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Research Symposium, Malawi

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Re­search Sym­po­sium, Malawi

Bingu International Conference Center (BICC)

30 Au­gust 2018
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

UNICEF, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with UNICEF’s Swiss Na­tion­al Com­mit­tee and the Swiss De­vel­op­ment Agency, for­mal­ized a 30-year re­search part­ner­ship with the De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich. The ob­jec­tive of the part­ner­ship is to align the re­search in­ter­ests of the Uni­ver­si­ty with the re­search agen­da and pro­gram de­sign in­ter­ests of UNICEF in so­cial norms and re­silience.

To op­er­a­tional­ize the part­ner­ship, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich es­tab­lished the Cen­ter for Child Well-be­ing and De­vel­op­ment (CCWD) with a pro­fes­sor­ship to di­rect and co­or­di­nate the re-search part­ner­ship.

OB­JEC­TIVE OF THE SYM­PO­SIUM: The two-day re­search Sym­po­sium is the first of its kind to be or­ga­nized in Malawi as part of this col­lab­o­ra­tion. The prime ob­jec­tive of the event is to share knowl­edge from re­search on child well­be­ing and de­vel­op­ment, fea­tur­ing rig­or­ous re­search from RCT as well as lon­gi­tu­di­nal stud­ies. The lat­ter is par­tic­u­lar­ly im­por­tant as the Uni­ver­si­ty and UNICEF plan to em­bark on an 18-year lon­gi­tu­di­nal pan­el study from 2019.

AP­PROACH: The Sym­po­sium com­bines ple­nary and par­al­lel (small group) ses­sions. The par­al­lel ses­sions con­sist of pre­sen­ta­tion of re­search pa­pers on child de­vel­op­ment by schol­ars from Switzer­land and African Uni­ver­si­ties in ad­di­tion to the pre­sen­ta­tion of the pre­lim­i­nary find­ings of the na­tion­al­ly rep­re­sen­ta­tive Harm­ful Tra­di­tion­al Prac­tices (HTP) Sur­vey con­duct­ed in Malawi in 2018 as well as the re­search project called par­ents’ fu­ture-ori­en­ta­tion and in­vest­ments in chil­dren. Lec­tures by Pro­fes­sor Fehr on be­hav­ioral eco­nom­ics and Pro­fes­sor Lic­hand’s lec­ture on tech­nol­o­gy are the key fea­tures of the Sym­po­sium.

AU­DI­ENCE: UNICEF, Gov­ern­ment, de­vel­op­ment part­ners, acad­e­mia, civ­il so­ci­ety, in­ter­na­tion­al in­vi­tees.

The field-trip to Malawi was also fruit­ful for CCWD team mem­bers to pi­lot re­search projects in the Ka­sun­gu area.

30 Au­gust
- Reg­is­tra­tion
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Open­ing re­marks
Dr. Kain­ja PS Min­istry of Gen­der, Chil­dren, Dis­abil­i­ty and So­cial Wel­fare and Jo­hannes We­denig UNICEF Rep­re­sen­ta­tive

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UZH / UNICEF Malawi Re­search Pro­jects
Malawi 2018 Harm­ful Tra­di­tion­al Prac­tices Sur­vey de­sign and pre­lim­i­nary re­sults

joint pre­sen­ta­tion by UNICEF, UZH, NSO, CSR

- Health break
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UZH / UNICEF Malawi Re­search Pro­jects
Malawi Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Pan­el Study on Child Well­be­ing and De­vel­op­ment – Part I

UZH

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UZH / UNICEF Malawi Re­search Pro­jects
Par­ents’ Fu­ture-Ori­en­ta­tion and In­vest­ments in Chil­dren in Malawi

UZH

- Lunch
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Pre­sen­ta­tion of schol­ar­ly re­search pa­pers on child health and de­vel­op­ment
Ef­fects of Ear­ly Ex­po­sure to a Com­pre­hen­sive Nu­tri­tion Pro­gram in Rur­al Malawi

John Phu­ka (PhD), Col­lege of Med­i­cine, Uni­ver­si­ty of Malawi

- Health break
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Pre­sen­ta­tion of schol­ar­ly re­search pa­pers on child health and de­vel­op­ment
Child Pro­tec­tion and Harm­ful Tra­di­tion­al Prac­tices: Fe­male Ear­ly Mar­riage and Gen­i­tal Mod­i­fi­ca­tion in Ethiopia

Yisak Tafere (PhD) Co­or­di­na­tor at Ethiopi­an De­vel­op­ment Re­search In­sti­tute (EDRI)

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Pre­sen­ta­tion of schol­ar­ly re­search pa­pers on child health and de­vel­op­ment
Malawi Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Pan­el Study on Child Well­be­ing and De­vel­op­ment – Part II

UZH and Id Guardian

- Cock­tail Re­cep­tion at BICC
31 Au­gust
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Lec­ture: A Frame­work for Chang­ing So­cial Norms and Norm Re­lat­ed be­hav­iors
Prof. Ernst Fehr
- Health break
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Lec­ture on Tech­nol­o­gy and Ed­u­ca­tion
Prof. Guil­herme Lic­hand
- Lunch
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Pre­sen­ta­tion of schol­ar­ly re­search pa­pers on child health and de­vel­op­ment
Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Pan­el Study Ex­pe­ri­ence from South Africa Na­tion­al In­come Dy­nam­ics Study (NIDS)

Coret­ta Jon­ah (PhD), Uni­ver­si­ty of the West­ern Cape

- Health break
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Pre­sen­ta­tion of schol­ar­ly re­search pa­pers on child health and de­vel­op­ment
The De­ter­mi­nants of Mal­nu­tri­tion in Se­lect­ed Sa­hel Coun­tries

Eu­ge­nie Maiga (PhD) Pro­fes­sor Uni­ver­si­ty of Koudougou, Burk­i­na Faso

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Ex­ec­u­tive ed­u­ca­tion or train­ing on im­pact eval­u­a­tion
Au­di­ence splits in groups: Ex­ec­u­tive train­ing on im­pact eval­u­a­tion

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