Despite the identification of cash transfers as a promising evidence-informed strategy to address violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW) – until recently, there was little evidence from low- and middle-income country settings (LMICs), that assessed the effects of such interventions on both in the same study.… Read more →←
Topic: Impact evaluation
A common fear among policymakers is that government-provided benefits for households with young children – including cash transfers – may increase incentives to have children, to gain or maintain program eligibility. This is a topic we’ve had our eyes on for some time through the Transfer Project. By conducting reviews of… Read more →←
Supriya Sthapit recently completed an internship at UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. In this blog, Supriya reflects on her work reviewing existing gender equality measures on social and gender norms, and how they can be used to strengthen research and evaluation studies, including on gender equality and social protection. In… Read more →←
COVID—19 is wreaking health and economic turmoil worldwide. These impacts are all the more pronounced in low-income or crisis-affected countries, where the economic crisis caused by the pandemic may hit harder than the virus itself. This is the case for Jordan which, in addition to 15.7% of its population living below the poverty line,… Read more →←
Social protection is a fundamental right and key tool in addressing shocks, vulnerability and poverty. It can make the difference that keeps a child from going to bed hungry and missing school. It can allow people to access essential healthcare and to adapt more easily to climate-related disasters. Expanding coverage and improving the… Read more →←
La división de tareas de cuidado infantil entre madres y padres es desigual incluso en aquellos países donde la perspectiva de género es la principal motivación en el diseño de la política. Por ello, necesitamos preguntarnos: ¿Estamos haciendo lo suficiente para promover la igualdad de género? ¿Cómo las políticas sociales… Read more →←
Even in countries where gender equality is a main driver in policy design, the division of childcare among parents is unequal. We need to ask some important questions: Are we doing enough to promote gender equality? How can social policies be better designed to close the gender gap and empower all women and girls? How can social… Read more →←
How do we know if a programme made a difference? The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it seems, because we never know what would have happened without the programme. This concept is referred to as the ‘missing counterfactual’ (or simply ‘the counterfactual’ since, by definition, a counterfactual is… Read more →←
How does a Ghanaian female scholar navigate social-protection research in Africa? Fidelia Dake is a Lecturer at the Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana, and recently completed a research fellowship in UNICEF Innocenti with the Transfer Project. UNICEF Innocenti’s Amber Peterman sits down with… 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 →←
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