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Child Drowning in LMICs in Asia: Key data, messages and recommendations
Countries covered: Five low and middle income countries in Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (Beijing and Jiangxi Province), Thailand and Viet Nam. (Data also included from India’s 2005 Million Death Study).
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Drowning: a leading killer of children across parts of Asia - Press release
A new report states that although drowning is a leading killer of children across parts of Asia, highly effective and cost-efficient programs to reduce such drowning deaths are not being sufficiently embraced. "Child Drowning" surveyed four countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand), together with two provinces in China (Beijing and Jiangxi).
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Translating research into action
At UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre we conduct research on critical issues in the lives of vulnerable children. To help make our research compelling the centre engages in proactive information dissemination, utilising traditional, online and digital media. This section is a repository of all media material produced and distributed by the Centre as well as films, opinion pieces, news reports and feature stories published in mainstream media about the Centre and its work.
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Testing social media from Horizon
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Data from around the globe
An interactive infographic that examines the penetration of the Internet through to its projected growth; the way children and adults use the Internet and the risks they face; and the existing protection frameworks and legal mechanisms with some solutions for the future.
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Events and Conferences May - September 2011
A selection of relevant internal and external meetings and events
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Using social media to report the situation of children in Lybia
How the Lybia crisis is affecting children. James Elder reporting on his recent mission to Lybia. Listen the interview
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Malnutrition - New working paper
Malnutrition - New working paper View the publication
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Social Budget Tracking and Analyses
Similar to sentinel site monitoring, it is possible to also monitor key inputs into the production of child wellbeing, notably those linked to the resources and policies of the public sector. Budget tracking and analyses could serve this function, and at the same time the tools in this area could help to advance budget and policy transparency and public engagement and participation in decisionmaking. Thus, the use of such tools could influence policies - notably resource allocations - directly.
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Empirical Analyses using Household and Micro-level Datasets
Formal empirical analysis of the social impact of an economic event - be it a crisis or a policy adjustment - is typically underpinned by an ex post analysis using nationally representative household survey data. These studies are often able to account for exacerbating (e.g. existing poverty and domestic factors) and mitigating conditions (e.g. social protection interventions) which then provide a clear sense of the net impact on various population groups, including children, women and poor families. The main challenge with this approach lies in the significant time lag (anywhere from 1-2 years) attached to the availability of nationally representative household survey data.
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The FACIT Project - Facility for Assessing the Child Impact of Economic Trends and Policies
The FACIT Project develops and compiles analytical tools to help advance child rights in UNICEF’s upstream social and economic policy work. Through the FACIT website, child rights advocates and UNICEF’s staff could gain access to resources for social and economic policy work, including guides, empirical methodologies and applied examples of evidence-based policy analyses.
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World Urban Forum 5: The Right to the City-Bridging the Urban Divide
This global event, attended by nearly 14,000 people from 150 countries, gathered presidents, local and central government officials, civil society and grass root organisations, the private sector, researchers, and youth in the format of dialogues, networking sessions, trainings and other events. UNICEF participated, along with other partners, with a view to ensure the presence of children in the urban debates. World Urban Forum 5