Our Partners

The Cen­ter for Child Well-Be­ing and De­vel­op­ment is a re­search cen­ter at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich that co­op­er­ates with sev­er­al part­ners in or­der to guar­an­tee a strong con­nec­tion be­tween re­search ac­tiv­i­ty and pol­i­cy de­sign. This key as­pect of our work en­sures that our projects are to pro­duce high-qual­i­ty em­pir­i­cal ev­i­dence of both aca­d­e­m­ic in­ter­est and pol­i­cy rel­e­vance.

Dri­ven by the shared be­lief in the im­por­tance of sci­en­tif­ic ev­i­dence in pol­i­cy-mak­ing, we es­tab­lished a long- term re­search part­ner­ship with the Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren Fund (UNICEF). To­geth­er we aim to im­prove both the state of knowl­edge in the field of Child De­vel­op­ment and the ef­fec­tive­ness of in­ter­ven­tion in low- and mid­dle-in­come coun­tries. More­over, we work close­ly with the Swiss Agency for De­vel­op­ment and Co­op­er­a­tion (SDC), which is Switzer­land’s in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion agency with­in the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of For­eign Af­fairs (FDFA). Oth­er part­ners in­clude:

• Lo­cal uni­ver­si­ties of coun­tries where re­search is con­duct­ed (e.g. Malawi)
• Lo­cal na­tion­al sta­tis­ti­cal of­fices
• Oth­er spon­sors, in­clud­ing foun­da­tions and bi­lat­er­al or­ga­ni­za­tions

The De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich is one of the lead­ing re­search cen­ters in Eu­rope. The broad field of re­search of the in­sti­tute cov­ers all im­por­tant sub-ar­eas of eco­nom­ics. Most of the re­search is con­duct­ed us­ing an in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary ap­proach that com­bines mod­ern eco­nom­ics with his­tor­i­cal, po­lit­i­cal sci­ence, psy­cho­log­i­cal, bi­o­log­i­cal and so­ci­o­log­i­cal el­e­ments. Af­fil­i­at­ed to the In­sti­tute are the world-renowned Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Be­hav­io­ral Eco­nom­ics and Ex­per­i­men­tal Eco­nom­ics and the Lab­o­ra­to­ry for the Study of So­cial and Neur­al Sys­tems.
www.econ.uzh.ch

UNICEF has long been known for its fo­cus on de­liv­er­ing health, ed­u­ca­tion and pro­tec­tion pro­grams for dis­ad­van­taged chil­dren around the world. From its ear­li­est days, UNICEF has also rec­og­nized the im­por­tance of gen­er­at­ing and us­ing ev­i­dence to guide poli­cies and pro­grams for chil­dren. The needs and pri­or­i­ties of ev­i­dence gen­er­a­tion will evolve over time as ques­tions are an­swered and new chal­lenges emerge. This com­mit­ment to data, re­search and eval­u­a­tion has grown over time, as both UNICEF and its part­ners seek the most ef­fec­tive ways to sup­port chil­dren’s rights. This col­lab­o­ra­tion with UZH is key to de­liv­er high qual­i­ty re­search that will in­form UNICEF prac­tice.
www.unicef.ch

The Swiss Agency for De­vel­op­ment and Co­op­er­a­tion (SDC) is Switzer­land’s in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion agency with­in the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of For­eign Af­fairs (FDFA). SDC is re­spon­si­ble for the over­all co­or­di­na­tion of de­vel­op­ment ac­tiv­i­ties and hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid de­liv­ered by the Swiss Con­fed­er­a­tion. The goal of de­vel­op­ment co­op­er­a­tion is that of re­duc­ing pover­ty. It is meant to fos­ter eco­nom­ic self-re­liance and state au­ton­o­my, to con­trib­ute to the im­prove­ment of pro­duc­tion con­di­tions, to help in find­ing so­lu­tions to en­vi­ron­men­tal prob­lems, and to pro­vide bet­ter ac­cess to ed­u­ca­tion and ba­sic health­care ser­vices. SDC works close­ly with its part­ners based on ev­i­dence of what works and does not work. That is the rea­son why SDC is sup­port­ing the CCWD re­search pro­gram (with CHF 2.5 mil­lion for 2015-2019) aim­ing to pro­mote in­no­v­a­tive, ev­i­dence-based re­search, which will con­trib­ute to in­creas­ing UNICEF’s and oth­er part­ners’ ef­fec­tive­ness in ad­dress­ing child-spe­cif­ic de­vel­op­ment chal­lenges.
www.deza.ch