Episode 5: Alessandra Guedes and Shanaaz Mathews on intersections between violence against children and violence against women. Alessandra Guedes, UNICEF Innocenti's Gender and Development Manager, and Shanaaz Mathews, Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, explore the intersections between violence against children and violence against women. Reports and resources relevant to this episode: UNICEF Child Protection...

Episode 3 of the GRASSP podcast explores social protection case studies from Angola, Burkina Faso, Mali and Tanzania. Discover how how social protection interventions can be adapted to focus on women and girls, and their specific needs.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. To commemorate this landmark in child rights, UNICEF Innocenti is producing Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come. In this episode, Gavin Wood discusses the rights of children with disabilities. For a full transcript of this episode, please visit this link:...

Episode 3: Camila Teixeira on the right to peaceful protest and other civil and political rights. Reports and resources mentioned in this episode: • Youth, Protests and the Polycrisis report https://www.unicef.org/innocenti/reports/youth-protests-and-polycrisis • Explainer – Should Children Vote? Understanding the debate https://www.unicef.org/innocenti/should-children-vote • Free and safe to protest – report on policing assemblies involving children...

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. To commemorate this landmark in child rights, UNICEF Innocenti is producing Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come. In this episode, Professor Ann Skelton discusses the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

In the first of a new series of podcasts, Camila Teixeira of UNICEF Innocenti speaks with Nahjae Nunes and Abril Perazzini, both UNICEF Youth Foresight Fellows, on the future of democracy - as seen through the eyes and experience of young people.

Gender and age play a disproportionately large role in the way people experience risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities. Events at different stages in life, like marriage, childbearing or retirement, can mean that women and girls are at a heightened risk of experiencing poverty. Social protection, such as cash transfers or health insurance, can help address poverty and vulnerability, as well as supporting people during shocks from childhood through to old age. In this podcast, Gustavo...

Gender and age play a disproportionately large role in the way people experience risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities. Events at different stages in life, like marriage, childbearing or retirement, can mean that women and girls are at a heightened risk of experiencing poverty. Social protection, such as cash transfers or health insurance, can help address poverty and vulnerability, as well as supporting people during shocks from childhood through to old age. In this podcast, Ramya...

The Leading Minds 2022 conference brought young leaders and global thought leaders together to discuss “the Vital Importance of Child Identity” -- bringing together emerging research, under-represented perspectives, and key action steps to foster positive identity. Listen to Faridah Luanda, Natasha Maimba, Victor Lopez-Carmen as they share their experiences and expertise on building positive child identity. This podcast is hosted by Shai Naides, a Youth Engagement Officer at the UNICEF...

What is the impact of social protection on gender equality in low and middle-income countries? In this podcast, Camila Perera talks to Francesca Bastagli, Director of the Equity and Social Policy programme and Principal Research Fellow at global think tank ODI, and Shivit Bakrania, Knowledge Management Specialist at the UNICEF Office of Research–Innocenti to discuss the results of our recent systematic review investigating the impact of social protection programmes on gender equality in low...

Quality childcare helps parents’ return to work and also supports children’s development. It is essential service for an equitable society. But new research finds that even in the world’s richest countries, 1 in 7 parents have unmet childcare needs. In this podcast, Dale Rutstein talks to Anna Gromada about her new UNICEF Innocenti report - “Where do rich countries stand on childcare?” - which ranks the childcare policies of the world's richest countries.

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...

In this podcast we're talking about UNICEF Innocenti’s new evidence (and) gap map, which visualizes what evidence exists – and where there are gaps - on interventions to reduce violence against children in low and middle income countries, with Kerry Albright, Chief of Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management, and Ramya Subrahmanian, Chief of Child Rights and Protection at UNICEF Innocenti. The new gap map, completed in partnership with the Campbell Collaboration, arranges around 150...

Our latest podcast done in partnership with UNICEF's country office in Mozambique unpacks their new report on child poverty in the country. We interview former UNICEF Innocenti researcher and current research and evaluation specialist with UNICEF Mozambique, Zlata Bruckhauf to discuss what poverty looks like in Mozambique for children and how measuring child poverty across multuple dimensions helps us to not only understand poverty better but informs better solutions to #ENDpoverty. How...

In our latest Research Matters podcast, we’re talking about our recent report: Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19: Social protection in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with two members of our research team: Dominic Richardson and Kaku Attah Damoah. This report is the first in a series looking at social protection for families and children in the aftermath of COVID-19 in various regions of the world - the first region to be looked at in this series being Eastern...

What was the state of global education when the COVID-19 outbreak started, how has COVID-19 changed education and what are we learning from the pandemic's effects on children? In our latest podcast, UNICEF Innocenti's Chief of Communication, Dale Rutstein talks with Matt Brossard and Tom Dreesen, from our education team, about what the evidence says about improving education outcomes for children amid COVID-19. UNICEF Innocenti's new COVID-19 research briefs on education provide new...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...