November 2020: Child-sensitive Social Protection

World Children’s Day is celebrated on 20 November. In observance of this special date, this month’s newsletter features up-to-date resources on social protection’s key role in ensuring children’s rights. Children are disproportionately likely to live in extreme poverty and far too many suffer from some kind of deprivation—hunger, malnutrition, lack of income, etc.—all of which can have a major impact on their future. Although there has been some progress towards lifting children out of vulnerable situations over the past few years, it is still not nearly enough. In addition, although there is a consensus that expanding and strengthening social protection systems is important for the protection of children, there are still questions regarding how this can be accomplished and which aspects should be prioritised. We hope the following resources can help policymakers and social protection practitioners make inroads into this debate.