Expand inclusive social protection.
Both universal and targeted family and child benefits have demonstrably helped reduce child poverty rates, improved nutrition and health, and increased school attendance and completion . Targeted cash transfer programmes have proven effective in countries including Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, while Poland’s universal child benefit has helped drive a substantial reduction in child poverty rates . Still, approximately 1.6 billion children globally lack any form of social protection coverage. Learn more on the Ways to Expand inclusive social protection .