Highlights
Empirical Analysis using Household and Micro-level Datasets
Social Budget Tracking and Analysis
A Child Rights Lens for Poverty and Social Impact Analyses (PSIAs)
Economic Policies and Child Wellbeing
Economic trends and policies affect children through their impact on household income, employment, access to health, nutrition and education. The food and financial crises, together with escalating humanitarian emergencies, climate change, rapid urbanization and fiscal adjustments all profoundly affect children, particularly the most impoverished and marginalized.
In this rapidly changing world, robust evidence is critical to promoting the rights of children and ensuring that equitable policies are in place to improve children’s daily lives and protect them against shocks.
This UNICEF website provides analytical tools on economic trends and policies and their impacts on children. It gives policymakers, child rights advocates, academics and practitioners practical means to assess and formulate timely and effective responses to crises, economic shocks and policy reforms, and to analyse the social impacts of economic trends.
The range of instruments presented in this website include: Rapid Surveys and Sentinel Site Monitoring; Macro-micro Models and Micro-accounting Methodologies; Ex-ante Child Rights Centered Poverty and Social Impact Analyses; Empirical Ex-post Analysis; Social Budget Tracking and Analysis; and recent Innovative Desk Reviews. Supporting documents such as country cases, briefing notes, presentations, simulation tools and surveys' questionnaires are also available for download.
The site is linked to initiatives underway across UNICEF connecting research with data collection tools such as ChildInfo and with policy advocacy initiatives led by UNICEF’s Division of Policy and Practice that encourage policymakers to lend greater attention to children’s rights and the UN's calls to integrate economic and social policy.
This portal, which will be continuously updated as the latest knowledge becomes available, draws on a wide base of evidence to make the case for swift action on behalf of children – before, during and after crises, other shocks and policy reforms.
Please contact us at florence@unicef.org should you have any questions about the tools presented on this site, or would like to contribute to this resource.