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Exploring the Reasons Behind Primary School Dropout in Mozambique
This research brief presents the results of the third round of Mozambique’s Longitudinal Assessment of School Dropout (ALDE), conducted in 2021. It investigates trends in school attendance, performance and dropouts since the previous rounds of the assessment, conducted in 2018 and 2019. The brief examines factors ...
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Known from Birth
The Known from Birth project is producing a series of products developed collaboratively by UNICEF Innocenti and South Africa Centre for Evidence (SACE). These products examine birth registration and its critical importance for child protection. The project is supported by the Government of Norway and focuses on i...
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Learning on Hold
In Mozambique, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread school closures, significantly impacting students and schools across the country. An analysis of pre- and post-pandemic reading skills, using data from the nationally-representative Avaliação Longitudinal da Desistência Escolar (ALDE, Longitudinal Assessm...
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Lost time, Lost opportunities
The Avaliação Longitudinal da Desistência Escolar (ALDE, Longitudinal Assessment of School Dropout) is the first nationally representative mixed-method longitudinal survey in Mozambique. Since 2018, the ALDE survey has annually collected longitudinal, nationally representative data from around 5,400 primary school...
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Disrupting Harm country reports
Disrupting Harm national reports present evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse that is committed against children, with the use of digital technologies. This research takes a multi-disciplinary approach to understand and present the nuances of these forms of abuse. This involves collecting both qualitative an...
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Child Marriage Evidence Profiles
Through the Strategic Technical Assistance for Research (STAR) Initiative to end harmful practices, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti aims to strengthen research in countries supported by the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage and the Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilati...
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Impact Evaluation of the Child Grant (0-2 years)
As part of the operationalization of the National Social Security Strategy 2016-2024 (ENSSB II), Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Action (MGCAS) revised the social assistance programs, including the Basic Social Subsidy Programme (PSSB), introducing two new components, namely the Child Grant and the Disabil...
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Drivers of Primary School Dropout in Mozambique
The Avaliação Longitudinal da Desistência Escolar (ALDE, Longitudinal Assessment of School Dropout) is the first nationally representative mixed-method longitudinal survey in Mozambique. Since 2018, the ALDE survey has annually collected longitudinal, nationally representative data from around 5,400 primary school...
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Disrupting Harm country advocacy briefs
The Disrupting Harm project was established to generate high-quality evidence on technology-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse of children. This multi-country project aims to generate evidence-based recommendations that are relevant for the national context. The Disrupting Harm advocacy briefs are a compani...
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Time to Teach country reports
Teachers are a critical component to children’s learning and wellbeing. If children are to develop the necessary skills to break out of poverty, lead productive lives, and reach their full potential, understanding better teachers’ working and living conditions and improving teacher attendance need to be priorities...