It really matters, for all sorts of things from fair taxation to the prevention of corruption, that people are unable to hide their ownership of major assets or income streams. Could the post-2015 development framework provide an opportunity to read more
I probably shouldn’t do this, but it’s too good not to share. Jess Espey of our research team commissioned a study from the Young Lives project – a longitudinal study of children growing up in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru read more
A guest post by Save the Children UK’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Brendan Cox, from the UN General Assembly in New York… – For many, the coming of the year 2000 was marked by overblown hype around read more
Let’s say we all agree that government accountability is important, and that data are important to ensure accountability. Do we then agree that acting accountably requires generating and publishing data? And if we do, why does data remain such read more
Among the governments of those countries with the most severe problems of child nutrition, there is an enormous diversity of approach and commitment. Today, the results are out of the Nutrition Barometer which aims to measure this (and will be read more
If the post-2015 framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals achieves anything, it must surely mandate effective investment in national-level statistical systems so that – at a bare minimum – no child’s death, wherever it may occur, will go read more
From UNICEF’s child mortality report – file under “not rocket science, just do it” – hashtag #NRSJDI, by the way. (Discussion of the new stats is here – in the glass half full and glass half empty versions.)
UNICEF have just released the new infant and child mortality estimates for 2011. The good news is a steep rise in progress last year, with total deaths of children under five falling from 7.6 million in 2010 to 6.9 million read more
Progress on global health is a contentious subject. While some celebrate progress in key health indicators, others warn that gross global inequalities are still responsible for 20 million deaths every year. A group of experts and civil society that read more
This week, Save the Children launched what the Guardian referred to as ‘its first domestic fundraising campaign‘, seeking £500,000 to help fight child poverty in the UK. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the response has been mixed – but I’d like to read more