Putting Children First New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa

Keetie Roelen is Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK. Her research and policy advice work focuses on child poverty, social protection, and economic strengthening across the globe. Richard Morgan is the International Advocacy Director for Plan International, promoting the rights of girls and gender equality worldwide. Yisak Tafere is a coordinator of the Ethiopian Center for Child Research at the Ethiopian Development Institute. He has been the lead qualitative researcher with Young Lives in Ethiopia. Since he joined in 2007, he has led four rounds of core and many more sub-study qualitative research fieldwork, in collaboration with colleagues in both Oxford and Ethiopia. He holds an MA in Social Anthropology from Addis Ababa University and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Child Research from the Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology (NTNU).