How does a Ghanaian female scholar navigate social-protection research in Africa? Fidelia Dake is a Lecturer at the Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana, and recently completed a research fellowship in UNICEF Innocenti with the Transfer Project. UNICEF Innocenti’s Amber Peterman sits down with… Read more →←
When I am asked why I do research, what difference it makes, and especially in an institution, like Unicef, that does rather than thinks, my answer is 1.68. This number has contributed to change the lives of many children and youngsters in Venezuela. It is the benefit-to-cost ratio of investing USD 211 million in 500,000 children… Read more →←
It is no surprise that children who are bullied do worse in academic tests. However, after re-analyzing children’s reading test data for 30 school systems in some of the world’s richest countries, we found that an environment of bullying drags everyone’s achievement down, not just that of the victims. We published our… Read more →←
Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes with a three-year-old knows that most conversations inevitably return to one, simple question: why? Why do dogs have tails? Why don’t we have tails? Why are bird tails made of feathers? Why aren’t dog tails made of feathers? And on and on and… Read more →←
In the past four years that I have been working on several national child poverty studies, either conducting the analysis directly or providing assistance and feedback, a few key findings have emerged as consistent poverty-related or poverty-driven issues that need to be addressed. These five areas should be considered priorities in… Read more →←
An interviewer from the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico asks the mother of 4-year-old Tonatiuh if he can jump up and land with both feet on the ground. Then the mother is asked if Tonatiuh can count to ten, build a tower of three blocks that stands on its own, write his own name and if he gets along well with other… Read more →←
With the launch of Generation Unlimited, UNICEF has assumed global leadership to advance the quality of life for children in the second decade. Yet many programs designed for young people, including by UNICEF, are not framed by well-developed theories of the developmental process. Recent scientific discoveries and studies demonstrate… Read more →←
*Nota: Esta es una traducción de la publicación original del blog en inglés: What We Know and What We Don’t Know about Youth Gangs in Latin America La violencia asociada con las pandillas en América Latina se ha convertido en una de las preocupaciones principales en algunos países de la región, sobre todo en los países del… Read more →←
*This blog post has been translated into Spanish: Lo que sabemos y lo que no sabemos sobre las pandillas juveniles en América Latina Gang violence in Latin America has become one of the central security concerns in some countries of the region, including the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America and more recently,… Read more →←
Since adolescence is a highly vulnerable period of rapid physiological, biological, and psychological change, researchers and development partners are increasingly asking how social protection can facilitate safer transitions to adulthood, and what additional factors shape these transitions for youth. Vulnerabilities related to adverse… Read more →←