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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UNICEF ,

Assists in the development and application of an analytic tool for mapping and assessing existing child protection policies, laws and services for adequacy and to identify obstacles and opportunities in implementation, especially in reaching vulnerable or excluded groups.

Save the Children UK, Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Office ,

This report focuses on the experiences of Save the Children in monitoring, implementing and reviewing NPAs in Angola, Ethiopia, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Each of the country offices commissioned the documentation of case studies to identify promising practices and challenges around effective implementation of NPAs.

UNICEF Namibia ,

UNICEF Namibia with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare plans to undertake a consultancy with the overall outcome of strengthening supported formal foster care systems.

Maia Szalavitz, Huffington Post,

In this opinion piece, written for the Huffington Post, the author explains her views on the institutionalization of children, particularly infants and children under five years old. She concludes with her recommendations for abolishing baby orphanages.

Journal televise de TF1,

Reportage diffusé le 20 avril 2010 et recueille le témoignage d'anciens élèves du Foyer Adolphe Cherioux.

Thomas Hammarberg, Commissaire aux droits de l’homme du Conseil de l’Europe,

La promotion et le renforcement de la protection des enfants et de leurs droits sont au cœur des préoccupations du Commissaire europeen Thomas Hammarberg. En 2009, ce dernier a accordé une attention particulière à plusieurs catégories d’enfants vulnérables. 

Child Frontiers Ltd. ,

This mapping and analysis was conducted in late 2009 in Sierra Leone to analyze the existing laws, structures and services for child protection in the country and found these laws and systems to be falling short of reaching their intended impact. 

Human Rights Watch,

This report is based on 11 weeks of field research in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau between November 2009 and February 2010.

The National Skills Development Programme of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Afghanistan and UNICEF Afghanistan,

The National Skills Development Programme of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Afghanistan and UNICEF Afghanistan look to hire a social work institution for curriculum and training development.

Human Rights Watch ,

Human Rights Watch report on the illicit practices of forced child begging and other abuses perpetrated against children in residential Quranic schools. Includes recommendations to government entities on action needed to reverse abuse and neglect of children in these situations.