Report: Is physical access to basic services a determinant of multidimensional childhood poverty?

This project focused on mapping children’s physical accessibility to key services in selected countries, such as health clinics. It aimed to establish whether the distance and time it takes to travel to a key service could help explain a child’s lack of access to that service and how access is related to multidimensional childhood poverty. 

The project's overall goal was to explore if access (measured in terms of distance and travel time) to certain services determined, using geospatial data sets such as remotely sensed satellite data and open street maps, were a determinant of childhood poverty. A secondary objective was to develop a method for estimating access to services that could be replicated in multiple countries, thus overcoming a gap in current understanding about how physical access to basic services impacts childhood poverty.