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We carry most of our activities through mutually reinforcing partnerships aimed at catalysing change at local, national or international levels. Partnership happens between organisations and individuals coming from different sectors and disciplines, but also between different generations. 

We aim to reach a critical mass of partners that can help create a new narrative for children’s well-being and participation and provide the evidence needed in order to create social change. We do this by creating spaces that allow for everyone involved to cultivate their core capacities in a more refined way so as to understand themselves more deeply, relate to each other with kindness and partner for change.

Examples of partnering development activities include:

  • Creating local and international alliances (e.g. national ACT2gether partnerships, the Learning for Well-being Community)
  • Participating in thematic networks (e.g. Child Rights Connect, Alliance for Quality of Childhood in Europe, Eurochild, etc.)
  • Convening project specific partnerships (e.g. Core Capacities for Living and Learning, with UNICEF Office of Research and the Fetzer Institute)
Learning for Well-Being Institute

Family and Child Policies that Promote Early Learning and Well-being

Through a systematic review of the global literature from the last 10 years, this paper adds to the evidence base on child development and supportive environments for early learning and well-being, through the lens of family and child policies. The background paper was written to inform UNESCO’s Global Report on Early Childhood Care and Education, 2024.
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The Impact of Social Protection and Child Benefits in Reducing Drivers of Poverty and Inequality

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.
Learning for Well-Being Institute

The G20, Early child development, and the Cost of Inaction

This project investigates the promises that G20 countries previously made concerning early childhood development, and the opportunities lost through the cost of their inaction on those promises. The project is being undertaken in collaboration with Their World and the University of York, and focuses on the G20 and Africa.
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Delivering on a Child Policy Portfolio in Uruguay

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.
Learning for Well-Being Institute

Accelerating Progress for Children Now, and Preparing for the Future: Policy Options

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.
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Age-Spending and Child Poverty in Luxembourg

This project provides an up-to-date mapping of child poverty in Luxembourg and identifies ways in which spending on children in Luxembourg, and related cash and childcare polices, may be reformed to improve their antipoverty effects. It serves as a foundation for evidence-informed advocacy for UNICEF Luxembourg.

Delivering on a more effective Child Policy Portfolio in the United Kingdom

This project seeks to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the child policy portfolio in the United Kingdom under a new Labour government, 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.

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