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Title:

What works for Africa's poorest children : from measurement to action / edited by David Lawson, Diego Angemi, and Ibrahim Kasirye.

Publisher:

Practical Action Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Poor children--Africa.
Poor children--Services for--Africa.
Poor children.
Poor children--Services for.
Africa.

Other Authors:

Lawson, David, 1971- editor.
Angemi, Diego, editor.
Kasirye, Ibrahim, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

16. The life of Ba'Aka children and their rights: Between the processes of poverty and deprivation / Urszula Markowska-Manista. 2. Multidimensional child poverty and the SDGs: From measurement to action / Viliami Fifita -- 3. Women's empowerment and impact on child nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa / David Lawson -- 4. Factors driving educational enrolment and attendance: Impact of the 2012 conflict in the north of Mali / Andre-Marie Taptue -- 5. Delving deeper into child poverty and its drivers in sub-Saharan Africa: A multidimensional approach for Nigeria / Fadare Olusegun -- 6. Achieving child-centred SDGs in Ethiopia: The potential of inter-sectoral synergies / Vincenzo Vinci -- 7. Weather shocks and children's growth deprivation: Understanding and mitigating the impact / David Lawson -- 8. Child-sensitive non-contributory social protection in North Africa / Anna Carolina Machado -- 9. Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) and adolescent well-being: Evidence from Gender and Adolescence Global Evidence (GAGE) / Nicola Jones -- 10. Social protection for livelihood sustainability in Ghana: Does LEAP cash transfer eradicate extreme poverty? / Joyce Osei Adjei -- 11. Child-sensitive protection programmes on hunger and malnutrition in under-five children in Nigeria / Kerni Funlayo Akeju -- 12. Can cash transfers transform child well-being in fragile contexts? Evidence from Liberia's Bomi cash transfer pilot / Pius T. Tanga -- 13. Rethinking public finance for children: Monitoring for results in Uganda / Amna Silim -- 14. Children, disabilities, and poverty: Enforcing the human right to inclusive education in sub-Saharan Africa / Adam Dubin -- 15. Ensuring children's social protection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A case study of combating child labour in the copper-cobalt belt / Mark Canavera -- 16. The life of Ba'Aka children and their rights: Between the processes of poverty and deprivation / Urszula Markowska-Manista.

ISBN:

1788530462
9781788530460
9781788530453
1788530454

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1131869125

LCCN:

2020418001

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)