We’re delighted to release our Annual Report for 2022. It’s been a busy year for the Collaborative. With 7 project underway, 10 completed and 32 project partners, it has been a year of growth for us as a data collaborative and learning how to bring data to life with the human side of the story.

We are thrilled to announce that The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF has won DataIQ 2022 Data for Society Award for its innovative approach to leveraging data to tackle some of the world's most pressing issues, with a focus on children.

A conversation between Alessandra Fassio, our previous Advocacy and Relations Manager and Iwona Soppa, who is stepping into this role.

In line with Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re delighted to share some of the outputs and findings from our project focused on adolescent mental health.

For Earth Day 2022, we need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). As children are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, it is fundamental for them to be recognised as agents capable of determining their own futures.

On 8 March 2022, the Responsible Data for Children (RD4C) team—a collaboration between The GovLab and UNICEF—hosted a special 75-minute webinar on the RD4C principles and tools meant to enable the responsible handling of data for and about children.

Robust population data is fundamental for many UN agencies to operate efficiently and effectively. But there are widespread, and very valid, concerns about its accuracy. Across the UN, different teams are exploring how to obtain, and maintain, more accurate data – using satellite data, social media and machine learning along the way.

Northern Alliance regional improvement collaborative colleagues are working with the Data for Children Collaborative on a project to explore how to make better use of data to assess the poverty-related attainment gap across eight local authorities.

The climate crisis is a child’s rights crisis. What can you do to help put children at the heart of climate action? In line with today’s focus on youth and public empowerment, we are releasing our policy brief based on our contributions to the Children’s Climate Risk Index.

Given that good mental health is fundamental to children’s well-being, greater global investments are needed to support the services required to meet the complex and multifaceted mental-health challenges that children face today.

We’re delighted to release our Annual Report for 2021. It’s been a busy year for the Collaborative - we’ve expanded our team, met with lots of new people, built new partnerships and grown our project portfolio!

Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF’s Director Alex Hutchison won DataIQ 2021 Award in the Data for Good Champion category.

Have a read about what our small but mighty team get up to on a day-to-day basis and what they’re most excited about for the Collaborative this year.

The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF supports the delivery of a new Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) which will provide UNICEF with vital information about where children are most at-risk from the impacts of climate change, both now and in the future.

Our partners at the ONS FCDO Data Science Hub have been exploring if machine learning methods and publicly available spatial datasets can be used to map and understand HIV risk in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa for our HIV project.

Our Population Estimation project team have recently published a paper on their work so far.

When Covid-19 forced the closure of schools in Scotland to most pupils in March 2020, there was widespread concern about the impact this might have on the mental health and wellbeing of young people.

The theme of this year’s World Obesity Day is #EveryBodyNeedsEverybody.

Read about the work our nutrition project team has been doing to analyse the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort of data to inform the design of obesity/overweight surveillance systems internationally.

For Safer Internet Day 2021, we’ve joined the conversation about how to build an Internet we trust. The internet has an amazing range of information and opportunities online, but how do we separate fact from fiction?

We are delighted to celebrate the inclusion of our director Alex Hutchison as part of the dataIQ 100 most influential people in data.