Enhancing the effectiveness of UNICEF programming
The planned Research Programme for Child Well-Being and Development aims to promote innovative, evidence-based research, which will contribute to increasing UNICEF’s and other partners’ effectiveness in addressing child-specific development challenges. The Research Programme is established at the University of Zurich and funded by SDC, the UNICEF Suisse and private sector foundations.
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Période |
Budget |
Monde entier
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01.04.2014 - 31.12.2019
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CHF 2'500'000
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| Contexte |
Sustainable development starts with safe, healthy and well-educated children. Over the last two decades, much progress can be reported. Nevertheless, far too many children are denied the opportunity to fulfil their potential due to a lack of access to basic services or because of their sex, ethnicity or religion. Thus, the task of reaching children and families who have been left behind by development progress is substantial.
A key challenge for the work of UNICEF is the lack or insufficient quality of research on child-specific development issues. Although many small scale programmes show positive results, understanding of how to achieve large scale change is in many cases still very limited. Today’s research is often anecdotal rather than evidence-based, age- or developmental-state-related differences are not accounted for, selection biases are a common problem and comparison groups are rarely used.
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| Objectifs |
Child well-being and development in low- and middle-income countries is improved thanks to more effective, evidence-based UNICEFand partner’s programming.
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| Groupes cibles |
Final Target Group
- UNICEF beneficiaries and communities in developing countries
Intermediate Target Group
- UNICEF heads of sector (nutrition, health, education, etc) and Country Office staff
- Researchers and development practitioners in developing countries
- Government services in UNICEF country programme
- SDC focal points of networks/groups (education, health, etc)
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| Effets à moyen terme |
Development Outcomes:
- Service provision by government/non-government institutions at country level is improved taking into account evidence based research findings;
- Social norms and behaviour of UNICEF beneficiaries and communities are changed positively.
Research Outcomes:
- Policies, programmes and interventions of development partners have integrated research results (in particular UNICEF);
- Child well-being networks have picked up research results and debated their implications;
- Capacities of researchers and practitioners in developing countries and globally in the area of child well-being are strengthened.
Institutional Outcome:
- Funding of the research limited to current phase programme will be taken over by University of Zurich end of 2019.
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| Direction/office fédéral responsable |
DDC
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| Crédit |
Coopération au développement
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| Partenaire de projet |
Partenaire contractuel
Institution universitaire et de recherche suisse
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| Budget |
Phase en cours Budget de la Suisse CHF 2'500'000 Budget suisse déjà attribué CHF 2'000'000 Projet total depuis la première phase Budget y compris partenaires de projet CHF 2'500'000 |
| Phases du projet |
Phase 1 01.04.2014 - 31.12.2019 (Phase en cours) |
