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This section provides a preview of the Centre's planned research output for 2012. Some titles are provisional and subject to change.
Innocenti Reports
Global study on human rights institutions for children
Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children, often established as 'Ombuds for Children', have gained considerable attention in recent years as key contributors to policy processes for child rights. Ombuds for Children monitor the actions of government and other actors that affect children; promote children’s rights at national and local level; and facilitate dialogue between children and the State.This study examines the role and functioning of independent institutions for the realization of children's rights, with a view to informing decision-making. Carried out in cooperation with relevant actors in each region, its development has enlightened various processes at national level aimed at establishing or supporting these institutions.
Drawing on regional overviews of the work of independent human rights institutions for children, the study analyses their distinctive value in the realization of children's rights, highlights practical considerations for further establishment and consolidation and identifies conditions for their effective functioning.
Languages: English and French.
Parts of the study will also be translated into Spanish.
Research Area: The best interest principle in child protection systems
Child friendliness of social protection systems
During the 20th century many countries passed various forms of social protection legislation intended to provide protection for the most vulnerable and poor. In some countries, these policy interventions can be described as systems; in many others the interventions are fragmented and do not cover all those in need of protection. While there are significant amounts of research available on the effectiveness of social protection interventions for specific target groups, there has been little research on how social protection systems benefit children. This publication discusses the impact of various global social protection interventions, and will also be informed by separate studies being produced for each region (Asia, Central and Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa).Research Area: Social protection
Multidimensional poverty studies in poor countries
This series of papers brings together various studies on multidimensional poverty in low- and middle-income countries, taking stock of the various approaches and their related results. The insights provided by this study will contribute towards the design of a multidimensional poverty study for a selection of countries.Research Area: Equity, multiple deprivation and poverty
The impact on children of forced migration due to 'land grabbing'
Over the past decade, the practice of expelling households from agricultural land that they have cultivated, often over long periods, has increased. From a macroeconomic perspective, the economy of the country or region may profit, yet it is questionable whether the resulting increases in wealth are transferred − even partially − to the households that have previously worked on the land. Unclear property rights may leave these households largely unprotected. A key consequence of this 'land grabbing' is that many households are forced to leave their homes immediately, placing families, and especially children, in a very vulnerable position.The study reviews current knowledge about the impact of forced migration on households and children and proposes an agenda for future research to inform policies that better protect this at-risk group.
Research Area: Migration
Innocenti Report Card 10
Child well-being, poverty and overlapping deprivation analysis in rich countries
The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Report Card series presents original and authoritative material that provokes debate on child well-being in wealthy countries. It provides an important tool to address critical issues affecting child disadvantage in the industrialized world. Since All Report Cards are built around a 'league table', ranking countries according to their performance on a key child indicator or group of indicators.The tenth issue of the series will continue the investigation on poverty and vulnerability among children in rich countries using a perspective that includes measures of multidimensional poverty. An update of child income poverty measures (with data reflecting the initial impacts of the global crisis) will be combined with new data on material deprivation and economic strains for children. The research will contribute to understanding the depth of poverty and deprivation, the role of income in protecting children from material deprivation as well as the importance of evidence-based public policies to protect children from poverty.
Languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish.
Research Area: Equity, multiple deprivation and poverty
Innocenti Working Papers
Child mortality and injury in Asia
This study, a follow-up to the Innocenti Working Paper series on child mortality and injury in Asia jointly developed by UNICEF and The Alliance for Safe Children (TASC), discusses in greater detail key aspects of child injury raised in the initial series.The first set of papers focuses on drowning as a unique injury among children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and seeks to establish if the extent of drowning in early childhood is sufficiently large to impede achievement of MDG 4. The second set of papers looks at the social and economic dimensions of non-fatal child injury, especially those that lead to permanent disability. The third set of papers examines the issue of injury from a rights-based perspective. The papers argue that without understanding the different types of injury and the extent to which each is responsible for mortality and morbidity among children, it is not possible to meet the requirements of the CRC.
Research Area: Social protection
