UNICEF

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UNICEFs contribution to GIVAS and crisis
monitoringComplex Crisis WorkshopIDS 9-10 March
2010
Gaspar Fajth Chief, Social Policy and Economic
Analyses gfajth_at_unicef.org
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Intro and background

• UNICEFs value added
• Mission and global presence
• Focus on and staff in LICs, fragile states,
  emergencies
• Experience in collecting evidence - and use for
  policy advocacy
• Examples of UNICEFs economic crisis monitoring
• Monitoring the impact of Washington Consensus
  (AWHF, 1981-86)
• Monitoring the transition in CEE/CIS (MONEE
  project, 1992-2001)
• Monitoring the impact of the 3F
  crises/contributions to GIVAS
• Other examples of collecting evidence
• Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey,
  Childinfo/Devinfo, Malawi/Etiopia

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Monitoring the impact of the 3F crises

• Food and fuel crisis
• Nutrition and WES programme response with
  decentralized monitoring/rapid surveys (50
  countries)
• Social protection pilots/proposals for scaling up
  (simulation models)
• Financial crisis
• Global advocacy (UNICEF-UNIFEM Side Event in
  Doha, Nov/2008)
• Advocacy and sentinel surveillance in East Asia
  and Pacific (Jan/09)
• Contributions to UN GIVAS (from March/2009)

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UNICEFs contribution to GIVAS Countries

• Crisis framework for selecting countries
• Macro- economic stress
• Public budget stress
• Sustained stress on household budgets (Food/CPI)
• Availability of quantitative and/or qualitative
  evidence
• Originally 27 countries identified (Input for
  SGs first report)
• Currently global pilot is planned in a
  sub-selection of these
• E.g. Egypt, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Madagascar,
  Mongolia, Turkey, Uganda, Zambia

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UNICEFs contribution to GIVAS Indicators

• Proposed indicators at three levels
  (global/regional/country)
• Selection principles for the global indicators
• Relevant for MDGs and/or UNICEFs mission
• Development impact of the selection of the
  indicator
• Relevant for LICs and well as MICs
• Standard qualities of social indicators
• Could be collected also at sub-national levels
• Both absolute numbers and rates/ratios
• Could be benchmarked by routine stats or
  representative surveys
• It is expected that GIVAS will add other
  indicators

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Shortlist of proposed common indicators (18)

• Wasting among girls and boys aged 6-59 months
• denominator of girls/boys monitored
• School attendance in primary/lower secondary
  education by gender
• denominator of school girls/boys enrolled or
  of children in age brackets
• School attendance in upper secondary education by
  gender
• denominator girl/boys enrolled or girls/boys
  in age brackets
• The proportion of children left without parental
  upbringing
• nominator infants left in maternity wards and/or
  infant homes, total children in care
• denominator live births, total of children
• Use of antenatal care services by women
• denominator estimated of live births in
  country or area

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Issues to be addressed

• Next steps, time-frame, partners
• Methods, technology and frequency of data
  collection
• Situating results in a broader framework/indicator
  system (UN-GIVAS?)
• Who will analyse, publish results?
• Alert whom, trigger what action?
• Policy relevance, political sensitivity
• Feedback to improve GIVAS and national/internation
  al monitoring?