Our team at SPRI Global wishes you peace, joy and prosperity throughout the coming year.
For your reading pleasure, we share with you some of our most interesting news items of 2021 and wish you a Happy New Year!
- Monitoring the Impact of COVID-19 on Children in Ghana
- Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Social Policy Research Institute (SPRI Global) has been actively engaged in efforts to monitor, analyze, and report on the wide-ranging social and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and their families.
- Faces of Poverty: Monetary and Multidimensional Child Poverty in Ethiopia
- The Social Policy Research Institute was happy to provide technical support to the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia and UNICEF Ethiopia in conducting a study on the overlap between monetary and multidimensional child poverty in Ethiopia.
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Researchers of the Social Policy Research Institute (SPRI Global) supported UNICEF Ethiopia in partnership with the Central Statistical Agency in carrying out a rapid quantitative study on the impact of COVID-19 on Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- Child Poverty and Access to Basic Services in Amhara and Somali, Ethiopia
- Researchers of the Social Policy Research Institute (SPRI Global) supported UNICEF Ethiopia in partnership with the Central Statistical Agency in carrying out a qualitative study on child poverty and access to basic services in the Amhara and Somali regions of Ethiopia.
- A Review of the Use of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
- SPRI Global researchers authored several key documents, multidimensional poverty methodologies and select country case examples that are highlighted in this comprehensive review, which aims to unpack and understand the ways that multidimensional poverty can ultimately lead to the reduction of multidimensional child poverty.
- ‘Handbook of Social Protection Systems’ Launch
- Social Protection has emerged as an essential policy field and our Director Chris De Neubourg, along with our Senior Researchers Victor Cebotari and Julia Karpati, were happy to contribute to the recently published “Handbook on Social Protection Systems”.
- Multidimensional Child Poverty Refresher Training in Rwanda
- In November 2021, SPRI Global facilitated a technical refresher training in Kigali, Rwanda, educating NISR staff in child poverty measurement by using the statistical software STATA.
- Multidimensional Child Poverty Measurement in Liberia
- In the beginning of 2021, Social Policy Research Institute (SPRI Global) started a project on multidimensional child poverty in Liberia together with UNICEF Liberia and the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS).
- Social Protection Training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- In collaboration with the UNICEF office for West and Central Africa as well as the UNICEF country office, SPRI Global organized and facilitated a 4-day Social Protection Training in city of Zongo, located in Sud-Ubangi Province in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
- Methodological Workshop in Senegal
- Senegal has made significant progress in reducing monetary poverty, yet children and mothers remain particularly vulnerable to multidimensional deprivations. SPRI Global presented and coordinated open dialogues with many actors involved in the research of poverty assessment, using the Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA) approach, during a recent methodological workshop in Senegal.
- Assessing the Social Sector in Maldives
- SPRI Global is currently carrying out a comprehensive assessment of the social sector in Maldives in collaboration with UNICEF Maldives and the Ministry of Gender Family and Social Services (MoGFSS).