Innocenti Working Papers Prevalence and Correlates of Food Insecurity among Children across the Globe AUTHOR(S) Audrey Pereira; Sudhanshu Handa; Goran Holmqvist Published: 2017 Innocenti Working Papers Target 2.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for an end to hunger, in all its forms, by 2030. Measuring food security among children under age 5, who represent a quarter of the world’s population, remains a challenge that is largely unfeasible for current global monitoring systems. The SDG framework has agreed to use the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) to measure moderate and severe food insecurity. The FIES is an experience-based metric that reports food-related behaviours on the inability to access food due to resource constraints. We present the first global estimates of the share and number of children below age 15, who live with a respondent who is food insecure. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 37 | Thematic area: Child well-being | Tags: child poverty, child well-being, developed countries, food expenditures × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Audrey Pereira; Sudhanshu Handa; Goran Holmqvist 2017 Prevalence and Correlates of Food Insecurity among Children across the Globe. , pp. 37.
Innocenti Working Papers Child-centred Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in High-income Countries: Conceptual issues and monitoring approaches AUTHOR(S) Zlata Bruckauf; Sarah Cook Published: 2017 Innocenti Working Papers The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was agreed upon globally through a long political process. By ratifying its Declaration, high-income countries became accountable participants in the development process while retaining their obligations as donors. Although few of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are explicitly child-focused, children are mentioned in many of the 167 targets. Drawing on a well recognized socio-ecological model (SEM) of child development and a life course perspective, this paper proposes an analytical framework to help navigate through the SDG targets based on their relevance to child well-being. The application of this framework in thinking through policy options illustrates the interdependence of SDGs and their targets within a sector (vertically) and across the 17 Goals (horizontally). A five-step process for choosing measurable SDG indicators links the proposed analytical framework with the challenges of SDG monitoring. The paper contributes to debates on the implications of the SDGs for children by facilitating their adaptation to the national context through a ‘child lens’. The proposed analytical approach helps to articulate a context-specific theory of change with a focus on human development outcomes, so that public investments inspired by the SDGs bring tangible results for children. + - Cite this publication | Thematic area: Child well-being | Tags: child well-being, developed countries, SDGs, sustainable development × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Zlata Bruckauf; Sarah Cook 2017 Child-centred Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in High-income Countries: Conceptual issues and monitoring approaches.
Innocenti Working Papers Comparing Child-focused SDGs in High-income Countries: Indicator development and overview AUTHOR(S) Dominic Richardson; Zlata Bruckauf; Emilia Toczydlowska; Yekaterina Chzhen Published: 2017 Innocenti Working Papers The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aim to build on the achievements made under the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by broadening their scope and building upon a consultative process. The MDGs contributed to substantial social progress in eight key areas: poverty; education; gender equality; child mortality; maternal health; disease; the environment; and global partnership. The SDGs not only include a greater number of development goals than the MDGs, but are also global in focus, including advanced economies for the first time. This paper draws attention to the main challenges the 2030 Agenda presents for rich countries, by highlighting a set of critical child specific indicators, evaluating countries’ progress towards meeting the Goals, and highlighting gaps in existing data. The paper will inform UNICEFs Report Card 14, Building the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries. + - Cite this publication | Thematic area: Child well-being | Tags: developed countries, education, gender equality, health, household consumption, hunger, indicators, nutrition, poverty, SDGs, sustainable cities × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Dominic Richardson; Zlata Bruckauf; Emilia Toczydlowska; Yekaterina Chzhen 2017 Comparing Child-focused SDGs in High-income Countries: Indicator development and overview.
Innocenti Research Briefs Growing Inequality and Unequal Opportunities in Rich Countries AUTHOR(S) Emilia Toczydlowska; Zlata Bruckauf Published: 2017 Innocenti Research Briefs Forthcoming + - Cite this publication | Thematic area: Child well-being | Tags: developed countries, inequality, social inequality × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Emilia Toczydlowska; Zlata Bruckauf 2017 Growing Inequality and Unequal Opportunities in Rich Countries.