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

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

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…

The advocacy document is intended to serve as a resource: The intended users of the advocacy document include: To produce the advocacy document,…

Any national strategy to prevent interpersonal violence should include evidence-based parentingprogrammes that support caregivers. Research on the effectiveness of parenting programmes for reducing…

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…

Cornerstone, in collaboration with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the German Development Coorporation (GIZ), developed a series of government budgeting workshops.…

Government budgets are much like household budgets. In households, we make decisions about how to allocate limited income to buy food, pay for…