Ensuring social protection for vulnerable people is a goal of MKUKUTA (the National Strategy
for Growth and Reduction of Poverty) in Tanzania, and children are commonly
considered to be among the most vulnerable. REPOA has been involved in analytic work on
the vulnerability of children, in part to provide evidence for Government's efforts to develop
a national framework for social protection. This special paper synthesises the analysis and
draws some conclusions based on this and closely related work.