UNICEF’s commitment to ending child poverty and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Measurement, advocacy and evidence-based policies

Children at the playground of the Noma school, in Maradi, in the South of Niger.
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For more than 15 years UNICEF has been at the forefront of measuring, monitoring, and addressing child poverty. This document provides an overview of UNICEF's role and commitment to ending child poverty and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It outlines UNICEF's key areas of expertise in child poverty alongside country examples covering the range of our child poverty work across all regions, including;

  1. Supporting governments to measure, monitor, and report on child poverty,
  2. Supporting the design and prioritization of policies to end child poverty and
  3. Building global, regional, and national partnerships to end child poverty.

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