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Amber Peterman (UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti), December 2018 How does a Ghanaian female scholar navigate social protection research in Africa? Fidelia Dake is a Lecturer at the Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana, and recently completed a research fellowship in UNICEF Innocenti with the […]

Five Questions with Dr. Fidelia Dake on Researching Impacts of ...

6 Dec, 2018 in Blog by Michelle Mills

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