IMPACT CASE STUDY Providing evidence on violence affecting children

This Young Lives impact case study describes how Young Lives builds individual, institutional and national capacity for child-focused research. For related impact stories, please follow us on Twitter @yloxford with #YLLearnings.

In overview:

• Violence affecting children and youth is a widespread global problem, and poorer children appear to be particularly affected.
• Young Lives provides one of the few sources of longitudinal data on violence affecting children, and it is able to generate high-quality research examining the causes and consequences of violence affecting children and youth.
• Young Lives’ collaboration with UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti (OoR), has led to significant impactsincluding contributing to the passing of a new law in Peru prohibiting physical and humiliating punishment of children in all settings.