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Josiah Kaplan
Child Protection Specialist
Josiah Kaplan has worked for more than a decade in child rights research and knowledge management, with a focus on mixed migration, livelihood, social protection and conflict issues across the INGO sector, UN system and academia. He previously served as Senior Research & Innovation Advisor for Save the Children International’s Migration & Displacement Initiative (MDI), where he led a varied research and innovation project portfolio. Prior to this, Josiah has served a variety of research and practitioner roles, including as a humanitarian evidence adviser for Save the Children UK, as a researcher with the University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre’s Humanitarian Innovation Project (HIP), and a wide range of consultancies with INGOs, UN agencies, and think tanks across the aid sector. He is an American citizen, and holds a Master's and PhD from the University of Oxford, as well as an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.
Publications
Publication
Child Work and Child Labour: The Impact of Educational Policies and Programmes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Progress towards eliminating child labour stalled for the first time in 20 years from 2016 to 2020. This slowdown puts at risk the international community’s efforts to eliminate child labour by 2025. Action is needed.
Child Work and Child Labour: The impact of educational policies and programmes in low- and middle-income countries is a rapid evidence assessment of the evidence on the effectiveness of educational policies and programmes in addressing child labour in low- and middle-income countries. It focuses on describing the causal impact of schooling programmes and policies on labour outcomes, based on experimental and quasi- experimental studies, and systematic reviews. To the extent information is available within the considered studies, it also identifies and discusses the main pathways and mechanisms of impact, as well as the programme design features that influence programme effectiveness.
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Data and Research on Children and Youth in Forced Displacement: Identifying Gaps and Opportunities
Globally, the number of people being forcefully displaced is increasing. Among them is a large number of young people, including at least 31 million children living in forced displacement in their own countries or abroad. States are committed to protect the rights of these children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Hence, meeting their needs through sustainable, impactful, and age-sensitive solutions – as well as supporting their talents, aspirations, and capabilities in the process – has become a defining challenge for the international community, and a key
global policy priority. Data and analysis, in turn, are critical in ensuring that decisionmaking and programming to protect, support and empower displaced children and youth are grounded in sound evidence.
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30 Years of Research on Migration and Displacement at Innocenti: Reflections and Next Steps
As global displacement rises, there is a pressing need to understand and respond to the migration experiences of children. This article provides key insights from a comprehensive review of Innocenti’s research on migration and displacement over the last 30 years. It provides a foundation on which Innocenti’s current evidence strategy on child refugees and migrants is being built, blending past learning with research on pressing current and future needs and trends.
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Eliminating Child Labour: Essential for Human Development and Ensuring Child Well-being
The brief highlights the interlinkages between child labour and human development and describes how ending economic deprivations, universalizing school education, expanding the coverage and improve the adequacy of social protection systems, and ensuring private sector engagement in protecting child rights can effectively eliminate child labour and promote inclusive growth and development. Evidence-informed, multi-sectoral, scalable solutions are presented that can ensure children are protected from economic exploitation and end the perpetuation of long-term cumulative deprivation. The brief presents actionable policy recommendations for the G20, drawing from the most recent global research and evidence on ending child labour.
Events
Event
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action 2020 Annual Meeting
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is holding the 2020 Annual Meeting on Child Protection in Humanitarian Action with the theme of Infectious Disease Outbreaks and the Protection of Children.