Impact - Social Change and Behaviour Change related to UNICEF Strategic Priorities

This UNICEF led work is focused on providing policy and funder decision-makers the compelling evidence they need, in the bite sized chunks they require, to demonstrate that social change and behaviour change strategies and actions have a significant, direct impact on key development challenges. They add significant value to making progress towards local and national Development goals; UNICEF Strategic Priorities; the SDGs and other key Development measures. As a result should receive increased policy and financial support.

The impact data linked below comes from:

1. An extensive journal literature identification process
2. Responses from people and organisations in The CI Network and internally within UNICEF, to nominate their top 10 pieces of research - which 10 research papers do they find most compelling and persuasive in demonstrating the direct impact of social change and behaviour change strategies related to development priorities?

The selection criteria set a high bar to ensure credibility with policy makers and funders.

1. Only randomised control trials (with a researched population over 1,500).or ...
2. ... systematic reviews that include some RCTs
3. Must be in a peer review published journal
4. Primarily that publication should be in the leading journals that have the highest credibility amongst funders and policy decision-makers;
5. The research must produce a sentence or phrase that contains a numeric impact data point that can be quoted

This organisation of the impact research identified relates to the UNICEF Strategic Priorities (2022-2027 - check). Click on the one of interest to you to review the impact data identified through this process. (The data will also be organised according to other filters - more coming soon).

UNICEF GOAL AREA 1:

Every child, including adolescents, survives and thrives, with access to nutritious diets, quality primary health care, nurturing practices, and essential supplies

1. Strengthening primary health care and high impact health interventions
2. Immunization services as part of primary health care
3. Fast-track the end of HIV/AIDS
4. Health and development in early childhood and adolescence
5. Mental health and psychosocial well being
6. Nutrition in early childhood
7. Nutrition of adolescents and women
8. Early detection and treatment of malnutrition

UNICEF GOAL AREA 2:

Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future

1. Access to quality learning opportunities
2. Learning, skills, participation and engagement

UNICEF GOAL AREA 3

Every child, including adolescents, is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices

1. Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation
2. Promotion of care, mental health and psychosocial well-being, and justice
3. Prevention of harmful practices

UNICEF GOAL AREA 4:

Every child, including adolescents, has access to safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and supplies and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment.

1. Safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices
2. Water, sanitation and hygiene systems and empowerment of communities
3. Climate change, disaster risks and environmental degradation

UNICEF GOAL AREA 5:

Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty

1. Reducing child poverty
2. Access to inclusive social protection