Getting the ‘development’ right in sport for development (S4D) means that on the pitch, disabilities are dissolved into strengths. It means that traditional ‘no girls allowed’ attitudes are torn away. It means that children’s voices are valued in both the planning and the playing, and real efforts are made to protect children… Read more →←
Topic: data and research
If a child attends school every day, can we assume that he or she is learning? An increasing number of children around the world have gained access to education, particularly in low-income countries but until recently, we haven’t known if more children are learning as a result. Data on how many children are learning is either… Read more →←
Sugarmaa Batjargal was born on a cold February day in Mongolia’s Alag-Erdene area, where the temperatures won’t rise above the freezing point for another few months. She looks like her mother, Delgermurun. The family of seven – now including five children – lives in a ger, the nomadic tent structures of the Mongolian… Read more →←
Millions of children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced. As of 2017, about 30 million were living in forced displacement – 1 in 76 of the world’s children. This includes 12 million child refugees and child asylum seekers, and 17 million children living in internal displacement due to conflict and violence.… Read more →←
Yosua, a 15-year-old student in Lampung province, Indonesia, realized that many of his friends were being forced to drop out of school. Erratic rains due to climate change were causing crops to fail, making it impossible for families to afford school fees. Together with a group of other adolescents, Yosua presented the concerns and… Read more →←
The world pledged to end AIDS by 2030. Though great strides have been made toward this goal for young children, adolescent girls and boys are being left behind. We used existing trends to project what the future will look like for adolescents, and we found that the outlook depends mostly on the region of the world where they live.… 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 →←