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
Highlighted Documents
Nigeria Country Brief on Children's Living Arrangements
Snapshot of Children's Living Arrangements

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Too Little, Too Late: Child Protection Funding in Emergencies
Global Protection Cluster ,

Report underscoring the need to examine protection in its entirety and ensure that all dimensions of the protection response are adequately supported

OHCHR, UNICEF Launch Campaign to Protect Children, Prevent Harmful and Unnecessary Institutionalization
UNICEF,

Press release from UNICEF and OHCHR launching a joint campaign to put an immediate end to the practice of placing young children into State-run infant homes.

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Joint statement by the Consortium for Street Children to the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Consortium for Street Children ,

Joint statement by the Consortium for Street Children to the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on Day of African Child Theme: All Together for Street Children

Place-based approaches to child and family services
Tim G. Moore, Rebecca Fry - Centre for Community Child Health,

This paper synthesizes the conceptual and empirical literature on place-based approaches to meeting the needs of young children and their families.

National Health and Social Welfare Policy
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Republic of Liberia,

To achieve Liberia’s vision of becoming a middleincome country, the goal of this policy is therefore to improve the health and social welfare status of the population of Liberia on an equitable basis.

At Home or In a Home: Formal Care and Adoption of Children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
UNICEF,

Published by UNICEF, the report At Home or in a Home, provides an overview of the major trends and concerns about children in formal care and institutions as well as adoption Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The Better Care Network Guiding Principles and Procedures
Better Care Network ,

Stipulates function, structure and guiding parameters for the interagency network.

Deinstitutionalisation: A Clear Future Policy Direction for Europe
UNICEF and Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ,

Event to launch two new reports on importance of deinstitutionalization for all persons

OPEN WEBINAR: Global Partners Forum on Children Affected by AIDS, JUNE 3-4 2011
PEPFAR, UNICEF and UNAIDS,

PEPFAR, UNICEF and UNAIDS are pleased to invite you to participate, via webinar, in the Fifth Global Partners Forum on Children affected by HIV and AIDS that is taking place in New York on the 3rd and 4th of June

An Ethnographic Study of Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms in Aceh, Indonesia
Carolyn Bancroft - The Center on Child Protection, University of Indonesia,

The study described in this report set out to identify and systematically learn about the functioning of existing community-based child protection mechanisms in Aceh, Indonesia.