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 Office of Research - Innocenti,

This new UNICEF Innocenti report explores how the social and economic impact of the pandemic is likely to affect children; the initial government responses to the crisis; and how future public policies could be optimized to better support children. 

Tonino Esposito, Martin Chabot, Nico Trocmé, John D. Fluke, Ashleigh Delaye, et al - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study, the largest of its kind in Canada, examines when and for whom recurring conditions of neglect were most likely to occur for all children involved with child protection in the province of Quebec over a span of fifteen years.

Radhika Roy - LiveLaw,

"The Supreme Court [of India] on Tuesday directed for repatriation of children lodged in Children Protection Homes in eight states back to their families to take place as per provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act," says this article from LiveLaw.

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring,

This publication draws on pre-COVID data to highlight how children with disabilities face greater risks in the midst of this pandemic.

Linda Briheim-Crookall, Olivia Michelmore, Claire Baker, Oluwanifemi Oni, Sarah Taylor, Julie Selwyn,

This report analyses 1,804 care leaver responses collected in 21 English local authorities between 2017 and 2019.

Erin A. King - Children and Youth Services Review,

The objectives of this study include exploring the prevalence of three types of client-perpetrated violence (CPV) and the influence of each type of CPV on mental health outcomes of workers.

Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO),

Este documento de CAFO ofrece respuestas a las siguientes preguntas: ¿Qué es la Protección Infantil? y ¿Cómo puede mi programa implementar la protección y seguridad infantil? El documento también presenta estudios de casos.

Mtoto News, Civil Society Forum to the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children,

This webinar, a side event of the Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum organized by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, features a discussion of the challenges of alternative family and community-based care for children without parental care, with a particular focus on funding and coordination of services.

Slavica Tutnjević and Jelena Vilendečić - Children and Youth Services Review,

The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of an intervention created to stimulate the development of children under the age of seven, living in an institution for children without parental care in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim of the intervention was to match each child with one volunteer, trained to deliver three hours per week of individually tailored, play-based activities, for a minimum of one year.

Mary Elizabeth Collins, Sarah Baldiga - Journal of Children's Services,

This paper aims to describe how a sense of normalcy for young people in foster care can be critical to their well-being.