School children at a Temporary Learning Centre, Nepal

Latest work

Exploring Reasons for Primary School Dropout in Mozambique

Longitudinal Assessment of School Dropout in Mozambique (2021)

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Data Must Speak: Burkina Faso

Positive deviance reports and project briefs

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Researching Sensitive Topics Involving Children

Managing Risk, Distress and Trauma in Research Design and Data Collection

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Prospects for Children in 2025: A Global Outlook

Building Resilient Systems: As we face into a new and intensifying era of crisis for children, what are the issues to watch in 2025?

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Foresight for Children’s Futures

A primer

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Exploring Innovative Methods in Education Research

Data Must Speak: Methodological briefs

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Implement: Bridging Policy-Practice Gaps in Africa Education

Inform, invest, implement: Research insights from 33 countries

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Invest: Harnessing the Latent Potential in African Education

Inform, invest, implement: Research insights from 33 countries

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Spotlight

Global, multidisciplinary projects and flagship reports

The State of the World’s Children

UNICEF’s flagship report – the most comprehensive analysis of global trends affecting children

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Changing Childhood Project

What is childhood like today?

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Prospects for Children: Global Outlook

An annual analysis of trends shaping the world and their impact on children

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Report Card

Understanding child well-being everywhere

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Our approach

UNICEF Innocenti works for and with children and young people to seek solutions to their most pressing challenges. As we focus on the rights and lives of children and young people, we always ask: Who else can we include? Will this work cause unintended harm? Are there events that could surprise us? Does this work drive change?

Events and insights

Debunking four myths about children’s safety online

On Safer Internet Day, let’s look at what the data tells us.

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UN News: New era of crisis for children

Prospects for Children on United Nations News

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Leveraging the links

How integrated approaches can enhance the transformative potential of social protection for women and girls

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Six ways to end online child sexual exploitation and abuse

Evidence from the Disrupting Harm project

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Interventions to address intimate partner violence and ...

Webinar: 3 July 2024

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How parenting programmes can reduce family violence

Webinar: 21 February 2024

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Violence against children and violence against women

Webinar: 13 March 2024

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Launch of UNICEF's Youth Foresight Playbook

28 November 2023, Dubai Future Forum

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