Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

When over 500 minds converge to prevent gender-based violence

Events Evidence to policy

By Amber Peterman and Alina Potts

Late last month, over 500 researchers, policymakers, donors and activists descended on the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 5th bi-annual Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum, the largest global gathering focusing on gender-based violence (GBV) in low- and middle-income countries. The forum has become the venue to… Read more →←

Do the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros need seven measures of child deprivation?

data and research Methods & tools

By Lucia Ferrone

When the winds of winter blow and the White Walkers arrive, it probably won’t matter if you are living in the Red Keep, or in a farm near Winterfell. End-of-times scenarios aside, context matters a great deal in how we define poverty and well-being. In the imaginary world of Westeros, created by G.R.R. Martin and made famous by the TV… Read more →←

Adolescent girls in Europe and Canada at a higher risk of multidimensional poverty than boys

data and research

By Yekaterina Chzhen

A recent paper in Child Indicators Research (behind a paywall) shows that girls aged 11, 13 and 15 are more likely to suffer from multidimensional poverty than boys in 26 out of 38 high and middle income countries included. England shows the greatest difference in the prevalence of multidimensional poverty between girls and boys – 8… Read more →←

‘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 →←

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