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 →←
Topic: Events
This article was originally published on UNICEF’s intranet platform, ICON. In today’s 5 Questions, Kerry Albright, Chief, Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management of the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, speaks to us about her work at UNICEF, her experience at the Evidence for Children roundtable event in… Read more →←
Late last month, over 500 researchers, policymakers, donors and activists descended on the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 5th bi-annual Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum, the largest global gathering focusing on gender-based violence (GBV) in low- and middle-income countries. The forum has become the venue to… Read more →←
Despite broad agreement that youth engagement is important to forging sustainable peace and development, young people are often not given the opportunity to participate in public discourse and decision-making. Absence of a youth voice makes it difficult to design policies and programmes that adequately respond to their needs,… Read more →←
Primatologist Jane Goodall has modified the proverb “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” to “… we are stealing it from our children”. She was referring to climate change, which has been described as the greatest health challenge of the 21st century (Costello et al., 2009), and will… Read more →←
Although its preamble mandates the United Nations to “… save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…”, peacebuilding discourse has traditionally paid little attention to the role social service providers can play in mitigating the drivers of conflict. Things began to change in 2009 when the UN Secretary General – in his… Read more →←
In God we trust, all others must bring data. Longitudinal studies are an irreplaceable resource for understanding trajectories, transitions and shocks over time. Undeniably, the UK leads the world in tracking the life course of its citizens through longitudinal research. The British birth cohorts – a treasure trove of data covering… Read more →←
JOSIAH’S STORY Josiah is 13 years old. He likes to study geography in school, and he recently participated in Reading Data with Children, a collaborative event between UNICEF and the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), organized as part of Africa Statistics Day. Nowadays, he is a strong advocate for children’s… Read more →←
Cape Town, South Africa – There aren’t many countries in the world where the Statistician-General is treated like a rock star, but South Africa is one of them. The SG, as Pali Lehohla is known throughout government and beyond it, looks the part: he’s got a huge personality and most days he sports a canary yellow suit. Thankfully,… Read more →←
My favourite data story starts on a small chalkboard. Every week day, numbers were painstakingly entered into rows of boxes on its dusty black surface. This chalkboard was at a school, but it wasn’t intended for students – it was on the outside wall of the building, proclaiming to the entire village the number of girls, boys and… Read more →←
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