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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Oxford Policy Management,

Analysis of policy and service model used to identify barriers in the delivery of alternative care services for children.

UNICEF Serbia,

Outlines the project aims, critical areas of child care reform, and expected results of the Serbian initiative: “Transforming Residential Institutions for Children and Developing Sustainable Alternatives”

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

UNICEF and the Victor Pineda Foundation,

Companion resource to It’s About Ability, designed to empower children and young people to speak out on the convention and become advocates for inclusion.

Magdalene Athanasopoulos - The University of British Columbia,

This study explored the experiences of orphaned children who specifically take on the role of being both mother and father to their siblings.

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Government of the Republic of Liberia,

This Social Welfare Policy is intended to provide direction for reforming the social welfare sector in Liberia.

Laetitia Bazzi-Veil - UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office,

The objective of this report is to review the initiatives carried out in the last four years in West and Central African countries with regard to child protection information and monitoring systems. 

Stan Maher and Anthony Swift,

Summary information on recently published book on community strengthening in response to children needs in context of poverty and AIDS.

UNODC,

UNODC published Guidelines to implement family skills training programmes for drug abuse prevention in March 2009. These guidelines contain evidence of effectiveness, principles of family skills training programmes, cultural adaptation guidelines, advice on how to recruit and retain families through the programmes, practical advice on training of staff, as well as information about monitoring and evaluating family skills training programmes.

Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare ,

This Minimum Standards for Residential Child Care Facilities in Namibia is designed to assist child care service providers, ministerial staff, social welfare partners, and other stakeholders concerned with the quality of child care, to establish, maintain and manage high quality care services for children in Namibia