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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Stories as told to Shimelis Tsegaye, ACPF,

Developed while researching child-headed households in five Ethiopian towns and their rural surroundings, this book presents the experiences and stories of individual child household heads.

Rebecca Davis for USAID ,

This document informs stakeholders about the opportunities for and constraints on building the social work workforce within the child welfare sector in Africa.

African Child Policy Forum & International Child Support ,

This publication documents real life stories of selected African parents, shedding light on the multifaceted challenges parents are faced with and the kind of support they need to bring about behavioral change and enhanced capacity.

Kevin Browne,

Analysis of the impact of institutionalization on young children with core recommendation for policy and practice to ensure children's right to family is upheld.

Save the Children Federation,

Highlights successes and lessons learned from the PC3 Program. Serves as a companion piece to the Toolkit for Positive Change

Save the Children Federation,

Documents the strategies of The Positive Change: Children, Communities and Care (PC3) Program - a five-year (2004-2009) integrated and comprehensive program designed to provide care and support to more than half a million orphaned and vulnerable children and their families throughout the country of Ethiopia.

Save the Children UK,

Analysis of the considerable variation between countries, globally and within regions in terms of the rights, opportunities and wellbeing that children enjoy and the national political and policy choices affecting them.

International Social Service,

This article seeks to share a few examples of the implementation of the principle of the child’s right to participate from a recent desktop review conducted by ISS/IRC around the world.

Better Care Network and UNICEF,

Manual to assist countries in strengthening their information system around children in formal care through data collection around 15 global indicators

Minister of Social Protection, Family and Child (Moldova),

This document, entitled "The Mechanism of Professional Supervision in Social Assistance", was approved by Order of the Minister of Social Protection, Family and Child (Moldova) on 31 December 2008.