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No Lost Generation: Cash transfers for displaced Syrian children in Lebanon

No Lost Generation: Cash transfers for displaced Syrian children in Lebanon

Country stories Impact evaluation

By Jacobus De Hoop

Imagine you work for UNICEF in Lebanon. Your team has the challenging task of ensuring that half a million displaced Syrian children who fled the war in their home country attend primary school. These children live scattered throughout the country, as Lebanon has a “no-camps” policy. Many of them are traumatized and grow up in bitter… Read more →←
Outside the box in Malawi

Outside the box in Malawi

Country stories Data and Research

By Mark Hereward, Associate Director of Data & Analytics at Division of Data, Research and Policy, UNICEF

Rhoda Nkhambule, mother of two, lives in Thipa village – 19 km from the nearest health centre in Dwanga, Malawi. The only way to get there is either by bicycle or walking for four hours. The long walk means that routine healthcare is out of reach for Rhoda and her family. She will inevitably miss doctor’s appointments, some of which… Read more →←
Opening the black box: Cash transfers and post-intervention research

Opening the black box: Cash transfers and post-intervention research

Country stories Impact evaluation

By Luisa Natali

Last Fall I visited three of the most poverty-stricken rural districts of Zambia: Kaputa, Kalabo and Shangombo. Each location took two days’ travel by car from Lusaka. We drove up to Kaputa, near the border with DRC, with a stock of jerry cans filled with fuel, passed through the Kafue National Park and crossed the mile-wide Zambesi… Read more →←
How voluntary guardianship for unaccompanied minors took root in Sicily

How voluntary guardianship for unaccompanied minors took root in Sicily

Country stories Evidence to Policy

By Iolanda Genovese

“You gave me back my dignity. I will never forget that you even gave me underwear. Without which I would have to wait for 15 days! You have always been there whenever I needed you. Even after 4 years, you are taking care of me.” These are the words of Amadou, regarding the network of guardians called Accoglierete, in southern Italy.… Read more →←
Zhang Haibo is taking children’s opinions about digital technology seriously

Zhang Haibo is taking children’s opinions about digital technology seriously

Country stories Evidence to Policy

By Daniel Kardefelt-Winther

This statement: “Children use digital technology for specific reasons and it is important to take their opinions and explanations seriously” comes straight out of UNICEF’s recently published State of the World’s Children report for 2017, Children in a Digital World. The report recommends that children are placed at the center of… Read more →←
Lessons from Lebanon in preventing violence against women and girls

Lessons from Lebanon in preventing violence against women and girls

Country stories Evidence to Policy

By Alina Potts

Women’s organizations in Lebanon are a force to be reckoned with—even in the frontier town of Arsaal, which occupies a high plateau in the northeast of the country and is often the site of spillover battles from the Syrian War. It was there that a group of dedicated and organized women from the community greeted me when I arrived in… Read more →←
Silent advocacy: How statistics empower

Silent advocacy: How statistics empower

Country stories Data and Research

By Yumi Matsuda, UNICEF Rwanda Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation; Veronica Houser, UNICEF Rwanda Communications Consultant; Jean-Claude Nyirimanzi, NISR Team Leader, Research, Publication and Documentation; Ruben Muhayiteto, NISR Data Portals Management Officer

We can maintain a peaceful society by helping people who are poor and hungry. Mutabazi, a 16-year-old student at Institute Filippo Smaldone, shares his ideas with the UNICEF team by using sign language. Like the other 168 students at his school, Mutabazi has a hearing disability. But that doesn’t stop him from dreaming big; after… Read more →←
Using near real-time data to improve local health services

Using near real-time data to improve local health services

Country stories Data and Research

By Nima Fallah, Regional Knowledge Management Specialist, UNICEF ESARO, Nairobi, Kenya; Edward Addai, Regional Chief Programme Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF ESARO, Nairobi, Kenya

  A community health volunteer diligently enters the details of every household into a mobile phone application. The most remote locations are reached on foot, so that every woman and child is counted and accounted for. These data provide actionable information about the resources needed to give children a fair start in life. Once… Read more →←
Realities of introducing new technology in schools: A student’s experience

Realities of introducing new technology in schools: A student’s experience

Country stories

By Miranda Cook

In our rapidly evolving world where technology is becoming a huge part of life, both at home and in the workplace, many schools have got a drive to modernise teaching and learning using new technology, which they believe has the ability to revolutionise the standard classroom. As an example, the introduction of iPads into schools has… Read more →←
Visualizing data – Kamugisha harnesses the power of infographics

Visualizing data – Kamugisha harnesses the power of infographics

Country stories Data visualization

By Yumi Matsuda, UNICEF Rwanda Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation; Veronica Houser, UNICEF Rwanda Communications Consultant; Jean-Claude Nyirimanzi, NISR Team Leader, Research, Publication and Documentation; Ruben Muhayiteto, NISR Data Portals Management Officer

“When I graduated from university, this laptop was my only possession,” Kamugisha said, displaying it proudly. Kamugisha Marius, a young Rwandan entrepreneur, received the laptop when he won the prestigious Infographics Competition. Held each year by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) and supported by UNICEF, the… Read more →←
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