Amber Peterman
Impact Evaluation Specialist, Development Effectiveness and Impact Unit, UNICEF Evaluation Office
Amber Peterman is an impact evaluation specialist and the thematic lead for impact evaluations on child protection, harmful practices, gender and adolescent wellbeing in the Development Effectiveness and Impact Unit (DevEI) unit at UNICEF's Evaluation Office, based in Nairobi. She works with UNICEF colleagues and collaborators to produce evidence to make programs more effective, elevate priority and under-acknowledged issues, and backstop policy decisions. Amber is also affiliated with the Transfer Project, the Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative and is a Center for Global Development non-resident fellow. Amber previously worked as a research associate professor in the department of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as a social policy specialist at UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti and as a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC., Kampala, and Dakar. Her personal website can be accessed here: https://www.amberpeterman.com/
Recent work by Amber Peterman
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C’est la Vie! How a popular West African edutainment series changed minds, but not behaviours
A West African TV series in Senegal led to short- and medium-term gains in knowledge and attitudes around violence against women and sexual and reproductive health, though impacts on behaviours were limited, and a podcast version extending content du...
Published 12.05.26
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Edutainment: Can storytelling reduce violence against women and children?
How can mass media meaningfully shift attitudes and behaviours in developing countries?
Published 16.07.25