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Empirical Analysis using Household and Micro-level Datasets

Formal empirical analysis of the social impact of crises, policy adjustments and other economic events is typically underpinned by an ex- post analysis using nationally representative household survey data.
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Social Budget Tracking and Analysis

Social budget tracking and analysis tools monitor the extent of priority and protection given to public budget items and can influence government policies in favour of allocations to children and families.
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A Child Rights Lens for Poverty and Social Impact Analyses (PSIAs)

Poverty and Social Impact Analyses, PSIAs, are aimed at facilitating an ex-ante understanding of the potential distributional impacts of a given policy reform. Child rights centered PSIAs, add a child focus to these impact assessments, as tools specifically designed to promote more child sensitive real-time policy making.

The Perfect Storm: The Impact of Climate Change and the Economic Crisis on Children and Adolescents in Guatemala


In 2010, UNICEF Guatemala developed a research project on the impact of the global economic crisis and climate change on children and adolescents in the country, which has been based on three main sources: a qualitative study among rural families on economic crisis and food price increase, a UNICEF/IOM survey (2009) about the impact of crisis on households that receive remittances and an analysis of public expenditure on childhood and adolescence.

Documents

  1. The Perfect Storm: The Impact of Climate Change and the Economic Crisis on Children and Adolescents in Guatemala (2010)
    Authors: Hernandez, A.
    UNICEF Guatemala, November 2010