A practical guide to monetary poverty analysis
Informing policies and programmes to address child poverty
About
UNICEF has long advocated and provided technical support for measuring child poverty and developing national responses to reduce it. This includes promoting monetary child poverty analysis which can lead to tangible results in the lives of children living in poverty.
This note provides guidance to expand the child poverty analytical toolbox, with the objective of guiding and influencing policies to address and reduce monetary child poverty. It was developed with the aim of supporting UNICEF and other partners working in the area of child poverty as they advance reduction in monetary child poverty, by:
1. Undertaking and/or supporting impactful monetary child poverty analysis, linking it to policy recommendations and programmes, and;
2. Engaging stakeholders in the area of child poverty reduction, such as national statistical offices, ministries of finance, International Financial Institutions and other key players, to ensure that they disaggregate national monetary poverty measure by children, as well as reflect children’s needs in their analysis.
The guide provides an overview of analytical approaches to capture monetary child poverty and seeks to provide readers with a thorough understanding of how monetary poverty is defined, how analysis of monetary child poverty can enhance our knowledge, and how such an understanding and analysis can inform policy and programme design to address poverty, with a specific focus on child poverty.
