ERIC Number: ED620648
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Sep
Pages: 5
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UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018-2021: COVID-19 Special Evidence Brief. Evidence and Gap Map Research Brief. Innocenti Research Brief 2022-09
White, Howard; Saran, Ashrita
UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
This research brief is one of a series of six briefs, which provide an overview of available evidence shown in the Campbell-UNICEF Mega-Map of the effectiveness of interventions to improve child wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with this brief mapping the COVID-19-relevant studies. This brief provides an overview of the available evidence that may inform responses to the COVID-19 pandemic or that furthers the understanding of its impact on child well-being outcomes. This evidence may be directly related to policies to reduce COVID-19 transmission, such as closure of schools and colleges, personal protective equipment, movement restriction between borders and social distancing, or studies of interventions responding to the immediate socio-economic impacts, such as social protection measures, educational programmes and tele-health. The purpose of the research brief is to: (1) Make potential users aware of the map and its contents; (2) Identify areas in which there is ample evidence to guide policy and practice, and so encourage policymakers and practitioners to use the map as a way to access rigorous studies of effectiveness; and (3) Identify gaps in the evidence base, and so encourage research commissioners to commission studies to fill these evidence gaps. [This brief is an update of the 2020 version. It was written with assistance from Yashika Kanojia.]
Descriptors: International Organizations, Strategic Planning, Evidence, COVID-19, Pandemics, Children, Child Health, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Disease Control, School Closing, Safety Equipment, Child Safety, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti. Via degli Alfani 58, 50121, Florence, Italy. Tel: 39-055-20330; Fax: 39-055-2033220; e-mail: florence@unicef.org; Web site: https://www.unicef-irc.org/
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Authoring Institution: UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti (Italy); Campbell Collaboration
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