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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 […]

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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, […]

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Urban inequalities

Experts Forum: Applying the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Local Environments — Spain

On October 5th and 6th, UNICEF and Ciudades Amigas de la Infancia (Child-Friendly Cities Program) are convening a forum of academic experts to explore the Application of the Convention on the Rights of a Child (CRC) at the local level. The event will bring together academic professionals from all parts of the world to to discuss […]

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Urban inequalities

Playing in the Favelas: Children’s Appropriation of Public Spaces in their Community

Introduction Playing in the city implies not only meeting the demands of leisure, health, and child development, but also using common space in an ephemeral and innovative way, favoring the interaction between neighbors and emotionally linking citizens to a specific place through the action that happens in it.[1] In 1989, it was established in […]

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Monitoring Public Financing for Children in Equatorial Guinea

“The good thing about this work is that there is direct interest by the government to make sure that the project comes to fruition and informs their budget policies.” -Ismael Cid Martinez In the podcast below, New School Ph.D. student Ismael Cid Martinez discusses Equity for Children’s collaboration with the Social Policy unit of the […]

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Urban inequalities

Helping Children Through Natural Disasters

The natural disasters that have affected the Southern United States, the Caribbean and Mexico this September have brought an incredible amount of distress to US and Latin American local populations. In times like these it is important that we come together as a global community and do our part in the emergency relief efforts in these areas. Equity […]

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Urban inequalities

Addressing Child Protection through Child-friendly Accountability

On September 19, at Scandinavia House in New York City, Equity for Children joined ChildFund Alliance, a co-member of the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, as they provided an update on their Child-friendly Accountability initiative one year on. Child-friendly accountability focuses on giving children a voice to identify problems and solutions in their societies. Exactly […]

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Urban inequalities

Measuring and Addressing Child Poverty | May 2017

Dear Friend, Last week, I gave the keynote address to more than 200 government representatives, policy makers and child poverty experts at UNICEF’s “Conference on Child Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa: From Measurement to Policy Action,” in Rabat, Morocco. Discussions focused on poverty’s impact on children throughout the region – particularly the most marginalized – emphasizing […]

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Urban inequalities

Evaluating Child Inequality in Cities | August 2017

Dear Friend, Policies and programs that ensure all urban children have access to services allowing them to live rich and fulfilling lives are key to building sustainable societies as cities increasingly expand. Equity for Children recently published original research about the links between equity, child poverty and cities. It’s the beginning of our next Approaches to Equity study and will […]

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Child Poverty

Measuring Multidimensional Childhood Poverty in Latin America — Buenos Aires, Argentina

This seminar, organized by Equity for Children (The New School), UNICEF and the Center for Research in Urban Social Policy (Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, UNTREF), was attended by international and national experts speaking about key recent proposals to measure multidimensional poverty. Methodological specificities, practical experiences, implementation challenges in Latin American countries, and their implications for […]

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Urban inequalities

Analyzing Child Inequality in Córdoba, Argentina

The city of Córdoba in Argentina recently carried out its first geo-referenced study to examine the inequality gaps facing children in different residential areas. The report, entitled “Indicators for Assessing Children’s Well-Being in the City of Córdoba,” was produced by Red Ciudadana Nuestra Córdoba and the Arcor Foundation, with technical support from Equity for Children. The study […]

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Voice & participation

Interview with Zoe Chen, UN Annual Youth Assembly Participant

We met Zoe Chen at the UN Annual Youth Assembly in which she was participating last February. Zoe’s family is originally from China. In our interview, she describes ways in which she works with family members who are still there to help end childhood poverty and improve child well-being. Click here to find out more about the UN Annual […]

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