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Annual priorities
For every child, the answers we need
Every year, the UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight sets a research and foresight agenda. For 2024, we will focus on three main issues, and the questions that they provoke, such as:
- The future of childhood
- What will the future hold for children’s lives and their rights?
- How can we make the most of emerging digital technology and design digital play in ways that promote children’s well-being?
- What will be the role of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in children’s lives?
- Education and learning
- Why aren’t children learning?
- Why are women underrepresented in leadership roles in education?
- How can we help young people learn new skills for a green economy?
- How can we help national education systems include refugee learners?
- What works to ensure digital learning for every child?
- Child rights and voices of young people
- How can children’s rights be advanced in a digital age?
- What approaches work in reducing violence against children and women in the home?
- How can social protection programmes achieve both gender equality and poverty reduction?
- Are the rights and well-being of marginalized children in wealthy countries being protected?
Throughout the year, answers to these questions will emerge in global research and foresight papers on digital learning, children with disabilities, education, and social protection and gender equality. Some of the highlights of the year will include The State of the World’s Children 2024 and The Global Outlook – Prospects for Children 2025.
