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This report includes a literature, evidentiary, and policy review of social protection in the Eastern and Southern African Region. According to this report, an estimated 1.2 million HIV-positive children and adolescents live in the Eastern and Southern African region. Most of these children face struggles in maintaining antiretroviral therapy adherence and receiving HIV-related services. In the literature review, there is a recognition of the tremendous amount of resilience found in HIV-infected children and adolescents as they negotiate and navigate support. This report stresses the need for…
This document discusses the comprehensive approach used by Save the Children to promote synergy between personal autonomy and economic development. Through this approach, Save the Children hopes to protect children and adolescents from violence, ensure access to education, employment, and enable them to choose to delay parenthood.
This program operates through three thematic areas: personal empowerment, sexual and reproductive health, and economic rights. This document provides an overview of Save the Children’s comprehensive approach by country. The countries included in this report…
The recently released UNICEF Social Protection Strategic Framework and the World Bank Social Protection and Labor strategy call for taking a systems approach to social protection as a way to help countries, communities, families and children enhance resilience, equity and opportunity. This brief outlines the common ground between the World Bank and UNICEF in their commitment in developing and strengthening social protection systems, and calls on other stakeholders to engage collaboratively to build such systems and expand…
Children’s experiences of poverty and vulnerability are multidimensional and differ from those of adults. Children undergo complex physical, psychological and intellectual development as they grow, and are also often more vulnerable to mal-nutrition, disease, abuse and exploitation than adults. Their dependency on adults to support and protect them means that loss of family care is a significant risk, particularly in the context of conflict, humanitarian crises, and HIV and AIDS. Intra-household discrimination can also result in child poverty and hunger, lack of access to ser-vices, and abuse…
In countries where the AIDS epidemic has struck hardest, traditional family and community coping mechanisms for children are under considerable strain. Women and older people often bear the bulk of the caring. This is particularly evident in sub-Saharan Africa, where children who have lost one or both parents often live in households headed by older carers who have low levels of education and are thus unlikely to have a regular source of income.
For children affected by HIV and AIDS, the risks of poverty and loss of livelihood are compounded by the risk of losing family care - their first…