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Can more women in school leadership improve learning outcomes?

Can more women in school leadership improve learning outcomes?

Education Evidence

By Matt Brossard and Jessica Bergmann

The global education community has long focused on girls’ education and finding pathways to increasing girls’ access and retention in school, improving learning, and supporting girls’ holistic wellbeing. While the positive effects of female teachers on girls’ education have been well-researched, one piece often missing from… Read more →←
Failing to Read: Why global disparities in reading skills matter and what we can do about it

Failing to Read: Why global disparities in reading skills matter and what we can do about it

Data and Research Education Evidence

By Robert Jenkins, Haogen Yao, Kenneth Russell

As we walked through classrooms in Bangladesh,  we were struck by the hope and aspirations of the children. Already, children in grades three or four, said they wanted to be teachers, scientists, and prime ministers. They knew they must get an education in order achieve these dreams, but like so many children around the world, without… Read more →←
Protecting children from harm during COVID-19 needs evidence

Protecting children from harm during COVID-19 needs evidence

COVID-19 Evidence Methods & tools Research synthesis

By Shivit Bakrania, Sandy Oliver

Although much of the world is focused on the “silver lining” that COVID-19 does not appear to severely impact children’s health, UNICEF is raising the alarm about the potential damage of the hidden impacts on children’s health as well as the indirect socio-economic effects of the fallout from the pandemic. In response, UNICEF… Read more →←
Cinco estratégias que os governos estão utilizando para responder à violência contra mulheres e crianças durante a COVID-19

Cinco estratégias que os governos estão utilizando para responder à violência contra mulheres e crianças durante a COVID-19

COVID-19 Evidence Evidence to Policy Violence Against Children

By UNICEF Innocenti, Alessandra Guedes, Amber Peterman, Dina Deligiorgis

Embora o mundo tenha sido pego de surpresa pelo tamanho e pelas ramificações da crise da COVID-19, ele deveria estar preparado para responder aos riscos crescentes ao bem-estar e à segurança de mulheres e crianças. A violência contra as mulheres e a violência contra as crianças são disseminadas globalmente e intrinsicamente… Read more →←
Caring in the time of COVID-19: Gender, unpaid care work and social protection

Caring in the time of COVID-19: Gender, unpaid care work and social protection

COVID-19 Evidence

By Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Ramya Subrahmanian

Care work, which is predominantly provided by women and girls, is a central yet typically undervalued contributor to economies. It includes supporting daily activities of individuals (such as cooking, cleaning, and providing daily essentials), as well as the health and well-being of others, including children and the elderly. Emerging… Read more →←
Time to ramp up psychosocial support for adolescents in crisis settings

Time to ramp up psychosocial support for adolescents in crisis settings

Data and Research Evidence

By Prerna Banati and Nicola Jones

Globally, the increase in humanitarian crises, protracted conflicts, displacement, violence, terrorism, disease outbreaks, natural disasters and climate change is putting children and adolescents at significant risk of mental and emotional ill-health. Around a quarter of the world’s 1.8 billion young people live in areas affected by… Read more →←
Are children equipped to navigate post-truth societies?

Are children equipped to navigate post-truth societies?

Evidence

By Patrizia Faustini

In 2014 the World Economic Forum called the rapid spread of misinformation online one of the ten most critical issues for our societies. A 2016 Stanford study of 7,800 student responses from middle school to college highlighted discomforting results. Researchers found that students had a “dismaying inability” to recognize the… Read more →←
Moving forward Multidimensionally: Five Lessons on Child Poverty from Malawi and More

Moving forward Multidimensionally: Five Lessons on Child Poverty from Malawi and More

Data and Research Evidence Impact evaluation

By Lucia Ferrone

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 →←
Three windows of opportunity — Using science to inform programming for adolescents and young people

Three windows of opportunity — Using science to inform programming for adolescents and young people

Data and Research Evidence Publication & data launches

By Prerna Banati, Elena Camilletti

With the launch of Generation Unlimited,  UNICEF has assumed global leadership to advance the quality of life for children in the second decade. Yet many programs designed for young people, including by UNICEF, are not framed by well-developed theories of the developmental process. Recent scientific discoveries and studies demonstrate… Read more →←
Lo que sabemos y lo que no sabemos sobre las pandillas juveniles en América Latina

Lo que sabemos y lo que no sabemos sobre las pandillas juveniles en América Latina

Country stories Evidence

By Cirenia Chávez

*Nota: Esta es una traducción de la publicación original del blog en inglés: What We Know and What We Don’t Know about Youth Gangs in Latin America La violencia asociada con las pandillas en América Latina se ha convertido en una de las preocupaciones principales en algunos países de la región, sobre todo en los países del… Read more →←
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