This Project Briefing synthesises findings from a study mapping social protection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region,1 with a particular focus on policies and programmes that impact children and how these might be strengthened. The study was conducted by the Overseas Development...

This paper was commissioned by the UN Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF’s) regional office in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). UNICEF’s rationale for engagement in social protection is grounded in its commitment to human rights, and recognition of the contribution social protection can...

Young Lives is an international longitudinal study on childhood poverty and policy in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam. This paper draws on examples from Young Lives quantitative and qualitative research and analyses to illustrate how household decisions and the policy context...

A series of economic and transformational crises in Latin America during the 1990s and the early 2000s pushed many households into poverty. In this paper we look at the two most significant of those crises that took place in Mexico and Argentina and explore the policy measures that were put in...