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 Digest Children and COVID-19 Research Library Quarterly Digest Issue 6 AUTHOR(S) Elena Camilletti; Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed Published: 2023 Innocenti Digest This COVID-19 Digest explores this 'crisis of care'. It examines the evidence that has emerged in recent years on how COVID-19 has affected the care that women and children provide and receive. 12 studies, selected from the Innocenti's Children and COVID-19 Research Library, are highlighted to provide insights into several dimensions of the crisis that are highly relevant to children's well-being and that can provide lessons for responding to other types of crises that the world is facing or will face in the future. The pandemic, associated lockdowns, and other containment measures have had a disproportionate impact on the care and domestic work of women, particularly those who experience other intersecting inequalities, including race, class, gender identity, and location. This Digest examines the impact of the pandemic on gender imbalances in paid and unpaid work, focusing in particular on vulnerable and marginalized women and girls. Whether care and domestic work are unpaid in the home or paid, limited public or private investment in care services increases the cost of meeting families' care and domestic needs. These activities are overwhelmingly carried out by women and girls worldwide, affecting their educational and employment prospects and creating gender inequalities in leisure time. They are usually carried out without any monetary compensation or are paid at low rates. They are also likely to increase in the face of shocks and stresses such as those experienced by COVID-19. + - Cite this publication | Thematic area: Gender Issues, Health | Tags: child care, child care services, COVID-19, COVID-19 response, gender issues × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Elena Camilletti; Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed 2023 Children and COVID-19 Research Library Quarterly Digest Issue 6.
Innocenti Research Report Tackling Gender Inequality from the Early Years: Strategies for building a gender-transformative pre-primary education system AUTHOR(S) Dita Nugroho; Mayra Delgado; Bella Baghdasaryan; Stefania Vindrola; Divya Lata; Ghazala Mehmood Syed Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Report Access to early childhood education has increased over the last two decades, with global enrolment rates showing gender parity in access among boys and girls. Despite this gender parity in access, the pre-primary education system does not always deliver on its potential to tackle gender inequities and address harmful gender stereotypes while they are being absorbed by the youngest learners. As such, this research explores the ways in which pre-primary education can become more gender-transformative at a system level and presents 11 key strategies to support this goal. The strategies are organized around five interconnected action areas: planning and budgeting; curriculum; workforce development; family and community engagement; and quality assurance. These strategies can help governments and policymakers to proactively incorporate gender-responsiveness into the design and implementation of their pre-primary education policy and programming, following a system-wide perspective. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 62 | Thematic area: Early Childhood, Education, Gender equality | Tags: child education, early childhood, early childhood development, early childhood education, education, gender equality, gender issues × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Dita Nugroho; Mayra Delgado; Bella Baghdasaryan; Stefania Vindrola; Divya Lata; Ghazala Mehmood Syed 2022 Tackling Gender Inequality from the Early Years: Strategies for building a gender-transformative pre-primary education system. , pp. 62.
Innocenti Research Briefs Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: Addressing gender inequalities through early years education Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Briefs Access to pre-primary education has increased significantly in the past two decades and, as of today, boys and girls are participating equally. However, despite this gender parity in access, the pre-primary education system does not always deliver on its potential to tackle gender inequalities and address harmful gender stereotypes and norms. In particular, children begin to gain insight into certain cultural gender stereotypes as early as the ages of two and three. There is, therefore, a need to proactively incorporate gender-responsive and gender-transformative strategies into the design and implementation of pre-primary education systems to address gender inequalities. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 6 | Thematic area: Early Childhood, Education | Tags: early childhood, early childhood development, early childhood education, gender equality, gender issues × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2022 Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: Addressing gender inequalities through early years education. , pp. 6.
Innocenti Research Briefs Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: Tools for gender-transformative policy and programming Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Briefs Gender-transformative pre-primary education requires a coherent system that integrates gender considerations across all its core components for a quality service delivery. This brief presents a set of tools to support policymakers and/or practitioners to progress towards gender-transformative pre-primary education policy and programming, organized by the five core components of quality pre-primary primary education systems: planning and budgeting; curriculum; workforce development; family and community engagement; and quality assurance. The tools provide key gender considerations to strengthen each core component and advocate for gender-responsive and gender-transformative policies and practices. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 6 | Thematic area: Early Childhood, Education | Tags: early childhood, early childhood development, early childhood education, gender issues × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2022 Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: Tools for gender-transformative policy and programming . , pp. 6.
Innocenti Research Briefs Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: A System-wide approach to tackling inequalities from the early years Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Briefs Mainstreaming gender within pre-primary education is a priority in tackling gender-related inequalities from the early years. Such mainstreaming requires the commitment of a variety of stakeholders within the education system and beyond, including different units within education ministries, pre-service and in-service teacher training providers, teacher unions, other ministries, academia and civil society organizations. This brief presents key advocacy points and enabling conditions to support education ministries to engage these partners in the delivery of gender-transformative pre-primary education. Advocacy points are aligned with the five components of quality systems: planning and budgeting; curriculum development and implementation; workforce development; family and community engagement; and quality assurance. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 4 | Thematic area: Early Childhood, Education, Gender Issues | Tags: early childhood, early childhood development, early childhood education, gender issues × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2022 Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: A System-wide approach to tackling inequalities from the early years . , pp. 4.
Innocenti Research Briefs Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: Investing in pre-primary education workforce development for gender equality Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Briefs Children begin learning about gender stereotypes as early as age two. The pre-primary education system does not always deliver on its potential to tackle and address harmful gender stereotypes while they are being absorbed by the youngest learners. All components of the pre-primary system have a role to play in breaking down these stereotypes. This includes the teaching workforce, who play a crucial role in determining how the education system contributes to gender equality and whose actions can influence children’s learning experiences and their personal gendered views and behaviour. This brief highlights key strategies and considerations to ensure the pre-primary workforce can be prepared to stop gender stereotypes from being perpetuated, and ways they can create a learning environment that is gender-transformative. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 5 | Thematic area: Early Childhood, Education, Gender equality, Gender Issues | Tags: early childhood, early childhood development, early childhood education, education, gender issues × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2022 Gender-Transformative Pre-Primary Education: Investing in pre-primary education workforce development for gender equality. , pp. 5.
Innocenti Research Report Drivers of Primary School Dropout in Mozambique: Longitudinal assessment of school dropout in 2019 AUTHOR(S) Javier Santiago Ortiz Correa; Rafael Pontuschka; Jessica Bergmann; Thomas Dreesen; Zlata Bruckauf Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Report The Avaliação Longitudinal da Desistência Escolar (ALDE, Longitudinal Assessment of School Dropout) is the first nationally representative mixed-method longitudinal survey in Mozambique. Since 2018, the ALDE survey has annually collected longitudinal, nationally representative data from around 5,400 primary school students (from grades 1 to 7) in 60 schools across all eleven provinces in the country. This report presents the results of the quantitative data collected in 2019 and focuses on the determinants of school dropouts in the country. When children leave school prematurely, not only is their learning interrupted, but the trajectories of their future opportunities and lives are forever altered. This report explores the multidimensional process of school dropouts, investigating how individual, household, community and school-level factors interact to lead children in Mozambique to dropout of education. Through this analysis, the report provides important and actionable recommendations to improve education policy in Mozambique towards its journey to achieve learning for every child. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 67 | Thematic area: Education | Tags: child education, child labour, child safety, drop-outs, education, gender issues, hygiene, mozambique, safety, sanitation, teachers, water × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Javier Santiago Ortiz Correa; Rafael Pontuschka; Jessica Bergmann; Thomas Dreesen; Zlata Bruckauf 2022 Drivers of Primary School Dropout in Mozambique: Longitudinal assessment of school dropout in 2019. , pp. 67.
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 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.
Miscellanea Gender Solutions: Capturing the impact of UNICEF’s gender equality evidence investments (2014–2021) Published: 2022 Miscellanea UNICEF has undertaken hundreds of gender evidence generation activities, supporting programmatic action, advocacy work and policymaking. The Gender Solutions project aims to draw together the knowledge, innovations and impacts of gender evidence work conducted by UNICEF offices since the first UNICEF Gender Action Plan was launched in 2014. A desk review identified over 700 gender-related UNICEF research, evaluation and data evidence generation activities since 2014. Twenty-five outputs were shortlisted because of their high quality and (potential for) impact and three were selected as Gender Evidence Award winners by an external review panel. By capturing the impact of this broad body of work, Gender Solutions aims to showcase UNICEF’s evidence investments, reward excellence and inform the rollout of the UNICEF Gender Policy 2021–2030 and Action Plan 2022–2025. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 60 | Thematic area: Gender Issues | Tags: gender analysis, gender issues, gender-responsive programmes × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION 2022 Gender Solutions: Capturing the impact of UNICEF’s gender equality evidence investments (2014–2021). , pp. 60.
Innocenti Research Briefs Augmenter la Représentation des Femmes Dans la Direction des Écoles: Une voie prometteuse pour améliorer l’apprentissage AUTHOR(S) Jessica Bergmann; Maria Carolina Alban Conto; Mathieu Brossard Published: 2022 Innocenti Research Briefs De nouvelles études montrent une association positive entre les femmes dirigeantes d'école et les résultats des élèves. Certaines études suggèrent que les femmes dirigeantes scolaires sont plus susceptibles que leurs homologues masculins d'adopter des pratiques de gestion efficaces pouvant contribuer à l'amélioration des résultats. Cependant, les femmes restent largement sous-représentées aux postes de direction des écoles, en particulier dans les pays à revenu faible ou intermédiaire.Cette publication présente de nouvelles connaissances sur l'association entre les femmes dirigeantes d'école et les résultats scolaires, et attire l'attention sur la sous-représentation des femmes dans les postes de direction d'école. Elle souligne la nécessité de poursuivre les recherches sur le genre et la direction des écoles afin d'identifier les politiques et les pratiques qui peuvent être mises en œuvre pour augmenter la représentation des femmes et étendre les pratiques de gestion de haute qualité adoptées par les femmes dirigeantes à un plus grand nombre d'écoles afin d'améliorer les résultats scolaires de tous les enfants. + - Cite this publication | No. of pages: 11 | Thematic area: Education, Gender Issues | Tags: education, gender issues, gender roles, learning, primary education, primary schools, secondary education, secondary schools, teachers × COPY BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Jessica Bergmann; Maria Carolina Alban Conto; Mathieu Brossard 2022 Augmenter la Représentation des Femmes Dans la Direction des Écoles: Une voie prometteuse pour améliorer l’apprentissage. , pp. 11.