Amber Peterman

Amber Peterman is a multicountry impact evaluation specialist at UNICEF's Evaluation Office, based in Nairobi. Her work focuses on the intersection of gender and development with an emphasis on violence against women and children, social protection and adolescent well-being. She is a quantitative researcher, has collected large-scale data in more than a dozen countries, and published more than 60 academic articles. Amber holds a PhD in public policy from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she previously worked as research associate professor.

A man watches a movie on his phone, in Delhi, India, on November 16, 2016.
Gender

Netflix's Adolescence: Social Change Through Edutainment

by Amber Peterman, Alessandra Guedes, Christine Kolbe-Stuart

The evidence behind the power of educational entertainment to prevent violence against women and children

"We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19," the authors write. Here women wearing masks take part in a protest against gender violence in Santiago, Chile, on December 6, 2019. The photo is a striking image of women wearing red masks lined up, each person holding a hand over one eye of the person in front of them. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
Gender

Violence in Times of Coronavirus—The Ugly Truth

by Amber Peterman, Megan O’Donnell, Karen Devries, Alessandra Guedes

We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19—we need a world free from violence against women and children

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