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 Promoting Gender-Transformative Change through Social Protection: An analytical approach Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Report Social protection can reduce income poverty and food and economic insecurity, address financial barriers to accessing social services, and promote positive development outcomes throughout the life course – particularly for women and girls. But can it address preexisting gender inequalities through the design, implementation and financing of its programmes?To strengthen the evidence base ‘what works’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ for social protection to contribute to gender equality, this report proposes and presents an analytical approach to evidence generation on gender-responsive social protection for gender-transformative change. It builds on the Gender-Responsive Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) conceptual framework, and on the theoretical, conceptual and empirical literature on gender and social protection. Structured as a socio-ecological framework, our approach presents three interconnected change pathways – at the individual, household and societal level – through which gender-responsive social protection can contribute to gender-transformative results, along with tailored design and implementation features, and underpinned by a set of change levers that existing evidence suggests can strengthen the gender-responsiveness of social protection systems. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 50 | Thematic area: Gender equality | Tags: finance, financial policy, financial resources, gender discrimination, gender equality, gender issues, gender-responsive programmes, implementation programmes, local finance, social protection, social protection programmes × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2022 Promoting Gender-Transformative Change through Social Protection: An analytical approach. , pp. 50.
Innocenti Working Papers Changes in Child Poverty in the OECD/EU during the Great Recession: An initial view AUTHOR(S) Sudhanshu Handa; Luisa Natali; Yekaterina Chzhen; Bruno Martorano Published: 2014 Innocenti Working Papers Though not a measure of direct child well-being, the strong association between child development and household income makes income poverty a useful indicator of the trajectory of child well-being both in the short- and medium-term. During the period 2008-2012 child poverty rates increased in 23 of the 41 OECD countries for which we have comparable data; in total, approximately 6.6 million children became poor and 4 million left poverty for a net increase of 2.6 million. Five countries at the bottom of our Child Poverty League Table had child poverty increases that were over 10pp. However, due to their relative size and despite only modest increases in child poverty rates, Mexico and the United States are home to over half of the newly poor children during this period with 2 and 1.7 million respectively. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 28 | Thematic area: Child Poverty, Industrialized Countries | Tags: child poverty, economic crisis, financial policy, fiscal policy, united states × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Sudhanshu Handa; Luisa Natali; Yekaterina Chzhen; Bruno Martorano 2014 Changes in Child Poverty in the OECD/EU during the Great Recession: An initial view. , pp. 28.
Innocenti Insights Beyond Krismon: The social legacy of Indonesia's financial crisis AUTHOR(S) Peter Stalker Published: 2001 Innocenti Insights Most of the countries caught up in the Asian financial crisis appear to have weathered the storm. But Indonesia's prospects are far more uncertain. In this Innocenti Insight, development journalist and writer Peter Stalker describes how the financial turbulence of the Krisis Moneter, or Krismon, set off a dramatic social and political chain reaction, with effects on children that could reverberate for years to come. Beyond Krismon examines the legacy of Soeharto's New Order regime in terms of child well-being, the impact of the financial crisis on areas essential to their survival and development and the crippling burden of debt that may jeopardize the nation's hopes for the future. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 32 | Thematic area: Economic Development | Tags: child survival and development, economic crisis, financial policy | Publisher: UNICEF IRC × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Peter Stalker 2001 Beyond Krismon: The social legacy of Indonesia's financial crisis. , pp. 32.