Calu, Author at Equity for Children

Urban inequalities

Children and Youth in Urban Cities: When Home is the Street

Editorial from Equity for Children Director, Alberto Minujin Given our increasingly urbanized world, Equity for Children has been sharpening its focus on the issue of inequity in urban areas and the implications for children and youth. Today in the ‘Global South’ or ‘Developing World’, “Urban areas have around 2.7 billion inhabitants. This means that these […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

Going Beyond Insurance Coverage: Actionable Ways to Protect Your Family’s Health

A seven-part resource guide to help our youth lead healthier and happier lives Hannah Cotts has published on InsuranceQuotes.org a seven-part resource guide on family health, which includes tips on nutrition, exercise, general health insurance, and even personal hygiene instruction. It is an interesting and informative resource considering the general state of health in the […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Child Poverty

Equidad para la Infancia América Latina: ‘Poverty and Inequality’

Although some data in recent years shows reducing rates of poverty, there are two major unresolved issues surrounding inequality and equity in the Latin America region. Firstly, it is necessary to focus on achieving greater equity for all, taking into account societal inclusions faced by new generations. With current development models, certain populations are experiencing […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

The Role of Safeguarding in Child Protection Systems – Is your house in order?

Following the recommendations of the 2006 UN Study on Violence Against Children, many child focused organisations are now supporting countries to strengthen their national child protection systems as an effective means of bringing together all actors in a concerted effort to protect children against violence and abuse. In parallel with this, over the last ten […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

Universal Pre-K: An Important Asset for Child Development

The Evolution of Pre-Kindergarten in the United States The Universal Pre Kindergarten debate has emerged at the forefront of education discourse since President Obama’s State of the Union Address on February 12, 2013. Policies for early childhood development such as universal Pre-K are crucial for overall social and economic development, as they are fundamental to […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

Young Lives: Materials on Early Childhood Education

Young Lives is a unique international study of childhood poverty based out of the University of Oxford that follows the changing lives of 12,000 children in four countries – Ethiopia, India (in Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam – over 15 years – a timeframe set by the UN to assess progress towards the Millennium Development […]

Approaches to Equity

Child Poverty

‘Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving’

An interactive website for comparative data on child rights related laws and public policies Children’s Chances (www.childrenschances.org), launched in February 2013 by the World Policy Analysis Centre, is a comprehensive online database based on the Jody Heymann’s most recent publication, “Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving” (2013). The website contains never-before-available […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

Youth Mentoring: What makes it work?

Equity for Children has begun a collaboration with the New York City Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD), researching and assessing the effectiveness of its Cornerstone Mentoring Program. This community-based program, established by Mayor Bloomberg’s office in 2011 to help youth in poverty-stricken areas of New York, operates in 25 community centers throughout the […]

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

The Case for Universal Pre-Kindergarten Education: An Interview with Professor Martin Woodhead, University of Oxford

The exciting flurry of debate about Universal Pre-K since President Obama’s State of the Union address on February 12, 2013 prompted a real-time interview on the important topic from Equity for Children Director Alberto Minujin at The New School, and Martin Woodhead from our partner program, Young Lives at the University of Oxford. Q: President […]

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

Premiere and Panel Discussion of ‘When Home is the Street’

On 30 January 2013, Equity for Children hosted the New York City Premiere of “When Home is the Street” – a documentary short by award-winning Brazilian filmmaker Thereza Jessouroun. The film features adolescents living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Mexico City, Mexico who open up to the camera with their own […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

How Student Outcomes Relate to Quality of Teaching in Private and Public Schools in India

This mixed-methods paper investigates whether the ‘private school premium’, as manifested in student learning outcomes and is the result of better-quality teaching in private schools. Using school-, community- and household-level data from the Young Lives longitudinal study in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, this paper makes a detailed comparison of 227 government and […]

Approaches to Equity

Child Poverty

UNICEF and ECLAC present: Guide to Estimating Child Poverty

Having reliable and regular measurements of child poverty is essential to designing and implementing public policies aimed at overcoming it. The study Child Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC-UNICEF 2010), in which child poverty was measured with a multidimensional approach based on children’s rights in the countries of the region, shows that about 45% of […]

Approaches to Equity

Author: Calu

Children's Rights

Children and Youth in Urban Cities: When Home is the Street

Going Beyond Insurance Coverage: Actionable Ways to Protect Your Family’s Health

Equidad para la Infancia América Latina: ‘Poverty and Inequality’

The Role of Safeguarding in Child Protection Systems – Is your house in order?

Universal Pre-K: An Important Asset for Child Development

Young Lives: Materials on Early Childhood Education

‘Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving’

Youth Mentoring: What makes it work?

The Case for Universal Pre-Kindergarten Education: An Interview with Professor Martin Woodhead, University of Oxford

Premiere and Panel Discussion of ‘When Home is the Street’

How Student Outcomes Relate to Quality of Teaching in Private and Public Schools in India

UNICEF and ECLAC present: Guide to Estimating Child Poverty

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