Stakeholders from Jigawa, Kano and Katsina States have come together to develop a road map on the institutionalisation of child poverty
by Bashir Rabe Mani
Stakeholders from Jigawa, Kano and Katsina States have come together to develop a road map on the institutionalisation of child poverty measurement in their respective states.
The Joint Child Poverty Technical Working Group quarterly meeting is part of efforts to enhance the capacity of data custodians’ on child poverty measurement for their different states.
The stakeholders are brainstorming in Kaduna at a two-day workshop which commenced on Tuesday and supported by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF).
A Social Policy Specialist with UNICEF, Kano Field Office, Hajiya Fatimah Musa, said the workshop was aimed at finding sustainable solutions for child poverty measurement across the states.
She said that UNICEF has mobilised the critical stakeholders to strengthen their capacity on state routine child sensitive data generation systems.
According to her, the objectives include to agree on number of indicators to monitor, report, and analyse for child poverty, with an agreed periodic reporting timelines,
Musa said, “And to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the three states bureau for statistics in generating and producing routine child poverty data.”
NAN reports that UNICEF’s social policy specialist also presented a paper tagged ‘Child Poverty and Vulnerability’.
Also, Ibrahim Ibrahim, a UNICEF’s Planning and Monitoring Specialist, virtually made a presentation on the importance of quality routine data management process.
At the workshop, all the states committed to developing a child poverty profile that would be disseminated to policy makers for decision making. (NAN)
