Audrey Pettifor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the protective role of cash transfers conditional on schooling and outcomes of HIV and intimate partner violence among adolescent girls in South Africa; and Tia Palermo of  UNICEF Innocenti team on the impact of unconditional cash transfers on sexual violence and exploitation in sub-Saharan Africa (forthcoming).

From May 12-13 twenty-five experts gathered in Florence for the two-day round table Social Protection and Childhood Violence, organized by UNICEF Innocenti and Know Violence in Childhood, a global initiative to prevent violence in childhood at all levels of society