Workshop objectives and agenda

Anthony Hodges

Regional Chief, Economic and Social Policy, UNICEF, West and Central Africa Region

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Workshop objectives

A working meeting to operationalize three major research initiatives launched by UNICEF:

The Global Child Poverty Study The Regional Study on the Reflection of

Children’s Interests in PRSPs and Government Budgets

The Regional Study on Social Protection and Children

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Global Child Poverty Study• Being carried out worldwide in over 40 countries• Includes 9 countries in West and Central Africa:

– Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone (+ Burundi from East Africa)

• Research teams constituted in almost all the countries and at different stages of implementation

• Workshop objective: share initial experience & fine-tune plans for completion of the country studies

• Working group during workshop• Participation: Country researchers, UNICEF CO focal

points, HQ staff, Univ. of Bristol (technical support team)

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Regional study on children, PRSPs and budgets• Study involves a region-wide desk review and 5 country

case studies:– Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana, Mauritania, Sierra Leone

• Study being carried out by Oxford Policy Management• Draft research plan has been prepared and circulated• Workshop objective: review & improve research plan• Working group during workshop• Participation: OPM research team, focal points from

UNICEF COs in case study countries, others from UNICEF HQ, Regional Office, COs and Spain

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Regional study on social protection and children

• Study involves a region-wide desk review and 5 country case studies:

– Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Senegal

• Study being carried out by Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

• Draft research plan has been prepared and circulated• Workshop objective: review & improve research plan• Participation: ODI research team, focal points from

UNICEF COs in case study countries, others from UNICEF HQ, Regional Office, COs

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Agenda

• Mix of plenaries and working groups• Start with introductory plenary – on UNICEF’s global

social policy agenda and the socio-economic context in West and Central Africa

• 2nd plenary – introducing each of the 3 studies• 3 concurrent working groups to discuss and improve

the research plans (for one and a half days)– Each group should nominate a chair and a rapporteur

• 3rd plenary – report back from working groups• Final working group and plenary sessions