Research programme

Social and economic policies and children

• Household responses to poverty
  - Situation of children in immigrant families in rich societies;
  - Children migratin on their own / unaccompanied minors.
  
• Resources and policies for children
  - Budget and fiscal decentralization and services for children;
  - ODA in support of children;
  - Social protection systems and child welfare services.
  
• The situation of children in transition countries (SEE/CEE/CIS region)
  - Studies on child poverty in CEE/CIS;
  - Monitoring, analysis and informing on child well-being in CEE/CIS;
  - Development and maintenance of regional statistical database.
  
• Understanding child poverty and wellbeing
  - Studies on child poverty in CEE/CIS;
  - Monitoring, analysing, and informing on child well-being in CEE/CIS;
  - Development and maintenance of regional statistical database (TransMONEE).
  

Implementation of international standards for children

• Child trafficking (Palermo Protocol)
  - Child trafficking in Europe;
  - Child trafficking in South Asia;
  - Prevention of sexual abuse and exploitation;
  - Prevention of exploitation in the tourism industry.
  
• Independent human rights institutions for children
  - Global study on Ombuds for children;
  - Support to Ombuds network.
  
• Other international standards for children
  - Children in institutions and those adopted abroad;
  - Violence and children in sport;
  - Children and media, including sexual exploitation and internet.
  
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol
  - Implementation of the General Measures of the CRC: focus on law reform, monitoring, allocation of resources, participation;
  - Cooperation with the CRC Committee: OPSC, general comment on participation, child protection in sport;
  - Children and juvenile justice;
  - Monitoring and children’s rights.
  

Child protection

• Child Friendly Cities
  - Multi-country review and analysis of CFC experience;
  - Strategy and partnership development.
  
• Children affected by armed conflict
  - Children and truth and reconciliation commissions;
  - Emerging perspectives on children and transitional justice;
  - Children born of sexual violence in conflict zone.
  
• Harmful practices and social norms
  - Multi-country study on social dynamics of abandonment of harmful practices;
  - Role of social norms in harmful practices beyond FGM/C: focus on child marriage.
  

Cross-cutting areas

• Child injury
  
• Children and disabilities
  
• Climate change and children