Child Poverty
Poverty is one of the most widespread and egregious violations of children’s human rights globally.
Sustainable Development Goal 1 aims to end poverty in all its forms everywhere, and to reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women, and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions, by 2030.
Responding to child poverty means listening to children in order to understand their experiences and making the transformative shifts necessary to ensure all children can live free from poverty.
Our research has resulted in a child centred definition of child poverty:
Poverty is the interplay between key material and non-material deprivations, limiting children’s choices now and into the future.
It means children do not have the material basics, their opportunities are narrowed, and foundational relationships are not in place or are under pressure
It has also led to the MOR Framework, which provides the knowledge and tools needed to bring change.
The MOR Jigsaw is a child-centred, place-based toolkit for local action.
Our research is also contributing to the development of a child-centred measure of poverty and child-centred policy assessment.
The MOR Jigsaw is a child-centred, place-based tool-kit for local action
The MOR Framework
More for Children
We believe it is not possible to ensure well-being for all children in Australia while child poverty continues – and it is not possible to end child poverty unless we can understand and measure poverty in a child-centred way.
More for Children is a program of transformative research which will build our understanding of children’s experiences of poverty in Australia, refine the MOR Framework for assessing and measuring poverty, and support policy makers to design child-centred policies to reduce poverty.
At the heart of More for Children is rights-based research with children – and their families and communities – to bring their voices to the fore.
Projects
More for Children
A program of transformative research to contribute to understanding and reducing child poverty, and scaffolding well-being for all children in Australia.
Assessing Childhood Poverty in Indonesia
This research aims to better understanding child poverty in Indonesia from the standpoint of children, using a range of participatory methods.
New Policy Approaches to Addressing Childhood Poverty
A major focus of our research is reconceptualising child poverty from a child-centred perspective, in order to bring about change.