Tagged: gender

Unleashing the Potential of Social Protection for Adolescent Girls and Women

Events Evidence to Policy

By , , 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 →←

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

Data and Research Evidence Publication & data launches

By ,

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 →←

Mind the gender gap: How can a gender-norm lens improve social protection outcomes for adolescents?

Impact evaluation

By Tia Palermo and Maja Gavrilovic

Since adolescence is a highly vulnerable period of rapid physiological, biological, and psychological change, researchers and development partners are increasingly asking how social protection can facilitate safer transitions to adulthood, and what additional factors shape these transitions for youth. Vulnerabilities related to adverse… Read more →←

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