Multidimensional Child Poverty Refresher Training in Rwanda
In November 2021, SPRI Global facilitated a technical refresher training in Kigali, Rwanda, educating NISR staff in child poverty measurement by using the statistical software STATA.
In November 2021, SPRI Global facilitated a technical refresher training in Kigali, Rwanda, educating NISR staff in child poverty measurement by using the statistical software STATA.
Social Protection has emerged as an essential policy field and our Director Chris De Neubourg, along with our Senior Researchers Victor Cebotari and Julia Karpati, were happy to contribute to the recently published “Handbook on Social Protection Systems”.
SPRI Global researchers authored several key documents, multidimensional poverty methodologies and select country case examples that are highlighted in this comprehensive review, which aims to unpack and understand the ways that multidimensional poverty can ultimately lead to the reduction of multidimensional child poverty.
Researchers of the Social Policy Research Institute (SPRI Global) supported UNICEF Ethiopia in partnership with the Central Statistical Agency in carrying out a qualitative study on child poverty and access to basic services in the Amhara and Somali regions of Ethiopia.
Researchers of the Social Policy Research Institute (SPRI Global) supported UNICEF Ethiopia in partnership with the Central Statistical Agency in carrying out a rapid quantitative study on the impact of COVID-19 on Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Social Policy Research Institute was happy to provide technical support to the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia and UNICEF Ethiopia in conducting a study on the overlap between monetary and multidimensional child poverty in Ethiopia.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Social Policy Research Institute (SPRI Global) has been actively engaged in efforts to monitor, analyse, and report on the wide-ranging social and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and their families.
On August 10th, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), UNICEF Kenya, and UN WOMEN Kenya launched the Comprehensive Poverty Analysis report along with 47 county poverty profiles.
As governments around the world take urgent action to save lives and protect livelihoods from the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging, adapting or introducing new social protection measures are central to country immediate and medium-term responses. With one in two people in the world not benefiting from any form of social protection, this is an unprecedented challenge.
Authors: Julia Karpati, Chris de Neubourg, Erëblina Elezaj
Engaging Theory and Evidence
with Policy Practice
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