At Cornerstone Economic Research, we’ve been grappling with a fundamental question: what exactly constitutes a child protection system ? In a new research…

Investing in prevention, protection, and adolescent wellbeing delivers benefits that far outweigh the costs, improving the lives of the most vulnerable children, strengthening…

Cornerstone worked with UNICEF Mozambique to analyse national survey data and produce a series of thematic briefs on child well-being. Covering health, nutrition,…

Cornerstone is partnering with UNICEF Ghana and others to strengthen the country’s social service workforce through evidence-based strategies and investment cases. Our work…

We are working with UNICEF’s MENA Regional Office to strengthen investment in child protection across the region. By building skills in Public Finance…

In 2021, UNICEF HQ and the UN SRSG-VAC commissioned Cornerstone to investigate the economic costs of VAC. This involved a detailed review of…

Through this work Fiji and Samoa will have a clearer picture of the heavy price of underinvestment and a clear sense of the…

The team for this assignment was commissioned by UNICEF ESARO in 2023 to develop and test a methodology for building an investment case…

The objective of this project was to provide the technical assistance required to develop a costed transition plan for the transfer of designated…

The Constitution established three “distinctive, interdependent and interrelated” spheres of government. Provincial government is one of these spheres and the provinces are responsible…