Assessing the Responsiveness Of Social Safety Nets Towards Reducing Vulnerability Among Child-Headed Households
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Dear Friends & Colleagues Children’s rights assert that all children must be protected from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation but this is not always the reality for many children globally. As poverty, armed conflict and HIV rates continue to soar, the number of orphans and displaced children is equally increasing. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) estimates that there are about 52 million orphans in Africa; a figure accounting for children who have lost either one or both parents to any cause of death and is under the age of 18. In many African countries, poverty, AIDS and armed...