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.
Innocenti Research Briefs Evidence and Gap Map Research Brief: UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018–2021 Goal Area 4: Every child lives in a safe and clean environment Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Briefs This research brief is one of a series of six briefs, which provide an overview of available evidence shown in the Campbell-UNICEF Mega-Map of the effectiveness of interventions to improve child well-being in low- and middle-income countries. Five of these briefs summarize evidence as mapped against the five goal areas of UNICEF’s 2018–2021 Strategic Plan. A sixth special brief was added to focus specifically on COVID-19 and other epidemics and major crises. It is anticipated that the briefs will also be useful for others working in the child well-being space. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 7 | Tags: child well-being, drinking water, hygiene, sanitation, water, water resources × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2022 Evidence and Gap Map Research Brief: UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018–2021 Goal Area 4: Every child lives in a safe and clean environment. , pp. 7.
Miscellanea Best of UNICEF Research 2019 Published: 2019 Miscellanea The Best of UNICEF Research is celebrating its seventh year. Once again, it showcases a collection of the best research undertaken or supported by UNICEF staff and offices around the world. The Best of UNICEF Research exercise has become eagerly anticipated throughout the organization. Staff in country offices particularly welcome the spotlight on work that helps to shape practice, programming and policy for children worldwide. 2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and we can see many pressing issues for children and young people, and for UNICEF, reflected in this year's selection of Best of UNICEF Research 2019 finalists. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 88 | Thematic area: Knowledge management | Tags: adolescents, asylum seekers, disabilities, drinking water, education, health, humanitarian assistance, research, research methods, violence against children × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2019 Best of UNICEF Research 2019. , pp. 88.
Miscellanea Best of UNICEF Research Retrospective: Documenting impact and lessons learned Published: 2019 Miscellanea In this retrospective, we look back at finalist research from six years of the Best of UNICEF Research exercise to gain perspective on its uptake and pathways to longer-term impact. The numerous examples highlighted here, including six case studies, are drawn from the many interviews conducted in 2018 and 2019 with UNICEF staff, on 37 finalist projects, supplemented by survey responses collected from 410 UNICEF staff, in 2017. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 68 | Thematic area: Research Uptake | Tags: child disabilities, child health, drinking water, empowerment, research, rights of the child, social protection × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2019 Best of UNICEF Research Retrospective: Documenting impact and lessons learned. , pp. 68.
Innocenti Working Papers Child Undernourishment, Wash and Policy Synergies in Tunisia: Putting Numbers Into UNICEF’s Conceptual Framework of Nutrition AUTHOR(S) Jose Cuesta; Laura Maratou-Kolias Published: 2017 Innocenti Working Papers This paper develops an econometric strategy to operationalize the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF’s) conceptual framework for nutrition, estimating the effects on child stunting that additional investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) intervention packages have across population groups (poor and non-poor) and residence (urban and rural). Moving away from estimating single intervention marginal returns, the empirical framework is tested in Tunisia; a country with notable but uneven progress in child nutrition. A successful reduction of stunting will involve mapping the distinctive most effective intervention packages by residence and socioeconomic status, moving away from universal policies. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 26 | Thematic area: Social Policies | Tags: drinking water, hygiene, nutrition, sanitation × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Jose Cuesta; Laura Maratou-Kolias 2017 Child Undernourishment, Wash and Policy Synergies in Tunisia: Putting Numbers Into UNICEF’s Conceptual Framework of Nutrition. , pp. 26.