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Empirical Analysis using Household and Micro-level Datasets

Formal empirical analysis of the social impact of crises, policy adjustments and other economic events is typically underpinned by an ex- post analysis using nationally representative household survey data.
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Social Budget Tracking and Analysis

Social budget tracking and analysis tools monitor the extent of priority and protection given to public budget items and can influence government policies in favour of allocations to children and families.
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A Child Rights Lens for Poverty and Social Impact Analyses (PSIAs)

Poverty and Social Impact Analyses, PSIAs, are aimed at facilitating an ex-ante understanding of the potential distributional impacts of a given policy reform. Child rights centered PSIAs, add a child focus to these impact assessments, as tools specifically designed to promote more child sensitive real-time policy making.

Social Budget Tracking and Analysis


Public expenditure allocations to health, education, social protection, help countries ensure that children can grow up healthy and happy, and develop to their full potential. Social budget tracking and analysis - in periods of economic crisis, as well as in periods of growth – are important initiatives to monitor the extent of priority and protection given to public budget items that are important for child well-being. At the same time, these tools can help ensure more efficient use of scarce resources, to advance budget and policy transparency, as well as public engagement and participation in decision-making.

The use of these tools can influence government policies—notably direct resource allocations to children and families.

This section features key initiatives of social budget tracking and analysis: