In alignment with this year’s IDEP theme, the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty is organizing an online event which will focus on addressing shame and stigma within social protection programming, with a special emphasis on children and families.

This webinar will present the latest figures on child poverty in high-income countries as well as effective policies that have helped to reduce it, showcasing a few example countries.

This webinar aims to explore the profiles of children who have been pushed into poverty due to a crisis, specifically examining the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the climate crisis. To achieve this, research from different country contexts will be showcased, including Bangladesh, Georgia, and Uganda.

This webinar aims to explore the linkages between climate change and child poverty and discuss policy options to protect children living in poverty and their families against climate risks.

The aim of this event organized by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty on IDEP 2023 is i) to launch a Call-To-Action that calls on Governments, businesses and the international community to expand social protection and care systems and promote decent work for adults to address child poverty and ii) to show advances but also remaining gaps in related social protection and care policies across the world. 

We are only 7 years away from the end of the 2030 Agenda. The global landscape has changed drastically since the launch of the SDGs - we have witnessed unprecedented crises, the climate emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic, increased conflicts, heightened food prices, and inflation, affecting primarily the most vulnerable, including children. It is therefore more than time to take stock of the child poverty related SDG indicators of ending extreme child poverty and halving multidimensional child poverty.

The objective of the webinar is to present the latest global child poverty trends, covering both monetary child poverty and multidimensional child poverty.

This webinar is hosted by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty will showcase various qualitative methods to measure child poverty and explore how they can complement quantitative measures for impactful policy advocacy. 

The Global Coalition to End Child Poverty is launching a policy agenda to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals to end extreme child poverty and reduce multidimensional child poverty by half.

The Government of PDR and UNICEF are organizing an event to highlight the unprecedented increase in child poverty and inequality in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, and outline the critical need to accelerate and reinforce global and national commitments for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending extreme poverty and halving multidimensional child poverty.