By Abbas Bamalli
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 effort to also 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 commenced on Tuesday, and supported by the United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF).
A social policy specialist with UNICEF Kano Field Office, Hajiya Fatimah Musa said the workshop is aimed at finding sustainable solutions for child poverty measurement across the states.
She said, UNICEF has mobilised these critical stakeholders to strengthen their capacity on state routine child sensitive data generation system.
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,
“And to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the three states'
bureau for statistics in generating and producing routine child poverty data,” she said.
NAN further reports that the 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 states committed to developing a child poverty profile that will be disseminated to policy makers for decision making. (NAN)
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