UNICEF Innocenti Podcasts

UNICEF Innocenti presents Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come, 35 years after the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child or CRC by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. In this episode Professor Cecile Aptel, Deputy Director at UNICEF Innocenti with several years of experience at Fle...

UNICEF Innocenti presents Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come, 35 years after the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, or CRC, by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. According to the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, 281 million people lived outsid...

UNICEF Innocenti presents Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come, 35 years after the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child or CRC by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. Violence against women is one of the most pervasive and widespread violation of human rights in the world. One thir...

Episode 3 of the GRASSP podcast explores social protection case studies from Angola, Burkina Faso, Mali and Tanzania. Discover how how social protection interventions can be adapted to focus on women and girls, and their specific needs.

UNICEF Innocenti presents Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come, 35 years after the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child or CRC by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. Globally nearly 240 million children live with disabilities, and the vast majority in low- and middle-income countr...

UNICEF Innocenti presents Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come, 35 years after the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child or CRC by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. Protesting peacefully is a human right under article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights...

UNICEF Innocenti presents Present Imperfect, a podcast series exploring the evolution of child rights over the past three decades - and the decades to come, 35 years after the approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child or CRC by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. In this episode, Ann Skelton, Professor of Law at Leiden University and Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the...

In the first of a new series of podcasts, Camila Teixeira of UNICEF Innocenti speaks with Nahjae Nunes and Abril Perazzini, both UNICEF Youth Foresight Fellows, on the future of democracy - as seen through the eyes and experience of young people.

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...

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...

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...

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 syste...

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 ran...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. T...

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 help...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...