The Summer School is aimed at those who are working on, or actively interested in gaining skills in, multidimensional poverty measurement, particularly professional staff of national offices of statistics and government ministries that deal with poverty reduction, professionals from international development institutions, academics, and doctoral students. The purpose of this intensive Summer School is to provide a technical introduction to multidimensional poverty measurement using the Alkire-Foster (AF) method, and to share examples of its practical applications.

This webinar summarises the most common global estimates of child poverty in all its form, both multidimensionally and monetary. By providing an overview of different methodologies and data sources, it allows policymakers to better understand what data exist and how it can help to drive action in reducing child poverty.

The proposed side event at the Second World Summit for Social Development will spotlight these lessons and mobilize collective action among governments, multilateral agencies, and civil society to scale up cross-sectoral solutions and coordination to tackle and end child poverty.

On the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) on October 17th this webinar will look at how child poverty links to children’s mental health and violence.

What Works to Reduce Child Poverty? Insights from Across the Globe

Background: Multidimensional child poverty has dropped from 1 billion to nearly 800 million in the last 10 years, thanks to improved incomes and better access to social protection, education, nutrition, water, and sanitation. In addition. Although more efforts are needed to reach the SDG targets, this progress shows that reducing child poverty is not impossible.

In its latest report, the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty highlight countries that have made notable progress in reducing child poverty—Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Peru, Poland, Senegal, and Tanzania—and distills the key policies, programmes, and contextual drivers behind these gains to inform future child poverty reduction efforts globally.

This webinar will aim to:

1. Present the report and the latest multidimensional child poverty trends

2. Highlight country experiences on policies that helped reduce child poverty

3. Reaffirm the need to make child poverty a global priority again

In alignment with this year’s IDEP theme, the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty is organizing an online event which will focus on addressing shame and stigma within social protection programming, with a special emphasis on children and families.

This webinar will present the latest figures on child poverty in high-income countries as well as effective policies that have helped to reduce it, showcasing a few example countries.

This webinar aims to explore the profiles of children who have been pushed into poverty due to a crisis, specifically examining the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the climate crisis. To achieve this, research from different country contexts will be showcased, including Bangladesh, Georgia, and Uganda.

This webinar aims to explore the linkages between climate change and child poverty and discuss policy options to protect children living in poverty and their families against climate risks.

The aim of this event organized by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty on IDEP 2023 is i) to launch a Call-To-Action that calls on Governments, businesses and the international community to expand social protection and care systems and promote decent work for adults to address child poverty and ii) to show advances but also remaining gaps in related social protection and care policies across the world. 

We are only 7 years away from the end of the 2030 Agenda. The global landscape has changed drastically since the launch of the SDGs - we have witnessed unprecedented crises, the climate emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic, increased conflicts, heightened food prices, and inflation, affecting primarily the most vulnerable, including children. It is therefore more than time to take stock of the child poverty related SDG indicators of ending extreme child poverty and halving multidimensional child poverty.

The objective of the webinar is to present the latest global child poverty trends, covering both monetary child poverty and multidimensional child poverty.

This webinar is hosted by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty will showcase various qualitative methods to measure child poverty and explore how they can complement quantitative measures for impactful policy advocacy. 

The Global Coalition to End Child Poverty is launching a policy agenda to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals to end extreme child poverty and reduce multidimensional child poverty by half.

The Government of PDR and UNICEF are organizing an event to highlight the unprecedented increase in child poverty and inequality in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, and outline the critical need to accelerate and reinforce global and national commitments for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending extreme poverty and halving multidimensional child poverty.

In April 2021 the Bristol Poverty Institute (BPI) held a three-day online conference about Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals: From the Local to the Global as part of the biennial Peter Townsend Memorial Conference series.

Global Coalition to End Child Poverty brought together experts and communities to discuss lived experiences of children living in poverty, and the necessary policy responses to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on families.

On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, UNICEF, Save the Children and the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty hosted an event at UNICEF HQ, providing an overview of whether and what countries are reporting on child poverty in their VNRs.