Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

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

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 →←

What We Know and What We Don’t Know about Youth Gangs in Latin America

data and research Evidence

By Cirenia Chávez

*This blog post has been translated into Spanish: Lo que sabemos y lo que no sabemos sobre las pandillas juveniles en América Latina Gang violence in Latin America has become one of the central security concerns in some countries of the region, including the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America and more recently,… 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 →←
Ramatou (not pictured), 12, an unaccompanied minor look on as she is returned to her parents

Niger: the nowhere land where children on the move are someone else’s problem as Europe and North Africa tighten their borders

children and migration Country stories

By Sarah Crowe

“The intergovernmental negotiations on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration recently concluded by upholding the best interests of the child and emphasizing the importance of family unity for children on the move. UNICEF’s Executive Director hailed it saying it should help equip Member States with tools to… Read more →←

5 Questions with Kerry Albright, Chief of Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management at Innocenti

data and research Events Evidence Evidence to policy Research Communication Research synthesis

By Kerry Albright, Saranya Misra

This article was originally published on UNICEF’s intranet platform, ICON.  In today’s 5 Questions, Kerry Albright, Chief, Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management of the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, speaks to us about her work at UNICEF, her experience at the Evidence for Children roundtable event in… Read more →←

New Technologies: Rich Source of Data or Ethical Minefield for Researchers?

data and research Evidence Research Ethics

By Gabrielle Berman, Angie Lee

We sat down with Gabrielle Berman, our expert on research ethics, to chat about her two new discussion papers which explore the ethics of using new technologies to generate evidence about children. The papers, written collaboratively with UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, highlight the advantages and risks of using these technologies to… 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 →←

No Lost Generation: Cash transfers for displaced Syrian children in Lebanon

Country stories Impact evaluation

By Jacobus De Hoop

Imagine you work for UNICEF in Lebanon. Your team has the challenging task of ensuring that half a million displaced Syrian children who fled the war in their home country attend primary school. These children live scattered throughout the country, as Lebanon has a “no-camps” policy. Many of them are traumatized and grow up in bitter… Read more →←

30.6 million new internal displacements in 2017, children are among the most vulnerable

data and research

By Vicente Anzellini and Bina D'Costa

This week, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) launched its 2018 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2018), which presents data and analysis on the patterns and trends of internal displacement worldwide. The main findings of this report show that despite twenty years of global and national policy effort, since the… Read more →←

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