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Children's Work in African Agriculture: Time for a rethink
This article outlines a tension that plays itself out in rural areas throughout Africa. On the one hand, it is recognized that children throughout the world engage in economic activity, and this is particularly so in rural areas. On the other hand, is the
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Reussite et Epanouissement via l’Apprentissage et L’Insertion au Systeme Educatif (REALISE): Project Brief
REALISE aims to help up to 60,000 girls in six provinces to access primary and secondary school through a suite of interrelated interventions. The interventions involve working with a wide range of groups, from families and communities, through to teacher
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Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children’s Care in Ghana: LEAP and its effects on child well-being, care, and family cohesion
Despite most national governments ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the following Guidelines on Alternative Care for Children, evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suggests that the rights to adequate care are being violated in th
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Ensuring Women and Girls’ Rights to Water and Sanitation Post-2015
This policy brief explores the barriers which continue to prevent women and girls enjoying their basic human rights and looks at how a greater emphasis placed on issues of equity, discrimination, sustainability, politics and local knowledge could help to
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What Do National Poverty Lines Tell Us About Global Poverty? IDS Working Paper
The basic question about ‘how many poor people are there in the world?’ generally assumes that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally relevant question could be ‘how many poor people are there in the world, ba
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Where Do The World’s Poor Live? A new update
This paper revisits, with new data, the changes in the distribution of global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs). In doing so it discusses an implied ‘poverty paradox’ – the fact that most of the world’s extreme poor no longer live in the worl
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Child Rights and Climate Change Adaptation: Voices from Kenya and Cambodia
In 2009, research with children, adults, and policymakers took place in drought and flood prone regions of Kenya and Cambodia to see how children saw their rights being linked to changing climatic conditions. This report presents evidence of children’s ca
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Climate change, children and youth in Cambodia: Successes, challenges and policy implications
The brief presents an overview of climate impacts in the context of existing poverty and vulnerability, before specifically focusing on child impacts. The brief draws on Children in a Changing Climate (CCC) research with children, presenting views of the
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A right to participate: Securing children’s role in climate change adaptation
The impacts of climate change are already being felt- most acutely by millions of the world’s poor. Millions are already facing hunger, disease and conflict due to climate change, and ‘children in the world’s poorest communities are the most vulnerable’.
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Children as agents of change for disaster risk reduction- Lessons from El Salvador and the Philippines
This paper examines how children’s voices are represented and heard in disaster risk reduction policy and decision-making spaces, and by assessing the level of capacity children have for preventing disasters vis-à-vis their parents. This challenge and the
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Advancing Child-Sensitive Social Protection
A joint statement by DFID, HelpAge International, Hope & Homes for Children, Institute of Development Studies, International Labour Organization, Overseas Development Institute, Save the Children UK, UNDP, UNICEF and the World Bank. The joint statement ai
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Gender-responsive strategies on climate change: Recent Progress and Ways Forward for Donors
This paper outlines a rationale for improved integration of gender into climate change and seeks to support donors in this endeavour by investigating the challenges and opportunities donors are facing, updating the wider body of work and knowledge on gend