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Application of scientific findings to effective practice and informed policymaking is an aspiration for much research in the biomedical, behavioural, and developmental sciences. But too often translations of science to practice are conceptually narrow, ethically underspecified, and developed quickly as salves to an urgent problem. For developmental science, widely implemented parenting interventions are prime examples of technical translations from knowledge about the causes of children’s mental distress. Aiming to support family relationships and facilitate adaptive child development, these…
This manual aims to help countries and their national statistical systems to improve the collection, analysis, sharing and use of data on children on the move. It provides analytical guidance to national statistical authorities and relevant actors on how to acquire or enhance the appropriate capacity to collect data on migrant and displaced children, in compliance with the United Nations’ Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.
It also shares several country experiences regarding migration data flows and official statistics. Reliable data and official statistics are key to…
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Children in out-of-home care may experience multiple losses, from separation from birth parents and siblings to loss of friendships, culture, and sense of belonging and normality. The impacts of these significant losses on a child's development and wellbeing have typically been the subject of childhood trauma research. While understanding the impact is important, children's experiences of the losses and the ways adults can support them to grieve are less explored in research. Recently, out-of-home care researchers have begun to address this knowledge gap by applying the…
Alternative care refers to non-traditional family-based or residential care for children when they are deprived of parental care. It is estimated that between 3.2 and 9.4 million children reside in institutional-type residential care settings globally. Most commonly, children enter residential care due to a combination of factors that may include natural disaster, poverty, abuse, neglect, or risks to safety. Introduction to residential care is also associated with low household income, lack of access to basic services (e.g., education), disability, and/or parental challenges. …
During the 54th session of the UN Statistical Commission, the Global MICS team launched MICS 7 with several new initiatives such as MICS Plus, geocoding, and integration with administrative data sources.
The program now includes up to 40 SDG indicators, covering almost 85% of UNICEF's Strategic Plan household survey-based indicators.
The launch event featured several speakers, including:
- Vidhya Ganesh, Director DAPM at UNICEF, and experts such as
- Dr. Shahnaz Arefin, Secretary of Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) of the Planning Ministry in Bangladesh,…
This web application was developed to allow for the exploration of various scenarios in the field of education, health, and child protection. The application offers a platform for the analysis of historical trends and patterns using a combination of open data and proprietary data shared by the Government of Moldova.
Extrapolation of these trends and patterns could form a baseline scenario for the allocation of resources and improvement of child outcomes displayed through the web application. Through it, users can adjust these assumptions and respond to hypothetical shocks to consider how…
This is a recording of a UNICEF webinar presenting the launch of a global database of children in residential care on December 14, 2022.
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The Adolescent Data Portal features global, regional and country-level data on key indicators together with information on the socio-economic contexts in which adolescents live are found here. The portal includes globally comparable indicators, closely linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Adolescent Data Portal features a focused selection of key indicators on Health and Nutrition, Education and Learning, Protection, and Transition to Work. Additional data on adolescents can be found throughout data.unicef.org within the…
In 2021 Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) completed a household survey of children and caregivers, in demonstration countries Kenya and Guatemala, to understand their experience of CTWWC services, the protective factors in their families, and the status of child well-being. Part of CTWWC’s year-three evaluation, these resulting four reports are meant to help CTWWC partners, and other care reform actors within Guatemala and Kenya, better understand CTWWC’s impact through the end of the initiative’s third year. Changing the Way We CareSM is a global initiative implemented by Catholic…
This webinar is the eleventh in the Transforming Children's Care Webinar Series and was co-hosted with UNICEF. In 2021, UNICEF launched its latest approach to Child Protection Systems Strengthening (CPSS), together with benchmarks for measuring the CPSS work, and high impact CPSS interventions.
The objective of this webinar was to present this CPSS approach, and reflect on how this approach, and especially the seven intermediate…