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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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USAID Bolsters Data Collection to Assist Families in the Sahel
In the Sahel region, communities are especially vulnerable to food insecurity and malnutrition. The Household Economy Analysis program (HEA) has allowed for early response to these threats. USAIDs collection of data from households in the seven countries
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Liberare i Bambini dalla Povertà Educativa: A che punto siamo?
“Freeing Children from Educational Poverty: Where are we?” is a report on educational poverty in Italy. In Italy, more than one million children live in conditions of absolute poverty. They are girls and boys born and raised in contexts of economic and m
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Atlante dell'Infanzia a Rischio 2016: Bambini e supereroi
This is an excerpt from Save the Children Italy's "VII Atlas of Childhood at Risk" that brings to light the harsh reality faced by many children living in Italy.
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Lives on Loan: Extreme poverty in Yangon
This report presents the human face and key findings of a technical survey conducted in 2015 by Save the Children in partnership with the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC). The survey gained detailed information on the economic and social condition
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Save the Children’s Youth Employment Programs: Vietnam
In Vietnam, Save the Children is committed to helping improve the prospects for unemployed and under employed youth through its Youth Employment programs. The programs actively engage deprived and at risk low-income youth, unskilled youth laborers, migran
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Prevention and Early Intervention Services to Address Children at Risk of Poverty: Peer review in social protection and social inclusion 2015-2016
As of March 2016, Ireland is in the process of developing a more coordinated and integrated approach to children’s services, aimed at tackling the complex problems of disadvantaged families in a more joined-up and holistic way. This Peer Review looked at
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Adapting a Resilience Improvement Programme in Conflict: Experiences from Yemen
When fighting broke out in Yemen’s Dhamar and Sana’a governorates in March 2015, Save the Children quickly had to transform the objectives of their resilience-building programme to meet urgent humanitarian needs through an emergency food-assistance progra
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Child Sensitive Livelihoods Position Paper
This paper outlines Save the Children’s position on Child Sensitive Livelihoods under the Child Poverty Global Theme, including: why livelihoods are so important for children, the scope of Save the Children’s livelihoods programming, a checklist to suppor
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Economic Playgrounds 2016: Comparing the lives of children in G20 countries
Save the Children’s analysis shows that even among the world’s most developed, powerful and rich economies, there can be vast disparity in how children are treated and how prosperous their futures appear to be. Many states are falling short of their commi
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Child Poverty and Child Clubs: Making time to learn, play and act for change
Bangladesh has made much progress in socio-economic development however widespread poverty and inequalities persist, with about 32 million children continuing to live in poverty out of a total of 63 million children. Children from very poor households hav
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Afghan Children Cannot Wait: The case for investing in their future now
In 2015, 90,000 unaccompanied children were registered as asylum-seekers in Europe; over half of them were from Afghanistan. A total of 178,000 Afghan asylum-seekers arrived to Europe in 2015, four times as many as the year before. While many Afghans come
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Impact of Multipupose Cash Assistance on Outcomes for Children in Lebanon: Improving cash-based interventions, multipurpose cash grants and protection
This report examines the impact of multi-purpose cash assistance on children, specifically looking at child outcomes and child protection outcomes, in Lebanon. The impact of the Lebanon Cash Consortium MCA program was measured using a variety of indicator