How evaluation serves as UNICEF’s compass—shaping decisions, fostering accountability, and driving impact through lessons from the 2022–2025 Strategic Plan.

Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.

One year ago, on April 16, 2024, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information was launched. In this post, we want to highlight a number developments during this past year.

About 31% of children are living in relative poverty after housing costs, government figures show.

Widespread alarm at Keir Starmer’s decision to slash funds, amid warnings of dire consequences for world’s poorest

As I have stopped using Twitter, I asked AI to summarise ten years of my tweets on science for policy in ten principles. No real surprises but not a bad…

This programme gives ODA-eligible early-career to senior researchers the opportunity to work with peers around the world to inform policymaking through quality evidence and research.

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An estimated 17,000 children are unaccompanied or separated from family who would ordinarily care for them.

MSF’s pediatric department in Nasser Hospital has been full since July, and more than 25 percent of patients have respiratory distress syndrome.

“This must not be the new normal. We cannot allow a generation of children to become collateral damage to the world’s unchecked wars.”