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Disability inclusion resources for practitioners
Ensuring that all research activities include children with disabilities is critical to shaping equitable policies and programs. UNICEF Innocenti leads efforts to make disability inclusion a core focus of UNICEF’s evidence generation, particularly in research that informs future policy and interventions. This is e...
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Neurotechnology and Children
In the next five to 10 years, neurotechnologies – ranging from brain implants to non-invasive devices like watches and headbands – will affect daily life for many children. The technologies stand to bring potential benefits in areas such as health, education, wellness and play.However, they also pose risks – known...
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Disability inclusion in research
Over 240 million children around the world live with disabilities. Many face challenges as they try to participate fully in the world: They miss out on learning, health care, playing with friends and enjoying family and community life. For many, discrimination leads to isolation, neglect and abuse. For children ...
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Inclusion and equity
Across the world, inequity and discrimination keep children from participating fully in their families, communities and nations. Discrimination and inequity keep children from attending school, from seeking and receiving health care, and from dreaming big and reaching their goals. When discrimination and inequity ...
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Through the eyes of children
Involving children as competent social actors in research is increasingly acknowledged as a way of including authentic perspectives on childhood and enhancing our understanding of children’s experiences. Engaging directly with children can inform the development of targeted policies and programs for them. As pa...
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Inclusion Matters: Inclusive interventions for children with disabilities
In this publication we report our Evidence and Gap Mapping (EGM) of “Inclusive Interventions for Children with Disabilities in LMICs”. It shows that research is lacking in many critical areas: awareness and non-discrimination, protection, adequate standard of living, family and community life, and empowerment – th...
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Accessible Digital Textbooks Paraguay
In the Latin America and Caribbean region, more than 19 million children have a disability. Although school attendance and completion rates have increased steadily over the last 20 years in the region, barriers to access quality education are still too high for children and adolescents with disabilities. In Paragu...
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UNICEF and WHO launch the first global report on assistive technology
GReAT logo 16 May 2022 – The first Global Report on Assistive Technology (GReAT) is launched today by The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The report, produced in collaboration with UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, shares evidence-based best practice examples and 10 key actionable recommendations…
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Caregivers’ Guide to Inclusive Education
Parents or caregivers of children with disabilities play a crucial role in supporting their child’s learning. This includes navigating the education system and supporting their child’s participation in an inclusive school. They often face unique challenges and obstacles as they navigate the education system and su...
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Effectiveness of Inclusive Interventions for Children with Disabilities
Of the nearly 1 billion people with a disability, 80 per cent live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and 240 million are children. Children with disabilities remain one of the most marginalized and excluded groups in society. This protocol to the Evidence and Gap Map on the Effectiveness of Inclusive Int...
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Children and COVID-19 Research Library Quarterly Digest Issue 3 (Feb 2022)
Research and data on children with disabilities around the globe remains critical as these children continue to be left behind. This is despite near-universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the extensive ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Evide...
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Assistive Technology in Humanitarian Settings
There are 240 million children with disabilities in the world; half of them are out of school. Many are invisible, stigmatized, hidden by their families and abandoned by their governments. Children with disabilities, especially in humanitarian settings, are among the poorest members of the population and one of th...