Miscellanea Best of UNICEF Research 2021 Published: 2021 Miscellanea Best of UNICEF Research showcases the most rigorous, innovative and impactful research produced by UNICEF offices worldwide. While evidence highlights emerging issues, it also informs decisions and provides policy and programme recommendations for governments and partners to improve children’s lives. This ninth edition brings together 11 powerful studies from around the world and across the five Strategic Goal Areas. How do South Asian youth feel about entering the world of work? What is the effect of climate-related hazards on access to health care? How has COVID-19 affected children and their families in the Republic of Moldova? With social and economic inequalities increasing and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals lagging, rigorous research – answers to these questions – has never mattered more. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 115 | Tags: child marriage, child poverty, children, climate change, COVID-19, disabilities, discrimination, discrimination based on disability, east asia, ghana, health care, HIV and AIDS, learning, montenegro, palestine, policy and planning, poverty, primary education, republic of moldova, research, south asia, southern africa, unicef, unicef policies × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2021 Best of UNICEF Research 2021. , pp. 115.
Innocenti Research Report Non-State Education in South Asia: Understanding the effect of non-state actors on the quality, equity and safety of education service delivery AUTHOR(S) Artur Borkowski; Bindu Sunny; Juliana Zapata Published: 2021 Innocenti Research Report Education systems in South Asia are complex and fragmented. Despite high engagement and involvement of Non-State Actors (NSA) in education, there is a lack of comprehensive policy to govern them. Achieving better learning outcomes for children in South Asia requires understanding the wide variety of NSA providers and unpacking how these different actors engage with and influence education provision. Through a meta-analysis of existing evidence, this report presents findings on learning outcomes in public and non-state schools and the implications on quality, equity and safety of education delivery in the region. It also uncovers critical gaps in evidence that need to be addressed to show what is really working, for whom, where and at what cost. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 239 | Tags: child education, education, equity, inequity, policy and planning, safety, safety education, south asia × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Artur Borkowski; Bindu Sunny; Juliana Zapata 2021 Non-State Education in South Asia: Understanding the effect of non-state actors on the quality, equity and safety of education service delivery. , pp. 239.
Innocenti Working Papers Family-friendly policies in South Asia AUTHOR(S) Jennifer Waidler; Bindu Sunny; Gwyther Rees Published: 2021 Innocenti Working Papers Bringing up children requires care, time and resources. Yet, too often, all over the world, parents and other primary caregivers are left to struggle with this fundamental task without enough support. The burden of responsibility tends to fall disproportionately on women. Often parents have to make impossible choices between earning enough money for their family and giving children the care that they need. The concept of ‘family-friendly policies’ has emerged as a way of thinking about and addressing these issues. There is no agreed definition of the concept, but it is generally conceived as a set of policies that help parents/caregivers to reconcile various aspects of work and family life. Such policies may differ from one region and location to another depending on, amongst other things: demographics, including the definition of what a family is, and its function; the characteristics of the labour market and the workplace; the social and cultural context, including attitudes, expectations and norms; and the economic context. This paper addresses the issue of what family-friendly policies could look like in the South Asian context, where female labor force participation is very low and more than 90 per cent of workers are in the informal sector or under informal employment. It considers how these policies can be responsive to the particular characteristics and circumstances of countries in the region – including multi-generation families, family units built around adolescent mothers (and sometimes fathers), and migration for work both within and outside countries. It also tackles the question of how family-friendly policies might need to evolve in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. By taking an equity approach to family friendly policies, we provide recommendations on how to reach families in different situations and facing different degrees of vulnerabilities, including those not working or working under very difficult circumstances. + - Cite this publication | Tags: family, policy issues, south asia × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Jennifer Waidler; Bindu Sunny; Gwyther Rees 2021 Family-friendly policies in South Asia.