Child Poverty Report in Cambodia
The document presents key results of the Child Poverty in Cambodia study, which examines monetary and multidimensional poverty among children aged 0 to 17
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Highlights
With its adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Cambodia has demonstrated its commitment to realizing the rights of children. Effectively tackling child poverty is essential to fulfilling these rights, as poverty can harm children in a myriad of ways, impacting their access to school, clean water and sanitation, and proper nutrition, to name but a few deprivations.
In line with the global development agenda and its recognition of child poverty as a unique condition with its own set of considerations, the Cambodian Government recognizes that child poverty analysis is an important tool for evaluating the impact of its poverty agenda. Using a child lens to assess the challenges of poverty reduction offers key insight into the nature of poverty in Cambodia – who the poor are, why their poverty persists, and how poverty is intergenerationally transmitted. Understanding the current context of child poverty and establishing baselines to assess progress is indispensable to achieving the 2030 SDG targets.
