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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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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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Community-Driven Financial Inclusion for the Most Vulnerable Households: Lessons from the Tat Lan Programme's Village Savings and Loan Associations in Rakhine, Myanmar
This report highlights lessons from the Tat Lan Programme’s Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) in Rakhine, Myanmar. The Tat Lan Programme, funded by the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT) in Myanmar was implemented in two phases (20
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Välfärd- Inte för alla
Trots att inkomsterna för barnfamiljer generellt stadigt ökar över tid, har inkomstskillnaderna förstärkts, och fö rsämringarna för de barnfamiljer som har det sämst kan tydligt kopplas till minskade satsningar inom familjepolitiken. Många barnfamiljer h
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Benefit Level Analysis of Maternity Allowance Programme for the Poor in Bangladesh: Social protection policy brief
This policy brief presents the 'Cost of the Diet' (CotD) analysis conducted in Sylhet and Moulvibazar to assess how much of a nutritious diet the above three 'Maternity Allowance' (MA) transfer values (500, 800 and 1,000 BDT) can cover, and what the affor
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Child Sensitive Graduation Programming Design: A guidance brief for country offices
Graduation programmes consist of targeting poor households with a combination of layered and sequenced interventions, often over a defined period of time, in order to facilitate the achievement of strengthened and sustainable livelihoods. To ‘graduate’, a
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From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses
After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,056 households have had their land and crops partially o
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Il Tempo dei Bambini: Atlante dell'infanzia a rischio 2019
Ten years after the publication of the first Atlas of Children, Save the Children Italy has published a new edition where it takes stock of the condition of children in Italy during the 2008-2018 period. What has happened in this past decade? This was a c
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Difendere i diritti
"Defending rights" describes a project designed to offer free legal orientation services to minors at risk of social marginalization. This program of legal intervention was born from an intuition- confirmed by experience in the field- that access to justi
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Suchana: Securing access to government social protection
Suchana Ending the cycle of undernutrition in Bangladesh is a multisectoral nutrition program that aims to achieve a significant reduction in stunting among children under two years of age in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts of Bangladesh. The program ado
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A Catalogue of Common Approaches: Delivering our best work for children
This catalogue showcases the common approaches that Save the Children currently has and those that are in the pipeline for 2018. Each approach addresses a particular problem – such as how to help children read and write; how to keep them safe in their own
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Graduating Out of Extreme Poverty: Who, why, and how? Evidence from Save the Children's Shiree Programme in Bangladesh
Typically led by nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), graduation programmes consist of targeting poor households with a combination of layered and sequenced interventions, often over a defined period of time, in order to facilitate the achievement of str
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USAID's Building the POTENTIAL of Youth Activity
Launched in 2015, USAID's Building the Potential of Youth Activity (POTENTIAL) is implemented by Save the Children and its partners: Education Development Center inc. (EDC), Facilitators for Change (FC), HUNDEE-Oromo Grassroots Development Initiative (HUN