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  Children in abject poverty in Uganda: a study of criteria and status of those in and out of school in selected districts in Uganda

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005

  This study on children in abject poverty in Uganda was undertaken to identify the problems hidden by the fact that the children in poverty are invisible; yet by the very nature of their situation, they are included among those that are classified as the poor in Uganda.
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  How and why we work: child workers in the informal economy in Phnom Penh and Battambang

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2005

  While it is well-recognised that the "worst forms of child labour" are pervasive throughout Cambodia, the full dimension of urban child labour remains elusive, in part because of the wide range of implicated sectors (both formal and informal), the broad geographic reach and disparities depending on location, the hidden nature of particular forms of labour (domestic labour, illegal drug trafficking
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  Mainstreaming children into national poverty strategies: a child-focused analysis of the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programe (2002-05)

  Young Lives, 2005

  This paper assesses how the needs of children are incorporated into Ethiopia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), known as the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programme 2002-2005 (SDRDP), and to develop policy recommendations for the second PRSP based on a comparative content analysis with other countries’ PRSPs.The paper identifies key components of a child-centre
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  Reviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005

  The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.
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  What happened to child labour in Indonesia during the economic crisis: the trade-off between school and work

  SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2005

  Although lower than other developing countries at a similar stage of development, the problem of child labour in Indonesia is significant. Child labour perpetuates poverty. The link between current child labour and future poverty appears to be a lack of adequate and appropriate education.
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  Ending child poverty and securing child rights: the role of social protection

  Plan, 2005

  This paper examines social protection interventions and how these relate to child rights. It specifically looks at social protection and child rights in relation to cash transfers, in-kind transfers, and microfinance.The author argues that social protection instruments, and in particular, cash transfers, have enormous potential to reduce child poverty.
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  Making cash count: lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effectiveness, accuracy of targeting, delivery modalities, institutionalisation and potential for scaling up.
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  At all costs?: applying the means test for the Child Support Grant

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2005

  This paper estimates the cost of the means test for the Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa to Government and to applicants.The main findings include: the mean cost to the government (DSD and SAPS) of applying the means test is estimated at R165 020 million under the current regulationsthe average cost to CSG applicants, in complying with the requirements of the means test, is
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  In focus: children and poverty

  United Nations Development Programme, 2004

  This issue of In Focus, the regular publication of the International Poverty Centre of UNDP, is devoted to the topic of childhood poverty, which is central to achieving progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and plays an important role in the transmission of disadvantage from one generation to another.Caroline Harper from the University of Manchester discusses why it is essential t
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  Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: children first!: a case study on PRSP processes in Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia

  Kindernothilfe, 2005

  This study aims to contribute to an assessment of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes in Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia from a child rights perspective. It links up with a previous study, titled "Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: blind to the rights of the (working) child?", which showed that the majority of the PRSPs did not deal with child labour.

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