through strengthening research partnerships with leading academic institutions and development networks in both the north and south the office seeks to leverage additional resources and influence in support of efforts towards policy reform in favour of children for that reason some publications may not necessarily reflect unicef policies or approaches on some topics the views expressed are those of the authors andor editors and are published in order to stimulate further dialogue on child rights core funding is provided by the government of italy while financial support for specific projects is also provided by other governments international institutions and private sources including unicef national committees this paper analyses multidimensional child deprivation across thirty countries in subsaharan africa applying the multiple overlapping deprivation analysis moda methodology that measures various aspects of child poverty the methodology has been adapted to the particular needs of this crosscountry comparative study standardising the indicators and thresholds to allow comparability across countries