To mark International Day of the Girl Child Simon Wright Head of Child Survival at Save the Children, Nicola Jones, ODI research fellow and Lakshmi Sundaram, Global Coordinator of Girls not Brides discuss girls' access to reproductive rights.
This Background Note synthesises learning on child-sensitive social protection in West and Central Africa, drawing on country case studies in Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Republic of Congo (Congo) and Senegal.
This chapter reviews the effects the mixed effects that national poverty reduction strategies have had on children’s involvement in paid and non-paid work activities, including gender differences between girls and boys.
The objective of this paper is to identify policies, programmes and legal instruments that address school violence in the developing world, and to draw implications for policy, practice and research.