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 Centre for Liberation Studies & Chunling Lu from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Department of Population Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School,

The Centre for Liberation Studies and partners are undertaking a study which aims to estimate the number of children living in institutional care globally. If you have any published or unpublished reports on studies that you have conducted to estimate how many children live in out-of-family care arrangements, please send them to institutionalcarereview@gmail.com.

Lumos,

Lumos is seeking a Researcher who will be responsible for leading and carrying out a US research agenda.

Rachel Burr & Franziska Fay - Global Childhoods beyond the North-South Divide,

This chapter examines Global North and South similarities in children and young people’s reactions to school-led child protection programmes.

Terre des hommes,

The present research looks at the main migration patterns and trends of internal and outward migration from Ukraine trying to assess the push and pull factors for regular and irregular migration which affect children.

Robert G. Hasson III, Thomas M. Crea, Ruth G. McRoy, Ân H. Lê - Child & Family Social Work,

This paper begins with a historic review of immigration policies in the United States aimed at supporting unaccompanied migrant children.

Anthony Fulginiti, Amy S. He, Sonya Negriff - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study tested the hypotheses that inverse relationships would exist between connectedness in three social domains (i.e., caregiver, peers, and school) and suicidal ideation over time.

The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP),

The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is proud to announce the launch of the Youth Thrive™ Survey on October 30, 2018. This instrument is a valid web-based survey that measures the presence, strength, and growth of the Youth Thrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors as proxy indicators of well-being.

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Save the Children Australia,

ReThink Orphanages Australia has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2018 World Responsible Travel Awards, says this article from Save the Children Australia.

David Foster - Roundtable,

This segment from Roundtable explores the issue of voluntourism and its potential to yield harmful impacts. The participants, including Georgette Mulheir the CEO of Lumos, discuss orphanage voluntourism among other forms of voluntourism.