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Addressing Inclusion Among Children & Adolescents Living in Poverty

About a hundred child advocates, field experts, scholars, and graduate students met at The New School on October 11th for a profound and relevant discussion about inequalities affecting children and adolescents living in poverty. The conversation was situated within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and demonstrated the paramount importance of placing children first […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Voice & participation

10/31 Webinar on How Childhood Indicates Quality of life in Urban Areas

During the second semester of 2018, Equidad para la Infancia, Equity for Children’s, Latin America section, will carry out a series of webinars (in Spanish) on how childhood wellbeing can serve as an indicator of the quality of life in local contexts. Based on the studies performed in various Latin American cities by […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Voice & participation

Working with the families of the poor: Improving Services for Children and their Caretakers

This brief proposes that: Services to children and their families need to take a holistic view of the child’s relationships with family, extended family, neighbors and government agencies Improved communication between child advocates, families and government agencies is necessary. The current sectors serving lower-income communities operate in a disconnected and complex manner, creating conditions […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Voice & participation

Working with the Families of the Poor | July 2018

Dear Friends, On April 12, 2018, more than 100 practitioners from the fields of child advocacy, social policy, and government attended the event, Working with Families of the Poor: Taking Forward the Legacy of Salvador Minuchin, hosted by Equity for Children at The New School. Joining me as guest speakers were Howard Steele, Professor of […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Voice & participation

What Can We Learn from Child-Led Initiatives in the U.S. and the Pacific Islands?

In this article, recently published in Children, Youth and Environments Volume 28, Issue 1, Equity for Children Senior Advisor, Samantha Cocco-Klein and former Associate Director, Beatrice Mauger explore two initiatives, in the U.S. and the Pacific Islands, in which children have held leadership roles on climate change. The authors examine 1) the motivation behind each initiative, and 2) […]

Children's Rights

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Remembering Salvador Minuchin

By Ema Genijovich Getting to know Salvador Minuchin, architect of the Structural Family Therapy model, opened up my mind and transformed my understanding of what we as therapists can aspire to in our work on human relationships. In the early 1980s, Salvador came to Mexico City, where I had been living for a number of […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

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Intergenerational Equity: An Interview with Julia M. Puaschunder

“What is so vital about intergenerational care is that if the older generations who brought us up did not care about us, we would not exist.” On March 29th, Equity for Children in partnership with Oikos NYC will be hosting an event on Climate Change, Children and Intergenerational Equity with the objective of better understanding […]

Approaches to Equity

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Climate Change, Children and Intergenerational Equity

On March 29, 2018, Equity for Children hosted a talk at The New School about intergenerational equity and environmental justice in partnership with the sustainability-focused student organization, Oikos NYC, and with support from the New School’s Environmental Studies Program. The objective was to engage with young people to discuss and share what youths are doing and […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

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Monitoring Public Financing for Children in Equatorial Guinea: An Interview with Equity for Children’s Ismael Cid Martinez

https://soundcloud.com/eq-child/monitoring-public-financing-for-children-in-equatorial-guinea-an-interview-with-equity-for-childrens-ismael-cid-martinez “The good thing about the work we are doing is that there is direct interest by the government to make sure that the project works, comes to fruition, and also informs their budget policies.” -Ismael Cid Martinez Last week we sat down with Ismael Cid Martinez to discuss the collaboration of Equity for Children […]

Approaches to Equity

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Promoting Child Equity through Urban Planning

“Cities should provide safe, healthy and interesting environments because children need all three to develop correctly.” In the second phase of Equity for Children’s Approaches to Equity study focused on urban environments, we conducted a series of interviews with practitioners, experts and urban planners. This interview features Irene Quintáns, Urban Planning Consultant – Urban95 […]

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

Examining Policy Solutions to Child Inequity in Cities

“Even very young children, if properly channeled and given the elements to do it have power to give their opinions” In the second phase of Equity for Children’s Approaches to Equity study focused on urban environments, we conducted a series of interviews with practitioners, experts and urban planners. This interview features Enrique Delamonica, […]

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

Identifying Solutions and Taking Action to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Africa

Our Executive Director, Alberto Minujin, presented a research paper at the conference “Putting Children First: Identifying Solutions and Taking Actions to tackle Poverty and Inequality in Africa” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from October 23 to 25, 2017. This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

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Monitoring and Evaluation

Addressing Inclusion Among Children & Adolescents Living in Poverty

10/31 Webinar on How Childhood Indicates Quality of life in Urban Areas

Working with the families of the poor: Improving Services for Children and their Caretakers

Working with the Families of the Poor | July 2018

What Can We Learn from Child-Led Initiatives in the U.S. and the Pacific Islands?

Remembering Salvador Minuchin

Intergenerational Equity: An Interview with Julia M. Puaschunder

Climate Change, Children and Intergenerational Equity

Monitoring Public Financing for Children in Equatorial Guinea: An Interview with Equity for Children’s Ismael Cid Martinez

Promoting Child Equity through Urban Planning

Examining Policy Solutions to Child Inequity in Cities

Identifying Solutions and Taking Action to Tackle Poverty and Inequality in Africa

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