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

This report, developed by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, presents new multidimensional child poverty trend data and highlights countries that have made notable progress — Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Peru, Poland, Senegal, and Tanzania. By distilling the key policies, programmes, and contextual drivers behind these gains, the report aims to provide practical advice for other countries and the international community.

CHILD POVERTY IN THE VOLUNTARY NATIONAL REVIEWS - A REVIEW OF VNR REPORTS FROM 2017 TO 2024

This Coalition brief will be the fifth analysis of the VNRs from a child poverty perspective, looking at how countries report on child poverty. This analysis builds upon the previous briefing paper developed by the Coalition, which reviewed VNRs from 2017 to 2022. This year’s analysis reviews both the 2023 and 2024 VNRs and provides reflections on the trends since 2017.

Child Poverty and Climate Risks

The climate crisis is not a distant risk but is already threatening children’s rights and their well-being here and now. Almost every child in the world is exposed to major climate and environmental hazards, and 4 out of 5 children face at least one extreme climate event per year. Also, children born today face much higher climate risks than those from previous generations, as the growing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather events.

A CALL TO ACTION TO EXPAND SOCIAL PROTECTION AND CARE SYSTEMS AND PROMOTE DECENT WORK TO ADDRESS CHILD POVERTY

On the International Day for Eradication of Poverty, and on every day, the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty calls on Governments, businesses and the International Community to:

1. Expand access to inclusive social protection, including child benefits

2. Promote inclusive childcare and parental support systems, inlcuding parental leave and affordable, accessible and quality childcare services

3. Promote a decent work agenda

CHILD POVERTY IN THE VOLUNTARY NATIONAL REVIEWS - A REVIEW OF VNR REPORTS FROM 2017 TO 2024

This Coalition brief will be the fifth analysis of the VNRs from a child poverty perspective, looking at how countries report on child poverty. This analysis builds upon the previous briefing paper developed by the Coalition, which reviewed VNRs from 2017 to 2022. This year’s analysis reviews both the 2023 and 2024 VNRs and provides reflections on the trends since 2017.

ENDING CHILD POVERTY: A POLICY AGENDA

This brief highlights the urgency of tackling child poverty and the growing vulnerability of many children around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, conflict, and economic instability.

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.

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.

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.

Towards the End of Child Poverty: Joint Statement

This joint statement aims to articulate the shared understanding of the importance of child poverty, its devastating consequences, and the key responses that can help lift children and future generations out of poverty as we usher in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).