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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Adolescents’ Mental Health: Out of the shadows- Evidence on psychological well-being of 11-15-year-olds from 31 industrialized countries
It is the right time to channel more public investment for comprehensive support of children’s and adolescents’ mental health and well-being. Target 3.4 under Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Agenda explicitly aims to ‘promote mental health and well-
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Linking Social Rights to Active Citizenship for the Most Vulnerable: The role of rights and accountability in the ‘making’ and ‘shaping’ of social protection
The rise of social protection into the limelight of social policy has opened up space for understanding how it can act as a key interface between states and citizens.This paper rethinks social protection through the lens of citizenship. It considers how t
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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
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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
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How Does the Time Children Spend Using Digital Technology Impact their Mental Wellbeing, Social Relationships and Physical Activity? An evidence-focused literature review
Based on an evidence-focused literature review, the first part of this paper examines existing knowledge on how the time children spend using digital technology impacts their well-being across three dimensions; mental/psychological, social and physical. T
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Parenting Interventions: How well do they transport from one country to another?
UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti has worked on research related to support for families and parents since 2013. In particular, Innocenti supported research on the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme for Parents and Teens by partnering with Oxford Univ