. It involves understanding who to target and when,
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Access to Social Protection in Syhlet, Bangladesh
This study was undertaken to examine the coverage of social protection schemes in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and to analyse what barriers poor and vulnerable people face in accessing such schemes. The target area was chosen based on it being the operational area
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Using Household Economy Analysis to Strengthen the Shock-responsiveness of the Social Cash Transfer Programme in Malawi
This one-pager summarises a project being implemented in Malawi with funding from Irish Aid, to help strengthen the shock-responsiveness of a social protection programme called the Social Cash Transfer Programme, using a tool called Household Economy Anal
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Child Safeguarding for Cash and Voucher Assistance Guidance
Over the past decade, the use of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) has grown considerably in international development and humanitarian contexts, being referred to by some as one of the most significant reforms in recent years. Systematic evidence has sho
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A Qualitative Pre- & Post-assessment Study of a Parenting Programme linked to the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Programme (4Ps) in Region 8, the Philippines
The Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) project is a Save the Children initiative in the Philippines, focused on making the social protection scheme Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Programme (4Ps) deliver more for children. In 2018, Save the Children int