Talking with unemployed young people in Africa about their efforts to find work is often dispiriting; sometimes it is heart-rending. A quest for good (or any) employment features strongly in so many young peoples’ stories. But is the ‘mobile phone’ turning this quest around?

Blog by Professor Gina Porter

Spontaneous and market-driven reintegration opportunity for semi-illiterate young ex-combatants and war affected youth. 

Blog by Dr Krijn Peters

Blog by Francis Winter reflecting on the Young Lives study as its oldest group of participants turn 22. The blog outlines five priority areas in 'building a 21st century fit for young people'.

A guide being launched today by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, offers practical solutions and approaches organized by five indicative milestones to guide the work towards a world free from child poverty.

Between 2012 and 2015, Save the Children conducted nine HEA and six Cost of the Diet studies from 12 livelihood zones and five countries (Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines) which provide a detailed and unique insight into the livelihoods and choices of poor households in a number of locations across Asia.

What do we know about young women’s economic empowerment in Young Lives?

The older girls in Young Lives’ study of childhood poverty are now aged 22 – no longer girls but young women. For them, the focus on economic empowerment this International Women’s Day, cannot come too soon.

Join this webinar on a brand new book which provides essential reading for all those working on social protection and poverty reduction programmes in developing countries, including researchers, policy makers, and those working for development agencies. A chance to ask the authors questions!

Over half of the world’s people – including more than one billion children – now live in cities and towns. These figures are set to increase in the coming years. By 2030, the majority of the world’s urban population will be under the age of 18.  At the same time, many children growing up in cities lack access to basic services and are unable to enjoy the ‘urban advantage’. Everything is there, just not for them. Read Equity for Children's new publication which addresses urban inequities and childhood...

This year the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty stands out from previous years. It falls at the dawn of a new era in the efforts to end poverty, and more specifically to ensure a clear new focus on poverty among children.

This blog is for Universal Children's Day by Olivier Thevenon and Alastair Wood of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs.

As outlined in the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, poverty should never be the reason for violating a child’s right to grow up in a family.

The important role of a civil society networks in building the bridge between policy, practice and research to promote children's rights.

by Young Lives

Recent event shows growing consensus about the importance of child poverty, and how focusing on the child can help.

by UNICEF

Here are 7 facts that have galvanized action among our Members to end child poverty.

by Global Coalition

With the new SDGs aiming to tackle poverty among children, we present some indicators to track progress on this important goal

by UNICEF

Why measurement matters and how child poverty indicators can help end poverty by 2030.