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Researchers reflect on what inspired them to work on gender

Researchers reflect on what inspired them to work on gender

Gender Stories

By Alessandra Guedes, Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, Elena Camilletti

To mark International Women’s Day 2021 we asked three Innocenti researchers to share what inspired them to work on gender issues.   Alessandra Guedes has dedicated 20 years of her professional life to promoting children’s and women’s rights and health, including working intensively to end violence against children and against… Read more →←
Why developing more measures of social and gender norms really matters for gender equality

Why developing more measures of social and gender norms really matters for gender equality

Gender Impact evaluation Social Protection Uncategorized

By Supriya Sthapit

Supriya Sthapit recently completed an internship at UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. In this blog, Supriya reflects on her work reviewing existing gender equality measures on social and gender norms, and how they can be used to strengthen research and evaluation studies, including on gender equality and social protection. In… Read more →←
How can formative assessment foster learning as schools reopen?

How can formative assessment foster learning as schools reopen?

Education Methods & tools

By Robert Jenkins and Rukmini Banerji

During COVID-19 related school closures, at least 463 million children had no access to remote learning (digital or TV/Radio). This crisis not only affects overall learning levels, but increases gaps, with the learning of children from disadvantaged households more deeply affected. Children from disadvantaged households miss learning… Read more →←
Promising Futures: Vocational training programme in rural Bangladesh

Promising Futures: Vocational training programme in rural Bangladesh

Adolescents Education

By Cirenia Chávez and Annika Rigole

This is the second in a two-part blog series that draws from the authors’ field visit to Let Us Learn programme sites in Bangladesh in February 2020.  The first part can be found here. In a town in the rural Sumanganj District of Bangladesh, we met recent graduates of  Alternative Learning Pathways, a Let Us Learn-supported programme… Read more →←
Bright Beginnings: Community-Based Early Childhood Education in Rural Bangladesh

Bright Beginnings: Community-Based Early Childhood Education in Rural Bangladesh

Data and Research Stories

By Cirenia Chávez and Annika Rigole

The first in a two-part blog series on Let Us Learn programme site visits in Bangladesh in February 2020. According to the most recent census, around half of the population in Bangladesh’s Sunamganj District lives below the poverty line. Monsoon flooding in the district perennially cuts villages off from one another and makes access to… Read more →←
Building a Critical Mass: Digital engagement for the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation during COVID-19

Building a Critical Mass: Digital engagement for the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation during COVID-19

Adolescents Child Rights COVID-19

By Nankali Maksud, Stephanie Baric

As digital engagement was scaled up to mitigate girls’ risk of FGM and continue community-based initiatives during COVID-19, UNICEF organised a webinar with key actors to discuss their experiences of using digital tools to shift social norms and build girls’ agency. The blog below summarises the webinar. COVID-19 has presented… Read more →←
Safeguarding and sport for development during and after the pandemic

Safeguarding and sport for development during and after the pandemic

COVID-19

By Liz Twyford and Artur Borkowski

This blog is part three of a series highlighting innovative responses to COVID-19 from S4D organizations. UNICEF Innocenti is conducting research on S4D in collaboration with the UNICEF- FCB and Barça Foundation partnership.  The first blog in the series discussed innovative responses S4D organizations have taken  globally to adapt… Read more →←
From COVID-19 response to recovery: What role for universal child benefits?

From COVID-19 response to recovery: What role for universal child benefits?

Child Poverty COVID-19

By Francesca Bastagli, Ian Orton, and David Stewart

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than one billion children either lived in, or were vulnerable to, falling into extreme poverty. As children are twice as likely globally to live in poverty than adults, the economic fall-out of COVID-19 is expected to hit them particularly severely, and estimates indicate that an additional 117 million… Read more →←
Overcoming the adolescent financing gap: The Burundi investment case

Overcoming the adolescent financing gap: The Burundi investment case

Adolescents Investment case

By Frank Otchere

Adolescence (10-19 years) is a make or break period when individuals begin to consolidate their physical, cognitive, emotional and socio-economic foundations that will shape their lives. Adolescence is a critical period as many individuals never fully recover from any developmental shortcomings they experience. Yet in today’s world,… Read more →←
How will COVID-19 disrupt child well-being in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia?

How will COVID-19 disrupt child well-being in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia?

COVID-19 Evidence to Policy Publication & data launches

By Alessandro Carraro and Victor Cebotari

  The story of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of vulnerability, in which those with pre-existing deprivations are likely to suffer most. While the full range of economic and social consequences of the crisis are yet to emerge, it will undoubtedly affect many children, by exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and their underling… Read more →←
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