Ending Child Poverty
Most of the world’s poorest people are children. Economic policies and activities that ignore or exclude children can be directly linked to child poverty.
We're pushing for:
- more resources to be invested nationally and internationally in reducing childhood poverty
- policies that ensure that those resources actually reach the poorest children.
We also promote policies and programmes to remove the economic causes that make it difficult for poor families to protect and care for their children.
Poverty forces hundreds of children to carry out the dangerous task of picking through rubbish at a dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The rubbish is often toxic, and the children are at risk of being run over by garbage trucks.
Our key areas of work:
- researching and advocating pro-poor policies and public spending to benefit children. As part of this work, we’ve developed a joint statement with UNICEF and a number of partners called Advancing Child-Sensitive Social Protection to build greater consensus on the importance of child-sensitive social protection.
- helping families to make a better living, increasing their ability to care for their children
- improving the quality and amount of aid that goes towards reducing poverty
- ensuring that revenues paid to governments by private companies are transparent and spent on poverty reduction, and that the impact of the private sector on children’s rights is understood.
Our work is based on the results of our research into the impact of economic policies on children, and on our experience of working directly with children.
Find out more
- Read our report, Holding Governments to Account: Public expenditure analysis for advocacy, for an informative guide to advocacy and promoting good governance.
- To see more information about work of this nature, please visit UNICEF's new social and economic policy website at www.unicef.org/socialpolicy
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