The Livelihoods and Economic Strengthening Task Force has developed a number of guidance documents for humanitarian and development workers aiming to improve children’s outcomes through economic strengthening activities as well as policy-focused briefs on the importance of measuring child-level impacts to achieve lasting economic change.
Key Resources
Cash and Child Protection: How Cash Transfer Programming Can Protect Children from Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation, and Violence
This discussion paper examines the links between cash transfers and the positive and negative outcomes for children, and in particular, the role cash transfers have played in protecting children from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence.
Child Safeguarding in Cash Transfer Programming: a Practical Tool
This tool enables programmers to make their cash transfer programming more accountable to children, by providing guidance on how to prevent and respond to child protection incidents more effectively.
What Do We Know About Economic Strengthening for Family Reintegration of Separated Children?
This report reviews economic strengthening (ES) approaches across various categories of separated children, across humanitarian and development contexts and across agencies.
Preventing Gender-based Violence, Building Livelihoods: Guidance and Tools for Improved Programming
This report provide guidance and tools for strengthening livelihood programing, as a tool to prevent gender-based violence and promote women's well-being.