UNICEF Innocenti Podcasts

Gender and age play a disproportionately large role in the way people experience risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities. Events at different stages in life, like marriage, childbearing or retirement, can mean that women and girls are at a heightened risk of experiencing poverty. Social protection, such as cash transfers or health insurance, can help address poverty and vulnerability, as well as supporting people during shocks from childhood through to old age. In this podcast, Gustavo Angeles Tagliaferro, Francesca Bastagli, and Naila Kabeer discuss the evaluation methods for Gender-Responsive and Age-Sensitive Social Protection. Gustavo Angeles Tagliagerro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gustavo-angeles-04198b1ba/ Francesca Bastagli: https://twitter.com/FraBastagli Naila Kabeer: https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/naila-kabeer

Gender and age play a disproportionately large role in the way people experience risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities. Events at different stages in life, like marriage, childbearing or retirement, can mean that women and girls are at a heightened risk of experiencing poverty. Social protection, such as cash transfers or health insurance, can help address poverty and vulnerability, as well as supporting people during shocks from childhood through to old age. In this podcast, Ramya Subrahmanian, Nyasha Tirivayi, and Lauren Whitehead are in conversation about Gender-Responsive and Age-Sensitive Social Protection. Ramya Subrahmanian: https://www.unicef-irc.org/profiles/10051-Ramya-Subrahmanian.html https://x.com/ramyainnocenti?s=20 Nyasha Tirivayi: https://www.unicef-irc.org/profiles/10098-Nyasha-Tirivayi.html Lauren Whitehead: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-whitehead-workprofile https://twitter.com/lwhitehead301

The Leading Minds 2022 conference brought young leaders and global thought leaders together to discuss “the Vital Importance of Child Identity” -- bringing together emerging research, under-represented perspectives, and key action steps to foster positive identity. Listen to Faridah Luanda, Natasha Maimba, Victor Lopez-Carmen as they share their experiences and expertise on building positive child identity. This podcast is hosted by Shai Naides, a Youth Engagement Officer at the UNICEF Innocenti — Global Office of Research and Foresight.

What is the impact of social protection on gender equality in low and middle-income countries? In this podcast, Camila Perera talks to Francesca Bastagli, Director of the Equity and Social Policy programme and Principal Research Fellow at global think tank ODI, and Shivit Bakrania, Knowledge Management Specialist at the UNICEF Office of Research–Innocenti to discuss the results of our recent systematic review investigating the impact of social protection programmes on gender equality in low and middle-income countries.

Quality childcare helps parents’ return to work and also supports children’s development. It is essential service for an equitable society. But new research finds that even in the world’s richest countries, 1 in 7 parents have unmet childcare needs. In this podcast, Dale Rutstein talks to Anna Gromada about her new UNICEF Innocenti report - “Where do rich countries stand on childcare?” - which ranks the childcare policies of the world's richest countries.

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started: https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/2000-unicef-innocenti-leading-minds-online-series-children-online-violence-in-home.html FOLLOW the Leading Minds Online events: www.unicef-irc.org/events/

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started: https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/2000-unicef-innocenti-leading-minds-online-series-children-online-violence-in-home.html FOLLOW the Leading Minds Online events: www.unicef-irc.org/events/

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started: https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/2000-unicef-innocenti-leading-minds-online-series-children-online-violence-in-home.html FOLLOW the Leading Minds Online events: www.unicef-irc.org/events/

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started: https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/2000-unicef-innocenti-leading-minds-online-series-children-online-violence-in-home.html FOLLOW the Leading Minds Online events: www.unicef-irc.org/events/

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started: https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/2000-unicef-innocenti-leading-minds-online-series-children-online-violence-in-home.html FOLLOW the Leading Minds Online events: www.unicef-irc.org/events/

In this podcast we're talking about UNICEF Innocenti’s new evidence (and) gap map, which visualizes what evidence exists – and where there are gaps - on interventions to reduce violence against children in low and middle income countries, with Kerry Albright, Chief of Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management, and Ramya Subrahmanian, Chief of Child Rights and Protection at UNICEF Innocenti. The new gap map, completed in partnership with the Campbell Collaboration, arranges around 150 carefully screened impact evaluations and systematic reviews onto a framework of interventions – based on the INSPIRE framework strategies, and outcomes – such as direct impacts on violence, social norms, health, and education – into a searchable, browsable database that visualizes where the evidence exists and where there are gaps in knowledge. • Why are we mapping evidence and gaps in evidence on violence against children? • What does this gap map reveal about violence against children that we did not know before? • Where are the largest gaps in our evidence and what do we already know a lot about? These are just a few questions we discuss with Ramya and Kerry, who worked together to spearhead this research project jointly with our partners at Campbell Collaboration. - Explore the evidence gap map (EGM): https://www.unicef-irc.org/evidence-gap-map-violence-against-children - READ the full report: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cl2.1120 - READ the research brief: www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1147-evidence-and-gap-map-research-brief-1-overview-findings-interventions-to-reduce-violence-against-children.html

Our latest podcast done in partnership with UNICEF's country office in Mozambique unpacks their new report on child poverty in the country. We interview former UNICEF Innocenti researcher and current research and evaluation specialist with UNICEF Mozambique, Zlata Bruckhauf to discuss what poverty looks like in Mozambique for children and how measuring child poverty across multuple dimensions helps us to not only understand poverty better but informs better solutions to #ENDpoverty. How is...

Our latest podcast done in partnership with UNICEF's country office in Mozambique unpacks their new report on child poverty in the country. We interview former UNICEF Innocenti researcher and current research and evaluation specialist with UNICEF Mozambique, Zlata Bruckhauf to discuss what poverty looks like in Mozambique for children and how measuring child poverty across multuple dimensions helps us to not only understand poverty better but informs better solutions to #ENDpoverty. How is doing research on child poverty in Mozambique helping children, in theory and in practice? What recommendations does the report give to #ENDPoverty in Mozambique and how can this be applied elsewhere? Timed with the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2020, our podcast unpacks the latest effort to understand and combat child poverty on the ground. Download the report: https://www.unicef.org/mozambique/en/reports/multidimensional-child-poverty-mozambique

In our latest Research Matters podcast, we’re talking about our recent report: Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19: Social protection in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with two members of our research team: Dominic Richardson and Kaku Attah Damoah. This report is the first in a series looking at social protection for families and children in the aftermath of COVID-19 in various regions of the world - the first region to be looked at in this series being Eastern...

In our latest Research Matters podcast, we’re talking about our recent report: Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19: Social protection in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with two members of our research team: Dominic Richardson and Kaku Attah Damoah. This report is the first in a series looking at social protection for families and children in the aftermath of COVID-19 in various regions of the world - the first region to be looked at in this series being Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Central Asian states. Some of the questions we’ll be discussing with our researchers today: • How is COVID-19 affecting children in the region? • What can we learn from previous crises? • Are children more vulnerable after a major crisis? Evidence from previous crises shows that social protection responses to crises have contributed to protecting children from the worst effects, and that austerity has resulted in the closure of key child services, reduction in parental caregiving, homelessness, crime, mental health problems and more concerning, further infectious disease outbreaks. In this podcast, we unpack why spending to protect families is so important after a crisis. READ the report: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1139-supporting-families-and-children-beyond-covid-19-in-eca-countries.html?utm_source=soundcloud

What was the state of global education when the COVID-19 outbreak started, how has COVID-19 changed education and what are we learning from the pandemic's effects on children? In our latest podcast, UNICEF Innocenti's Chief of Communication, Dale Rutstein talks with Matt Brossard and Tom Dreesen, from our education team, about what the evidence says about improving education outcomes for children amid COVID-19. UNICEF Innocenti's new COVID-19 research briefs on education provide new analysis...

What was the state of global education when the COVID-19 outbreak started, how has COVID-19 changed education and what are we learning from the pandemic's effects on children? In our latest podcast, UNICEF Innocenti's Chief of Communication, Dale Rutstein talks with Matt Brossard and Tom Dreesen, from our education team, about what the evidence says about improving education outcomes for children amid COVID-19. UNICEF Innocenti's new COVID-19 research briefs on education provide new analysis and findings based on new or recent data sets on: Parental Engagement in Children’s Learning: Insights for remote learning response during COVID-19: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1091-parental-engagement-in-childrens-learning.html and Promising practices for equitable remote learning Emerging lessons from COVID-19 education responses in 127 countries: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1090-promising-practices-for-equitable-remote-learning-emerging-lessons-from-covid.html We hear from Matt and Tom on what went into this research and why the findings are important for children everywhere.

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started:...

The UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti presents its webinar series: 'Leading Minds Online: What the Experts Say - Coronavirus & Children.' COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of international concern over risks to children, including access to education, risks and access to digital resources online, and increasing violence inside the home, among others. READ about how our online Leading Minds series started: https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/2000-unicef-innocenti-leading-minds-online-series-children-online-violence-in-home.html FOLLOW the Leading Minds Online events: https://www.unicef-irc.org/events/