During the first week of October, 2017, SPRI Global experts conducted a technical training in Swaziland on multidimensional poverty with experts from the Central Statistical Office, UNICEF, Ministry of Economic Planning & Development, and other governmental stakeholders. The training was part of a long-term national capacity building in an effort to tackle non-monetary poverty in Swaziland in accordance to the Sustainable Development Goal 1.2.
As part of the inception of the Reference study on ARCH’s (Programme d’Assurance pour le Renforcement du Capital Humain) performance indicators, SPRI Global experts were on mission in Bénin.
It was a pleasure to support UNICEF Kenya and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in producing the CHILD POVERTY IN KENYA report, which will be published in December of this year. It is the first of its kind in Kenya and is being launched at a crucial development juncture, just before the design and development of the Third Medium Term Plan (2018–2022) of Vision 2030 and following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda.
Members of the SPRI Global team recently presented research papers during the ISCI (International Society for Child Indicators), the APPAM conference in Brussels (Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management) and the ISI World Statistics Congress in Marrakech (International Statistical Society).
Methodologies are constantly being evolved and research innovations are becoming more and more accessible. Members of the SPRI Global team regularly return to universities to keep pace with and contribute to the field of current knowledge in multidimensional poverty research.
In affiliation with Maastricht University and Social Policy Research Institute, we are happy to announce the publication of a new open access article in the Child Development journal. Titled A Longitudinal Analysis of Well-Being of Ghanaian Children in Transnational Families, this article is co-authored by Victor Cebotari, Valentina Mazzucato and Ernest Appiah.
We are happy to announce the publication of one of our affiliated researcher’s paper in affiliation with Maastricht University – “Explaining Children’s Life Outcomes: Parental Socioeconomic Status, Intelligence and Neurocognitive Factors in a Dynamic Life Cycle Model” by Elise de Neubourg, Lex Borghans, Karien Coppens, Maria Jansen.
An estimated 36 million of a total population of 41 million children under the age of 18 in Ethiopia are multi-dimensionally poor, meaning they are deprived of basic goods and services in at least three dimensions. In the week of May 29 – June 2, 2017 our team conducted a UNICEF-supported workshop in Addis Ababa to build the capacities of the staff of the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA) and other government officials to conduct child poverty analysis.
According to World Bank data, Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world. When using the international threshold of 1.25$ per day, 74% of the children are living in monetary poor households. The main objective of this project consisted of conducting a child poverty analysis contextualized to the Burundi norms and standards in order to provide policy recommendations and to come up with baseline for the Sustainable Development Goals 1.1.2.
The humanitarian situation of children and families in Libya remains precarious, with significant protection concerns and child rights violations continuously reported. The 2011 Libyan revolution also had serious repercussions on the well-being of Libyan children. Many were injured or killed over the course of the uprising and others were victims of bombings by foreign powers.
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