Innocenti Research Report Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in in primary schools in Uganda AUTHOR(S) Spogmai Akseer; Despina Karamperidou Published: 2020 Innocenti Research Report Teacher absenteeism constitutes a significant barrier to achieving learning outcomes in many low- and middle-income countries, where teacher school absence rates range from 3 to 27 per cent. In Uganda, primary education has achieved several milestones resulting in significant gains, including over 90 per cent literacy rate throughout the different districts, 94 per cent of the teaching force trained, and ongoing commitment from the Ministry of Education and Sports towards enhancing the provision of education. Uganda has also achieved gender parity in primary school enrolments, which in 2016 was at 84.1 per cent for girls and 83.3 per cent for boys. There are, however, ongoing challenges that put pressures on current gains and future goals. UNICEF Uganda estimates at least 60 per cent of Uganda's teachers are not present in the classroom at half of all public schools. Regional observations indicate teacher absence is a much larger issue in Uganda than other neighbouring countries, and that their subject knowledge is lower, comparatively. The Time to Teach (TTT) study seeks to support the ministry in its efforts to strengthen teachers’ role in the school in order to increase their time on task. Its primary objective is to identify factors affecting the various dimensions of primary school teacher attendance and to use this evidence to inform the design and implementation of teacher policies. Specifically, the study looks at four distinct dimensions of teacher attendance: being in school; being punctual; being in the classroom; and spending sufficient time on task while in the classroom. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 80 | Thematic area: Education | Tags: child education, education, teacher training, teachers × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Spogmai Akseer; Despina Karamperidou 2020 Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in in primary schools in Uganda. , pp. 80.
Innocenti Research Briefs Adolescent girls’ potential to disrupt the gender socialization process: Evidence from Plan International UK’s longitudinal cohort study, ‘Real Choices, Real Lives’ AUTHOR(S) Lilli Loveday; Jenny Rivett; Prerna Banati Published: 2019 Innocenti Research Briefs This brief discusses findings from Plan International UK’s ‘Real Choices, Real Lives’ report, which explores factors in adolescent girls’ lives across Benin, Togo and Uganda that may influence them to ‘accept’ or ‘disrupt’ the gender socialization process. The brief focuses on one of a handful of qualitative longitudinal studies addressing the challenges of gender norms in low- and middle-income country settings, providing crucial evidence in these countries to address Sustainable Development Goal 5 on achieving gender equality. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 12 | Thematic area: Adolescents, Gender Issues | Tags: adolescents, gender issues, girls, socialization × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Lilli Loveday; Jenny Rivett; Prerna Banati 2019 Adolescent girls’ potential to disrupt the gender socialization process: Evidence from Plan International UK’s longitudinal cohort study, ‘Real Choices, Real Lives’. , pp. 12.
Innocenti Working Papers Commitment to Equity for Children, CEQ4C: Fiscal Policy, Multidimensional Poverty, and Equity in Uganda AUTHOR(S) Jose Cuesta; Jon Jellema; Yekaterina Chzhen; Lucia Ferrone Published: 2018 Innocenti Working Papers Fiscal incidence analysis is the most widely used methodology to assess the distributional effects of fiscal policies. However, for 40 years, it has lacked a child lens. A child focus on the redistributive capacity of fiscal policy is increasingly important due to the disproportionate incidence of poverty among children globally. This paper provides a child-dedicated focus on fiscal incidence analysis by tracking child-relevant benefits, turning children the unit of analysis, and using multidimensional child poverty metrics. The analysis—Commitment to Equity for Children, or CEQ4C—integrates three analytical frameworks, namely, public finance, fiscal incidence analysis, and multidimensional child poverty analysis. The paper develops a proof of concept for Uganda that includes measurement, diagnostics, and a policy simulation package replicable across diverse contexts. The proof of concept confirms that CEQ4C provides a higher-resolution fiscal incidence analysis for children than the traditional fiscal incidence analysis. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 26 | Thematic area: Social Policies | Tags: child poverty, fiscal policy × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Jose Cuesta; Jon Jellema; Yekaterina Chzhen; Lucia Ferrone 2018 Commitment to Equity for Children, CEQ4C: Fiscal Policy, Multidimensional Poverty, and Equity in Uganda. , pp. 26.
Innocenti Research Briefs Does Keeping Adolescent Girls in School Protect against Sexual Violence? Quasi-experimental Evidence from East and Southern Africa AUTHOR(S) Tia Palermo; Michelle Mills Published: 2017 Innocenti Research Briefs Sexual violence against women and girls is widespread globally. In their lifetime, one in three women will experience intimate partner physical or sexual violence and 7 per cent will experience forced sex by someone other than an intimate partner. This study finds protective effects of educational attainment against lifetime experience of sexual violence among women in Uganda, but not in Malawi. Further, in our pathway analyses, we find large impacts on delaying marriage in both countries. These results suggest that policies aimed at increasing educational attainment among girls may have broad-ranging long-term benefits. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 2 | Thematic area: Adolescents, Child Protection, Education, Gender Issues | Tags: adolescents, education of girls, gender based violence, research methodology, sexual violence, violence × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Tia Palermo; Michelle Mills 2017 Does Keeping Adolescent Girls in School Protect against Sexual Violence? Quasi-experimental Evidence from East and Southern Africa. , pp. 2.
Innocenti Publications Best of UNICEF Research 2014 Published: 2014 Innocenti Publications Each year the Office of Research-Innocenti reviews submissions for the best research being published across all UNICEF offices: country programmes, National Committees, Regional Offices and headquarters divisions. The purpose of this activity is to showcase and recognize high-quality, high-impact research being done in the organization. At the end of the process each year the Office of Research-Innocenti issues a publication containing summaries of the papers considered to be of particular merit. In 2014, the summaries cover issues concerning child protection, cash transfers, ECD, maternal health, inclusive education, and WASH. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 64 | Thematic area: Child Poverty, Child Protection, Convention on the Rights of the Child | Tags: education, health, maternal and child health, policy making, research × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2014 Best of UNICEF Research 2014. , pp. 64.
Innocenti Publications Children and Transitional Justice: Truth-telling, accountability and reconciliation AUTHOR(S) Saudamini Siegrist; Mindy Jane Roseman; Theo Sowa Published: 2010 Innocenti Publications The volume analyzes key issues from the transitional justice agenda through a child rights lens. On the basis of research, the authors begin to formulate responses to a number of crucial questions and debates: how to end impunity for crimes against children; what policies and procedures can better protect children and enable them to contribute to reconciliation and reconstruction efforts; what strategies are most effective in supporting children’s roles and ensuring their voices are heard in peace-building efforts; how to enable children to reunite and reconcile with their families, peers and communities; how to build children’s skills to become part of a stable economy; and how to reaffirm children’s self-esteem and agency in the aftermath of armed conflict that has violated their childhood. A number of cross-cutting issues and themes are introduced. Chapters 1 through 3 outline the human rights-based approach for children and transitional justice and examine the basic assumptions and international legal framework that provide a foundation for further analysis of accountability and reconciliation in different country contexts. This is followed, in Chapters 4 through 6, by case studies of children’s involvement in the truth commissions of South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Chapters 7 through 10 address thematic issues and institutional reform. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 417 | Thematic area: Juvenile Justice | Tags: child soldiers, children in armed conflicts, juvenile justice, right of self-expression, right to care and protection, transitional justice × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Saudamini Siegrist; Mindy Jane Roseman; Theo Sowa 2010 Children and Transitional Justice: Truth-telling, accountability and reconciliation. , pp. 417.
Innocenti Working Papers Genetic Tracing, Disappeared Children and Justice AUTHOR(S) Michele Harvey-Blankenship; Phuong N. Pham; Rachel Shigekane Published: 2010 Innocenti Working Papers The last several decades have witnessed a dramatic change in the methods of warfare. Civilians are now increasingly targets of violence, not just mere victims of collateral damage. Among civilians targeted, children and youth are subject to acts of violence, including enforced disappearances and enforced conscription. Children have been forcibly disappeared and forcibly conscripted in many countries including Argentina, El Salvador and northern Uganda. This paper focuses on the use or potential use of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or genetic testing to identify disappeared children (otherwise referred to as genetic tracing) in Argentina, El Salvador and northern Uganda and on how this evidence may be used to achieve justice. Identification of the disappeared, family reunification, support for the disappeared and redress for families of the disappeared have been identified as crucial to achieving justice in the wake of mass atrocities. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 34 | Thematic area: Juvenile Justice | Tags: child soldiers, disappearance, family reunification, family tracing, right to care and protection, right to family reunification, rights of children in armed conflicts × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Michele Harvey-Blankenship; Phuong N. Pham; Rachel Shigekane 2010 Genetic Tracing, Disappeared Children and Justice. , pp. 34.
Innocenti Digest Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities Published: 2007 Innocenti Digest This Innocenti Digest on 'Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities' examines the situation of approximately 200 million children with disabilities around the world and identifies ways to support the realization of their rights. Children with disabilities constantly face barriers to the enjoyment of their rights and inclusion in society. But the tide is changing, as many countries have begun to reform their laws and structures in the past two decades to promote the participation of children with disabilities as full members of society. The Digest promotes such participation, and discusses all aspects of their development, including access to education, health services and rehabilitation, social and legal assistance, play and cultural activities, vocational and life-skills training. It focuses on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which, building on the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, opens a new era in securing the rights of children with disabilities. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 78 | Thematic area: Rights of the Child | Tags: disabilities, disabled children, discrimination based on disability, right to appropriate standards of care, rights of disabled children × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2007 Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities. , pp. 78.
Innocenti Publications AIDS, Public Policy and Child Well-being AUTHOR(S) Giovanni Andrea Cornia Published: 2007 Innocenti Publications This study addresses one of the greatest challenges of our time: the damage caused by HIV and AIDS to the well-being of children and families. With 38.6 million people affected by HIV in 2006, with HIV prevalence at antenatal clinics exceeding 40 per cent in areas of Botswana and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), with nationwide adult prevalence in excess of the critical threshold of 20 per cent in several countries, and with the prospect of a rapid spread of the disease in large swathes of India, China and the Russian Federation, the future of child well-being is seriously threatened. Certainly, in the 50 or so countries affected by the disease, the Millennium Development Goals in the field of child survival, education, poverty and basic rights will be missed, often by a large margin. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 342 | Thematic area: Child Protection, Social Policies | Tags: aids, case studies, child care, child education, child headed families, child poverty, child survival and development, child welfare, family policy, hiv, orphans, public policy, right to adequate standard of living, right to health and health services × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Giovanni Andrea Cornia 2007 AIDS, Public Policy and Child Well-being. , pp. 342.