Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

Responding to Screen Time Concerns: A Children’s Rights Approach

Evidence to policy

By Daniel Kardefelt-Winther

Over the past decade there has been escalating concern that the time children spend using digital technology might be harmful. Calls have been made to protect children by restricting the amount of time they spend in front of digital screens. But recently there has been a change in tune, following research showing that the effects of… Read more →←

Getting the ‘Development’ Right in Sport for Development

data and research Publication & data launches SDGs

By Sarah Fuller, Juliana Zapata

Getting the ‘development’ right in sport for development (S4D) means that on the pitch, disabilities are dissolved into strengths. It means that traditional ‘no girls allowed’ attitudes are torn away. It means that children’s voices are valued in both the planning and the playing, and real efforts are made to protect children… Read more →←

Do countries have fiscal space for universal child grants?

Evidence to policy

By Frank Otchere

It is a known fact that in nearly every country, children are more likely to live in (monetary) poverty than adults (19% versus 9% respectively in 2018). This has immediate effects on the well-being of children, their development prospects and consequently their adult life. Cash transfer programs targeted at the poorest households have… Read more →←

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 →←

Child’s Play: A Journey into The Jungle Shines a Light on the Lives of Migrant Children

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The lights dimmed and the theatre hushed. Spotlights swirled in the dark from one person popping up out of the darkness to the next as a late-night emergency meeting of refugees unfolded in front of us. I was at the Playhouse Theatre in London and then I was transported somewhere else. Set in a reimagined version of the ‘Afghan… Read more →←

Five Questions with Dr. Fidelia Dake on Researching Impacts of Cash Transfers in Africa

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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 →←

Reflecting on research at UNICEF Innocenti: 3 Numbers that show the value of research on social protection

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When I am asked why I do research, what difference it makes, and especially in an institution, like Unicef, that does rather than thinks, my answer is 1.68. This number has contributed to change the lives of many children and youngsters in Venezuela. It is the benefit-to-cost ratio of investing USD 211 million in 500,000 children… Read more →←

School bullying harms everyone, not just the victims

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  It is no surprise that children who are bullied do worse in academic tests. However, after  re-analyzing children’s reading test data for 30 school systems in some of the world’s richest countries, we found that an environment of bullying drags everyone’s achievement down, not just that of the victims. We published our… Read more →←

Three windows of opportunity — Using science to inform programming for adolescents and young people

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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 →←

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