Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

How to co-create research during a global pandemic

COVID-19 Education Methods & tools

By Dr. Tulashi Thapaliya, Gunilla Olsson, Robert Jenkins, Mark Waltham

Even in the most difficult settings, some schools excel in learning, champion gender equality, and have low drop-out rates. These “positive deviant” schools provide valuable lessons on how to improve similar but less performing schools. Through the Data Must Speak (DMS) Positive Deviance research, UNICEF and partners identify… Read more →←

How a focus on parenting can reduce violence both for children and women

Violence Against Children

By Janina Jochim, Lauren Rumble, Stephen Blight

Violence against children and violence against women often occur under the same roof and share many risk factors. The economic insecurities and uncertainty brought on by COVID-19 raise the risk of violence within the family – already extraordinarily high even before the pandemic. Women and children were likely to experience… Read more →←

Finland is the happiest country in the world – again. Or is it?

Child Rights Child Wellbeing Data and Research

By Gwyther Rees and Anna Gromada

Recently, news outlets across the world announced: Finland ranked happiest country in the world – again. This information is based on the World Happiness Report 2021 which uses data from the Gallup World Survey. But is it true? Similar to the 1950s household surveys that questioned only the male breadwinner and projected his feelings… Read more →←

Can we change the way we think about violence against children, adolescents, and women?

Adolescents Gender Violence Against Children

By Floriza Gennari and Alessandra Guedes

Selina was 8 the first time her father hit her. And while he tearfully apologized afterwards, a few weeks later he did it again. Her mother often suffered the same fate, she knew, behind closed doors. It became a pattern in Selina’s life whenever he was drinking – and angry. When Selina was a teenager, her first boyfriend was much… Read more →←

Researchers reflect on what inspired them to work on gender

Gender Stories

By Alessandra Guedes, Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, Elena Camilletti

To mark International Women’s Day 2021 we asked three Innocenti researchers to share what inspired them to work on gender issues.   Alessandra Guedes has dedicated 20 years of her professional life to promoting children’s and women’s rights and health, including working intensively to end violence against children and against… Read more →←

Why developing more measures of social and gender norms really matters for gender equality

Gender Impact evaluation Social Protection Uncategorized

By Supriya Sthapit

Supriya Sthapit recently completed an internship at UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. In this blog, Supriya reflects on her work reviewing existing gender equality measures on social and gender norms, and how they can be used to strengthen research and evaluation studies, including on gender equality and social protection. In… Read more →←

How can formative assessment foster learning as schools reopen?

Education Methods & tools

By Robert Jenkins and Rukmini Banerji

During COVID-19 related school closures, at least 463 million children had no access to remote learning (digital or TV/Radio). This crisis not only affects overall learning levels, but increases gaps, with the learning of children from disadvantaged households more deeply affected. Children from disadvantaged households miss learning… Read more →←

Promising Futures: Vocational training programme in rural Bangladesh

Adolescents Education

By Cirenia Chávez and Annika Rigole

This is the second in a two-part blog series that draws from the authors’ field visit to Let Us Learn programme sites in Bangladesh in February 2020.  The first part can be found here. In a town in the rural Sumanganj District of Bangladesh, we met recent graduates of  Alternative Learning Pathways, a Let Us Learn-supported programme… Read more →←

Bright Beginnings: Community-Based Early Childhood Education in Rural Bangladesh

Data and Research Stories

By Cirenia Chávez and Annika Rigole

The first in a two-part blog series on Let Us Learn programme site visits in Bangladesh in February 2020. According to the most recent census, around half of the population in Bangladesh’s Sunamganj District lives below the poverty line. Monsoon flooding in the district perennially cuts villages off from one another and makes access to… Read more →←

Building a Critical Mass: Digital engagement for the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation during COVID-19

Adolescents Child Rights COVID-19

By Nankali Maksud, Stephanie Baric

As digital engagement was scaled up to mitigate girls’ risk of FGM and continue community-based initiatives during COVID-19, UNICEF organised a webinar with key actors to discuss their experiences of using digital tools to shift social norms and build girls’ agency. The blog below summarises the webinar. COVID-19 has presented… Read more →←

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