World Children's Day

We have evidence of what works when conditions allow, and we have promising, scalable adaptations for when they don’t. What we need now is the will – to implement proven strategies , to listen to and learn from children , and to innovate solutions that can withstand today’s converging crises . The rights of every child must be fully realized and upheld. Our collective future depends on it.

At its core, poverty is a lack of financial resources . This alone does not capture the full reality for children. Child poverty must also be understood through the lens of the multiple deprivations children face in their daily lives. This chapter explores child poverty through both monetary and multidimensional definitions, disaggregated by country income group. It highlights the progress made to date, while emphasizing how fragile and uneven that progress remains.