Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

This paper provides an example of multidimensional child poverty analysis implemented in Ukraine, a country affected by an internal conflict. The key research question is whether children in the conflict-affected areas were at a higher risk of deprivation than what is generally observed in the country. The paper examines national child poverty using National Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (N-MODA), a methodology developed by UNICEF. The analysis is based on the Household Living Conditions Survey 2015. 

The paper applies child’s rights framework to multidimensional poverty measurement identifying housing conditions, access to utilities, leisure, education, health, and environment as key poverty dimensions.  The study shows the extent of multidimensional child poverty in this peculiar setting. It analyses individual, household and community level drivers of multidimensional child poverty with a particular focus on regional and structural factors. It also examines the overlap between income poverty and multidimensional measure highlighting the groups of children who are deprived as well as income poor.  

Linking child poverty measurement with social policy development, the study attempts to identify cross-sectoral policy packages that would address vulnerabilities of children in multiple domains in the context of the existing system of social protection in the country.