Tagged: humanitarian crisis

Ethical collection of data from children during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Ethical research

By Gabrielle Berman

Our need to understand, quantify, forecast, track and unpack the COVID-19 pandemic fuels an insatiable need for data. While children are not the primary victims, they are significantly impacted in most areas of their lives, and will continue to be well after the pandemic is contained. Understanding the impact on children is critical.… Read more →←

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 →←

From the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, insights on helping families and children cope

Country stories COVID-19

By Patrizia Faustini and Dale Rutstein

Just as the coronavirus outbreak reached its peak in the Italian province of Lombardy a group of health care professionals, many with Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo, published a short commentary which caught the attention of staff at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti in Florence. Their simple message: COVID-19 was… Read more →←

Fast access to cash provides urgent relief to those hardest hit by COVID—19

Impact evaluation Social Protection

By Jacobus de Hoop, Luisa Natali, Alexis Boncenne, Angie Lee

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 →←

Administrative Data: Missed opportunity for learning and research in humanitarian emergencies?

Data and Research Methods & tools

By Elisabetta Aurino, Tilman Brück, Silvio Daidone, Luisa Natali and Ben Schwab

The use of administrative data for learning and research purposes in humanitarian emergencies is a relatively unexplored field. How can we make better use of these rich pools data in humanitarian settings? And what are the potential pitfalls? It is a stylized fact that in more severe emergencies, more administrative data is available… Read more →←

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