UNICEF and the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR) recently published their Multidimensional Child Poverty study for Rwanda. The study measures child poverty using individual deprivation data for children applying UNICEF’s Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA) approach.
Kenya joins the 60+ countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe that use UNICEF’s National Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (N-MODA) to analyze child poverty and deprivation in the country. The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has chosen MODA for estimating multidimensional deprivation and poverty among children of all ages. The study was officially launched in March 2018.
As part of our ongoing mission to carry out a study for the identification of the micro, meso and macro level elements linking the Assurance pour le Renforcement du Capital Humain (ARCH) program (and it’s four constituting components: health insurance, professional training, microcredit, and pension) to its objectives, SPRI Global team members recently traveled to Benin to support the efforts of UNICEF Benin.
SPRI Global concluded 2017 with a mission in Ethiopia at the end of December. Our team had discussions with partners on preliminary findings of a multidimensional child poverty analysis using UNICEF’s MODA (Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis) approach and parameters that were selected jointly during capacity building workshops in March and June.
From November 20 – December 1, 2017, core SPRI Global associates organized and facilitated a two-week “Training of the Trainers” course on social policy and social protection, together with Thammasat University, Bangkok and with UNICEF Bhutan. The two-week seminar program was organised in Bangkok with the support of the faculty of Social Policy and Social Administration – Social Policy and Development at Thammasat University, of the Faculty of Social Policy Certificate Programme at the Royal University of Bhutan, and of UNICEF Bhutan and UNICEF ROSA.
During missions in October and December, SPRI Global experts worked with specialists of the Angolan National Institute of Statistics (NIS) to estimate multidimensional Child Poverty in all its aspects using MODA (Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis).
New SPRI Global affiliated publication in Violence Against Children by Victor Karunan, on children in the Asia Pacific Region!
From November 2-4, 2017 SPRI Global team members participated in the APPAM (Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management) conference in Chicago, themed “Measurement Matters: Better Data for Better Decisions”. It was especially interesting to engage in discussions about poverty measurement with fellow research colleagues and policy-makers of various backgrounds.
SPRI Global experts recently traveled to Conakry to hold hands-on training sessions for members of the Laboratoire d’Analyse Socio Anthropologique de Guinée (LASAG) of the public University of Sonfonia.
On October 10, 2017, SPRI Global held a policy workshop in Ezulwini, Swaziland, in partnership with colleagues from the Ministry of Economic Planning & Development, and UNICEF Eswatini.
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