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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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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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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
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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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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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Rights, Needs and Capacities of Children in a Changing Climate
Children have contributed the least to climate change but are already disproportionately affected by its impacts – the same will apply to future generations of children. Children have a right to adaptation support and a right to participate in decisions a
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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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Participation and Protection: Children's involvement in Climate Change Debates
Children are not only interested in being part of decisions that affect their future, it is also their right to be involved. Despite sceptics’ accusations of ‘tokenism’ and adult ‘manipulation’, when they are well-informed about climate change and appropr
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Climate Change, Child Rights and Intergenerational Justice- Policy Briefing
The response to climate change will profoundly affect the quality of life of future generations of children, yet this intergenerational aspect has yet to be placed at the heart of climate change discussions. a child rights approach to climate change would