{"id":5981,"date":"2019-10-17T09:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T06:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"we-must-go-beyond-singular-responses-in-the-fight-against-child-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/17\/we-must-go-beyond-singular-responses-in-the-fight-against-child-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Go Beyond Singular Responses In The Fight Against Child Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By\nKeetie Roelen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ophi.org.uk\/childrens-multidimensional-poverty-disaggregating-the-global-mpi\/\">Two-thirds\nof children<\/a>&nbsp;in sub-Saharan Africa face all manners of hardship. These\ninclude poor living conditions, low educational outcomes, high levels of\nmalnutrition and often high risks of exposure to different forms of\nviolence.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/publications\/index_92826.html\">One\nin five children<\/a>&nbsp;in sub-Saharan Africa are estimated to grow up in\nextreme \u201cmonetary\u201d poverty, meaning they live in families without adequate\nincomes to make basic ends meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growing up in poverty has long-lasting adverse\nconsequences for children and the societies that they live in.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/marlin-prod.literatumonline.com\/pb-assets\/Lancet\/stories\/series\/ecd\/Lancet_ECD_Executive_Summary.pdf\">Poverty\nundermines children\u2019s immediate wellbeing as well as biological and cognitive\ndevelopment<\/a>. In the long-run, this untapped potential hampers economic and\nsocial progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the world marks the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/povertyday\/\">international day for the\neradication of poverty<\/a>&nbsp;it\u2019s worth trying to identify answers and\nevidence in the fight against child poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recently published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/putting-children-first\/9783838213170\">book<\/a>,\n\u201cPutting Children First: New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in\nAfrica\u201d, offers insights based on evidence in support of more effective policy\ninitiatives that can address child poverty in Africa in all its different\ndimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book follows an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theimpactinitiative.net\/event\/event-putting-children-first-identifying-solutions-and-taking-action-tackle-poverty-and\">international\nconference in Addis Ababa in October 2017<\/a>&nbsp;that brought together\nresearchers, policy makers and civil society to share lessons learned and\nidentify new efforts in tackling child poverty in the region. Main themes\nincluded the measurement and analysis of child poverty, the use of social\nprotection in addressing child poverty, and opportunities and obstacles for\nchildren as they transition into adulthood. The book includes contributions on\nthese themes based on research from across sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the range of diverse and rich research, we\ncan distil two key messages in moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first is that child poverty has strong psychosocial and relational dimensions that are frequently overlooked. They deserve more attention. This holds in relation to both the measurement of child poverty and efforts to reduce it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-must-go-beyond-singular-responses-in-the-fight-against-child-poverty-125385\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Keetie Roelen Two-thirds of children&nbsp;in sub-Saharan Africa face all manners of hardship. These include poor living conditions, low educational outcomes, high levels of malnutrition and often high risks of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}