Tagged: Office of Research – Innocenti

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 →←

Safeguarding and sport for development during and after the pandemic

COVID-19

By Liz Twyford and Artur Borkowski

This blog is part three of a series highlighting innovative responses to COVID-19 from S4D organizations. UNICEF Innocenti is conducting research on S4D in collaboration with the UNICEF- FCB and Barça Foundation partnership.  The first blog in the series discussed innovative responses S4D organizations have taken  globally to adapt… Read more →←

From COVID-19 response to recovery: What role for universal child benefits?

Child Poverty COVID-19

By Francesca Bastagli, Ian Orton, and David Stewart

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than one billion children either lived in, or were vulnerable to, falling into extreme poverty. As children are twice as likely globally to live in poverty than adults, the economic fall-out of COVID-19 is expected to hit them particularly severely, and estimates indicate that an additional 117 million… Read more →←

Overcoming the adolescent financing gap: The Burundi investment case

Adolescents Investment case

By Frank Otchere

Adolescence (10-19 years) is a make or break period when individuals begin to consolidate their physical, cognitive, emotional and socio-economic foundations that will shape their lives. Adolescence is a critical period as many individuals never fully recover from any developmental shortcomings they experience. Yet in today’s world,… Read more →←

How will COVID-19 disrupt child well-being in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia?

COVID-19 Evidence to Policy Publication & data launches

By Alessandro Carraro and Victor Cebotari

  The story of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of vulnerability, in which those with pre-existing deprivations are likely to suffer most. While the full range of economic and social consequences of the crisis are yet to emerge, it will undoubtedly affect many children, by exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and their underling… Read more →←

Making sure the most vulnerable children are heard during COVID-19: 5 lessons on data collection from Somalia

Children and Migration COVID-19 Data and Research

By Mark Gill, Olivia Bueno, Lawrence Oduma

“Playing football was stopped, the school was closed, our parents refused to meet friends during coronavirus.” (boy, 14)             “My mother used to sell breakfast in front of the school, and when the school closed it affected our daily living.” (girl, 16) While COVID-19 has presented new risks and challenges for… Read more →←

How sport can help keep children engaged during COVID-19: Innovations by South African S4D organizations

COVID-19 Education

By Chiara Pasquini, Ayanda Ndlovu, Artur Borkowski

This blog is part two of a series highlighting innovative responses to COVID-19 from S4D organizations. UNICEF Innocenti is conducting research on S4D in collaboration with the UNICEF- FCB and Barça Foundation partnership.  The first blog  in the series discussed innovative responses S4D organizations have taken  globally to adapt to… Read more →←

Five things we learned from research on child survivors of violence

Violence Against Children

By Amber Peterman, Audrey Pereira and Tia Palermo

Understanding prevalence, characteristics and motives of disclosure, help-seeking and reporting of violence against children   Violence against children is a pervasive global phenomenon. Estimates indicate over 1 billion children under the age of 18 experience emotional, physical or sexual violence every year from a range of… Read more →←

Protecting children from harm during COVID-19 needs evidence

COVID-19 Evidence Methods & tools Research synthesis

By Shivit Bakrania, Sandy Oliver

Although much of the world is focused on the “silver lining” that COVID-19 does not appear to severely impact children’s health, UNICEF is raising the alarm about the potential damage of the hidden impacts on children’s health as well as the indirect socio-economic effects of the fallout from the pandemic. In response, UNICEF… Read more →←

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