Child Poverty

Childwatch Projects and Activities

• Impact of Poverty and Social Exclusion on Children’s Lives and their Well-being, International Workshop, hosted by the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy Research in Vienna, 8 - 9 September 2008 
• Rethinking Poverty and Children in the New Millennium: Linking Research and Policy; Workshop on Child Poverty, Norway, September 2007
• Children’s Experiences with Poverty and Social Exclusion—Challenges for Research and Policies; Workshop hosted by the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy Research in Vienna, June 2007 
• Establishment of Research Network on Child Poverty
• Collaboration with CROP

Other research resources

• Blog of Research Network on Child Poverty
• Blog on Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities
• Eldis resource guide on Child Poverty
• Eldis resource page on Cash Transfers
• Towards Action against Child Poverty in Africa, Third International Policy Conference on the African Child
• Journal of Children and Poverty
   

Research Institutions and Networks

• The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a network of 59 affiliated professors around the world who are united by their use of Randomized Evaluations (REs) to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. J-PAL's mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence
• Caribbean Child Development Centre Consortium for Social Development and Research University of the West Indies Jamaica
• The Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester is an international centre of excellence established to create and share knowledge to end poverty, in both North and South, and to shape policies that deliver real gains for people in poverty.
• Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge  England
• Child Poverty Network
• CINDE, The International Center for Education and Human Development Colombia
• Children's Research Centre, Trinity College Ireland
• CHIP - Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre - works to inform and influence policy makers in order to more effectively tackle childhood poverty.
• Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), University of Bergen, Norway
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria)  Senegal
• Cronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK
• Equity for Children, The New School, USA
• Faculty of Health and Social Studies, University of South Bohemia Czech Republic
• Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, Clemson University USA
• Myers-Joint-Brookdale Institute Israel
• NOVA - Norwegian Social Research Norway
• Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre (SJSC) University of Western Sydney Australia
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay India
• The Children's Institute, University of Cape Town South Africa
• The International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI) Brazil
• UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Italy
• Young Lives, University of Oxford, UK
• Institute of Children and Poverty

 

IGO and NGO resources

• Save the Children Alliance's Reducing Poverty campaign

• State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children, The double dividend of gender equality
  December 2006 examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls. The report argues that investment in women's rights will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both women and children.

• World Development Report 2000-2001 - Attacking Poverty: Overview (World Bank)

• Unicef - Research Report Card 10 for 2012 - Measuring Child Poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world's rich countries.

 

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