Nigeria

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 173,620,000
  • Population under 15: 46%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 52.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 152 out of 187
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 3.2%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.6 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 19%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 49%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, UNAIDS, DHS 2013

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This fact sheet highlights Austria’s process in transforming institutional care towards community-based and family-based systems.

Maternowska, M. C., A. Potts and D. Fry - UNICEF,

This study is a snapshot of a multi-country study involving Italy, Peru, Viet Nam, and Zimbabwe of how individual characteristics, interpersonal relationships, and the communities in which people live interact with institutional drivers to increase or reduce a child’s risk of violence.

Servicio Social Internacionale,

Este manual proporciona orientación a los profesionales que trabajan con niños con discapacidades en el cuidado residencial. 

Service Social International,

Ce manuel fournit des conseils aux professionnels qui travaillent avec les enfants handicapés dans les soins en établissement. 

International Social Service,

This manual provides guidance to professionals who work with children with disabilities in residential care. 

Cathrine Madziva, Martha Chinouya - International Social Work,

This qualitative study explored how volunteers delivering social welfare to orphans and vulnerable children through a community initiative supported by donors made sense of volunteering during a period of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe.  

Dejan Janićijević - Factas Universitatis: Law and Politics,

This paper examines the two basic models of the state authorities’ intervention into family life aimed at protecting children.

Josane Van Huyssteen, Marianne Strydom - Social Work,

This paper discusses the style and efficacy of child preservation services for the purpose of reducing child abuse and neglect. 

Susan Morwood,

This Supervision Guideline document from Save the Children contains guidelines and underlying principles for Pusan Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (PDAK) child and family support centre social workers in working with children and families.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This Country Fact Sheet from Belgium contains short facts on care and institutionalization in Belgium.