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Families, Family Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals
Family policies are a mainstay of national policies and one of the most meaningful means for governments to influence the standard of living of future generations. Family policies also have a central part to play in meeting many of the targets that will c
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Digital Contact Tracing and Surveillance during COVID-19: General and child-specific ethical issues
Produced by Unicef Innocenti, this research brief presents some of the both general and child-specific ethical issues regarding the use of digital technologies to perform contact tracing and surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic
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COVID-19 and Children, in the North and in the South
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be considerable and comparable to the recession and debt crisis of the 1980s. The heavy costs for children can only be avoided with systematic and concerted efforts of governments and the international co
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Promising Practices for Equitable Remote Learning: Emerging lessons from COVID-19 education responses in 127 countries
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on societies all over the world. As an effort to stop the spread of the disease, schools have closed, impacting approximately 91 percent of the world's enrolled students. Authorities and education stak
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Innocenti Research Brief: Evidence and gap map research brief
This Innocenti Research Brief is one in a series of five, each focusing on one of UNICEF’s strategic goal areas for 2021. The series provides an overview of the available evidence on the effectiveness of interventions aiming to improve children’s welfare
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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
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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
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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
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Best of UNICEF Research Retrospective: Documenting impact and lessons learned
This retrospective comprises a selection of reports from the past six years of UNICEF research, focusing on children’s rights, protection, and health. The featured examples, including six case studies, has been selected in an annual exercise to award and
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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
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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
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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