Welcome to our publications page, where you can find all publications produced by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty.
PUBLICATIONS FROM THE COALITION
ARE COUNTRIES COMMITTED TO ENDING CHILD POVERTY BY 2030?
This Coalition brief is the third annual analysis of the VNRs from a child poverty perspective, looking at how countries mention and discuss their efforts to end child poverty, through measurement and policies. This analysis builds upon last year’s brief developed by the Coalition, which reviewed VNRs from 2017 to 2020.
ARE COUNTRIES COMMITTED TO ENDING CHILD POVERTY BY 2030?
This Coalition brief is the second annual analysis of the VNRs from a child poverty perspective, looking at how countries mention and discuss their efforts to end child poverty, through measurement and policies.
Expanding children’s access to Child-Sensitive Social Protection in the wake of COVID-19
A Call to Action for governments to maintain and scale up their investments in child-focused and child-sensitive social protection to avoid failing an entire future generation.
ARE COUNTRIES COMMITTED TO ENDING CHILD POVERTY BY 2030?
This Coalition brief focuses on how children living in poverty are reflected in the SDG Voluntary National Reviews (VNR), based on content analysis of VNR reports from 2017, 2018 and 2019 – with a specific focus on the latest July 2019 HLPF.
Child poverty measurement and monitoring: The missing children
This brief explores certain groups of poor children potentially missing from data or from analysis, with particular attention to the policy and programming implications for poverty reduction.
Child Poverty and Adolescent Transitions
This brief shows why reducing poverty during the second decade of a child’s life is necessary to promote children’s rights and is a sound investment for the future. It identifies actions that governments and others can take, and the data and evidence gaps that need to be addressed in order to tackle adolescent poverty and its consequences.
Child-sensitive Social Protection
This policy brief from the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty defines the principles of Child-sensitive Social Protection (CSSP), why it is crucial for helping ensure the well being and realisation of rights for children, and broadly summarises how the coalition and its partners can help achieve CSSP.
A world free from child poverty: A guide to the tasks to achieve the vision
The new guide is an attempt to harness our knowledge and experience to support national processes to achieve the new SDG goals on child poverty.
Putting Children First: A Policy Agenda to End Child Poverty
This briefing paper draws on evidence and the experience of over 20 organisations working together in the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty.
It outlines key building blocks for how countries can address child poverty and offers evidence and experience to support national discussion on the best policy options for children.
PUBLICATIONS FROM OUR MEMBERS
In many African nations, the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing difficulties, such as other diseases, natural disasters, and hunger, which the poorest families and their children face every day.
Book
The study uses 15 years of #longitudinal data from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam to recommend policies to support disadvantaged children.
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.
The 2018 edition scores and ranks the performance of 52 African governments in improving the well-being of children. The report uses a robust, rights-based statistical methodology – the Child-Friendliness Index – and a wide range of data to measure and track progress in the commitment of African governments to children.
Policy Brief
This policy brief highlights the current state of child poverty in OECD countries and why we need policy action.
Brief
The issue of conditionality has generated substantial debate in cash transfer policy and design. This brief summarizes the debate, practice and evidence around conditional and unconditional cash transfers, before outlining UNICEF’s approach.
Brief
This brief summarizes the major considerations and available evidence around the issue of affordability, and highlights some available financing options that countries have used in introducing and scaling up social protection programmes.
Brief
A common misunderstanding is that cash transfers are misused and lead beneficiaries to become dependent on “handouts”. This policy brief draws on existing evidence to analyse this concern about social assistance and its propensity to induce dependency and misuse.
Brief
Concerns around the fertility impacts of social protection programs have long been debated and often serve as an impediment to the expansion and scale up of cash transfers. This brief summarizes the theory and evidence on the debate.
Report
2018 UNICEF report providing an overview of why cash transfers matter for children and families, how UNICEF has engaged with cash transfers globally and what opportunities and challenges exist.
Report
Tracking children's progress against the pledge to Leave No One Behind, Save the Children is calling for governments and international agencies to track not just national and global average progress, but also the pace at which disparities between socioeconomic groups are narrowing.
Academic Article
Co-authored by PEP’s John Cockburn, this paper analyses the causal effect of parental education on the potential mismatch between child monetary poverty and multidimensional deprivations.
REPORT
1.2 billion children are threatened by conflict, widespread poverty or discrimination against girls.
In commemoration of International Children’s Day, Save the Children released its second annual End of Childhood Index, taking a hard look at the events that rob children of their childhoods and prevent them from reaching their full potential.
REPORT
Young Lives summative report, synthesising research from the past 15 years on children's work. The report highlights key principles for child-sensitive programming that will help minimise the risk of burdensome work for children, while maximising children’s well-being.
REPORT
Young Lives' key findings on violence affecting children, exploring what children say about violence, how it affects them, and the key themes that emerge from a systematic analysis of the children's accounts from studies in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.
ATD Fourth World Participatory research carried out in the Kinondoni district of Tanzania to understand the ideal living conditions for children living in extreme poverty to start and finish their primary school cycle.
Although the multidimensional nature of poverty is widely recognized, the extent to which monetary measures can serve as a proxy for non-monetary measures remains unresolved. New Research from Keetie Roelen of IDS explores the issue and highlights implications for policy and future research.
REPORT
In order to understand better the food security and livelihoods challenges in Asia, and how these relate to undernutrition and broader child wellbeing, Save the Children has conducted a retrospective synthesis review of its analyses in the region. This review draws on the data, findings and recommendations from 15 studies carried out in five countries in Asia – Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines – between 2011 and 2015.
BOOK
This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America.
POLICY BRIEF
Despite a significant improvement in school attendance Brazil continues to lag behind other Latin American countries in terms of educational outcomes. A team of local PEP researchers set out to measure the impact of child work on learning outcomes to better understand the consequences of children combining work and study.
WORKING PAPER
This study from a team of PEP researchers proposes different reform strategies concerning the two main means tested social protection programs (monetary social assistance and child allowance). The authors proposals aim to improve the targeting and coverage of these programs, as well as acting on the incentives to work by the parents for the benefit of children in poverty.
WORKING PAPER
BRAC’s ‘Impact and spill-over effects of an asset transfer program on malnutrition’ provides the first evaluation of nutritional outcomes from the, ‘Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction programme’ (CFPR).
BRIEFING NOTE
Nearly 385 million children living in extreme poverty, says joint World Bank Group – UNICEF study
POLICY PAPER
This report explores how children’s lives change during adolescence and the difference that gender inequalities and gender norms make to their pathways.
BOOK
This is the third book in a series that follows the same 24 children and young people in our study. In this book they share their hopes and their fears, their ideas about themselves, their families and their communities. young Lives believe that the views and experiences of the children in our study are key to understanding childhood poverty and helping identify effectives policies to tackle it.
Report
Inequity imperils millions of children and threatens the future of the world. This edition argues promoting equity is a practical and a strategic imperative.
REPORT
The kitchen gardens intervention is one of the nutrition-sensitive activities of the WINS project, intended to increase year-round access to nutritious foods, thereby bringing down the cost of a nutritious diet and increasing self-sufficiency and improving dietary diversity. This report presents a costs benefit analysis on the outcomes of the kitchen gardens intervention of the WINS project.
Report
A new UNICEF report presents evidence on how inequality affects children in high-income countries.
Report
New flagship report looks at the situation of children living in poverty in countries around the world shining a light on the drivers and its consequneces.
DISCUSSION PAPER
This paper contributes longitudinal research evidence on the impact of structural inequalities on children’s development within households and communities, the ways access to health, education and other key services may reduce or amplify inequalities, and the ways that children’s developmental trajectories diverge from early in life through to early adulthood.

Child Poverty: A Call to Tackle its Persistence
This brief from the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty looks at the drivers of intergenerational persistent poverty and how it can lead to disempowerment, discrimination and stigma, which feed the vicious circle of poverty and exclusion.