Putting Children First
New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa
Published on 30. September 2019
330 pages
978-3-8382-7317-4 (ISBN)
Description
Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the policy initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and academic understanding of child poverty and its solutions by bringing together applied research from across the continent. With the Sustainable Development Goals having opened up an important space for the fight against child poverty, not least by broadening its conceptualization to be multidimensional, this collection aims to push the frontiers by challenging existing narratives around child poverty, exploring alternative understandings of the complexities and dynamics underpinning child poverty and, crucially, examining policy options that work to reduce child poverty.
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New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Hannover
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
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Illustrations
File size
3,55 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-7317-4 (9783838273174)
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Keetie Roelen | Richard Morgan | Yisak Tafere
Putting Children First
New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: Manifestations of Child Poverty
- CHAPTER 1: Beyond Categories: Rhizomatic Experiences of Child Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya
- CHAPTER 2: Children and Young People's Experiences of Managing Poverty-Related Shame in Uganda and the UK
- CHAPTER 3: Poverty and Child Hunger in South Africa: A Child-Centred Analysis of Household-Level Survey Data
- CHAPTER 4: Child Stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Interrelated Effects of Neighbourhoods and Families
- CHAPTER 5: Dynamics of Child Poverty in Ethiopia
- PART TWO: Child-Sensitive Social Protection
- CHAPTER 6: How Many Malnourished Children Are There in South Africa? What Can Be Done?
- CHAPTER 7: Tackling Undernutrition with a 'Cash Plus' Approach
- CHAPTER 8: Unconditional Cash Transfers and Business Grants: Do Transfer Amounts and Labels Make a Difference for Children?
- PART THREE: Transitions from Childhood into Adulthood
- CHAPTER 9: Gaining Ground with Gatekeepers: Leveraging the Proximal Enabling Environment to Support Youth Livelihood Development
- CHAPTER 10: Physical and Virtual Mobility for Youth Employment in Malawi: Reflections on Findings from Two Research Projects
- CHAPTER 11: Disentangling Urban Adolescents' Vulnerability to Age- and Gender-Based Violence through a Capability Lens in Ethiopia and Rwanda
- CHAPTER 12: Social Connectedness and Youth Transitions: Reflections on a South African Programme
- CONCLUSION
- AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
