Community health financing: a model to protect households from unexpected health costs in informal settings
In low- and middle-income countries, catastrophic health expenditures and economic hardship constitute a common risk for households’ welfare. Community health financing (CHF) represents a viable option to improve financial protection, but robust impact evaluations are needed to advance the debate concerning universal health coverage in informal settings. In their latest article “Financial protection and coping […]
Next Generation Prato: scientific supervision for the PNRR local strategy in the Municipality of Prato
With the Next Generation Prato, the document outlining strategies and projects to exploit the opportunities offered by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), the Municipality of Prato continues its process towards ecological, digital and circular transition. The document Next Generation Prato is the result of a participatory work, which stems from the permanent working […]
RigenERPrato: Social Impact Bonds as a possible solution to the housing emergency?
The project RigenERPrato, financed by the Department of Public Administration within the Social Innovation Fund, aims at supporting the process towards achieving personal autonomy for families hosted in public housing units in the Municipality of Prato. The project main programmed activities include the provision of personalised support services that can meet the specific household needs […]
Fostering the inclusion of children with disabilities: the Emancipatory Research in Tanzania
In the Iringa District, conditions of children with disabilities and their families are very harsh. Despite some improvements in policies and regulations, the situation for education access is still critical. In fact, children with disabilities are often abandoned to themselves, hidden at home, and deprived of the opportunity to go to school. In order to [...]
Assessing multidimensional well-being and capabilities of migrants hosted in the Italian reception system
How does migratory experience impact migrants’ well-being? In their paper “Assessing multidimensional well-being and capabilities of migrants hosted in the Italian reception system”, published on the latest issue of the magazine Science and Peace, Researchers Matteo Belletti, Federico Ciani and Scientific Director Mario Biggeri describe the evolution of the multidimensional well-being and capabilities of migrants […]
SROI Analysis, measuring companies social performance
Measuring the SROI index, Social Return on Investment, allows large companies and/or organizations to measure the impact of their investments or corporate welafre projects in terms of social performance. The concept of social impact has received increasing attention in recent years, especially from social enterprises and third sector organizations that wish to know, evaluate and [...]
Annual Report of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, stakeholder engagement and innovation
The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence was the first fabriceria in Italy to publish its Annual Report in 2016, beginning an annual process of social, economic and financial reporting. Every year, the Annual Report aims to narrate the successes and difficulties that the Foundation overcomes in protecting the cultural and artistic heritage […]
CMDI, a new composite index to eradicate child deprivation from a sustainable perspective
In the last decades, both academia and UN agencies have increasingly adopted a multidimensional perspective in analyzing and addressing poverty and wellbeing. This was also due to the efforts of UNICEF in promoting the measurement and analysis of child poverty in its multidimensional definition. Following this trend, in their latest work titled “Measuring Child Multidimensional [...]