Cornerstone welcomes long-term projects, as we believe they are often more effective in bringing about meaningful institutional and social change. Below are some of the projects we’ve been involved in. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit Cornerstone Economic Research, and the source where the material appears. For permission to reprint for commercial use, such as in textbooks, please contact us.
May 31, 2022
The Addis Ababa City Administration has developed a comprehensive 2020/2021 annual action plan for the Future Hope of Addis Ababa Early Childhood Development (“ECD”) Initiative. The action plan details the key program components and the key activities to be implemented under each strategic initiative. The RFP notes that the costing should guide the government and […]
April 30, 2022
The ECD function for children 7 months to 4 years old is in process of being shifted from the social development sector to the education sector. This means that provincial education departments will need to take over the responsibility of registering and funding ECD services. It is estimated that there are currently around 20 000 ECD […]
December 9, 2021
UNICEF Ghana seeks to advocate for the resources required to respond to the economic, social and cultural rights, and well-being, of children. Between 2019 and 2021, UNICEF Ghana contracted Cornerstone to produce an annual set of sectoral budget briefs to assess how well the national budget addresses children’s needs, and to advocate for additional expenditure […]
November 30, 2021
The advocacy document is intended to serve as a resource: The intended users of the advocacy document include: To produce the advocacy document, Cornerstone reviewed and brought together the most relevant data and information about the following:
October 31, 2021
The main objectives of this assignment are to generate evidence-based information that will promote: The aim was to assess the extent to which budgets and expenditures in the education, health, social protection and child protection sectors are aligned to child-focused policy commitments in these sectors. This will serve to demonstrate whether strategic planning is feeding […]
August 31, 2021
Any national strategy to prevent interpersonal violence should include evidence-based parentingprogrammes that support caregivers. Research on the effectiveness of parenting programmes for reducing the risk factors for neglect, abuse and violence against children is growing. But determining thecost of large-scale delivery of these programmes has been difficult. This report summarises the costs involved in scaling […]
July 9, 2021
Using Public Finance for Children (PF4C) analyses can enhance the persuasiveness of advocacy for child protection, and contribute to better plans and budgets for scaling-up systems and implementing services. Child protection is complex, which complicates PF4C-type analyses. UNICEF contracted Cornerstone to conduct a global review of the use of PF4C in child protection. Cornerstone conducted […]
June 29, 2021
South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP) recognises that safety and security are “directly related to socio-economic development and equality” and require an environment “conducive to employment creation, improved educational and health outcomes, and strengthened social cohesion.” It argues further, safety involves the criminal justice system, local government, community, and private sector and role players involved […]
April 10, 2021
Cornerstone, in collaboration with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the German Development Coorporation (GIZ), developed a series of government budgeting workshops. The workshops were designed to engage government officials, NGOs, development partners and researchers in addressing critical questions about public finance management, how National Treasury allocates funds to various government spheres and departments, […]
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