Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

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 →←

A ‘toxic cocktail’: How life on the margins can exacerbate children’s vulnerability to violence

Evidence to policy

By Alina Potts and Lanie Stockman

For too many children, the places where they should feel safe—at home, at school, in their communities—are the first and most frequent sites of violence. The latest data presented in UNICEF’s A Familiar Face shows, for example, that nearly 300 million children between the ages of 2 and 4 experience violent discipline by their… Read more →←

Progress in measuring global school enrollment gaps for children with disabilities

data and research SDGs

By Suguru Mizunoya

It is estimated that a total of 264 million primary and secondary school-age children are out of school globally, and it is a commonly accepted notion that children with disabilities especially in developing countries and conflict zones tend not to attend school. However, it is not known if children with disabilities are a sizable share… Read more →←

Getting a clearer picture of child poverty in the Arab States

data and research

By Lucia Ferrone

Poverty estimates are not frequently made, nor easy to access in the Arab States. Continued political instability combined with frequent humanitarian crises make it difficult to have timely and reliable estimates of poverty for many countries in the region, while others, such as the Gulf countries, simply do not measure child poverty at… Read more →←

Positive and negative spirals and the plasticity of the adolescent brain

data and research

By Nikola Balvin

Contrary to what my parents remember about it, my own recollections of adolescence are quite positive. I remember it as a period of discovery and energy, spending endless hours with friends, hungrily soaking up new knowledge, experiences and skills. But I also took risks, acted on the spur of the moment without thinking the consequences… Read more →←

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