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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World Vision,

This report summarises findings from a recent online survey conducted with over 300 international travellers to Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam. 

Mr. Oum Sophannara, Director of the Child Welfare Department Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation,

This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the alternative care situation in Cambodia, including residential and family-based care. 

Ministry of Gender and Child Development - Zambia,

This report was conducted to provide an extensive assessment designed to map the existing child protection system in Zambia. 

Robert H. Gilligan - Social Work Forum,

This paper describes Ireland’s successful implementation of a policy of de-institutionalization of out-of-home care for children.

Andriamaro F et Delaunay V. ,

A Madagascar, les ménages nucléaires représentent le modèle dominant au détriment des ménages élargis.Néanmoins, les structures familiales et leurs évolutions restent mal connues et, dans un contexte de déstructuration familiale (divorce, décès), la question de la prise en charge des enfants reste majeure. 

Cluster de Protection, Groupe de Travail sur la Protection de l'Enfance,

Les Standards minimum pour la protection de l'enfance dans l'intervention humanitaire ont ete developpes pour soutenir les activites en matiere de protection de l'enfance dans les situation d'urgence. Ils visent notamment a etablir des principes communs pour tous les acteurs et a renforcer la coordination entre eux. 

Nayomi Kannangara ,

This manual, produced by Save the Children in Sri Lanka, provides guidance on Family Group Conferencing (FGC), which was introduced to the governmental childcare structure in Sri Lanka's Southern Providnce between 2006-2008. Th

National Council on Disability,

The Deinstitutionalization Toolkit is designed to provide all those interested in institutional closures and expanded community living opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) with information, strategies, state data, and case studies that can facilitate closure and build community capacity to serve more people with ID/DD in the community. It covers topics such as building a broad-based coalition, understanding and working within the political environment, creating a community system of care, and relevant laws, policies, and court decisions.

UNHCR,

The Framework for the Protection of Children broadens UNHCR’s understanding of and engagement in protection of children. It articulates six goals that encapsulate UNHCR’s commitment to protect and realize the rights of children of concern to the Office, and offers practical guidance on how to achieve them. 

 

Feng Hu - International Journal of Educational Development,

This paper uses a large nationally representative survey data to examine the impact of China's rural–urban migration on high school attendance of left-behind children by disentangling the effect of remittances from that of migration.