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Results Report for 2015 Now Available

18 Apr 2016
2015 Research Results

Each year UNICEF Innocenti produces its Results Report in order to highlight major research activities, important knowledge exchange events and other key results for children. Our Results Report for 2015 is now available and gives an overview of what has been accomplished over the course of 2015.

Our small team and partners published over 100 research articles, reports and think pieces. Our linkages with the network of UNICEF regional and country offices allowed for particularly rich programming insights, diverse channels of communication, advocacy and policy engagement, as well as world-wide relationships with a wide array of international academic partners. The report highlights many of these relationships as well as how our work can generate knowledge and change through ‘research uptake’.

In 2015 we marked 25 years of research for children and simultaneously welcomed new Director, Dr Sarah Cook to our privileged home in Filippo Brunelleschi’s Ospedale degli Innocenti.  The celebration provided an opportunity to reflect on past achievements and explore ways to continue the Office’s leadership role in producing high quality, cutting-edge and policy relevant research for children.

Results Report 2015 features important new Innocenti evidence from the Transfer Project challenging conventional wisdom on the relationship between cash transfers and fertility. It also brings to the fore important new findings on adolescent wellbeing, on the association between corporal punishment in school and diminished achievement, and children’s rapidly increasing use of the internet. 

Highlights of content:

  • Significant strides were taken in improving governance of UNICEF’s research efforts undertaken.
  • In-depth snap-shots of research projects on adolescent well-being, children’s use of the internet and contributions to the 2030 agenda are provided.
  • Increased use of digital communication and social media channels for dissemination of research results.
  • Description of important global research partnerships provided.
  • Snapshot of office administration, resources and allocations.
  • Comprehensive list of publications, articles and research briefs.

Looking forward, Results Report forecasts important activities in 2016, including new areas of research in migration and education. It also announces re-establishment of a global Innocenti advisory group and a new research agenda. Importantly, 2016 should see heightened recognition of the role that research can play in implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

(18 April 2016)