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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The African Child Policy Forum,

This publication is a compilation of country briefs that audit and review the level of alignment of national laws with international and regional standards.

The Children Act, Chapter 141 is a Kenyan law that addresses provision for parental responsibility, fostering, adoption, custody, maintenance, guardianship, care and protection of children, among others.

Georgette Mulheir - The Equal Rights Review,

This article sets out some of the evidence of the impact of institutionalisation on children in Europe.

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO),

This publication proposes a framework of core indicators for measuring and monitoring national child protection systems in the East Asia and Pacific region.

Save the Children Norway,

The intention of this booklet is to document and share the good practices and results that the Save the Children Norway – Ethiopia (SCN-E) project has achieved at different levels with improved outcomes on the lives of the individual child with disability, families, the community, and institutions.

International Rescue Committee & UNICEF,

The CCS Guidelines is the “how-to” guide for instructing health and psychosocial field staff responding to children who have experienced sexual abuse in humanitarian settings.

Rachel Tainsh & Jonathan Watkins - HealthProm,

This report is the result 4 of a two-year EU funded project “An Early Years Support Centre (EYSC) service in Dushanbe: Reducing poverty, empowering vulnerable families, strengthening partnerships and advocating for rights”. It outlines the model of support that was developed through the EYSC project in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. 

National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University,

This working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child examines child neglect and its impacts. 

Anna Spector and Fiona Brook - Mkombozi,

Executive Summary

Channa M.W. Al, Geert Jan J.M. Stams, Miranda S. Bek, Esther M. Damen, Jessica J. Asscher, Peter H. van der Laan - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study aimed to establish the effect of brief, in-home intensive family preservation programs on prevention of out-of-home placement, family functioning, child behavior problems and social support.