Portugal is reinforcing efforts to combat child poverty and social exclusion through implementing the European Child Guarantee. The country has developed a comprehensive national action plan that is designed to enhance coordination across corresponding policy initiatives and programmes and to engage the system of newly created Local Child Guarantee Units. This policy brief provides an overview of where Portugal should focus its efforts moving forward. It discusses steps Portugal could take to reinforce the governance of child and youth policy at both national and local levels, develop a robust monitoring and evaluation system for its national plan, produce comparable data to track local implementation, and strengthen child and youth participation.
