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Other surveys
Other child-focused research projects
Other poverty-focused research projects/links
Other surveys
- Birth to Twenty (BT20) (South Africa)
[Following the health and well-being of 3273 children born in the metropolitan area of Johannesburg-Soweto between March and June 1990.Colloquially nicknamed Mandela’s Children, this is the largest and longest running study of child and adolescent health and development in Africa.]
[Ongoing study of a cohort of Filipino women who gave birth 1983-84, with 5 waves up to 2005. Focus on how prenatal and early childhood nutrition patterns interact with various social, economic, and environmental factors to affect health, nutritional, demographic, and economic outcomes (including later outcomes such as education, work and chronic disease risk factors).]
[A unique panel data set with data collection started in 1989 with a household survey in 6 farming villages in Central and Southern Ethiopia, with a focus on the crisis and recovery in the 1980s. In 1994 the survey was expanded to cover 15 villages across the country. Latest round 2004.]
[A longitudinal, multi-level study in China of rural children's welfare outcomes, including education, health, and psycho-social development. A China Human Capital Project at the University of Pennsylvania.]
- Hungarian Household Panel Survey (collected by Tárki)
[Survey waves between 1991-1997. Includes a consideration of the effects of poverty on children.]
[A study into the long-run wealth dynamics of households and
individuals within North West Tanzania. A 2004 resurvey of the households,
communities and service providers in the KHDS study undertaken in 1991-1994. Includes
of relational data on the extended family, and tracking original respondents
across Tanzania
and internationally.]
[South Africa. 2 waves 1993-98. Examining to what extent intrahousehold allocation processes affect the outcome of development policies, with particular emphasis on gender as a determinant of intrahousehold allocation.]
- Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), Centre for Longitudinal Studies
[Researches a cohort of children across the UK born in 2000-1 studying the first year of life and potentially resolving issues about its long-term impact. These include issues of central policy interest such as the foundations of social capital and cohesion. Major questions about the prospects for children born in 2000-1 concern poverty and wealth, the quality of family life and its support by public policy and the broader community.]
- Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) (UNICEF – Monitoring and Statistics)
[UNICEF has been instrumental in supporting countries to collect relevant data through household surveys. UNICEF methodology to provide indicators to track progress toward the World Summit for Children goals.]
Other child-focused research projects
[Aims to put African children on the public agenda and, to that end, exert pressure where the political will is absent and provide support where it exists.]
[A nonprofit, nongovernmental network of institutions engaged in research for children. The Network seeks to strengthen child-centred research to contribute towards real improvement in children's well-being. Founded in 1993 as a response from the research community to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which serves as a common agenda for research aimed at improving children's living conditions, well-being and participation. Members are committed to child research with an interdisciplinary approach within a framework of international cooperation.]
[Aims to develop and encourage the application of knowledge to improve access to basic education and to increase access to knowledge and capabilities that can reduce poverty and enhance progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Developing a programme of research focused on countries in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to analyse policy and practice designed to reduce exclusion. Co-ordinated from the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex.]
[Undertakes high quality and context-sensitive research, teaching and policy advice on education in developing countries.]
[Collaborative research programme that aims to design and pilot initiatives to improve the quality of basic education. Cross-cutting issues include: raising gender awareness, meeting the needs of disadvantaged learners, and remote and overcrowded schools. Co-ordinated from the University of Bristol.]
[Long-term integrated research on children and childhood. Based at the Faculty for Social
Science and Technology Management, Norwegian university of Science and
Technology (NTNU), Trondheim]
[Research partnership of 7 institutes, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and led by the University of Cambridge, with research activities in Ghana, Kenya, India, and Pakistan. Examining the impact of education on the lives and livelihoods of people in developing countries, particularly those living in poorer areas and from poorer households. Aims to generate new knowledge that will improve education and poverty reduction strategies in developing countries, through an enhanced recognition of education's actual and potential role.]
Other poverty-focused research projects/links
- Centre for Social Protection, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) –
[Aims to provide a global focus for research, policy analysis, and capacity building on social protection.]
[An international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs which exists to: focus attention on chronic poverty, stimulate national and international debate, deepen understanding of the causes of chronic poverty, and provide research, analysis and policy guidance that will contribute to its reduction. Established in 2000 with initial funding from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID).]
[Seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. Key activities include identifying and analyzing alternative policies in support of improved food security and nutrition; contributing to capacity strengthening of people and institutions in developing countries that conduct research on food, agriculture, and nutrition policies; and actively engaging in policy communications.]
[Established in recognition of the complex relationship between migration and poverty, the Migration DRC examines migration flows in which poor people themselves are most represented and how migration impacts variously on their livelihoods, rights and levels of social protection. Aims to promote new policy approaches that will help to maximize the potential benefits of migration for poor people, whilst minimizing its risks and costs.]
[Aims to bring together and provides scientific and financial support to teams of developing country researchers working to reduce poverty.]
[Provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners.]
- Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bristol
[Dedicated to multidisciplinary research on poverty in both the industrialised and developing world.]
- Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WED), ESRC Research Group, based at the University of Bath.
[Aims to develop a conceptual and methodological approach for understanding the social and cultural construction of wellbeing in developing countries. An international, interdisciplinary team draws together perspectives from across the social sciences in a major programme of comparative research, on four countries: Ethiopia, Thailand, Peru and Bangladesh.]