Children across Eastern and Southern Africa continue to experience high levels of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. Preventing and responding to these risks…

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 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…

This study describes the economic burden of extant levels of violence against children in Malawi, thereby quantifying the economic cost to Malawi of…

UNICEF Ghana seeks to advocate for the resources required to respond to the economic, social and cultural rights, and well-being, of children. Between…

The main objectives of this assignment are to generate evidence-based information that will promote: The aim was to assess the extent to which…

Using Public Finance for Children (PF4C) analyses can enhance the persuasiveness of advocacy for child protection, and contribute to better plans and budgets…