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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Tessa Boudrie - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond,

In this interview, Andy Bilson - Emeritus Professor at the University of Central Lancashire, Associate Director of The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation, and researcher promoting children’s rights and reform of child protection systems - discusses the trends in children's care and protection in the UK and globally over the past few decades.

Nicole Wilke, Delia Pop, Elli Oswald, Amanda Howard, Meredith Morgan - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond,

The goal of the current article is to present this workshop framework and share the free Facilitator’s Toolkit.

Devanshi Khetawat - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond,

In the current article, the cognitive, emotional, mental health, and behavioural benefits of deinstitutionalisation for children with varied disabilities in India and UK are discussed.

Pradeep Nair - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond,

This study assesses the present situation of the deinstitutionalisation and alternative care arrangements in exile settlements concerning various cultural and socio-structural factors.

Ranjan Kanti Panda, Lopamudra Mullick, Subhadeep Adhikari, Neepa Basu, Archana Kumari - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond,

This article reflects different programmes and resource components that may be promoted to keep children with either their own family or within alternative family care, satisfying the rights of their overall development.

Floor Middel, Mónica López López, John Fluke, Hans Grietens - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The authors of this study investigated whether migration background and the gender of the parent who maltreated the child seem associated with the decision whether a case was opened for continuing services.

REPSSI,

This presentation from REPSSI describes how to provide psychosocial care to children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul McCafferty - Child Care in Practice,

This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with the objective of exploring the knowledge that social workers use to make decisions regarding permanency arrangements for Looked after Children.

Amon Exavery, John Charles, Erica Kuhlik, Asheri Barankena, Alison Koler, Levina Kikoyo & Elizabeth Jere - BMC Health Services Research,

This study assesses whether sex of the caregiver is associated with HIV status of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) as a valuable strategy for enhanced pediatric case findings.

Élodie Marion & Varda Mann-Feder - Children and Youth Services Review,

The research objective is to understand the development of collaboration in relation to the multiple issues that influence the educational attainment of youth in out-of-home care.