Child Poverty in Lesotho: Understanding the Extent of Multiple Overlapping Deprivation

Indeed, 57 per cent of all households live below the national poverty line (Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, 2014) and there are reasons to believe that children are disproportionally affected by deprivations such as malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, school dropout, under-five mortality and orphanhood (MOH and ICF International, 2016). There is an acute need to assess the current situation of children in order to establish the empirical threshold for measuring and monitoring progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 1.2,1 and to prepare policy recommendations that aim at achieving this target by 2030.