Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Nyasha Tirivayi's presentation at the Kampala Capital City Authority’s (KCCA) Urban Social Protection Research Symposium in December 2020.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research activities on child wellbeing in high-income countries.
Evidence shows that cash transfers promote economic empowerment, while decreasing poverty and food insecurity. However, there is little evidence on household poverty reduction and linkages to violence against children from Tanzania.
Lusajo Kajula presented the findings of her impact evaluations of Tanzania's Productive Social Safety Net on violence against children at INSPIRE in August 2018.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on children with disabilities in humanitarian settings.
Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed's presentation on UNICEF Innocenti's new Gender-Responsive Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) research project at a brown bag session at UNICEF HQ (New York City) during the 64th Commission on the Status of Women.
Elena Camilletti and Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed's presentation at socialprotection.org's e-conference held in October 2020: "How do national social protection strategies and programmes integrate gender considerations? Evidence from low- and middle income countries".
The presentations outlines a draft Research Brief, jointly produced by UN Women and UNICEF Innocenti, discusses the findings of research undertaken to map and assess 50 national social protection strategies and 40 social programmes from a gender perspective.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our work on ethical research involving children.
Integrated Social Protection Systems: Enhancing Equity for ChildrenUnicefMaroc
Présentation de Jingqing Chai, Chief Social Policy and Economic Analyses DPP/UNICEF NYHQ, à la Conférence Internationale d'Experts sur la mesure et les approches politiques pour améliorer l'équité pour les nouvelles générations dans la région MENA à Rabat, Maroc du 22 au 23 mai 2012.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our work on research uptake and impact.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research activities on child wellbeing in high-income countries.
Evidence shows that cash transfers promote economic empowerment, while decreasing poverty and food insecurity. However, there is little evidence on household poverty reduction and linkages to violence against children from Tanzania.
Lusajo Kajula presented the findings of her impact evaluations of Tanzania's Productive Social Safety Net on violence against children at INSPIRE in August 2018.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on children with disabilities in humanitarian settings.
Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed's presentation on UNICEF Innocenti's new Gender-Responsive Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) research project at a brown bag session at UNICEF HQ (New York City) during the 64th Commission on the Status of Women.
Elena Camilletti and Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed's presentation at socialprotection.org's e-conference held in October 2020: "How do national social protection strategies and programmes integrate gender considerations? Evidence from low- and middle income countries".
The presentations outlines a draft Research Brief, jointly produced by UN Women and UNICEF Innocenti, discusses the findings of research undertaken to map and assess 50 national social protection strategies and 40 social programmes from a gender perspective.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our work on ethical research involving children.
Integrated Social Protection Systems: Enhancing Equity for ChildrenUnicefMaroc
Présentation de Jingqing Chai, Chief Social Policy and Economic Analyses DPP/UNICEF NYHQ, à la Conférence Internationale d'Experts sur la mesure et les approches politiques pour améliorer l'équité pour les nouvelles générations dans la région MENA à Rabat, Maroc du 22 au 23 mai 2012.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our work on research uptake and impact.
This project brief outlines an approach to study the risks children face from online sexual exploitation and abuse across multiple countries. The agencies involved - UNICEF, ECPAT International, and INTERPOL - will collect data on this issue from the perspectives of children, law enforcement, and other stakeholders. Research will include interviews, surveys, and reviews of offense data to understand the legal landscape and experiences of survivors in each country. The goal is to identify priority actions countries can take to better protect children and disrupt these harms, building a global evidence base over time. Initial implementation will occur in 14 countries across Asia and Africa.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our work on research governance
Exploring measures for gender-transformative design and implementation - A Presentation by Maja Gavrilovic of UNICEF Innocenti and Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) at the International Conference on Universal Child Grants
6-8 February 2019 | Geneva
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research activities on social protection.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our work on research capacity building and evidence synthesis.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on children, migration, and displacement.
On May 27 2021, the Child Protection and Gender sections at NYHQ and UNICEF Innocenti organised an internal webinar on UNICEF’s Strategy Paper on the Gender Dimensions of Violence against Children and Adolescents in which over 200 UNICEF colleagues from regional and country levels participated. The webinar aimed to help participants learn more about the strategy paper and provided an opportunity to share ideas and recommendations for the implementation of priority actions in this area.
Lucie Cluver's (University of Oxford) presentation for the launch of UNICEF Innocenti's #BeyondMasks report on 19 November 2020.
Find out more about the webinar and the report: https://www.unicef-irc.org/events/beyond-masks-launch-event.html
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on violence against children and women.
Why is ECD the Bona Fide Foundation for the SDGs - Pia Rebello Britto, Senior...unicefmne
Podgorica, Montenegro, 27 October, 2015 - Presentation from the international conference "Quality, inclusion and innovations – foundations for the future" organized by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research activities on Child Poverty.
This document discusses child sensitive social protection. It begins by providing context on global poverty levels and demographics in sub-Saharan Africa. It then defines social protection according to various organizations and provides examples of social protection instruments targeted at different life stages. The document discusses how social protection correlates to the Sustainable Development Goals and reviews intended and unintended impacts of programs in India, Ethiopia, and Peru. It concludes by defining child sensitive social protection as policies and programs that address children's specific vulnerabilities and poverty patterns while maximizing positive impacts on children.
1) Social protection programs can play a critical role in facilitating safe transitions to adulthood for adolescents by addressing vulnerabilities during rapid development.
2) However, adolescents are often not directly targeted and their needs are inconsistently reflected in program design, with a focus on younger ages and practical needs over empowerment.
3) Education is a main focus of social transfers for adolescents, which can challenge gender norms by promoting schooling, but impacts vary by context and more can be done to address gendered risks faced by both boys and girls.
Despite huge gains in child well-being during the Millennium Development Goals era, progress for adolescents – children in the second decade of life – is still lagging behind. "The Handbook of Adolescent Development Research and its Impact on Global Policy" aims to fill critical evidence gaps to speed evolution of better policy-making specifically tuned to this dynamic life stage. This SlideShare gives an overview of the book, which is co-edited by Prerna Banati (UNICEF Innocenti) and Jennifer E Lansford (Duke University).
The book is available to pre-order now here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/handbook-of-adolescent-development-research-and-its-impact-on-global-policy-9780190847128?cc=it&lang=en&
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on digital learning.
Leah Prencipe, Tia Palermo, and Yekaterina Chzhen and presented “Impacts of a Cash Plus Intervention on Gender Attitudes among Tanzanian Adolescents” as part of European Commission Joint Research Center's Seminar Series. (June 2020)
In order to support country governments with informed programming for children at sub national level, UNICEF Kenya came up with unique way of representing data dealing with Child Rights – Child Deprivation Index and County Infographics for all 47 counties. The child deprivation index is an innovative way of measuring multi-dimensional poverty and rights deprivation for children by county. The child deprivation index and other data at county level were collated and used to generate county data sheets and infographics which were then presented to county governments. The Infographics present national and county indicators in thematic areas including demographics, education, water and sanitation, maternal and child health and HIV, nutrition and child protection.
Index of child deprivation developed based on 13 indicators in domains of health, education, and material wellbeing. Counties are ranked according to their level of deprivation, and their contribution to national child deprivation.
Link to the Conference: http://www.gisfortheun.com/about/index.html
Evidence suggests that developing specific core capacities from childhood can support performance in school, work, and life.
These nine “core capacities” are cornerstones of life skills. We often overlook these capacities as innate basic skills, so they are underutilized in efforts to promote child well-being and development.
But by nurturing, expanding, and modelling these capacities, children can better understand and interact with the world around them, and realise their unique potential.
Visit our research report launched 9 December 2021: unicef-irc.org/what-makes-me
The Office of Research – Innocenti is UNICEF’s dedicated research centre. Our core mandate is to undertake cutting-edge, policy-relevant research that equips the organization and the wider global community to deliver results for children. This project brief summarizes our research on the Data Must Speak project.
The document discusses social protection approaches for children and adolescents. It outlines UNICEF's focus on using social protection systems to promote children's rights and equitable outcomes. Social protection can be protective, preventive, or transformative. The document then reviews evidence that social cash transfers can positively impact education and child labor outcomes, as well as safe transitions to adulthood by delaying marriage and childbearing. However, impacts vary by context and gender. The document calls for mainstreaming an adolescent lens into social protection programming to better address their needs through program design, features, and indicators.
This project brief outlines an approach to study the risks children face from online sexual exploitation and abuse across multiple countries. The agencies involved - UNICEF, ECPAT International, and INTERPOL - will collect data on this issue from the perspectives of children, law enforcement, and other stakeholders. Research will include interviews, surveys, and reviews of offense data to understand the legal landscape and experiences of survivors in each country. The goal is to identify priority actions countries can take to better protect children and disrupt these harms, building a global evidence base over time. Initial implementation will occur in 14 countries across Asia and Africa.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our work on research governance
Exploring measures for gender-transformative design and implementation - A Presentation by Maja Gavrilovic of UNICEF Innocenti and Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) at the International Conference on Universal Child Grants
6-8 February 2019 | Geneva
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research activities on social protection.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our work on research capacity building and evidence synthesis.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on children, migration, and displacement.
On May 27 2021, the Child Protection and Gender sections at NYHQ and UNICEF Innocenti organised an internal webinar on UNICEF’s Strategy Paper on the Gender Dimensions of Violence against Children and Adolescents in which over 200 UNICEF colleagues from regional and country levels participated. The webinar aimed to help participants learn more about the strategy paper and provided an opportunity to share ideas and recommendations for the implementation of priority actions in this area.
Lucie Cluver's (University of Oxford) presentation for the launch of UNICEF Innocenti's #BeyondMasks report on 19 November 2020.
Find out more about the webinar and the report: https://www.unicef-irc.org/events/beyond-masks-launch-event.html
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on violence against children and women.
Why is ECD the Bona Fide Foundation for the SDGs - Pia Rebello Britto, Senior...unicefmne
Podgorica, Montenegro, 27 October, 2015 - Presentation from the international conference "Quality, inclusion and innovations – foundations for the future" organized by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research activities on Child Poverty.
This document discusses child sensitive social protection. It begins by providing context on global poverty levels and demographics in sub-Saharan Africa. It then defines social protection according to various organizations and provides examples of social protection instruments targeted at different life stages. The document discusses how social protection correlates to the Sustainable Development Goals and reviews intended and unintended impacts of programs in India, Ethiopia, and Peru. It concludes by defining child sensitive social protection as policies and programs that address children's specific vulnerabilities and poverty patterns while maximizing positive impacts on children.
1) Social protection programs can play a critical role in facilitating safe transitions to adulthood for adolescents by addressing vulnerabilities during rapid development.
2) However, adolescents are often not directly targeted and their needs are inconsistently reflected in program design, with a focus on younger ages and practical needs over empowerment.
3) Education is a main focus of social transfers for adolescents, which can challenge gender norms by promoting schooling, but impacts vary by context and more can be done to address gendered risks faced by both boys and girls.
Despite huge gains in child well-being during the Millennium Development Goals era, progress for adolescents – children in the second decade of life – is still lagging behind. "The Handbook of Adolescent Development Research and its Impact on Global Policy" aims to fill critical evidence gaps to speed evolution of better policy-making specifically tuned to this dynamic life stage. This SlideShare gives an overview of the book, which is co-edited by Prerna Banati (UNICEF Innocenti) and Jennifer E Lansford (Duke University).
The book is available to pre-order now here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/handbook-of-adolescent-development-research-and-its-impact-on-global-policy-9780190847128?cc=it&lang=en&
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on digital learning.
Leah Prencipe, Tia Palermo, and Yekaterina Chzhen and presented “Impacts of a Cash Plus Intervention on Gender Attitudes among Tanzanian Adolescents” as part of European Commission Joint Research Center's Seminar Series. (June 2020)
In order to support country governments with informed programming for children at sub national level, UNICEF Kenya came up with unique way of representing data dealing with Child Rights – Child Deprivation Index and County Infographics for all 47 counties. The child deprivation index is an innovative way of measuring multi-dimensional poverty and rights deprivation for children by county. The child deprivation index and other data at county level were collated and used to generate county data sheets and infographics which were then presented to county governments. The Infographics present national and county indicators in thematic areas including demographics, education, water and sanitation, maternal and child health and HIV, nutrition and child protection.
Index of child deprivation developed based on 13 indicators in domains of health, education, and material wellbeing. Counties are ranked according to their level of deprivation, and their contribution to national child deprivation.
Link to the Conference: http://www.gisfortheun.com/about/index.html
Evidence suggests that developing specific core capacities from childhood can support performance in school, work, and life.
These nine “core capacities” are cornerstones of life skills. We often overlook these capacities as innate basic skills, so they are underutilized in efforts to promote child well-being and development.
But by nurturing, expanding, and modelling these capacities, children can better understand and interact with the world around them, and realise their unique potential.
Visit our research report launched 9 December 2021: unicef-irc.org/what-makes-me
The Office of Research – Innocenti is UNICEF’s dedicated research centre. Our core mandate is to undertake cutting-edge, policy-relevant research that equips the organization and the wider global community to deliver results for children. This project brief summarizes our research on the Data Must Speak project.
The document discusses social protection approaches for children and adolescents. It outlines UNICEF's focus on using social protection systems to promote children's rights and equitable outcomes. Social protection can be protective, preventive, or transformative. The document then reviews evidence that social cash transfers can positively impact education and child labor outcomes, as well as safe transitions to adulthood by delaying marriage and childbearing. However, impacts vary by context and gender. The document calls for mainstreaming an adolescent lens into social protection programming to better address their needs through program design, features, and indicators.
The document discusses strengthening education sector response to reproductive health, HIV, and AIDS through comprehensive sexuality education. It notes that fewer youth are prepared for adulthood, rendering them vulnerable. In Kenya, HIV prevalence among 15-24 year olds is 3.8% and sexual debut has declined to 12 years old. Comprehensive sexuality education in schools can help increase knowledge and skills to prevent diseases and unintended pregnancy by addressing relationships, values, and decision making. Research shows such programs do not increase sexual activity but can promote healthy behaviors and attitudes when culturally appropriate. The education sector aims to collaborate across stakeholders to implement comprehensive sexuality education.
Impacts of Cash Transfers on Adolescents' & Young Women's Well-Being Globally...The Transfer Project
Tia Palermo's presentation for the joint UNICEF & Gates Foundation Tanzania Adolescent Symposium in Dar es Salaam on 7 February 2018.
Using evidence from around the world, Tia outlines what we know about cash transfers impacts on youth and young women's well-being.
This document summarizes a session on integrating gender and equity considerations into IMCHA research efforts. The session objectives are to discuss gender equality in IMCHA projects, strengthen capacities for integrating gender, and define strategies for the future. The outline includes an overview of gender concepts, approaches to gender in MNCH projects/research, mid-term learning from gender integration in IMCHA projects in Tanzania, Senegal, Uganda and South Sudan, and group work on lessons learned and ways forward. Key concepts discussed are gender-unequal, gender-blind, gender-sensitive, gender-specific, and gender-transformative approaches. Challenges covered integrating detailed gender analysis and addressing power imbalances. The session aims to improve gender integration
Maja Gavrilovic explores how social protection programs target or include adolescents.
Presented as part of ALIGN's Social Protection, Gender Norms and Adolescence expert dialogue, held in London in September 2018.
There is growing global recognition that violence against women and violence against children, and in particular intimate partner violence against women and violence against children by parents or caregivers, intersect in different ways. As global evidence of and interest in these intersections continue to grow, strategies are needed to enhance collaborations across these fields and thus ensure the best outcomes for both women and children. In response, the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), the UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, and the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction hosted by WHO’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health, partnered to coordinate a global participatory process to identify research priorities that relate to the intersections between violence against children and violence against women.
While priorities are important, the way in which these priorities are determined is also crucial, especially for ownership, contextualization and use. Inclusive, participatory research-setting, such as used in this work, serves to promote a diversity of voices – especially from low- and middle-income countries which have historically lacked representation – and minimize the risk of bias when establishing research priorities.
This report describes the process used to determine the priorities for research on the intersections between violence against children and violence against women, and the top 10 research questions identified.
This document outlines a research proposal on factors affecting female participation in higher education programs at Hawassa University in Ethiopia. The study aims to identify reasons for low female enrollment in postgraduate programs, particularly in the Department of Governance and Development Studies. It will employ qualitative and quantitative methods like interviews, focus groups, and enrollment data analysis. The study seeks to understand socioeconomic, cultural, and institutional barriers to gender parity in education. It ultimately aims to inform policymakers on improving female access and participation in higher education.
This document summarizes a study on the Ujana Salama cash plus intervention in Tanzania. The intervention provided adolescent youth in Tanzania with livelihoods training, productive grants, mentorship, and referrals to health services alongside an existing cash transfer program. A mixed-methods cluster randomized controlled trial found the intervention had positive impacts on economic opportunities, mental health, gender attitudes, and health knowledge and behaviors up to 2 years post-intervention. These findings suggest cash transfers can be enhanced by linking youth to complementary services to promote multidimensional well-being when transitioning to adulthood.
Tia Palermo's presentation on cash transfers and violence against women and children to UN Women's regional office and Promundo's Learning Dialogue Series in June 2020.
Putting Children First: Session 2.1.D Marlene Ogawa - Social connectedness as...The Impact Initiative
Putting Children First: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 2017
This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa, and in inspiring action towards change. The conference offered a platform for bridging divides across sectors, disciplines and policy, practice and research.
This document discusses the importance of including men and boys in discussions around reproductive health. It notes that addressing gender inequities requires engaging men as partners. International organizations like ICPD have recognized the need for male participation. Approaches discussed that have shown success include peer mentoring programs with young men, community theater in Benin, and the Stepping Stones program which uses mixed-sex discussion groups. Lessons from projects in Ethiopia, Uganda, Bangladesh emphasize the need for collaborative, evidence-based policies and strategies to constructively engage men.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education is a curriculum-based process of teaching & learning about the cognitive, emotional, physical & social aspects of sexuality.
The document discusses comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in the Eastern Mediterranean region. It notes that adolescents in the region lack knowledge about sexual and reproductive health due to poor education programs. While most parents support CSE being taught in schools according to Islamic principles, teachers often have negative attitudes. Successful CSE programs have been implemented in Egypt and Pakistan. However, challenges remain including socio-cultural norms, lack of coordination and funding. Future prospects include building on initiatives to integrate CSE and leveraging opportunities under the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
This document discusses comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. It defines CSE as a curriculum that teaches about cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality. The document outlines key concepts to be included in CSE curricula according to international guidance. It discusses regional challenges to implementing CSE, including socio-cultural challenges like myths and perceived stigma, as well as policy and programmatic challenges like a lack of coordination and funding. The document also highlights some successful CSE programs in the region, such as one conducted in Egypt that showed improved knowledge among adolescents after attending teaching sessions.
This document discusses comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in the Eastern Mediterranean region. It notes that adolescents in the region lack knowledge about sexual and reproductive health. While parents and teachers' attitudes are often negative, most support CSE that aligns with religious and cultural values. Key challenges to implementing CSE include socio-cultural norms, policy barriers, and lack of funding. Successful programs in Egypt and Pakistan demonstrate that engaging stakeholders and providing school-based CSE can improve knowledge and support for CSE. Future prospects include building on regional health initiatives and implementing evidence-based CSE through collaborative, coordinated efforts.
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A partnership with the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage, UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation and the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, the STAR Initiative (Strategic Technical Assistance for Research) to end harmful practices aims to strengthen evidence generation and learning. The initiative has three areas of focus: evidence generation, evidence synthesis and research dissemination and uptake.
The Teachers for All project aims to ensure teachers are placed equitably where they are needed most through a mixed-methods research approach. The research is being conducted in 11 African countries to analyze teacher deployment data and policies, understand challenges, and identify promising practices. By exploring the relationships between teacher placement, learning outcomes, and school characteristics, the goal is to strengthen countries' capacity to make evidence-based decisions on teacher deployment that improve equity, effectiveness, and efficiency in education systems.
African countries are facing the world’s worst teacher shortage. To shore up the deficit and achieve universal primary education by 2030, 6.1 million primary school teachers need to be hired in Africa alone.
As COVID-19 exacerbates pressures placed on education budgets, it is crucial that the allocation of quality teachers in Africa is driven by a quest for equity, effectiveness, and efficiency, since no child should be deprived of learning opportunities because of the school they attend or their area of residence.
UNICEF Innocenti is seeking to expand the evidence base on teacher allocation in Africa in order to identify how the allocation of qualified teachers can be optimized to improve equity in learning outcomes. While the equity of primary school teacher allocation is the intended focus of this research, pre-primary teacher allocation will also be analyzed.
On 19 October 2021, over 500 researchers, practitioners, policymakers and activists from around the world gathered to take stock of what we know about the intersections between
violence against children and violence against women, identify existing knowledge gaps and discuss opportunities to increase coordination across efforts to prevent and respond to both
forms of violence.
This summary presents key takeaways from the event organized by UNICEF Innocenti, in collaboration with the Global Partnership to End Violence, the World Health Organization,
the Sexual Violence Research Initiative and the UK FCDO.
Effective solutions to end violence against children will require researchers, practitioners, and leaders to come together to take stock of what we know, bridge gaps across the field, and influence change through the use and generation of VAC evidence.
This webinar aimed to share evidence and foster discussion on intersections between violence against women and violence against children, highlighting opportunities for greater collaboration, to build knowledge, and to translate it into policy and programmes.
Opening remarks: Alessandra Guedes, Gender and Development Research Manager, UNICEF Innocenti
Presenting evidence:
- Clara Alemann, Director of Programs, Promundo, The Hague
- Manuela Colombini, Assistant Professor in Health Systems and Policy and Gender-based Violence, and Loraine Bacchus, Associate Professor of Social Science, LSHTM
- Chandré Gould, Senior Research Fellow, and Matodzi Amisi, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
- Isabelle Pearson, Research Fellow for the Gender Violence & Health Centre at LSHTM and Heidi Stöckl, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Panel discussion:
- Paul Bukuluki, Associate Professor of Social Work and Medical Anthropology, Makerere University, Uganda
- Lina Digolo, Senior Associate, The Prevention Collaborative, Kenya
- Lori Heise, Professor of Gender, Violence and Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States
- Santi Kusumaningrum, Co-founder and Director, PUSKAPA - Center on Child Protection and Wellbeing at Universitas Indonesia
- Tarisai Mchuchu-MacMillan, Executive Director, MOSAIC, South Africa
Closing remarks: Emily Esplen, Head of Ending Violence Team, FCDO, United Kingdom
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on child labour.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on the Global Kids Online project.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on the Time to Teach project.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research on the Let Us Learn project.
This document serves as a guide for applying the Sport for
Development (S4D) framework described in the report “Playing
the Game: A framework for successful child-focused sport for
development programmes”.
The framework can be used as a starting point for designing a
new programme, to guide the expansion of an existing one into
new locations, or to improve and re-organize specific
programmatic and organizational aspects.
The framework follows the different phases of a programme
and their respective components, and recommends best
practices (see Figure 1). For each component of each
programming stage, this toolkit offers practitioners guiding
questions and practical recommendations.
With reliable data, policymakers, school managers, teachers, and communities can identify problems, pose solutions, and direct resources where they are most needed. As part of the Africa Evidence Week 2021, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti organized a live webinar to share and discuss how UNICEF’s implementation of the Data Must Speak global initiative has supported countries in Africa strengthen the use of data and research for education management and decision-making. It draws on panelists from Ministries of Education from Namibia and Togo, as well as UNICEF and its Office of Research.
The webinar contributes important knowledge and “know-how” to several ongoing global education discussions such as:
- How education data systems can be strengthened to drive better policy decisions on resource allocation and to manage education systems equitably?
- How education data can be transformed into user-friendly formats to inform education planning at decentralized levels and social accountability at community level?
- How to co-create and co-implement large-scale education research with Ministries of Education, local academics, and in-country partners during a global pandemic?
Speakers include:
• Edda Bohn, Deputy Executive Director, Namibia Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture
• Ayesha Wentworth, Director of Programmes Quality Assurance, Namibia Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture
• Brigitte Nshimyimana, Deputy Director of the Child Welfare Directorate, Namibia Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare
• Agoura Badja Tchewafei, Planning Specialist at the Planning and Evaluation Directorate, Togo Ministry of Education (MEPSTA)
• Ernst Mbangula, Manager PME, UNICEF Namibia
• Ayao Agbagnon, Education Officer, UNICEF Togo
• Nicolas Reuge, Senior Adviser Education, UNICEF, NYHQ
• Jean Luc Yameogo, Education Specialist, UNICEF, NYHQ
• Annika Rigole, Education Specialist, UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office
• Renaud Comba, Data Must Speak Research Manager, UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti
• Matt Brossard, Chief Education, UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti
This document provides an overview of a project aimed at identifying best practices for sport for development (S4D) organizations to improve outcomes for children. The research team conducted in-depth case studies of 10 S4D organizations across different regions and program types. By drawing on literature reviews and interviews, the project seeks to determine practices that lead to positive impacts, especially for vulnerable children, in areas like program design, implementation, scaling, and sustainability. The overall goal is to develop an evidence-based guiding framework to help S4D organizations strengthen their work in empowering children through sport.
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The findings in this report highlight some of the key factors shaping the experiences and vulnerabilities of young people on the move – particularly their proximity to border spaces and how this affects the risks that they face. The report describes strategies that young people on the move employ to remain below the radar of visibility to state and non-state actors due to fear of arrest, detention, and deportation while also trying to keep themselves safe and access support in border towns. These strategies of (in)visibility provide a way to protect themselves yet at the same time also heighten some of the risks young people face as their vulnerabilities are not always recognised by those who could offer support.
In this report we show that the realities and challenges of life and migration in this region and in Zambia need to be better understood for support to be strengthened and tuned to meet the specific needs of young people on the move. This includes understanding the role of state and non-state stakeholders, the impact of laws and policies and, critically, the experiences of the young people themselves. We provide recommendations for immediate action, recommendations for programming to support young people on the move in the two towns that would reduce risk for young people in this area, and recommendations for longer term policy advocacy.
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Gender-Responsive Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP): A framework
1. Gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection (GRASSP): A Framework
Dr. Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Dr. Nyasha Tirivayi
KCCA Research Symposium
10 December 2020
2. • To ultimately contribute to gender
equality outcomes across the
lifecourse in LMICs.
• To build a robust evidence base
focused on ‘what works’, ‘how’
and ‘why’ on gender-responsive
social protection
GRASSP aims in short….
for every child, answers
A child-sensitive social protection system
Social Protection Across the Life-course
FCDO-FUNDED, FIVE YEAR (2018-2023) RESEARCH PROGRAMME
Life-course focus …
• Early childhood
• Children
• Adolescence and youth
• Adulthood and reproductive age
• Old age
Gender integration continuum
4. Gender discriminatory Gender blind Gender sensitive Gender responsive Gender transformative
Intentionally or
unintentionally takes
advantage of gender
stereotypes in programme
outcomes and may reinforce
gender inequalities.
Ignores gender roles, norms
and relations, and often
assumes that the
programmes or
interventions will affect
women, girls, men and boys
equally, potentially
worsening inequalities.
Acknowledges and address
gender needs and
vulnerabilities, without
tackling the root causes that
contribute to gender
inequalities.
Acknowledges gender
dynamics and deliberately
responds to women’s, girls’,
men’s and boys’ specific
needs to achieve
positive outcomes.
Explicitly seeks to transform
unequal gender relations to
promote shared power,
control of resources,
decision-making, and
support empowerment
The Gender Integration Continuum is a diagnostic tool to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention in addressing
gender inequalities in programme design, implementation, monitoring or evaluation.
Source: UNICEF Office of Research- Innocenti (2020) ‘Gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection: A conceptual
framework’, Innocenti Working Paper, UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, Florence (2020)
WHAT IS THE GENDER INTEGRATION CONTINUUM
5. Gender discriminatory Gender blind Gender sensitive Gender responsive Gender transformative
A conditional cash transfer
that makes women only
responsible for fulfilling
conditions related to
children in order to be
eligible for and to receive the
social protection benefit.
A contributory (only) social
insurance schemes (e.g.
pensions) which does not
account for the lower
likelihood of women to work
in the formal sector.
The provision of childcare
support to mothers in public
works to reduce the
constraints associated with
their unpaid care and
domestic work.
The provision of individual
cash benefits to men and
women rather than
combining them in one
household transfer
A cash ‘plus’ intervention
that, includes a behaviour
change component
targeting men and boys to
promote shared
responsibility in unpaid care
and domestic work.
Source: UNICEF Office of Research- Innocenti (2020) ‘Gender-responsive age-sensitive social protection: A conceptual
framework’, Innocenti Working Paper, UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, Florence (2020)
SOCIAL PROTECTION EXAMPLES ACROSS
THE GENDER INTEGRATION CONTINUUM
7. Objectives
• Unpack the independent and complementary effects of
aspects of design and implementation at different points
across the gender-integration continuum (i.e. gender
neutral to gender transformative) across the life-course
on gender equality and primary outcomes of social
protection programmes.
• Investigate the moderating effects of key gender-specific
contextual factors and gender norms on gender-
responsive and age-sensitive/life-course appropriate
social protection programming.
• Advance understanding and evidence around gender-
responsive policy and programming in crisis contexts, and
programmes’ cost-effectiveness.
Research Questions
• What design and implementation features of a social
protection programme can be shown to have a positive
impact on gender equality outcomes?
• What are the key gender-relevant moderating and
mediating factors for social protection programmes in
achieving gender equality outcomes – including
contextual factors (e.g. crisis contexts and social and
gender norms)?
• What evidence is there on cost-effectiveness of gender-
responsive and life-course social protection
programmes?
UNPACKING DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION FEATURES
9. EXAMPLE FROM THE TANZANIA STUDY
Alignment with the GRASSP Conceptual Framework
Adolescent
cash plus
(PSSN)
Tanzania
programme
Change
pathways
Gender-
integration
continuum
Life-course
focus
Gender
equality
outcomes
Adolescents and
their households
Gender-neutral (with potential to
be gender transformative)
Outcomes for Tanzania study
• Improved health (HIV and
SRH knowledge, testing and
treatment; health seeking)
• Bodily integrity and
mobility (violence
experiences)
• Enhanced voice and agency
+ Improved psychosocial
wellbeing (gender equitable
attitudes, self-esteem and
entrepreneurial attitudes)
Core change pathways study focuses on
• Encouraging investments in households’ human
development (intergenerational well-being) via
mentoring, livelihood and SRH-HIV life skills training
and linkages with health services/facilities
• Increasing voice and agency beyond the household
through mentoring, SRH-HIV life skills training and
linkages and productive grant
• Changing social and gender norms and attitudes
which can have lasting impacts on future
relationships, making them more gender equitable
and reducing the risk of future IPV.
Focus of Tanzania study:
• Gendered impacts of
Irregular cash transfers and
Coping strategies
• Longer-term impacts of plus-
component and its
implementation on gender
equality outcomes
Evaluation Design:
Quantitative Cluster
randomised control trial (cRCT)
10. Dr. Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed
Gender & Development Manager (Research)
znesbitt-ahmed@unicef.org
Dr. Nyasha Tirivayi
Social Policy Manager
jtirivayi@unicef.org