Blogs

Maja Gavrilovic and Tia Palermo (UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti), September 2018 Since adolescence is a highly vulnerable period of rapid physiological, biological, and psychological change, researchers and development partners are increasingly asking how social protection*, can facilitate safer transitions to adulthood**, and what additional factors shape these transitions […]

Mind the gender gap: How can a gender-norm lens improve ...

20 Sep, 2018 in Blog by Michelle Mills

Ana Maria Buller and Meghna Ranganathan (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Amber Peterman (UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti), September 2018 We’ve all heard the statistics—intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the most pervasive forms of violence globally: one in every three women aged 15 years and over is estimated […]

Cash support: A new tool to decrease Intimate Partner Violence?

9 Sep, 2018 in Blog by Michelle Mills

Jacob de Hoop (UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti), June 2018 Imagine you work for UNICEF in Lebanon. Your team has the challenging task of ensuring that half a million displaced Syrian children who fled the war in their home country attend primary school. These children live scattered throughout the […]

No Lost Generation: Cash transfers for displaced Syrian children in ...

7 Sep, 2018 in Blog by Michelle Mills

Luisa Natali (UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti), February 2018 Last Fall I visited three of the most poverty-stricken rural districts of Zambia: Kaputa, Kalabo and Shangombo. Each location took two days’ travel by car from Lusaka. We drove up to Kaputa, near the border with DRC, with a stock […]

Opening the black box: Cash transfers and post-intervention research

25 Feb, 2018 in Blog by Michelle Mills

Amber Peterman and Tia Palermo (UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti), January 2018 Gender-based violence is notoriously under-reported—for understandable reasons. Experience of violence is highly stigmatized and victims are often shamed. Respondents may be fearful of retaliation if perpetrators and others find out they have disclosed their experiences. There may […]

Measuring taboo topics: List randomization for research on gender-based violence

25 Feb, 2018 in Blog by Michelle Mills