Innocenti Research Briefs Improving Children’s Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Ethiopia: Qualitative midline evaluation of the ISNP in Amhara AUTHOR(S) Maja Gavrilovic; Erin Cullen; Essa Chanie Mussa; Frank Otchere; Tia Palermo; Sarah Quinones; Vincenzo Vinci Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Briefs Integrated social protection programmes are increasingly being pursued as more effective and efficient ways to improve children’s health and nutrition outcomes. UNICEF Ethiopia is implementing a pilot Integrated Safety Net Programme (ISNP) in the Amhara region of Ethiopia aimed at integrating a cash transfer (through the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)), a health insurance (the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI)), social and behaviour change communication (on nutrition, feeding practices, sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and child marriage), and case management (for malnourished and out of school children). The ISNP implementation began in early 2019. Knowing that integration comes with its own challenges in terms of planning, coordination, harmonization of systems and tools, and the alignment of budgets, this qualitative study sought to understand the status of implementation, emerging challenges, and potential remedial actions to ensure the intervention achieves the stated objectives. The study shows that while there is progress, more action is needed in terms of implementing the planned management information system (MIS), ensuring adequate and well trained frontline workers are in place, further improving harmonization of targeting tools, and increasing budgetary allocation. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 4 | Thematic area: Social protection | Tags: behavioural change, cash transfers, child health, child marriage, child nutrition, reproductive health, social protection × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Maja Gavrilovic; Erin Cullen; Essa Chanie Mussa; Frank Otchere; Tia Palermo; Sarah Quinones; Vincenzo Vinci 2022 Improving Children’s Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Ethiopia: Qualitative midline evaluation of the ISNP in Amhara. , pp. 4.
Innocenti Research Report Improving Children’s Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Ethiopia: A qualitative mid-line evaluation of the Integrated Safety Net Programme in Amhara AUTHOR(S) Maja Gavrilovic; Erin Cullen; Essa Chanie Mussa; Frank Otchere; Tia Palermo; Sarah Quinones; Vincenzo Vinci Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Report Integrated social protection programmes are increasingly being pursued as more effective and efficient ways to improve children’s health and nutrition outcomes. UNICEF Ethiopia is implementing a pilot Integrated Safety Net Programme (ISNP) in the Amhara region of Ethiopia aimed at integrating a cash transfer (through the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)), a health insurance (the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI)), social and behaviour change communication (on nutrition, feeding practices, sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and child marriage), and case management (for malnourished and out of school children). The ISNP implementation began in early 2019. Knowing that integration comes with its own challenges in terms of planning, coordination, harmonization of systems and tools, and the alignment of budgets, this qualitative study sought to understand the status of implementation, emerging challenges, and potential remedial actions to ensure the intervention achieves the stated objectives. The study shows that while there is progress, more action is needed in terms of implementing the planned management information system (MIS), ensuring adequate and well trained frontline workers are in place, further improving harmonization of targeting tools, and increasing budgetary allocation. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 97 | Tags: behavioural change, cash transfers, child health, child marriage, child nutrition, reproductive health, social protection × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Maja Gavrilovic; Erin Cullen; Essa Chanie Mussa; Frank Otchere; Tia Palermo; Sarah Quinones; Vincenzo Vinci 2022 Improving Children’s Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Ethiopia: A qualitative mid-line evaluation of the Integrated Safety Net Programme in Amhara. , pp. 97.
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 Impact Evaluation of the Integrated Safety Net Programme in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia: Baseline Report Published: 2021 Innocenti Research Report UNICEF supports the Government of Ethiopia to implement a pilot Integrated Safety Net Programme (ISNP) in the Amhara Region from 2019 to 2023. The objective of the programme is to harness the potential synergies that can be realized by integrating social protection policies and programmes. It seeks to test the efficacy of combining cash and services to improve nutrition and health outcomes for children and their households.This report describes the conceptual framework and methodology for an impact evaluation of the ISNP intervention and presents findings from a baseline study. The baseline study confirms the low socio-economic status of PSNP households in the domains of housing conditions, sanitation, schooling, health seeking, food security, women’s agency, subjective wellbeing, sexual and reproductive health, access to social services, child nutrition and child protection. The PSNP clients are found to be generally worse off than the entirety of rural Amhara – confirming the targeting effectiveness of the PSNP. The study highlights the gaps that the ISNP interventions are meant to address and provides concrete action points for successful implementation. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 160 | Thematic area: Social protection | Tags: birth registration, child health, child marriage, child nutrition, child protection, ethiopia, postnatal care, safety nets, schooling, vaccination, women's empowerment × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2021 Impact Evaluation of the Integrated Safety Net Programme in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia: Baseline Report. , pp. 160.
Innocenti Research Report Child Marriage and Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program: Analysis of protective pathways in the Amhara region AUTHOR(S) Maja Gavrilovic; Tia Palermo; Elsa Valli; Francesca Viola; Vincenzo Vinci; Karin Heissler; Mathilde Renault; Ana Gabriela Guerrero Serdan; Essa Chanie Mussa Published: 2020 Innocenti Research Report Emerging evidence suggests that social protection programmes can have a positive role in delaying marriage for girls. But the pathways and design features by which programmes may influence child marriage outcomes remain unknown. This mixed-methods study explores whether and how the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia, given its national reach and potential to address poverty, can also affect child marriage practice. It draws on descriptive quantitative and qualitative data from an ongoing impact evaluation of the Integrated Safety Net Program (ISNP) pilot in the Amhara region. It finds that PSNP, through an economic channel, is effective in reducing financial pressures on families to marry off girls and in improving girls’ education opportunities. Income-strengthening measures must, however, be accompanied by complementary efforts – including girls’ empowerment, awareness-raising and legal measures – to transform deep-rooted social and gender norms and attitudes that perpetuate the harmful practice of child marriage. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 83 | Thematic area: Child Protection | Tags: child marriage, child protection, gender issues, social norms × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Maja Gavrilovic; Tia Palermo; Elsa Valli; Francesca Viola; Vincenzo Vinci; Karin Heissler; Mathilde Renault; Ana Gabriela Guerrero Serdan; Essa Chanie Mussa 2020 Child Marriage and Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program: Analysis of protective pathways in the Amhara region. , pp. 83.
Innocenti Research Briefs Child Marriage and Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program: Analysis of protective pathways in the Amhara region – Summary of report findings Published: 2020 Innocenti Research Briefs Emerging evidence suggests that social protection programmes can have a positive role in delaying marriage for girls. But the pathways and design features by which programmes may influence child marriage outcomes remain unknown. This mixed-methods study explores whether and how the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia, given its national reach and potential to address poverty, can also affect child marriage practice. It draws on descriptive quantitative and qualitative data from an ongoing impact evaluation of the Integrated Safety Net Program (ISNP) pilot in the Amhara region. It finds that PSNP, through an economic channel, is effective in reducing financial pressures on families to marry off girls and in improving girls’ education opportunities. Income-strengthening measures must, however, be accompanied by complementary efforts – including girls’ empowerment, awareness-raising and legal measures – to transform deep-rooted social and gender norms and attitudes that perpetuate the harmful practice of child marriage. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 5 | Thematic area: Child Protection | Tags: child marriage, gender issues, social norms × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2020 Child Marriage and Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program: Analysis of protective pathways in the Amhara region – Summary of report findings. , pp. 5.
Miscellanea Resumen Innocenti de Investigación sobre la Adolescencia 9 Published: 2018 Miscellanea Resumen trimestral que destaca los hallazgos más significativos de la investigación sobre el bienestar de los adolescentes durante los tres últimos meses. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 12 | Thematic area: Adolescents | Tags: adolescent health, adolescent pregnancy, adolescents, child marriage, child soldiers, violence against children × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2018 Resumen Innocenti de Investigación sobre la Adolescencia 9. , pp. 12.
Miscellanea Recueil Innocenti de Recherches sur l’Adolescence 9 Published: 2018 Miscellanea Synthèse trimestrielle présentant les ressources et les nouvelles les plus importantes parues au cours des trois derniers mois dans le domaine de la recherche sur le bien-être des adolescents. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 12 | Thematic area: Adolescents | Tags: adolescent health, adolescent pregnancy, adolescents, child marriage, child soldiers, violence against children × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2018 Recueil Innocenti de Recherches sur l’Adolescence 9. , pp. 12.
Miscellanea Innocenti Research Digest on Adolescence 9 AUTHOR(S) Emanuela Bianchera Published: 2018 Miscellanea A quarterly research digest highlighting the most important news and resources in adolescent well-being over the last three months. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 12 | Thematic area: Adolescents | Tags: adolescent health, adolescent pregnancy, adolescents, child marriage, child soldiers, violence against children × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Emanuela Bianchera 2018 Innocenti Research Digest on Adolescence 9. , pp. 12.