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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The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action,

Ce webinaire lance une note technique, COVID-19 et la protection des enfants contre la violence, les abus et la négligence à domicile.

Global Coalition for Reintegration of Child Soldiers,

This document is a summary of three papers on how to effectively support children who have exited armed forces and armed groups and contains actionable recommendations at the end to stimulate thinking and action to assist these most vulnerable children and their communities.

The World Bank,

"The Government of Uganda, through the World Bank-funded Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) project, is taking preventative action to combat violence against [refugee] children by creating an environment for children’s empowerment and participation," says this news release from the World Bank.

Caroline Andow - International Journal of Educational Development,

Through the lens of institutional ethnography, this paper explores how experiences of education inside one Secure Children’s Home in England are shaped by the institution.

Hannah Ulferts - OECD,

This paper provides a structured overview of the existing parenting literature with the aim of developing an evidence-based and culture-sensitive framework of parenting and its influence on child development.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action,

This document builds on existing response action from several countries and case management task force agencies. It provides considerations for adapting Child Protection Case Management (CP CM) interventions to the COVID-19 pandemic and to better understand the important role of case management in the emergency.

Juan Ramón Ferreiro Galguera - Migration, Religion and Early Childhood Education,

In this paper, after a historical introduction, the authors will refer, from a general point of view, to the current moment of immigration witnessed in Spain offering not only statistical data regarding this phenomenon but also legislation, and description of the policies carried out by the central and regional governments on issues like immigration, asylum and integration, with a particular focus on unaccompanied minors.

Margaret H. Lloyd Sieger & Robert Haswell - Journal of Child and Family Studies,

For this study, in-depth interviews with 17 currently or recently-involved parents in a Midwestern U.S. family treatment court, which are specialized child welfare dockets designed to address substance use, were conducted and analyzed using constant comparative coding, in order to understand parents’ perspectives on their own substance use, including its impact on their parenting, before and during child welfare system involvement.

Feng Wang, Leesa Lin, Jingjing Lu, Jingjing Cai, Jiayao Xu, Xudong Zhou - Children and Youth Services Review,

The purpose of this study was to examine the mental health status and substance use behaviors of urban left-behind children and urban children still living with their parents in comparison to rural left-behind children.

Ida Benedicte Juhasz - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study explores a particularly wide discretionary space set for decision-making within the Norwegian welfare bureaucracy; care order decisions concerning newborns directly removed from the hospital by the child protection system.