Webinar

Children in Poverty: Latest Global Trends and Measures

11 December 2025, 8am EST / 2pm CET

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Ending child poverty is a policy choice and within our reach. But the first step in solving any problem is to acknowledge there is one: measuring child poverty plays this essential role, driving accountability, fostering policy innovation, and inspiring collective action.

Global monitoring of child poverty provides common frameworks to compare trends across countries and region. Reliable, comparable data also enables policymakers to benchmark progress against global commitments such as the SDGs and to mobilise international support where gaps persist.

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

Speakers:

  • Jenn Yablonski, Chief of Child Poverty and Social Protection, UNICEF

  • Sabina Alkire, Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)

  • Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Global Lead for Data for Goals and Poverty Measurement, World Bank

  • Rouslan Karimov, Statistics Specialist, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight

Moderator:

  • Oliver Fiala, Co-chair, Global Coalition to End Child Poverty

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