(New York) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should help expand social protection to all children in Nepal under its Child Grant program, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the IMF released today. The policy is an effective and affordable measure to protect children's rights and reduce child poverty and inequality, and it should become a performance criterion for Nepal's IMF program. With 40 percent of Nepal's population aged under 18, turning the existing child grant program into a program available to all children would significantly improve the currently low social protection coverage .

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/08/nepal-imf-should-help-expand-child-grant-program

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