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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Changing the Way We Care,

The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is to provide a standard and consistent approach to case conferencing as part of a comprehensive case management approach utilized during decision-making processes for children. The SOPs should be utilized by institutions (e.g. Charitable Children’s Institutions, or CCIs) and organizations as well as other actors engaged in decision-making around children’s care and protection.

Changing the Way We Care,

Los Procedimientos de Manejo de Casos para la Reunificación y Reintegración de los Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes al cuidado Familiar y Comunitaria se desarrollaron a través de talleres participativos en conjunto con la Secretaría de Bienestar Social (SBS), la Procuraduría de la Niñez y la Adolescencia (PNA) de la Procuraduría General de la Nación (PGN), El Organismo Judicial (OJ), El Consejo Nacional de Adopciones (CNA), la Asociación de Hogares Cristianos de Guatemala (ASOCRIGUA) y Hogar Aldeas de Esperanza. Se basó en el trabajo de Changing the Way We Care de Kenia en la Guía para trabajadores sociales: Manejo de casos para la reintegración de niños y niñas en cuidado familiar o comunitaria, adaptada al contexto guatemalteco.

Sol Pradelli - Elevate Children Funders Group,

In attempts to delineate the future impacts on today's children, this paper analyses the COVID-19 crisis as a dynamic phenomenon that shapes children's lives well into adulthood, with age and gender considered key influencing factors. It examines the impacts from previous crises and the available data to build prudent assumptions about the present situation and outlines four scenarios which provide opportunities to identify potential levers for positive change.

Mouzinho Mário,Celso M. Monjane e Ricardo Santos - Economic Development & Institutions and UNU-WIDER,

Desde os primeiros anos de independência nacional, em 1975, o objectivo central da política educativa de Moçambique tem sido o de assegurar que todas as crianças em idade escolar tenham acesso à escola e nela permaneçam até concluírem a educação b

Laureates and Leaders for Children,

This report calls on world leaders to come together and agree a global package to help low income countries and ensure the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis receive at least some support.

World Vision,

This research explores the stress children in World Vision programmes in the Middle East and Eastern Europe region are under due to COVID-19.

Department of Social Welfare, UNICEF,

This document is aimed at complementing the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Licensing, Monitoring and Closure of Residential Homes for Children (RHC) by supporting the implementation of the closure of RHCs that have not been licensed or do not meet the standards in the SOPs.

Mónica Guzmán Zapater - Cuadernos de derecho transnacional,

No reconocimiento de Kafala constituida entre ciudadanos marroquíes a efectos de adopción. Antecedentes y alcance de la prohibición contenida en el artículo 19.4 de la Ley de adopción internacional.

UNICEF,

This Russian language Compendium documents UNICEF’s social policy interventions in Europe and Central Asia from 2014-2020 and includes 18 case studies from 15 different countries as well as stories from the field.

UNICEF’s Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO),

This report presents findings from a survey conducted across the Europe and Central Asia Region which aimed to enhance understanding of the use of digital platforms for child protection.