Social Protection Policies and Programmes

Poverty affects both the quality and length of children’s lives, reduces the ability of families to adequately provide for their children, and is a significant cause of family breakdown and child separation. Social assistance programmes aim to reduce child poverty and act as a safety net for families with minimal resources.

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John Pinkerton - Children and Youth Services Review Volume 33, Issue 12, Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood,

Understanding youth transitions from out of home care must include developing countries. A model is presented to facilitate this global integration. The model combines resilience and social capital within a social ecology of support. Use of the model is illustrated by a South African youth mentoring scheme for care leavers.

Mark E. Courtneya, JoAnn Leeb, Alfred Pereza - Children and Youth Services Review,

Foster youth in the US do not appear to be receiving many forms of help that are called for in federal law. Over one-third did not receive help they would have liked to have received. System factors play a stronger role than individual indicators of need in help receipt. Independent living services should be more widely available and better targeted.

CPC Livelihoods and Economic Strengthening Task Force,

This document analyses the review of 43 impact studies sought to methodically capture the known impacts of economic strengthening programs on the well-being of children (0-18 years) in crisis contexts in low-income countries.

Jonathan Bradshaw - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper uses comparisons of child benefit packages in the European Union and Central and Eastern European and Confederation of Independent States (CEE/CIS) countries derived using model family methods.

Gáspár Fajth, Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir, Sharmila Kurukulasuriya - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper attempts to look at the responsiveness of global social policy to addressing multidimensional child poverty, through the experience of UNICEF's Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities.

Shirley Gatenio Gabel - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper looks at how social protection is evolving in developing countries and how it relates to the vulnerabilities of children. It goes on to present the different conceptual models for protection and how they have changed and been influenced by the changing definition of poverty and the growth in transnational knowledge and policymaking.

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Republic of Liberia,

To achieve Liberia’s vision of becoming a middleincome country, the goal of this policy is therefore to improve the health and social welfare status of the population of Liberia on an equitable basis.

Sarah Bailey, Paola Pereznieto and Nicola Jones with Bavon Mupenda, Grazia Pacillo and Mathieu Tromme - Overseas Development Institute,

This study analyzed the current social protection environment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and examined the “vulnerabilities and risks facing children living in poverty in Kinshasa, Bas Congo and Katanga provinces.” 

Government of Republic of Moldova,

Republic of Moldova, Parliament, Law No. 123 on Social Services entered into force 3 March 2011.

Child Frontiers, Ltd.; Ministère de la Famille, des Groupements Féminins et de la Protection de l’Enfance; Ministère de la Justice & Cellule d’Appui à la Protection de l’Enfance,

Cette cartographie et analyse du système de protection de l’enfance au Sénégal fait partie d’une initiative régionale de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale soutenue de manière technique et matérielle par un groupe régional de référence composé de Plan International, Save the Children Suède, Save the Children Finlande et l’UNICEF.