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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April D. Allen, Justeen Hyde, Laurel K. Leslie - Children and Youth Services Review,

Knowledge transfer is highlighted in this paper as a conceptual framework to understand mandated referral to Early Intervention (EI) services for young children with open child welfare cases.

UNICEF,

"President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf today officially launched the Children’s Law of Liberia to protect children and their right to participate meaningfully in their development," says this press release from UNICEF.

Gareth Evans, Margaret Richards, Candace Nelson, Mary McVay, Terrence Isert, NtongiMcFadyen, Malini Tolat, Waddington Chinogwenya, Reid Hamel, Karl Frey, Andrew Tulchin and Sunny Yi-Han Lin with collaborations between and contributions from USAID’s LIFT,

This is a resource guide designed for PEPFAR implementing partners to help them effectively design and implement economic strengthening activities for vulnerable children. The guide lists gender, age, social inclusion, conflict, accessibility, chronic illness, and environment as reasons that certain children and households are vulnerable.

Nazni Noordin, Zaherawati Zakaria, Mohd Zool Hilmie Mohamed Sawal, Zaliha Hj Hussin, Kamarudin Ngah, and Jennifah Nordin - International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, Vol. 3, No. 1,

This article describes research conducted in Malaysia on young people’s perceptions of “baby dumping,” or the abandonment of newborns and infants, a phenomenon that has become a “serious issue” in Malaysia. 

Child Frontiers,

Ce document de contexte et les briefs nationaux individuels ont été commandés afin d'examiner le statut actuel des services de renforcement familial et de la prise en charge alternative dans dix-huit pays d'Afrique subsaharienne

Child Frontiers,

This background paper and individual country briefs were commissioned to examine the current status of family support services and alternative care in 18 sub-Saharan Francophone, four Anglophone and two Lusophone African countries (a total of 22 countries). This background paper represents a comparative regional analysis, providing an overview of the current situation and illustrating promising practices, opportunities and challenges.

Xiangming Fang, Derek S. Brown, Curtis S. Florence, James A. Mercy ,

This paper presents new estimates of the average lifetime cost per child maltreatment (CM) victim in the United States and aggregate lifetime costs for all new cases of CM incurred in 2008 using an incidence-based approach. The authors find that the lifetime economic burden of CM is approximately $124 billion. Given this substantial economic burden, the authors argue that the benefits of prevention will likely outweigh the costs for effective programs.

Jørgen Carling, Cecilia Menjívar & Leah Schmalzbauer - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,

This article reviews the emerging literature on transnational parenthood, concentrating on six themes: gender, care arrangements, legislation, class, communication and moralities.

Community Places,

This section of the Community Planning Toolkit provides guidance on the issues to consider when planning and designing community engagement. It focuses on quality and effectiveness, process planning and designing engagement tailored to the particular issue, level of participation to be achieved, timeframe and range of stakeholders affected.

Priscillah Rukundo - University of Bergen,

This study aimed at finding out what enables children orphaned by AIDS who live in orphanages to thrive.