Research Fellows

Through the UNICEF Office of Research–Innocenti’s Fellowship Programme, and with generous funding from the Hewlett Foundation and Sida, the Transfer Project works with a select group of talented young researchers from Africa on joint research on national cash transfer programmes. Fellows collaborate with Transfer Project researchers and country evaluation teams, answering a specific research question around the impacts of cash transfers on health, education, or multidimensional poverty utilizing Transfer Project data.

Each fellow spends 2-3 weeks in one of our offices at Innocenti (Florence), FAO (Rome) or UNC (North Carolina) to work on the proposed research and present their past research. During this time, the fellow has access to senior researchers who work as mentors, guiding the conceptualization, analysis and drafting of the study. The remainder of the year-long fellowships are conducted from their home base. Fellows also have the opportunity to present work at international conferences and at the Transfer Project workshop.