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What's next? Lessons on education recovery: Findings from a survey of Ministries of Education amid the COVID-19 pandemic
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the Organisation ...

A Methodological Review for the Data Must Speak Positive Deviance Research: Insights from Positive Deviance, Behavioural Sciences, Implementation Research and Scaling Science
The pandemic has aggravated a learning crisis and put global goals in jeopardy. And yet, even in the most challenging educational contexts, some schools ...

Accessible Digital Textbooks: Universal Design for Learning in Paraguay
The Accessible Digital Textbooks for All (ADT) initiative, implements accessible digital tools and content to make learning accessible to all students ...

An Unfair Start: Inequality in Children's Education in Rich Countries
In the world’s richest countries, some children do worse at school than others because of circumstances beyond their control, such as where they were ...

Analyse méthodologique pour la recherche Data Must Speak: Enseignements tirés de l’approche modèle positive, des sciences comportementales, de la recherche sur la mise en oeuvre et de la science de la mise à l’échelle
La pandémie a aggravé une crise de l'apprentissage et mis en péril les objectifs mondiaux. Et pourtant, même dans les contextes éducatifs les plus difficiles, ...

An Analysis of the Role of Social Safety Net Scholarships in Reducing School Drop-Out during the Indonesian Economic Crisis
Accompanying the dramatic decline in Indonesia’s economic fortunes in the late 1990s was an appropriate concern for the social impact of the crisis - ...

Are Children Really Learning? Exploring foundational skills in the midst of a learning crisis
Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were serious questions about whether children were actually learning. With widespread school closures ...

Augmenter la Représentation des Femmes Dans la Direction des Écoles: Une voie prometteuse pour améliorer l’apprentissage
De nouvelles études montrent une association positive entre les femmes dirigeantes d'école et les résultats des élèves. Certaines études suggèrent que ...

Bambini e adolescenti ai margini. Un quadro comparativo sulla disuguaglianza nel benessere dei bambini nei paesi ricchi
Questa Report Card presenta una prima panoramica sulle disuguaglianze nel benessere dei bambini in 24 dei paesi più ricchi del mondo. Vi si prendono in ...

Basic Education: A vision for the 21st century. Global Seminar Report, 1998
The ninth Innocenti Global Seminar took as its theme: Basic Education: A Vision for the 21st Century. The Seminar addressed the urgent need for improved ...

Best of UNICEF Research 2014
In order to showcase the best UNICEF research from around the world, the Office of Research-Innocenti undertakes an annual selection process carried out ...

Best of UNICEF Research 2015
In 2013 the Office of Research-Innocenti initiated a competition to discover and highlight the outstanding research undertaken by UNICEF offices. This ...

Best of UNICEF Research 2016
The Best of UNICEF competition identifies a number of studies that are assessed to be of particular merit on a number of criteria: in terms of the relevance ...

Best of UNICEF Research 2017
The Best of UNICEF Research (BOUR) initiative celebrates its fifth year. Once again, it showcases some of the best and most innovative pieces of research ...

Best of UNICEF Research 2018
The Best of UNICEF Research initiative celebrates its sixth year. Once again, it showcases a collection of the best research undertaken or supported by ...

Best of UNICEF Research 2019
The Best of UNICEF Research is celebrating its seventh year. Once again, it showcases a collection of the best research undertaken or supported by UNICEF ...

Best of UNICEF Research 2022
Best of UNICEF Research showcases the most rigorous, innovative and impactful research produced by UNICEF offices worldwide. While evidence highlights ...

Bringing Education to the Most Marginalized Girls in Nepal: Evidence from the Girls’ Access to Education (GATE) programme Let Us Learn: Nepal research brief
This research brief provides a snapshot of Girls’ Access To Education (GATE), a non-formal education programme that aims to bring the most marginalized ...

Building Bright Futures: How to integrate Ukraine's refugee children through early childhood education and care
Nine out of every 10 refugees arriving in host countries from Ukraine are women and children. Only 1 in 3 of Ukrainian refugee children are enrolled in ...

Building Bright Futures: What is needed to expand early childhood education and care for Ukraine's refugee children
Nine out of every 10 refugees arriving in host countries from Ukraine are women and children. Only 1 in 3 of Ukrainian refugee children are enrolled in ...

Child Well-being in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A multidimensional approach
After two decades of transition the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States face an increasingly diverse mix ...

Child Work and Education: Five case studies from Latin America
In recent years research, as well as the results of practical programmes, has lead to a clearer understanding of the relationship between child work and ...

Childhood Poverty and Education in Bangladesh: Policy implications for disadvantaged children
This paper offers a theoretical understanding of childhood poverty and educational exclusion, building on the empirical findings of fieldwork carried ...

Children in Immigrant Families in Eight Affluent Countries: Their family, national and international context
During recent decades most affluent countries have experienced large increases in the number and diversity of immigrants, and accordingly it is anticipated ...

Children in Immigrant Families in Switzerland: On a path between discrimination and integration
Special Series on Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies Public debate on immigration tends to be polarized in Switzerland ...

Children in Immigrant Families in the Netherlands: A statistical portrait and a review of the literature
Special Series on Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies Of the total population of the Netherlands about 19 per cent are ...

The Children Left Behind: A league table of inequality in child well-being in the world's rich countries
This Report Card presents a first overview of inequalities in child well-being for 24 of the world’s richest countries. Three dimensions of inequality ...

The Children of Immigrants in France: The emergence of a second generation
Special Series on the Situation of Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies In 2005, 4.9 million immigrants were residing in ...

Children, Education and Reconciliation
This paper examines truth and reconciliation commissions that have made reference to a longer-term role for education in coming to terms with the past ...

Una classifica comparata dello svantaggio educativo nei paesi industrializzati
Questo nuovo rapporto del Centro di Ricerca Innocenti dell'UNICEF riguarda l'efficenza del sistema di istruzione pubblica nei paesi economicamente avanzati. ...

Un comienzo injusto: La desigualdad en la educación de los niños en los países ricos
En los países más ricos del mundo, a algunos niños les va peor en la escuela que a otros debido a circunstancias que escapan a su control, como el lugar ...

Comparing Child Well-Being in OECD Countries: Concepts and methods
This paper is produced alongside Innocenti Report Card 7 Child Well-being in Rich Countries. It provides more detail on how the indicators were chosen ...

Comparing Child-focused SDGs in High-income Countries: Indicator development and overview
The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aim to build on the achievements made under the UN Millennium ...

Comparing Inequality in the Well-being of Children in Economically Advanced Countries: A methodology
This paper tries to respond to the complex challenge of going beyond a research approach into child well-being based on averages and proposes a complementary ...

Continuing learning for the most vulnerable during COVID-19: Lessons from Let Us Learn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Liberia, Madagascar and Nepal
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of society. In mid-April 2020, 192 countries had closed their schools, putting 9 out of 10 enrolled children ...

COVID-19 and the Looming Debt Crisis: Protecting and Transforming Social Spending for Inclusive Recoveries
Compounding the COVID-19 pandemic is a looming debt crisis for low- and middle-income countries where a growing debt burden threatens to crowd out social ...

COVID-19: A reason to double down on investments in pre-primary education
This paper summarizes the recent UNICEF analysis on investing in early childhood education in developing countries. It provides a benefit-cost analysis ...

COVID-19: Effects of school closures on foundational skills and promising practices for monitoring and mitigating learning loss
While remote learning measures are essential for mitigating the short-term and long-term consequences of COVID-19 school closures, little is known about ...

COVID-19: How are Countries Preparing to Mitigate the Learning Loss as Schools Reopen? Trends and emerging good practices to support the most vulnerable children
Some countries are starting to reopen schools as others develop plans to do so following widespread and extended closures due to COVID-19. Using data ...

COVID-19: How prepared are global education systems for future crises?
This research brief is one of a series exploring the effects of COVID-19 on education. It focuses on how school closures affect children and the resiliency ...

COVID-19: Missing More Than a Classroom. The impact of school closures on children’s nutrition
In 2019, 135 million people in 55 countries were in food crises or worse, and 2 billion people did not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient ...

As crianças que ficam para trás: Uma tabela classificativa da desigualdade no bem-estar das crianças nos países ricos
O presente Report Card apresenta uma primeira visão global das desigualdades no bem-estar das crianças em 24 dos países mais ricos do mundo. São examinadas ...

Data Must Speak: Academic performance of primary school girls in Madagascar
Improving access to quality education for all school-age children is one of the priorities of the Government of Madagascar. The 2018-2022 Education Sector ...

Data Must Speak: Assurer la formation, l’affectation efficace et la féminisation du corps enseignant pour améliorer les taux de promotion
Le système éducatif tchadien fait face à de nombreux défis. Il est donc important de comprendre quelles ressources et quels facteurs contextuels sont ...

Data Must Speak: Comprendre les facteurs de performance des écoles togolaises
Le gouvernement togolais, à travers le plan sectoriel de l'éducation (PSE) 2014-2025, vise à atteindre une éducation primaire universelle de qualité. ...

Data Must Speak: Comprendre les facteurs de performance des écoles au Tchad
Le système éducatif tchadien fait face à de nombreux défis. Il est donc important de comprendre quelles ressources et quels facteurs contextuels sont ...

Data Must Speak: Comprendre les facteurs de performance des écoles ivoiriennes
Pour faire face aux défis auxquels son système éducatif est confronté, la Côte d’Ivoire a décidé, au-delà d’une analyse sectorielle classique, d’approfondir ...

Data Must Speak: Comprendre les facteurs de performance des écoles malgaches
L’amélioration de l’accès de tous les enfants en âge d’être scolarisés à une éducation de qualité est l’une des priorités du Gouvernement de Madagascar. ...

Data Must Speak: Déterminer les meilleures ressources pour le système éducatif togolais
Data Must Speak - une initiative mondiale mise en œuvre depuis 2014 - vise à combler le manque d’évidence afin d’atténuer la crise de l'apprentissage ...

Data Must Speak: Determining the Best Resources for the Togolese Education System
The Togolese government, through the education sector plan (ESP) 2014-2025, aims to achieve universal quality primary education. With this goal, they ...

Data Must Speak: Donner à toutes les filles la chance de réussir et réduire les inégalités de genre dans les écoles primaires
Le système éducatif tchadien fait face à de nombreux défis. Il est donc important de comprendre quelles ressources et quels facteurs contextuels sont ...

Data Must Speak: Donner la chance de promotion et de réussite à toutes les filles
Cette note thématique, dont le sujet traite de l’education des filles: leurs apprentissages et leurs progressions dans le systeme educatif Togolais, fait ...

Data Must Speak: Exam Performance Over Time
The Ministry of Education of Ghana (MoE) has developed the Education Sector Plan 2018–2030 (ESP) that establishes the vision for achieving equitable access ...

Data Must Speak: Giving All Girls a Chance for Promotion and Success

Data Must Speak: Investing in the Teaching Profession

Data Must Speak: Investir dans la profession enseignante
Cette note thématique explique les raisons pour lesquelles il est important d'investir dans la profession enseignante. Cette note fait partie d'une série ...

Data Must Speak: L’importance des intrants scolaires pour améliorer les taux de promotion
Le système éducatif tchadien fait face à de nombreux défis. Il est donc important de comprendre quelles ressources et quels facteurs contextuels sont ...

Data Must Speak: Le profil des directeurs et des enseignants dans les écoles primaires publiques
L’amélioration de l’accès de tous les enfants en âge d’être scolarisés à une éducation de qualité est l’une des priorités du Gouvernement de Madagascar. ...

Data Must Speak: Les effets liés à la présence de directrices d’école et d’enseignantes sur l’éducation des garçons et des filles
Pour faire face aux défis auxquels son système éducatif est confronté, la Côte d’Ivoire a décidé, au-delà d’une analyse sectorielle classique, d’approfondir ...

Data Must Speak: Les performances scolaires des filles à l’école primaire
L’amélioration de l’accès de tous les enfants en âge d’être scolarisés à une éducation de qualité est l’une des priorités du Gouvernement de Madagascar. ...

Data Must Speak: Les performances scolaires des filles dans l’enseignement fondamental
Malgré les progrès réalisés dans la mise en œuvre d’une éducation de qualité au Mali, il reste certains défis. Cette note thématique - sur les performances ...

Data Must Speak: L’importance de l’infrastructure dans les écoles primaires publiques
 L’amélioration de l’accès de tous les enfants en âge d’être scolarisés à une éducation de qualité est l’une des priorités du Gouvernement de Madagascar. ...

Data Must Speak: Performances scolaires et enseignement dans le cycle fondamental
Malgré les progrès réalisés dans la mise en œuvre d’une éducation de qualité au Mali, il reste certains défis. Cette note thématique – sur les performances ...

Data Must Speak: Profile of head teachers and teachers in public primary schools in Madagascar
Improving access to quality education for all school-age children is one of the priorities of the Government of Madagascar. The 2018-2022 Education Sector ...

Data Must Speak: Teacher and Head Teacher Characteristics and Exam Performance
The Ministry of Education of Ghana (MoE) has developed the Education Sector Plan 2018–2030 (ESP) that establishes the vision for achieving equitable access ...

Data Must Speak: Tendances des taux de réussite au CEPE
Pour faire face aux défis auxquels son système éducatif est confronté, la Côte d’Ivoire a décidé, au-delà d’une analyse sectorielle classique, d’approfondir ...

Data Must Speak: The importance of infrastructure in public primary schools in Madagascar
Improving access to quality education for all school-age children is one of the priorities of the Government of Madagascar. The 2018-2022 Education Sector ...

Data Must Speak: Unpacking Factors Influencing School Performance in Ghana
The Ministry of Education of Ghana (MoE) has developed the Education Sector Plan 2018–2030 (ESP) that establishes the vision for achieving equitable access ...

Data Must Speak: Unpacking Factors Influencing School Performance in Madagascar
Improving access to quality education for all school-age children is one of the priorities of the Government of Madagascar. The 2018-2022 Education Sector ...

Data Must Speak: Unpacking Factors Influencing School Performance in Nepal
Joint efforts by the Government of Nepal, development partners and key stakeholders to achieve SDG 4 by 2030 have improved education access, participation ...

Data Must Speak: Unpacking Factors Influencing School Performance in Togo
The Togolese government, through the education sector plan (ESP) 2014-2025, aims to achieve universal quality primary education. With this goal, they ...

Data Must Speak: Unpacking Factors Influencing School Performance in Zambia
Recognizing that children’s learning outcomes generally remain low, in its recent 2017–2021 Education and Skills Sector Plan (ESSP) the Government of ...

A Decade of Transition (Russian)
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for changes in every aspect of life in this region. New opportunities and new risks emerged for all ...

Un départ dans la vie marqué par les injustices Inégalités scolaires chez les enfants dans les pays riches
Dans les pays les plus riches, certains enfants connaissent plus de difficultés scolaires que d’autres, liées à des circonstances sur lesquelles ils n'ont ...

La didattica a distanza durante l’emergenza COVID-19: l’esperienza italiana
L'Italia e’ stata il primo paese in Europa ad aver applicato la misura del lockdown su tutto il territorio. I bambini e le loro famiglie hanno vissuto ...

The Difference a Dollar a Day Can Make: Lessons from UNICEF Jordan's Hajati cash transfer programme
What difference does a dollar a day make? For the poorest households in Jordan, many of whom escaped conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, UNICEF Jordan’s ...

The Difference a Dollar a Day Makes: A Study of UNICEF Jordan’s Hajati Programme
What difference does a dollar a day make? For the poorest households in Jordan, many of whom escaped conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, UNICEF Jordan’s ...

Digital Learning for Every Child: Closing the Gaps for an Inclusive and Prosperous Future
Pre-Covid-19, half of the world’s children were already unable to read a simple text by the age of 10. School closures have deepened pre-existing learning ...

Drivers of Primary School Dropout in Mozambique: Longitudinal assessment of school dropout in 2019
The Avaliação Longitudinal da Desistência Escolar (ALDE, Longitudinal Assessment of School Dropout) is the first nationally representative mixed-method ...

Early Childhood Development Revisited: From policy formulation to programme implementation
This is the report on an inter-agency workshop convened by the Education Cluster of UNICEF New York. The meeting undertook a detailed analysis of three ...

Early Marriage: Child Spouses
Research into early marriage has tended to concentrate on its impact on reproductive health, school drop-out and rising population figures, and there ...

Une école pour des enfants qui ont des droits
Tout enfant a droit à l'éducation. Cela est affirmé dans la Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant proclamée par les Nations Unies. Le but de l'éducation ...

Education and the Market: Which parts of the neo-liberal solution are correct?

Education and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: The challenge of implementation

Education for All?
The fifth Regional Monitoring Report continues the Centre's pioneering work of emphasizing the social side of the transition in Central and Eastern Europe ...

The Education of Children with Special Needs: Barriers and opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe
Children with disabilities and many others who experience difficulties in learning are often marginalized within or even excluded from school systems. ...

Education Rights and Minorities
Educational rights for minority groups may be included in states' education systems and also enshrined intheir statutes. However, states' laws, their ...

Education sector analysis methodological guidelines Volume 3
This present volume is the third in a series of education sector analysis (ESA) guidelines following two volumes published in 2014. The series provides ...

Education, Inequality and Transition
Evidence is considered on differences in access to education and in learning achievement within the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former ...

Education, Skills and Industrial Development in the Structural Transformation of Africa

Education, Urban Poverty and Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh and Vietnam
Despite the acknowledged importance and large scale of rural-urban migration in many developing countries, few studies have compared education outcomes ...

Les enfants laissés pour compte : tableau de classement des inégalités de bien-être entre les enfants des pays riches
Le présent Bilan présente un premier aperçu des inégalités en termes de bien-être infantile dans vingt-quatre des pays les plus riches du monde. Trois ...

La escuela y los derechos del niño
Todo niño tiene derecho a la educación. Esto es lo que establece la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos del Niño. El objetivo de la educación ...

Estimates of internet access for children in Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed internet connectivity from an important asset to an essential piece of infrastructure. Yet two thirds of the world’s ...

Evidence and Gap Map Research Brief: UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018–2021 Goal Area 2: Every child learns
This research brief is one of a series of six briefs, which provide an overview of available evidence shown in the Campbell-UNICEF Mega-Map of the effectiveness ...

Experiences of Peer Bullying among Adolescents and Associated Effects on Young Adult Outcomes: Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Viet Nam
This study uses a mixed methods approach combining survey analysis of the predictors and associations with being bullied, with qualitative data to explore ...

Exploring Alternative Approaches to Combating Child Labour: Case studies from developing countries

Foundational literacy and numeracy in rural Afghanistan: Findings from a baseline learning assessment of accelerated learning centres
In Afghanistan, 93% of children cannot read a simple text by the age of 10. Education is not available to everyone, especially for girls and children ...

Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: Investing in pre-primary education workforce development for gender equality
Children begin learning about gender stereotypes as early as age two. The pre-primary education system does not always deliver on its potential to tackle ...

Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: Supporting gender-transformative parenting through pre-primary education systems
Children begin learning about gender stereotypes as early as age two. The pre-primary education system does not always deliver on its potential to tackle ...

I giovani nelle società in trasformazione - Sintesi
'I giovani nelle società in trasformazione' analizza le esperienze della 'generazione della transizione', i 68 milioni di giovani tra i 15 e i 24 anni ...

Hacia la reapertura de escuelas más resilientes: Lecciones extraídas del aprendizaje a distancia durante la COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe
La implementación de la educación a distancia en América Latina y el Caribe, producto del cierre de las escuelas debido a la COVID-19, confirmó que la ...

Hora de ensinar: Assiduidade dos Professores e Tempo de Trabalho nas Escolas Primárias de Moçambique
Este estudo “Hora de Ensinar” combina e reforça a base de evidências sobre o absentismo dos professores do ensino primário em Moçambique. ...

How reflecting develops and affects well-being throughout childhood
Reflecting, or thinking about one’s own thinking, is understood by the Learning for Well-Being Foundation as one of the possible core capacities which ...

How relaxing develops and affects well-being throughout childhood
From a developmental perspective, skills or capacities, such as ‘relaxing’, are commonly considered necessary for children to achieve optimal development ...

How subtle sensing develops and affects well-being throughout childhood
This study maps the empirical and theoretical evidence of children’s ability for ‘subtle sensing’ as a core capacity for life within the Learning for ...

L'impact de la hausse des prix des produits alimentaires sur la pauvreté des enfants et les reponses politiques au Mali
Depuis 2006, le Mali subit de plein fouet les effets de la crise alimentaire mondiale avec des augmentations de prix allant jusqu'à 67%. Cette étude propose ...

The Impact of Community Violence on Educational Outcomes: A review of the literature
In recent decades, violence in and around schools has become a serious concern in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is not a new or isolated phenomenon, ...

The Impact of Social Protection on Children: A review of the literature
Based on an extensive analysis of the existing evidence on the impact of social protection programmes in the developing world, this paper aims to assess ...

The Impact of the Indonesian Financial Crisis on Children: An analysis using the 100 villages data
This paper examines the impact of the Asian crisis on children in Indonesia. School attendance dropped slightly after the onset of the crisis but has ...

Impacts of Pandemics and Epidemics on Child Protection: Lessons learned from a rapid review in the context of COVID-19

Increasing Women’s Representation in School Leadership: A promising path towards improving learning
Emerging evidence shows a positive association between women school leaders and student performance. Some studies suggest women school leaders are more ...

Innocenti Research Digest on Adolescence 14
The Adolescence Research Digest is a quarterly publication of UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti. It synthesizes the latest research evidence, resources ...

Innocenti Social Monitor 2002
Social Monitor 2002 reviews recent socio-economic developments in the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. ...

Innocenti Social Monitor 2002 (Russian version)
Социальный мониторинг, 2002 год содержит обзор социально экономических тенденций в 27 странах Центральной и Восточной Европы, а также Содружества Независимых ...

Innocenti Social Monitor 2009. Child Well-being at a Crossroads: Evolving challenges in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
The evolving and diverging challenges for the well-being of children after two decades of transition are examined. Following a long period of sustained ...

Integrating Education Technology into Teaching and Learning: Lessons from EDUINO in North Macedonia
How can countries engage teachers, parents, and learners in the successful of scale-up digital learning solutions? EDUINO, North Macedonia's platform ...

Interventions to Reduce Violence against Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries. Pillar 7: Education and life skills
The production of evidence on interventions for reducing violence against children (VAC) has steadily increased over the years. Yet, gaps exist that need ...

Interventions to Reduce Violence Against Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Evidence and gap map research brief of phase 1 and 2 findings
Evidence on interventions for reducing violence against children (VAC) has steadily increased over the years. Yet, gaps remain when it comes to research ...

Investing in Teacher Capacity – The key to effective learning
While the Government of Lao PDR, through the Ministry of Education and Sports and its development partners, has made steady progress in expanding access ...

Is University Education More Important for a Boy than for a Girl? Social approval of unequal educational opportunity across 21 countries
The attitudes that we hold are shaped and nurtured by society, institutions, religion and family; they involve feelings, beliefs and behaviours and represent ...

Leading Minds Online Yearbook 2020
Leading Minds Online, like many good things, was born out of necessity. After a successful inaugural Leading Minds Conference at UNICEF Office of Research ...

A League Table of Educational Disadvantage in Rich Nations
This new report from the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre considers the effectiveness of public education systems across the rich nations of the industrialised ...

Learning at a Distance: Children’s remote learning experiences in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Italy was the first country in Europe to implement a nationwide lockdown. Children and their families lived in nearly complete isolation for almost two ...

Let Us Learn: Making education work for the most vulnerable in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Liberia, Madagascar and Nepal
Learning remains largely out of reach for many of the most vulnerable children around the world. In low- and middle-income countries, an estimated 56% ...

Libros de texto digitales accesibles: Creación de herramientas digitales que permitan el diseño universal para el aprendizaje y la educación inclusiva
En América Latina y el Caribe, más de 19 millones de niñas, niños y adolescentes tienen una discapacidad. Aunque las tasas de asistencia y finalización ...

Le mariage précoce
Les recherches sur le mariage précoce n’ont le plus souvent considéré que certains aspects spécifiques de l’impact du phénomène, comme ses répercussions ...

Il Matrimonio Precoce
Questo numero di Innocenti Digest affronta il tema del matrimonio precoce, la pratica di far sposare bambini ed adolescenti al di sotto dei 18 anni d'età, ...

Matrimonios prematuros
Este número del Innocenti Digest se ocupa de los matrimonios prematuros, es decir de los matrimonios de niños y jóvenes menores de 18 años, desde un punto ...

NEW TEST ENGLISH
The Togolese government, through the education sector plan (ESP) 2014-2025, aims to achieve universal quality primary education. With this goal, they ...

Los niños dejados atrás: una tabla clasificatoria de la desigualdad respecto al bienestar infantil en las naciones ricas del mundo
Esta Report Card presenta un primer panorama general de las desigualdades respecto al bienestar infantil en 24 de los países más ricos del mundo. Se examinan ...

Non-State Education in South Asia: Understanding the effect of non-state actors on the quality, equity and safety of education service delivery
Education systems in South Asia are complex and fragmented. Despite high engagement and involvement of Non-State Actors (NSA) in education, there is a ...

OLD TEST ENGLISH
The Togolese government, through the education sector plan (ESP) 2014-2025, aims to achieve universal quality primary education. With this goal, they ...

On Call: Using Mobile Phones to Provide Learning in Emergencies
In 2021, an estimated 37 million children were forcibly displaced across the globe. Ensuring these children continue their education in times of crisis ...

On Call: Using Mobile Technologies to Measure Learning in Emergencies
How can we harness the power of mobile technologies to track learning in emergencies? Identifying ways to improve assessments in emergencies is incredibly ...

Overview of Child Well-Being in Germany: Policy towards a supportive environment for children
Children’s opportunities to develop according to their talents and competencies and to establish trust in the adults with whom they live, their neighbourhoods, ...

Partire svantaggiati: La disuguaglianza educativa tra i bambini dei paesi ricchi
Nei paesi più ricchi del mondo, alcuni bambini hanno un rendimento scolastico inferiore ad altri a causa di circostanze al di fuori del loro controllo, ...

Poverty, Inequality and Policy Affecting Vulnerable Groups in Moldova
This paper analyzes the changes that have intervened in the field of income poverty and human poverty since the onset of the transition in Moldova. With ...

Promoting Children's Participation in Democratic Decision-Making
This Insight makes a strong case for listening to children, outlining the implications of failing to do so and challenging many of the arguments that ...

Promouvoir la participation des enfants au processus decisionnel democratique
Dans cet Insight Innocenti, Gerison Lansdown examine l’article 12 de la Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant, selon lequel les enfants ont le droit ...

Promuovere la partecipazione dei ragazzi per costruire la democrazia
In questa Indagine Innocenti, Gerison Lansdown prende in esame il significato dell'articolo 12 della Convenzione sui diritti dell'infanzia, nel quale ...

Prospects for Children in the Polycrisis: A 2023 Global Outlook
This report outlines the polycrisis in which the world finds itself — multiple, simultaneous shocks with strong interdependencies, intensified in an ever-more ...

Recueil Innocenti de Recherches sur l’Adolescence Numéro 14
Synthèse trimestrielle présentant les ressources et les nouvelles les plus importantes parues au cours des trois derniers mois dans le domaine de la recherche ...

The Relationship between Education and Child Work
Millions of children throughout the developing world work. Not all child work should be cause for concern. Some work activities develop practical knowledge ...

Reopening With Resilience: Lessons from remote learning during COVID-19 in West and Central Africa
Countries in West and Central Africa strived to implement national responses to continue learning activities during school closures. These responses relied ...

Reopening with Resilience: Lessons from remote learning during COVID-19 – Eastern and Southern Africa
The widespread school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the learning crisis for children living in Eastern and Southern Africa. The ...

Reopening With Resilience: Lessons from Remote Learning During COVID-19 – Latin America and the Caribbean
The implementation of remote learning in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19 school closures confirmed that the divide in access to electricity ...

Reopening With Resilience: Lessons from Remote Learning During COVID-19 – South Asia
COVID-19 school closures in South Asia lasted longer than in any other region. To mitigate subsequent effects, governments and education actors in South ...

Reopening with Resilience: Lessons from Remote Learning during COVID-19: Europe and Central Asia
When schools started closing their doors due to COVID-19, countries in Europe and Central Asia quickly provided alternative learning solutions for children ...

Resumen Innocenti de Investigación sobre la Adolescencia 14
Resumen trimestral que destaca las noticias y recursos más significativos de la investigación sobre el bienestar de los adolescentes durante los tres ...

Review of the Circumstances among Children in Iimmigrant Families in Australia
Special Series on the Situation of Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies There were about 1.5 million children 0 to 17 years ...

A School for Children with Rights: The significance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child for modern education policy
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that every child has a right to education. The purpose of education is to enable the child to develop ...

School Principals in Highly Effective Schools – Who are they and which good practices do they adopt?
While the Government of Lao PDR, through the Ministry of Education and Sports and its development partners, has made steady progress in expanding access ...

School-related Economic Incentives in Latin America: Reducing drop-out and repetition and combating child labour
This paper examines the barriers to educational achievement presented by child labour and the formal education systems of Latin America. Parents put pressure ...

School-Related Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Building an evidence base for stronger schools
The prevalence of school-related violence and, in particular, bullying is not a new or isolated phenomenon, nor is it limited to certain schools or countries. ...

Simulation of the Effects of the Economic Crisis and Response Policies on Children in West and Central Africa: The Case of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s hard earned economic gains in recent years have been eroded by the 2008-09 world financial and economic crisis. The country will particularly ...

The Situation among Children of Migrant Origin in Germany
Special Series on the Situation of Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies Germany may be described as a country of immigrants. ...

The Situation of Children in Immigrant Families in Italy: Changes and challenges
Special Series on Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies According to 2001 census data more than 900,000 children aged 0-17, ...

The Situation of Children in Immigrant Families in the United Kingdom
Special Series on Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies The foreign-born population in the United Kingdom reached 4.9 million ...

A Sorting Hat that Fails? The transition from primary to secondary school in Germany
Germany ranks lowest regarding educational equalities among OECD countries, as the recently published PISA ‘Programme of International Student Assessment’ ...

The Subterranean Child Labour Force: Subcontracted home-based manufacturing in Asia
Child labour is widespread in home based manufacturing activities in the informal sector in most developing countries. This form of child labour will ...

Tackling Gender Inequality from the Early Years: Strategies for building a gender-transformative pre-primary education system
Access to early childhood education has increased over the last two decades, with global enrolment rates showing gender parity in access among boys and ...

Teachers for All: Améliorer l´équité dans l’allocation des enseignants à Madagascar
Ce rapport décrit le paysage enseignant à Madagascar, et propose des pistes de réflexion pour améliorer le maillage enseignant dans le pays, afin de favoriser ...

The State of the Global Education Crisis: A Path to Recovery
The global disruption to education caused by the COVD-19 pandemic is without parallel and the effects on learning are severe. The crisis brought education ...

Time to Teach: Assiduité des enseignants et temps d’enseignement dans les écoles primaires aux Comores
L’absentéisme des enseignants constitue un obstacle important à la réalisation d’une éducation universelle de qualité. Il est de plus en plus évident ...

Time to Teach: Assiduité des enseignants et temps d’enseignement dans les écoles primaires et secondaires collégiales au Maroc
L'absentéisme des enseignants a été identifié comme l’un des principaux obstacles au progrès éducatif et à l’apprentissage des enfants au Maroc. Des études ...

Time to Teach: La fréquentation des enseignants et le temps d’enseignement dans les écoles primaires au Gabon
L'absentéisme des enseignants est un défi particulier affectant la qualité de l'éducation au Gabon. Des études antérieures suggèrent que les enseignants ...

Time to Teach: La fréquentation des enseignants et le temps d’enseignement dans les écoles primaires et secondaires collégiales au Maroc
L'absentéisme des enseignants a été identifié comme l’un des principaux obstacles au progrès éducatif et à l’apprentissage des enfants au Maroc. Des études ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in Eastern and Southern Africa
There is a learning crisis. Fifty-three per cent of children in low- and middle-income countries are in ‘learning poverty’, i.e. they cannot read and ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in Ghana
Education has been a priority for Ghana since its independence, with current expenditures representing double the average for Africa and other developing ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in in primary schools in Puntland, State of Somalia
Teacher absenteeism constitutes a significant barrier to achieving national educational goals in many low- and middle-income countries, where teacher ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in in primary schools in Rwanda
Teacher absenteeism constitutes a significant barrier to achieving quality universal education. There is mounting evidence that teacher absenteeism is ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in primary schools in Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire has made great strides in improving access and quality in its education system, but significant gaps in student learning and achievement ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in in primary schools in Kenya
Teacher absenteeism constitutes a significant barrier to achieving quality education in many low- and middle-income countries globally, where teachers’ ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in primary schools in Mozambique
This Time to Teach study collates and strengthens the evidence base on primary school teacher absenteeism in Mozambique. ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in primary schools in Nigeria
Prior to COVID-19 lockdowns, the Federal Republic of Nigeria had taken measures to improve the quality of education and of teachers’ working conditions ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in in primary schools in Uganda
Teacher absenteeism constitutes a significant barrier to achieving learning outcomes in many low- and middle-income countries, where teacher school absence ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in primary schools South Sudan
The Government of South Sudan, through the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MoGEI) and its development partners, has made efforts over the ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in primary schools Tanzania
Teacher absenteeism constitutes a significant barrier to achieving quality education in many low- and middle-income countries globally, where teachers’ ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in primary schools Zanzibar
Teacher absenteeism constitutes a significant barrier to achieving quality education in many low- and middle-income countries globally, where teachers’ ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in secondary schools in Rwanda
In Rwanda, over 3.5 million children were estimated to be out of school in 2020 when the country closed all schools as a safety measure against the spread ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in West and Central Africa
Teachers are the most important drivers of students’ academic achievement and they are at the heart of learning recovery efforts after COVID-19. Finding ...

Time to Teach: Understanding teacher attendance and time on task in primary schools in Liberia
In Liberia, recurring school absenteeism and post abandonment are considered critical obstacles to quality education. Although national political actors ...

El Trabajo Infantile y la Educación Básica en America Latina y el Caribe

The Two Faces of Education in Ethnic Conflict: Towards a peacebuilding education for children
The Two Faces of Education in Ethnic Conflict challenges a widely-held assumption - that education is inevitably a force for good. While stressing the ...

Understanding Governance of Early Childhood Development and Education Systems and Services in Low-Income Countries
This initial exploratory study examines the governance and finance of Early Childhood Services (ECS) in three countries (Cambodia, Kenya and Lao People's ...

Unlocking Learning: The co-creation and effectiveness of a digital language learning course for refugees and migrants in Greece

Unlocking Learning: The implementation and effectiveness of digital learning for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Digital learning has the potential to offer interactive and personalized learning for children, in and out of school, including the most marginalized. ...

Unlocking Learning: The use of digital learning to support the education and inclusion of refugees and migrant children in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the number of refugees and migrants arriving in the country has increased from just a few dozen arrivals annually prior to ...

Unlocking Learning: The use of education technology to support disadvantaged children’s language learning and social inclusion in Italy
In Italy, more than 700,000 asylum seekers and migrants arrived in the country between 2014-2020. Newly arrived children including refugees and migrants ...

The Urban Divide: Poor and middle class children’s experiences of school in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Children living in urban slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh, often have poor access to school and attend different types of school than students from middle class ...

La violencia doméstica contra mujeres y niñas
Este número del Innocenti Digest afronta el tema de la violencia doméstica, una de las formas de violencia contra mujeres y niñas más difundidas a nivel ...

What is the Effect of Child Labour on Learning Achievement? Evidence from Ghana
This paper analyzes the links between child labour and poor school performance, using data gathered in Ghana in recent years. The author examines the ...

What Works for Working Children?
The current upsurge of international concern about exploitative child labour has focused new attention on fundamental questions regarding children's work ...

Where are we on Education Recovery? Taking the Global Pulse of a RAPID Response
Two years into the COVID-19 global pandemic, education has been seriously disrupted. In response to this crisis, the global priority remains to ensure ...

Young People in Changing Societies
This seventh Regional Monitoring Report focuses on the experiences of young people during the transition. It examines the advantages and the obstacles ...

Young People in Changing Societies (Russian Version)
The Report focuses on the experiences of young people during the transition. It examines the advantages and the obstacles youth encounter as they grow ...

Young People in Changing Societies - Summary
Young People in Changing Societies focuses on the experiences of the ‘transition generation’ - the 65 million young people aged 15-24 in Central and Eastern ...

Young People in Changing Societies - Summary (Russian version)
Young People in Changing Societies focuses on the experiences of the ‘transition generation’ - the 65 million young people aged 15-24 in Central and Eastern ...

Zur Lage der Kinder in Deutschland: Politik für Kinder als Zukunftsgestaltung
Die Chancen von Kindern, sich in ihrer Lebensumwelt entsprechend ihren Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen entwickeln zu können und Vertrauen zu den Erwachsenen ...

Социальный мониторинг "Инноченти",2009 год:Благополучие ребенка:переломный момент.Динамика проблем в Центральной и Восточной Европе и СНГ
По прошествии почти двух десятилетий переходного периода регион ЦВЕ/СНГ по-прежнему находится в состоянии перемен. После продолжительного периода устойчивого ...