Innocenti Research Report How Gender-responsive Age-sensitive Social Protection is Related to the Climate Crisis: A summary of the evidence AUTHOR(S) Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed Published: 2023 Innocenti Research Report This paper outlines how climate change can create specific gendered risks based on age and stage of the life course. Critical gendered risks for women that increase their vulnerability to climate shocks include: discriminatory social and gender norms; inadequate access to and control of assets and crucial resources; concentration in low-wage casual employment; limited representation in policy discussions and key decision-making processes.Gender-responsive and age-sensitive social protection – an important instrument in a suite of tools in the broader response to the climate crisis – can play a crucial role in addressing or minimizing negative climate impacts, including those that affect girls, boys and women. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 40 | Thematic area: Social protection | Tags: climate change, gender issues, social protection, women × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed 2023 How Gender-responsive Age-sensitive Social Protection is Related to the Climate Crisis: A summary of the evidence. , pp. 40.
Innocenti Publications Prospects for Children in the Polycrisis: A 2023 Global Outlook AUTHOR(S) UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight Published: 2023 Innocenti Publications This report outlines the polycrisis in which the world finds itself — multiple, simultaneous shocks with strong interdependencies, intensified in an ever-more integrated world — along with eight trends that will shape child rights and well-being in the coming year. The trends explored are: The pandemic's harms will continue to be counted - but reforms of health architecture and medical breakthroughs offer hope for children.Efforts to tame inflation will have unintended negative effects on child poverty and well-being - requiring policy measures that protect investments for vulnerable families and children.Multiple factors will contribute to continued food and nutrition insecurity - with increasing calls for greater climate adaptation and food systems reform to prevent food poverty in children.The worsening energy crisis may cause immediate harm to children - but the focus on energy sustainability provides hope for a greener future.Unmet needs and underinvestment in children warrant reforms of financial flows to developing countries - while renewed attention on climate finance and debt relief holds promise.Threats to democratic rights such as freedom of expression are expected to continue - but social movements, including those led by young people and women, are likely to push back.Increasing factionalism will put further stress on multilateralism - but efforts to address children's and young people's concerns may offer opportunities to find common ground.The internet will continue to fragment and become less global, resulting in further disparities for children - prompting a greater push for openness, fairness and inclusion. + - Cite this publication | Tags: child poverty, child well-being, climate change, COVID-19, democracy, education, energy policies, financial policy, financial systems, food crisis, gender equality, health, internet, nutrition, pandemic, social change × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight 2023 Prospects for Children in the Polycrisis: A 2023 Global Outlook.
Innocenti Research Report Monitoring the Social Costs of Climate Change for Low- and Middle-income Countries Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Report This policy brief is the third in a series that assesses key issues affecting social spending as part of UNICEF’s work on Public Finance for Children.It aims to add to the understanding on of what climate change means for social sector budgets, and the extent to which social sectors are being prioritized in the climate response. Social sectors face rising climate-related costs but positive opportunities to raise the required additional financing required remain. These include: leveraging green technologies; reforming energy subsidies and harnessing green financing initiatives. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 43 | Thematic area: Social Policies, Social protection, Social Protection, Well-being and Equity | Tags: climate change, poverty, public finance, technological change × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2022 Monitoring the Social Costs of Climate Change for Low- and Middle-income Countries. , pp. 43.
Miscellanea Best of UNICEF Research 2022 AUTHOR(S) UNICEF Innocenti Published: 2022 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 year, Best of UNICEF Research celebrates its 10th edition. It features 12 research projects that the selection panel concurred deserved special recognition for delivering results for children in 2022. How? By informing decision-making, shaping policy, raising public awareness, driving social change, and giving children and young people a voice on the issues that affect them most through participatory research. These endeavours showcase both the power of innovation in the face of emergency and crisis, and the virtues of agility, endurance and scalability. They also offer solutions and ways to learn from each other. Each piece of research offers a set of adaptable tools: validated methodologies; templates for emergency response plans; methods of monitoring and measuring progress; and examples of successful collaboration between stakeholders. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 124 | Tags: access to education, adolescent girls, adolescents, behavioural change, breastfeeding, child diseases, child mental health, child protection, climate change, communicable diseases, COVID-19, COVID-19 response, data analysis, data collection, disease control, disease prevention, drinking water, early childhood development, early childhood education, education, electronic data processing, employment of women, epidemiology, evaluation, female genital mutilation, gender discrimination, gender equality, gender issues, gender-responsive programmes, hygiene, infant feeding, innovations, malnutrition, maternal and child nutrition, mental health, mental health services, nutrition policy, nutrition programmes, primary health care, reproductive health, research, sanitation, sexual violence, social norms, water, water resources × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION UNICEF Innocenti 2022 Best of UNICEF Research 2022. , pp. 124.
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 Reopening with Resilience: Lessons from remote learning during COVID-19 Published: 2021 Innocenti Research Report The COVID-19 pandemic led to school closures around the world, affecting almost 1.6 billion students. The effects of even short disruptions in a child’s schooling on their learning and well-being have been shown to be acute and long lasting. The capacities of education systems to respond to the crisis by delivering remote learning and support to children and families have been diverse yet uneven. This report reviews the emerging evidence on remote learning throughout the global school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic to help guide decision-makers to build more effective, sustainable, and resilient education systems for current and future crises. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 20 | Thematic area: Education | Tags: climate change, COVID-19, COVID-19 response, disasters, educational crisis, learning, online learning, primary education, primary schools, remote learning, resiliency, schools, students × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2021 Reopening with Resilience: Lessons from remote learning during COVID-19. , pp. 20.
Innocenti Working Papers Child Poverty in Mozambique – Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis AUTHOR(S) Lucia Ferrone; Andrea Rossi; Zlata Bruckauf Published: 2019 Innocenti Working Papers In this paper, we provide estimates and analysis of child multidimensional poverty in Mozambique. Drawing on data from the Mozambique Household Budget Survey of 2014/15 (IOF), we define child multidimensional poverty using the Multiple Overlapping Analysis (MODA). We define three age groups of children, and a total of seven dimensions of deprivation: Family, Nutrition, Education, Child labour, Health, WASH, Participation, and Housing. Results show that 81 per cent of children are deprived in at least two dimensions. Children are especially vulnerable in rural areas, where deprivation rates reach 95 per cent, and in the provinces of Niassa, Zambezia, and Cabo Delgado. The dimensions that more frequently overlap in Mozambique are Housing, Health, and WASH, with one third of children being deprived in these three dimensions at the same time. The data also allow the analysis of the interplay between monetary and multidimensional child poverty: 46 per cent of children suffer both forms of poverty. Children who are poor and deprived are children who live in rural areas, in more remote provinces; they live in households whose heads are less educated and whose main activity is agriculture. Finally, there is a direct correlation with shocks affecting the household and multidimensional poverty, with children of families who experienced weather shocks being more likely to be poor, deprived, or both. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 46 | Thematic area: Child Poverty | Tags: child poverty, climate change, poverty alleviation × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Lucia Ferrone; Andrea Rossi; Zlata Bruckauf 2019 Child Poverty in Mozambique – Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis. , pp. 46.