A Practitioner's Guide to Child Indicators
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Beschreibung
This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects. The book is based on the fundamental idea that better data leads to better decisions regarding programs for children. The number of people with experience and expertise in developing child indicator projects is limited in many countries. This initiative provides critical information on the topic in a cost-effective manner, and thereby fills an important niche regarding the use of child indicators. To the extent that it promotes more and better child indicator projects, the book leads to more attention for children and better decision-making regarding public support for children. It is also likely to increase the number of such projects that exist and to improve the quality of such projects.
This easy-to-use and practical guide is for all professionals and organizations working with child indicators data.
This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects. The book is based on the fundamental idea that better data leads to better decisions regarding programs for children. The number of people with experience and expertise in developing child indicator projects is limited in many countries. This initiative provides critical information on the topic in a cost-effective manner, and thereby fills an important niche regarding the use of child indicators. To the extent that it promotes more and better child indicator projects, the book leads to more attention for children and better decision-making regarding public support for children. It is also likely to increase the number of such projects that exist and to improve the quality of such projects.
This easy-to-use and practical guide is for all professionals and organizations working with child indicators data.
Provides a unique perspective on child indicators
Speaks to an large and expanding segment of the child indicator field
Guides people and organizations interested in undertaking child indicator projects
Autor*in
William O'Hare
Themen in »A Practitioner's Guide to Child Indicators«
Using child indicator data Measuring child well-being Data collection on child wellbeing Child indicator projects Research in well-being Public decision-making on child protection Evaluation of child welfare schemes