4th Annual Conference 2019

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4th An­nu­al Con­fer­ence 2019

What works? Social and Behavioral Approaches to Boost Children’s Well-Being

15 March 2019
8:30 AM - 7:00 PM

Based on their re­search and de­vel­op­ment projects across the world, ex­perts from dif­fer­ent fields will present new in­sights into be­hav­ioral and so­cial change, fo­cus­ing on com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment and em­pow­er­ment to im­prove child de­vel­op­ment.

The Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals (SDGs) out­line an am­bi­tious agen­da for the glob­al de­vel­op­ment com­mu­ni­ty over the next decade. Achieve­ment of these goals are crit­i­cal to im­prov­ing the lives of mil­lions of com­mu­ni­ties, fam­i­lies and chil­dren across the world, par­tic­u­lar­ly among mar­gin­al­ized pop­u­la­tion groups.

The Cen­ter for Child Well-be­ing and De­vel­op­ment (CCWD) and UNICEF are work­ing to­geth­er to ad­vance in the Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals by un­der­tak­ing high qual­i­ty re­search and gen­er­at­ing rig­or­ous ev­i­dence on ef­fec­tive so­cial and be­hav­ioral change. We are also work­ing in the im­ple­men­ta­tion of com­mu­ni­ty-based strate­gies and in­ter­ven­tions to sup­port na­tion­al and lo­cal gov­ern­ments. The an­nu­al con­fer­ence 2019 aims to con­tribute to these ef­forts.

Fea­tured keynote speak­er Dr. Nava Ashraf, Pro­fes­sor of the De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ics at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence, and Re­search Di­rec­tor of the Mar­shall In­sti­tute.

- Reg­is­tra­tion and wel­come cof­fee
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Open­ing re­marks
Philippe Puyo - SDC, Rafael Obre­gon - UNICEF
Daniel Frey - UNICEF Switzer­land, Guil­herme Lic­hand
Re­search Di­rec­tor, Cen­ter for Child Well-be­ing and De­vel­op­ment

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Ses­sion 1: The aban­don­ment of harm­ful so­cial norms and stim­u­la­tion of so­cial non-ac­cep­tance of vi­o­lence
Lec­ture: Harm­ing to sig­nal: ex­per­i­men­tal ev­i­dence from Malawi
Si­mon Hän­ni – As­so­ci­ate Re­searcher, Cen­ter for Child Well-be­ing and De­vel­op­ment

Ses­sion 2: In­creased de­mand and uti­liza­tion of qual­i­ty and in­clu­sive ser­vices for the child
Lec­ture: Niger, can cash and be­hav­ioral change pro­grams im­prove child de­vel­op­ment?
Patrick Pre­mand – Se­nior Econ­o­mist, So­cial Pro­tec­tion and La­bor Glob­al Prac­tice, World Bank (on sab­bat­i­cal)

- Cof­fee Break
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Ses­sion 3: En­gage­ment and em­pow­er­ment of chil­dren and com­mu­ni­ties
Lec­ture: The en­ter­tain­ing way to be­hav­ioral change: fight­ing HIV with MTV
Vic­tor Hugo Oroz­co – Econ­o­mist, De­vel­op­ment Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion (DIME) World Bank

Ses­sion 4: Ef­fec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion and com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment in hu­man­i­tar­i­an ac­tion
Lec­ture: Well-be­ing in a Tox­ic En­vi­ron­ment?
Lucy Nus­seibeh – Founder and Ex­ec­u­tive Chair, Mid­dle East Non­vi­o­lence and Democ­ra­cy

- Lunch
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Ses­sion 5: Path­ways from re­search to pol­i­cy
Lec­ture: Pre­sen­ta­tion of the re­port of the Harm­ful and Tra­di­tion­al Prac­tices Sur­vey in Malawi
Mekon­nen Wold­e­gor­gis – Re­search and Eval­u­a­tion Spe­cial­ist, UNICEF Malawi
Guil­herme Lic­hand – Re­search Di­rec­tor, Cen­ter for Child Well-be­ing and De­vel­op­ment
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Round­table dis­cus­sion
A re­search and pol­i­cy agen­da for so­cial and be­hav­ior change and com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment
Venka­tra­man Chan­dra-Mouli - Ado­les­cent Sex­u­al and Re­pro­duc­tive Health, World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion
Priscil­la Idele – Deputy Di­rec­tor, UNICEF Of­fice of Re­search In­no­cen­ti
Ad­i­na Rom – Founder and CEO of Pol­i­cy An­a­lyt­ics Switzer­land
Fabio Se­gu­ra – Head of In­ter­na­tion­al Pro­grams, Ja­cobs Foun­da­tion
- Break – Walk to UZH Main Build­ing
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Keynote Ses­sion
Chil­dren as Agents of Change
Nava Ashraf – Pro­fes­sor of the De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ics at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence, and Re­search Di­rec­tor of the Mar­shall In­sti­tute.
- Con­fer­ence Apéro

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