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A woman standing at a doorway in South Sudan

Are we missing a game changer? Gender-based violence and social protection

A woman standing at a doorway in South Sudan
Experts speak

By Sanjay Wijesekera

Are we missing a game changer? Gender-based violence and social protection

I want to talk about an area that is little known, often misunderstood, yet promising – what we know about the links between gender-based violence and social protection. We know that the period of history we are living through has surfaced severe challenges for girls and women. Alongside the health pandemic and lockdown measures… Read more →←
Looking down at a newborn baby.

Cash transfers and fertility: new evidence from Africa

Looking down at a newborn baby.
Data and research

By Tia Palermo

Cash transfers and fertility: new evidence from Africa

Social cash transfers are an increasingly popular tool in African national governments’ social protection strategies, but a question that often comes up about their use is will such programmes – targeted to families with young children – encourage parents to have larger families in a region with stubbornly high fertility rates?… Read more →←
A woman collects payment at a table.

It’s Payday! What a cash transfer looks like in Ghana

A woman collects payment at a table.
Data and research

By Michelle Mills

It’s Payday! What a cash transfer looks like in Ghana

Cash transfer programs have become an increasingly popular component of social protection strategies across sub-Saharan Africa. These programs provide monthly payments to poor and vulnerable households and can lead to multiple demonstrated benefits, such as the improvement of health and education among young people, and impacting the… Read more →←

Doing impact evaluation in a remote region of Ghana

Data and research

By Nikola Balvin

Doing impact evaluation in a remote region of Ghana

What do snakes, flat batteries, limited privacy, and identifying a suitable cut-off point have in common? As I recently observed, they are some of the many challenges that can occur when conducting an impact evaluation in a remote village. On a recent trip to Ghana, we observed baseline data collection for an evaluation of the Ghana… Read more →←
Sisters complete schoolwork together in Kenya

Giving girls a chance

Sisters complete schoolwork together in Kenya
Experts speak

By Michelle Mills

Giving girls a chance

Mounting evidence from systematic reviews, such as these on early childbearing and HIV risk, suggest that cash transfers have positive impacts on youth transitions into adulthood. Yet, data illustrating how these programs affect outcomes is generally scarce. Now new research from the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti and the University… Read more →←
Widow Sopio Gvenetadze lives with her three children: Ilarion (4) Anastasia (3) and Teona (2) and her elderly mother in a rundown house which she rents with the help of various organizations.

Advocacy and policy brings change for children in Georgia

Widow Sopio Gvenetadze lives with her three children: Ilarion (4) Anastasia (3) and Teona (2) and her elderly mother in a rundown house which she rents with the help of various organizations.
Insider

By Tinatin Baum

Advocacy and policy brings change for children in Georgia

The work of UNICEF in lower- or upper-middle-income countries is often underestimated. It is believed that such states are more likely to have a genuine understanding of the importance of investing in children, and therefore, have adequate systems for providing public services and benefits to them. Unfortunately, even such states fail… Read more →←
Children attend French class at a school in Ghana.

Evidence from Africa: Cash transfers increase school enrollment

Children attend French class at a school in Ghana.
Experts speak

By Tia Palermo

Story also available in: Français

Evidence from Africa: Cash transfers increase school enrollment

An estimated 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 are currently out of school, according to a recent report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF. This is a staggering number, and the barriers to school enrolment–poverty, conflict, gender discrimination, and child labour–are not easy to overcome.… Read more →←
Aboubacar (wearing glasses), surrounded by his family, talks with UNICEF's Mouctar Touré and Kadijah Diallo.

Ebola: extended families stepping up for orphaned children

Aboubacar (wearing glasses), surrounded by his family, talks with UNICEF's Mouctar Touré and Kadijah Diallo.
Insider

By Timothy La Rose, Kadijah Diallo

Story also available in: Español

Ebola: extended families stepping up for orphaned children

Nzérékoré, Guinea – Upon the deaths of his brother and his sister-in-law, Aboubacar (72), the sole breadwinner for his family, took in his brother’s six orphans. After a few days, three of the six started showing the signs of Ebola: Ousmane (14), Massa (12), and Adama (10). Having heard Ebola sensitization messages on the… Read more →←
On the 4th of December, UNICEF in collaboration with Dohuk Governorate started distributing USD $250 for each family living in Khanke Camp.

5 questions: Cash transfers for the displaced in Iraq

On the 4th of December, UNICEF in collaboration with Dohuk Governorate started distributing USD $250 for each family living in Khanke Camp.
Impact Insider

By Chelsea Cowan

5 questions: Cash transfers for the displaced in Iraq

Since January 2014, over 2 million Iraqis have fled their homes due to violence in the northwest of the country. In response, UNICEF recently signed a USD $5 Million agreement with the Governorate of Dohuk, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, to provide emergency cash assistance to vulnerable families living in camp settings. Distribution… Read more →←

Impact evaluations reap long term benefits for children

Experts speak Impact

By Nikola Balvin, Sudhanshu Handa

Impact evaluations reap long term benefits for children

We have an obligation to invest where it makes the most difference for children. But how do we decide what will reap the greatest benefits in the long term? The dilemma of whether to invest in services that provide immediate benefits, or in evidence generating initiatives for the long term, is a difficult one. The answer requires a… Read more →←
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