TURNING RESEARCH INTO ACTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

UNICEF Innocenti Annual Report 2020 7 In late 2020 UNICEF Innocenti launched the COVID UNICEF Innocenti also continued to support e-library, bringing its COVID research together with the and highlight much of the quality research in the best global social science research on the pandemic and organization’s country and regional offices through its impact and implications for children. [...] The by the pandemic, managing both to pandemic has underscored the power sustain most planned work and to of utilizing research and evidence in undertake a broad array of unplanned addressing crisis and uncertainty, and analysis and synthesis in support of an in finding solutions to tough global evidence-based COVID-19 response. [...] UNICEF Innocenti Annual Report 2020 29 In parallel, UNICEF Innocenti respondents’ safety and well-being Child rights and undertook a rapid evidence review and complying with the best standards of the Impacts of Pandemics and of quality and ethics. [...] of the research terms of reference Together with UNICEF country offices (ToR) at the outset to validation of the and regional offices, UNICEF Innocenti findings, with numerous presentations embarked on a series of studies on and discussions in between, the children’s pathways and experiences research has already been presented of migration in the Horn of Africa. [...] In Afghanistan, South Sudan regional and country offices and and the State of Palestine, research ensure relevance and currency with investigating the barriers and enablers the issues facing humanitarian actors to accessing assistive devices for on the ground today.