| AUTHOR | Rebecca Holmes and Armando Barrientos |
| ORGANIZATION | |
| TYPE | Thematic Report |
| DATE | 2009 |
| TOPIC | Child-sensitive social protection |
| LANGUAGE | English |
Increasingly, social protection in conceptualised as a set of public actions that address poverty, vulnerability and risk throughout the lifecycle. Such actions may potentially be conducted in tandem with private initiatives - either formal private sector or informal individual or community initiatives. Children's experience of risk, vulnerability and deprivation is shaped by four broad characteristics of childhood poverty and vulnerability: multidimensionality, embracing both monetary and non-monetary aspects of poverty; changes over the course of the lifecycle; the relational nature of childhood derived from the situation of dependence on adults; and the particular voicelessness that characterises children's status in society.
