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The Time Is Now! Preventing Violence Against Women and Children Requires Quality Evidence

The Time Is Now! Preventing Violence Against Women and Children Requires Quality Evidence

Data and Research Events Violence Against Children

By Alessandra Guedes, Lusajo Kajula, Amber Peterman

Reflections from the world’s premier conference on ending violence against women and violence against children from the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2019     Nearly 800 researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and activists descended on Cape Town, South Africa for the world’s key conference on ending violence… Read more →←
Pinocchio on Trial: Who is guilty?

Pinocchio on Trial: Who is guilty?

Child Rights Events Stories

By Patrizia Faustini

Pinocchio is sitting at the defendant’s seat with his lawyer, when the judges enter the hall. On one side the prosecutor looks at him grimly, with the Cat and the Fox, Mangiafuoco, the puppet master, and the teacher next to him. On the other side, the father Geppetto, a poor woodcarver, and the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair, the… Read more →←
Unleashing the Potential of Social Protection for Adolescent Girls and Women

Unleashing the Potential of Social Protection for Adolescent Girls and Women

Events Evidence to Policy

By Prerna Banati, Elena Camilletti, Roopa Hinton, Shreyasi Jha, Nicola Jones, Muriel Kahane, Atif Khurshid

On March 12th 2019, UNICEF will co-host a side event to the sixty-third Commission on the Status of Women, together with the UK’s Department for International Development and GAGE Consortium managed by ODI, to share evidence and policy approaches to strengthen gender equality outcomes of social protection programmes, with a particular… Read more →←
What toddlers can teach us about investing in data

What toddlers can teach us about investing in data

Data and Research Events

By Emily Garin, Data Strategist, UNICEF

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 →←
5 Questions with Kerry Albright, Chief of Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management at Innocenti

5 Questions with Kerry Albright, Chief of Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management at Innocenti

Data and Research Events Evidence Evidence to Policy Research Communication Research synthesis

By Kerry Albright, Saranya Misra

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 →←
When over 500 minds converge to prevent gender-based violence

When over 500 minds converge to prevent gender-based violence

Events Evidence to Policy

By Amber Peterman and Alina Potts

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 →←
Youth engagement as a pathway to peace

Youth engagement as a pathway to peace

Events Evidence to Policy

By Nikola Balvin

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 →←
Climate change, psychology and peace: Mitigating the impacts on children

Climate change, psychology and peace: Mitigating the impacts on children

Events Evidence to Policy

By Ann Sanson

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 →←
Do social services contribute to peacebuilding?

Do social services contribute to peacebuilding?

Events Evidence to Policy

By Friedrich Affolter

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 →←
Is longitudinal research the best response to the ‘post-truth’ order?

Is longitudinal research the best response to the ‘post-truth’ order?

Data and Research Events

By Prerna Banati

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 →←
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