Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

Are Cash Transfers in Latin America Gender-Sensitive?

Impact evaluation Social Protection

By Costanza Ginestra

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 →←

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 →←

Moving the Needle on Mental Health for Young People

Child Rights mental health

By Chantelle Booysen

Leading Minds Call on Global Action to Support and Protect Mental Well-Being for Youth    The following blog is the transcript of the closing remarks for the Leading Minds 2019 Conference for Children and Young People on Mental Health by Chantelle Booysen, Global Mental Health Advocate and Social Impact Entrepreneur.  In the last… Read more →←

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 →←

Turning the tide together on mental ill health for children

Data and Research mental health

By Priscilla Idele, Prerna Banati and David Anthony

In some way, mental ill health has touched everyone. The statistics are alarming, and by some accounts constitute a public health emergency. Today, around 10-20 per cent of all children and adolescents suffer from some type of mental health disorder and mental health conditions account for around 16 per cent of the global burden of… Read more →←

The Forgotten Minority: A Personal Story Sheds Light on the Added Dangers Facing Migrant Girls and Women

Children and Migration

By Olivia Bueno

Maryama* is just 17 years old, but already she has attempted to migrate from Hargeisa in the Horn of Africa to Europe twice. While most migrants face harrowing journeys, her story can help us understand some of the additional challenges facing young women and girls on the move in the Horn of Africa. She was interviewed as part of a… Read more →←

The Quest for the Missing Counterfactual: Transfer Project Trains African Researchers in Impact Evaluation

Impact evaluation

By Ashu Handa, Elsa Valli, Gustavo Angeles

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 →←

Partnering with Youth to Research the Challenges Facing Young People in the Horn of Africa

Children and Migration Data and Research

By Olivia Bueno

Hargeisa city is a fast-growing urban environment that remains safe, unlike many parts of the region. Yet young people living in the city face a myriad of challenges. Unemployment is high amongst youth, and poverty is widespread. In this context, it is not surprising that young people think of a life abroad. “I couldn’t afford a… Read more →←

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