Amber Peterman
Multi-country Impact Evaluation Specialist
I am affiliated with UNICEF's Evaluation Office based in Nairobi, the Transfer Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative and am a Center for Global Development non-resident fellow.
Policy writing & Op-Eds: Trying to write more for public press & research-to-policy impact, [hopefully] succeeding at least some of the time!
My research has also been featured & cited in outlets including: ABC, The Atlantic, BBC, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, The Economist, Forbes, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, Jezebel, Newsweek (the Daily Beast), New York Times, NPR Here and Now, NPR Goats and Soda, PRI’s the World, Thomas Reuters Foundation, Voices Of America News, Wall Street Journal online, Washington Post
* For policy & research briefs on specific publications, see journal article page.
CGD blog 2024 (with Jingying Wang, Kevin Kamto Sonke & Janina Steinert)
IFPRI blog 2023 (with Melissa Hidrobo and Malick Dione) ~ also available in French
IFPRI blog 2022 (C'est la Vie! Process Evaluation Team) ~ also available in French
UNICEF Connect Evidence for Action 2022 (with Christiana Gbedemah & Jennifer Yablonski)
Do Cash Grants Increase Pregnancies? Evidence from Asia and the Pacific says "No"
UNICEF Connect Evidence for Action 2021
Center for Global Development blog 2021 (with Shelby Bourgault & Megan O'Donnell)
Tips for linking social protection and gender-based violence prevention and response during COVID-19
Gender & COVID-19 Working Group blog 2020 (with Lara Quarterman)
Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science blog 2020 (with Tia Palermo, Thoai Ngo & Valerie Mueller)
Think Global Health 2020 (with Megan O'Donnell, Karen Devries & Alessandra Guedes)
Remote data collection on violence against children during COVID-19: A conversation with experts on ethics, measurement & research priorities [part 2]
UNICEF Innocenti 2020 (with Amiya Bhatia & Alessandra Guedes)
Why gender-sensitive social protection is critical to the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
IFPRI blog 2020 (with Melissa Hidrobo, Neha Kumar, Tia Palermo & Shalini Roy)
A Gender Lens on COVID-19: Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children
Center for Global Development 2020 (with Megan O'Donnell & Alina Potts)
Research on humanitarian social protection is not only possible, but desperately needed
VoxEU 2019 (with Jose Cuesta, Jacobus de Hoop, Ugo Gentilini, Angie Lee & Tilman Bruck)
Five questions with Dr. Fidelia Dake on Researching Impacts of Cash Transfers in Africa
UNICEF Connect: Evidence for Action Blog 2018
Cash support: A new tool to decrease Intimate Partner Violence
LSHTM Expert Opinion 2018, re-posted Health Policy & Planning Debated, Transfer Project blog & Socialprotection.org (with Ana maria Buller & Meghna Ranganathan)
Who perpetrates violence against children? Five findings from a global review
UNICEF Connect: Evidence for Action Blog 2018, re-posted Sexual Violence Research Initiative Blog (with Karen Devries & Claudia Cappa)
Seven strategies for Government Cash Transfer from Marketing-Savvy NGOs
UNICEF Connect: Evidence for Action Blog 2017 (with Pamela Dale)
Evidence over Ideology: Giving Unconditional Cash in Africa
UNICEF Connect: Evidence for Action Blog 2017, re-posted Socialprotection.org (with Silvio Daidone & Jennifer Yablonski)
Making research count: Lessons on turning Evidence to Action from the Transfer Project
UNICEF Connect: Evidence for Action Blog 2016, re-posted on Better Evaluation (with Nikola Balvin)
Our not-so-dirty little secret—and what cash has to do with it
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2016 (with Melissa Hidrobo & Lori Heise)
Can cash transfers prevent intimate partner violence?
Policies, Institutions and Markets Research Blog, led by IFPRI 2016 (with Melissa Hidrobo & Shalini Roy)
War time rape: Why the Numbers Don’t Mean What You Think They Do
Foreign Affairs 2011 (with Dara Kay Cohen, Tia Palermo & Amelia Hoover Green)
IFPRI blog 2024 (with the C'est la vie study team)
IFPRI blog 2022 (with Meghna Ranganathan)
Making cash transfers more effective in reducing intimate partner violence
IFPRI blog 2022 (with Shalini Roy & Lucy Billings)
Can social protection simultaneously reduce violence against children and violence against women?
UNICEF Connect Evidence for Action 2021 (with Alessandra Guedes)
The art of indirect measures: Asking about violence against women and children in remote surveys
Center for Global Development blog 2021
COVID-19 and Violence Against Women and Children: A Third Research Round Up for the 16 Days of Activism
Center for Global Development blog 2020 (with Megan O'Donnell)
Center for Global Development blog 2020 (with Megan O'Donnell)
UNICEF Connect Evidence for Action 2020 (with Audrey Pereira & Tia Palermo)
Center for Global Development 2020 (with Megan O'Donnell & Tia Palermo)
Remote data collection on violence against women during COVID-19: A conversation with experts on ethics, measurement & research priorities [part 1]
UNICEF Innocenti 2020 (with Amiya Bhatia & Alessandra Guedes)
UNICEF Connect Evidence for Action blog 2020 (with Alessandra Guedes & Dina Deligiorgis) ~ also available in Portuguese
Towards Gender Equality in Social Protection: Evidence gaps & priority research questions
UNICEF Innocenti 2020 (with Neha Kumar, Audrey Pereira & Daniel Gilligan)
How is economic security linked to gender-based violence? New evidence from the Sexual Violence Research
IFPRI blog 2019 (with Shalini Roy & Meghna Ranganathan)
Where is the standardized measure of women’s empowerment?
Devex Opinion 2018 (with Greg Seymour)
Yes, money can buy you happiness. Here’s why
Devex Opinion 2018 (with Luisa Natali & Kelly Kilburn)
Measuring taboo topics: List randomization for gender-based violence
UNICEF Connect: Evidence for Action Blog 2018 (with Tia Palermo)
When over 500 minds converge to prevent gender-based violence
UNICEF Connect: Evidence for Action Blog 2017, re-posted on Sexual Violence Research Initiative Blog (with Alina Potts)
Interrogating the evidence: The potential for social safety nets to reduce childhood violence
Health Policy and Planning Debated, LSHTM 2017 (with Naomi Neijhoft)
Cash for free: Who’s in the drivers seat?
Forbes 2016 (with Sudhanshu Handa)
Cash transfers: What’s gender got to do with it?
UNICEF Connect Blog 2016, re-posted Zimbabwe Herald (with Luisa Natali & Jennifer Yablonski)
Much ado about decision-making: Musings on collecting gender and empowerment measures in program evaluations
Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Research Blog, led by IFPRI 2014 (with Deanna Olney & Ana Paola de la’O Campos)