Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

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 →←

Lo que sabemos y lo que no sabemos sobre las pandillas juveniles en América Latina

Country stories Evidence

By Cirenia Chávez

*Nota: Esta es una traducción de la publicación original del blog en inglés: What We Know and What We Don’t Know about Youth Gangs in Latin America La violencia asociada con las pandillas en América Latina se ha convertido en una de las preocupaciones principales en algunos países de la región, sobre todo en los países del… Read more →←

What We Know and What We Don’t Know about Youth Gangs in Latin America

data and research Evidence

By Cirenia Chávez

*This blog post has been translated into Spanish: Lo que sabemos y lo que no sabemos sobre las pandillas juveniles en América Latina Gang violence in Latin America has become one of the central security concerns in some countries of the region, including the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America and more recently,… Read more →←

Mind the gender gap: How can a gender-norm lens improve social protection outcomes for adolescents?

Impact evaluation

By Tia Palermo and Maja Gavrilovic

Since adolescence is a highly vulnerable period of rapid physiological, biological, and psychological change, researchers and development partners are increasingly asking how social protection can facilitate safer transitions to adulthood, and what additional factors shape these transitions for youth. Vulnerabilities related to adverse… Read more →←
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 →←

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