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Profiles
Tia Palermo
Sr. Social Policy Specialist (Former title)
Publications


Non-contributory Social Protection and Adolescents in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries: A review of government programming and impacts


Child Marriage and Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program: Analysis of protective pathways in the Amhara region


‘Cash Plus’: Linking Cash Transfers to Services and Sectors


How to Make ‘Cash Plus’ Work: Linking Cash Transfers to Services and Sectors


Myth-busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa


Does Keeping Adolescent Girls in School Protect against Sexual Violence? Quasi-experimental Evidence from East and Southern Africa


Social Protection and Childhood Violence: Expert Roundtable


Unconditional Government Social Cash Transfers in Africa Do Not Increase Fertility: Issue Brief


The Zambian Government Unconditional Social CashTransfer Programme Does Not Increase Fertility


Measurement of Interpersonal Violence in National Social Cash Transfer Evaluations


Measuring Health and Well-being of Young People in the Transfer Project


Unconditional Government Social Cash Transfer in Africa Does not Increase Fertility


Cash Transfers and Child Nutrition: What we know and what we need to know
Articles


Enhancing adolescents’ capabilities through adolescent- and gender-responsive social protection
Blogs


Five things we learned from research on child survivors of violence


Mind the gender gap: How can a gender-norm lens improve social protection outcomes for adolescents?


Measuring taboo topics: List randomization for research on gender-based violence


Are randomized control trials bad for children?


Cash transfers and fertility: new evidence from Africa


Evidence from Africa shows cash transfers increase school enrollment
Journal articles


Government Anti-Poverty Programming and Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana


Uptake of HIV testing among adolescents and associated adolescent-friendly services


Impact evaluation of a social protection programme paired with fee waivers on enrolment in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme


Perspectives of adolescent and young adults on poverty-related stressors: a qualitative study in Ghana, Malawi and Tanzania


Understanding the Relationships Between HIV and Child Marriage: Conclusions From an Expert Consultation


Risk Factors for Childhood Violence and Polyvictimization: A Cross-Country Analysis from Three Regions


Mythbusting: confronting six common perceptions about cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa


Still a leap of faith: Microfinance for prevention of violence against women and girls in low- and middle-income settings


Examination of performance of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale Short Form 10 among African youth in poor, rural households


List randomization for soliciting experience of intimate partner violence: Application to the evaluation of Zambia's unconditional child grant program


Age and Intimate Partner Violence: An analysis of global trends among women experiencing victimization in 30 developing countries


The Relationship between Parental Presence and Child Sexual Violence: Evidence from thirteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa


Equity and Achievement in Access to Contraceptives in East Africa between 2000 and 2010


Does Keeping Adolescent Girls in School Protect against Sexual Violence? Quasi-experimental evidence from East and Southern Africa


Understanding the linkages between social safety nets and childhood violence: a review of the evidence from low- and middle-income countries


Women’s Individual Asset Ownership and Experience of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence From 28 International Surveys


How does a national poverty programme influence sexual debut among Kenyan adolescents?


Unconditional government social cash transfer in Africa does not increase fertility


Poverty and perceived stress: Evidence from two unconditional cash transfer programs in Zambia
Podcasts


#HEARMETOO: UNICEF Research on Gender-Based Violence for #16Days of Activism


Tia Palermo on Evaluation of Social Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa