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1. Are the World's Richest Countries Family Friendly? Policy in the OECD and EU

   

   Children get a better start in life and parents are better able to balance work and home commitments in countries that have family-friendly policies. These include paid parental leave, support for breastfeeding and affordable, high-quality childcare and p

   Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Chzhen, Yekaterina | Gromada, Anna | Rees, Gwyther

2. Cash Transfers and Child Nutrition in Zambia

   

   In this research paper, UNICEF examines the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer (CT) programme on children's height-for-age. The programme was targeted to rural families in Zambia, with children under the age of five. The paper reveals that although

   Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti | UNICEF, United Nations Chil ... Author(s): Chakrabarti, Averi | Handa, Sudhanshu | Natali, Luisa | Seidenfeld, David | ...

3. No Mother Wants her Child to Migrate: Vulnerability of children on the move in the Horn of Africa

   

   This report by UNICEF Innocenti Office of Reseach presents the results of a qualitative study looking into the situation of children in the move on the Horn of Africa. Each month, children and young adults leave Somaliland seeking a better life abroad. Re

   Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti | UNICEF, United Nations Chil ... Author(s): Bueno, Olivia

4. Research that Drives Change: Conceptualizing and conducting nationally led violence prevention research

   

   Globally, studies have demonstrated that children in every society are affected by physical, sexual and emotional violence. The drive to both quantify and qualify violence through data and research has been powerful: discourse among policy makers is shift

   Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti | University of Edinburgh Author(s): Maternowska, Mary Catherine | Potts, Alina | Fry, Deborah | Casey, Tabitha

5. The Importance of Understanding and Monitoring the Effects of Cash Transfer Programmes on Child Labour and Education: Findings from Malawi

   

   The Malawi Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) has been demonstrated to have a wide range of positive effects on beneficiary households, including an expansion of household agricultural business activities. This brief summarizes the results of two studi

   Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti

6. Protected on Paper? An analysis of Nordic country responses to asylum-seeking children

   

   For many years, the Nordic countries have been at the forefront of promoting and protecting the rights of children. However, many of these nations saw a gap in protection of children in 2015 when they experienced an influx of refugee children. Many childr

   Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Byrne, Kevin | Hansen, Claus Bech

7. A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low and Middle-Income Countries

   

   There is increasing evidence that cash transfer (CT) programs decrease intimate partner violence (IPV); however, little is known about how CTs achieve this impact. The researchers conducted a mixed method review of studies in low- and middle-income countr

   Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Buller, Ana Maria | Peterman, Amber | Ranganathan, Meghna | Bleile, Alexandra | ...

8. Child-related Concerns and Migration Decisions: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

   

   This research paper investigates child well-being as a driver for migration. Results show a positive and significant relationship between child-related concerns and migration plans. The likelihood of migration plans increases with lower scores of child we

   Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Burrone, Sara | D'Costa, Bina | Holmqvist, Goran

9. A Cash Plus Model for Safe Transitions to a Healthy and Productive Adulthood: Baseline report

   

   This report provides the baseline results from the impact evaluation of ‘A Cash Plus model for safe transitions to a healthy and productive adulthood’ being implemented within the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Ne

   Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Tanzania Cash Plus Evaluation Team

10. Exploring Women’s Empowerment through Asset Ownership and Experience of Intimate Partner Violence

    

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread globally, with an estimated one-third of women aged 15 years and over experiencing physical and/or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner during their lifetimes. Economic empowerment, or the finan

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Pereira, Audrey | Peterman, Amber | Yount, Kathryn

11. How to Make ‘Cash Plus’ Work: Linking cash transfers to services and sectors

    

    The broad-ranging benefits of cash transfers are now widely recognized. However, the evidence base highlights that they often fall short in achieving longer-term and second-order impacts related to nutrition, learning outcomes and morbidity. In recognitio

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Roelen, Keetie | Devereux, Stephen | Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru | Martorano, Bruno | ...

12. The Adolescent Brain: A second window of opportunity

    

    This compendium is the result of a 2016 symposium hosted by UNICEF titled The Adolescent Brain: A second window of opportunity. The event brought together leading experts in adolescent neuroscience to discuss developments in the field and how new findings

    Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Dahl, Ron | Suleiman, Ahna | Luna, Beatriz | Choudhury, Suparna | Nobl ...

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