Blog by MasterCard Scholar Faith Mvula,

“Let youth be set free to dream. Set them free from the idea that they cannot do anything about the way their future turns out”

Expanding cash transfers for children could offer a way to achieving the SDG goals of eradicating extreme child poverty and halving multidimensional child poverty. But does a universal cash grant (UCG), offer an effective way of getting there?

Here are six areas and some key questions that we need to understand better.

Two major studies on global poverty have just come out. The information they provide can help us to assess progress on world leaders’ ambitions to end poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030

How can we use technology to promote youth employment? Save the Children's skills to Succeed is testing and refining digital solutions.

Dr Agnes Akosua Aidoo,  keynote address at, 'Putting Children First': Identifying Solutions and Taking Action to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Africa - International Conference 23-25th October 2017, Addis Ababa

Around the world, the shame felt by those enduring extreme economic hardship can become a trap. Only when policymakers grasp that dignity and self-respect are prerequisites in the struggle against privation – rather than outcomes of its alleviation – will the world have a fighting chance to eradicate poverty in all its forms. Read Keetie Roelen's blog.

Reflections from the "Putting Children First" conference. Read blogs from those who were there!

In this blog Christian Oldiges of OPHI reflects on one of the many discussion points of the "Putting Children First" conference, that of the basic but important principle that child poverty is multidimensional in nature. Drawing on real world examples of how governments can easily apply the Alkire-Foster (AF) method to identify multidimensionally poor children and compute Child Multidimensional Poverty Indices (C-MPIs) to guide policy making

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.

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.

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.