Overseas Development Institute

Why do children figure so little in poverty planning? Why is there such a fragmented approach to addressing their needs and rights? How does the poor alignment of child poverty and child rights discourses contribute to this lack of coordination in poverty planning, and what are the implications for addressing these con-cerns in terms of influencing the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) agenda? These questions belie some important advances in the articulation of child rights within poverty processes, but represent the reality for many countries and for child rights advocates. ODI has been working with UNICEF to respond to these questions and advance the thinking beyond binary appreciations of the child rights and child-poverty alleviation agenda. This thinking is presented here, along with discussions on how the combination of inadequate participatory engagements, insufficien