Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

‘Nobody will answer you if you talk’: The case for research on trafficking in emergencies

Evidence to policy Research Ethics

By Alina Potts

In the spring of 2013, I traveled to northern Syria as part of an international organization’s emergency response team. Over the course of that year, more than a hundred thousand people would flee fighting further south only to find the border with Turkey closed, and seek safety in makeshift camps strewn among parched olive groves. My… Read more →←

Evidence over Ideology: Giving Unconditional Cash in Africa

data and research Evidence to policy

By Amber Peterman and Silvio Daidone

It is hard to discuss development, poverty and foreign aid without someone mentioning the contentious topic of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Some say it will be the defining issue for the future of poverty and inequity, others say it will never work. But what exactly are the defining features of UBI? According to the Basic Income Earth… Read more →←

Realities of introducing new technology in schools: A student’s experience

Country stories

By Miranda Cook

In our rapidly evolving world where technology is becoming a huge part of life, both at home and in the workplace, many schools have got a drive to modernise teaching and learning using new technology, which they believe has the ability to revolutionise the standard classroom. As an example, the introduction of iPads into schools has… Read more →←

Climate change, psychology and peace: Mitigating the impacts on children

Events Evidence to policy

By Ann Sanson

Primatologist Jane Goodall has modified the proverb “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” to “… we are stealing it from our children”. She was referring to climate change, which has been described as the greatest health challenge of the 21st century (Costello et al., 2009), and will… Read more →←

Do social services contribute to peacebuilding?

Events Evidence to policy

By Friedrich Affolter

Although its preamble mandates the United Nations to “… save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…”, peacebuilding discourse has traditionally paid little attention to the role social service providers can play in mitigating the drivers of conflict. Things began to change in 2009 when the UN Secretary General – in his… Read more →←

League tables apart: Report Card 14 League Table on children and the SDGs

data and research SDGs

By Dominic Richardson

The League Table presented in UNICEF’s latest Innocenti Report Card 14, Building the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries, clearly shows which high-income countries are doing well, and which are doing poorly, in terms of achieving outcomes for their children as broadly defined in the Sustainable… Read more →←

We cannot end child poverty in Europe without measuring all of its dimensions

data and research Methods & tools

By Yekaterina Chzhen

The European Union measures child poverty as the share of children living in households with incomes below 60 per cent of the national median, but this indicator tells us little about how children fare within their families. A child living in a well-off household may still be deprived of the possessions, services and social relationships… Read more →←

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