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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Michael Fitzgerald - Chronicle of Social Change,

New York City government officials have released a plan to increase kinship care placements in the city, according to this article from the Chronicle of Social Change. 

Heba Kanso - Reuters,

Ahead of a second summit of global leaders and Nobel laureates on children’s rights in Jordan, Indian Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi stated that children are more vulnerable now than ever to trafficking "due to conflicts and natural disasters with millions without homes or families," according to this article from Reuters.

UNICEF,

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Officer (Violence Against Children) in Senegal. 

SonjaLenz-Rashid - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study is an outcome evaluation of Bay Area Youth Center's Real Alternatives for Adolescents (RAFA) transitional housing program in Hayward, California.

Sylvia Rowley - NITV,

This article from NITV examines Australia's history of forcibly removing indigenous children from their families, and criminalizing them for it.

UNICEF,

The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Zambia Police to develop ten child protection training modules specified in the course outline.

Jane E. Sanders & Barbara Fallon - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study used data from a large representative sample of child welfare investigations to answer the following research questions: 1) Do children with maltreatment histories and academic difficulties differ from those with maltreatment histories but no academic difficulties; and 2) Does the presence of academic difficulties influence ongoing child welfare services.

Annette Semanchin Jones, Jae Ran Kim, Katharine Hill, Josal Diebold - Children and Youth Services Review,

This exploratory study aimed to further the understanding of voluntary foster care placements, a topic on which there has been very little research and attention.

Robert Lindahl & Anders Bruhn - Children and Youth Services Review,

The aim of this article is to study child welfare workers' individual and collective experiences of and expectations about their occupational role and responsibilities in their administrative and relational work with children and youth in foster care.

Miriam Elizabeth Bowman - Children and Youth Services Review,

The current paper explores the accessible and equitable services to deaf children in the child welfare system, in terms of the Social Work Grand Challenge: Healthy growth and development of all youth.