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Michelle Godwin

Former Sr. programme manager (Former title)

Michelle Godwin joined Innocenti in 2015, as Programme Manager for research on adolescence and to support strategic planning. Michelle has worked in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Australasia mainly in coordination of humanitarian protection and public health programmes with governments, UN, NGOs and universities. Michelle's academic background is in Human Geography and she has published on topics related to participatory development, child protection and children in armed conflict.

Publications

The Long-term Effect of Humanitarian Emergencies on Adolescents: Existing evidence, gaps and considerations for research and practitioners
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The Long-term Effect of Humanitarian Emergencies on Adolescents: Existing evidence, gaps and considerations for research and practitioners

This short paper grew out of discussions at a two-day research workshop focused on famines and adolescents. It explores some of what we do and do not know about the impacts of humanitarian situations on adolescents’ lives. Adolescents and their specific capacities and vulnerabilities have tended to be overlooked in the design and implementation of humanitarian responses, including in social protection and further components of such responses. This paper seeks to bring these questions to the attention of researchers, policy makers and practitioners in order to address identified priority gaps; build on existing knowledge; invest in better evidence generation; and include adolescents in research and response efforts in meaningful ways. Such improvements to humanitarian responses would assist in developing more inclusive efforts that consider all ages in the child’s life-course; aim for more sustainable well-being outcomes and help meet core commitments to children in these settings.
2016 Results Report
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2016 Results Report

The 2016 UNICEF Innocenti Results Report presents the activities and key results of the Office of Research achieved in 2016.

Journal articles

‘Children Heard, Half-Heard?’: A Practitioner’s Look for Children in the Responsibility to Protect and Normative Agendas on Protection in Armed Conflict
Journal Article

‘Children Heard, Half-Heard?’: A Practitioner’s Look for Children in the Responsibility to Protect and Normative Agendas on Protection in Armed Conflict

Make the promise true: A monitoring and evaluation framework for measuring quality in child protection service delivery in Zimbabwe
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Make the promise true: A monitoring and evaluation framework for measuring quality in child protection service delivery in Zimbabwe