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UNICEF Research for Children 2013: From Evidence to Action
This volume represents the first systematic attempt to showcase the breadth and depth of UNICEF's research work. At the end of 2012, the Office of Research invited UNICEF's country and regional offices, national committees and headquarters to submit recen
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Strengthening Child Protection Systems for Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Mozambique: A case study of the border town of Ressano Garcia
This research sets out to understand the why, how and with whom of rural-urban internal migration of children to Ressano Garcia, a border town between Mozambique and South Africa. It addresses the overarching research question of how to strengthen child p
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Child well-being in rich countries: A comparative overview. Innocenti Report Card 11
This research was conducted by the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, as part of the Report Card series which is designed to monitor and compare the performance of economically advanced countries in securing the rights of their children. The Report card
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Understanding Governance of Early Childhood Development and Education Systems and Services in Low-Income Countries. Innocenti Working Paper No.2013-07
Over the past decade, early childhood development and education (ECDE) has received increasing attention. This has led to an influx of scientific, macroeconomic, and rights-based evidence, supporting the importance of equitably implementing quality ECDE p
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The Impact of Social Protection on Children: A review of the literature. Working Paper 2012-06, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence
Social protection is particularly important for children, in view of their higher levels of vulnerability compared to adults, and the role that social protection can play in ensuring adequate nutrition, access to and utilization of social services. While
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The Urban Divide: Poor and middle class children’s experiences of school in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Working Paper 2012-08, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence
Children living in urban slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh, often have poor access to school and attend different types of school than students from middle class households. This paper asks whether their experiences in school also disadvantage them further in te
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Measuring child poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries
The latest of the UNICEF Office of Research Report Card series, aimed at focusing on the well-being of children in industrialized countries. Report Card 10 considers two views of child poverty in the world’s advanced economies: a measure of absolute depri
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Governance and the Rights of Children: Policy, implementation and monitoring
This paper explores some of the factors which impede and promote public sector responsibilities towards children. The purpose of this analysis is to seek methods of assessing the performance of governments in their roles as protectors of the rights of chi
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Psychosocial support for children: Protecting the Rights of child victims and witnesses in transitional justice processes
This paper presents a short overview of the obligations of states under international law to prosecute persons accused of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and enforced disappearances, specifically focusing on crimes against children.
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The Impact of the Food and Financial Crises on Child Mortality: The case of Sub-Saharan Africa
The years 2000-2007 witnessed an average decline in under 5 mortality rates (U5MR) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faster than that recorded during the prior two decades, including in countries with high HIV prevalence rates due to the spread of preventative
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Child rights and governance roundtable- Report and conclusions
Co-hosted by UNICEF, Save the Children and the OECD, the Roundtable on Child Rights and Governance held on 26-27 April 2011 in London aimed to reflect on the linkages between these two areas, and initiate a dialogue between actors from the governance sect
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Protecting vulnerable families in Central Asia: Poverty, Vulnerability and the Impact of the Economic Crisis
This paper provides an overview of the social and economic vulnerabilities of households with children in 5 Central Asian countries, and assesses the ability of national social protection systems to address these, with the main focus on the role of non-co