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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Finiki Nearchou, Clodagh Flinn, Rachel Niland, Sheena Siva Subramaniam, and Eilis Hennessy - Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health,

This research aimed to provide a systematic review of the evidence on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on youth mental health.

Claire Cameron - International Journal of Social Pedagogy,

This article examines the case for greater recognition of the children’s workforce in out-of-home care (OHC), and situates the concept of ‘expertise’ in the rise of recognition of children’s status as competent social actors, as well as in professionalisation debates.

Kaieteur News,

According to this article from Kaieteur News, a newly installed Adoption Board, which falls under the purview of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in Guyana, has begun processing adoption cases that were left unattended for a few years.

Beverly-Jean Margaret Daniel - Child & Youth Services,

This paper examines the ways in which anti-oppression and anti-racism perspectives can be included as an aspect of Child and Youth Care (CYC) thought and practice, with particular relevance to service provision for African Canadian families.

UNICEF,

The main objective of this consultancy is to provide technical guidance to the design, implementation, and analysis of the national study on violence against children that  aims at assessing the magnitude, incidence, causes and consequences of various types of violence against children (qualitative and quantitative).

Peter Murimi, Joel Gunter, and Tom Watson - BBC News,

This article from BBC News tells the story of "vulnerable women [who] are being preyed on in Nairobi to feed a thriving black market for babies."

Lumos,

Lumos is recruiting for Head of Data and Research. 

UBS Optimus Foundation,

The UBS Optimus Foundation will award one or more grant prizes of up to USD 1m to organization(s) that have demonstrated or are seeking to demonstrate rigorous evidence of achievement of outcomes in several areas - including prevention of children being separated from families due to reasons such as poverty, violence, abuse or lack of access to basic health and education - through an intervention implemented in the context of COVID-19.

Karen Irene Kalergis and Debra Anderson - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This article reviews the research basis for the Organizational Resiliency Model (ORM) and new research supporting the model, and offers lessons learned through structured interviews with 10 child abuse leaders who piloted the ORM and continue to use it ten years later.

Guy C. M. Skinner, Paul W. B. Bywaters, Andy Bilson, Robbie Duschinsky, Keith Clements, Dustin Hutchinson - Children and Youth Services Review,

This article reports the results of a systematic review of evidence relevant to the relationship between the ‘toxic trio’ factors in combination and child maltreatment, identifying 20 papers.