This project seeks to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the child policy portfolio in the United Kingdom, through assessing the child poverty portfolio and providing evidence to support advocacy and reform benefiting children, families, and society, with a focus on child poverty and inequality. This research serves as a foundation for evidence-informed advocacy for UNICEF United Kingdom.
This project identifies and unpacks challenges and constraints to accelerating progress for children in achieving the child-focused sustainable development goals, through interviews with UNICEF offices, consultations with government partners, a data analysis of policy choices and global literature reviews. The report aims to provide UNICEF and Member States with evidence for advocacy, practical policy responses, and recommendations, to inform and shape critical positioning on the policies needed for catalysing progressive action towards the child-focused SDGs ahead of the United Nations Summit of the Future, in 2024, and the second World Summit for Social Development, in 2025.
This project consolidates recent learning and provides evidence on the priority actions for reducing child poverty in Uruguay, to inform political parties’ decision-making in the run up to the general election in 2024. It serves as a foundation for evidence-informed advocacy, and provides estimated effects of proposed policy reforms, costs and implementation considerations, for UNICEF Uruguay.
This project examines the impact of social protection and investigates the effects of child benefits in reducing drivers of poverty and inequality, and better equipping adolescents to make transitions from education to work, higher education, or training. This research was undertaken to inform the International Labour Organisation’s World Social Protection Report, 2024-2026.
This project provides a comprehensive understanding of the current state of child well-being globally, and analyses the anticipated situation of children into the year 2050, projecting trends in demographics, urbanisation, internet access, and the climate crisis impact on child outcomes. It informs the State of the World’s Children Report 2024, published by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.
This project examines sensitive child rights issues in Latin America and the Caribbean and highlights the sensitivities, challenges, and opportunities, that UNICEF offices in the region face. The project draws on in-depth interviews with all 24 UNICEF country offices and proposes strategies for the UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office to consider.
