MTR-PAE-IR2 SOCIAL POLICIES Social Policies                          GoI capacities to develop child and gender sensitive evidence-based social policies,
including social protection, are strengthened., which contributes to Child Poverty / Public Finance For Children, Social Protection, Social Protection And Child Poverty. UNICEF aims to achieve this through Advocacy And Public Engagement, Evaluations, Research And Data. This contributes to the following Country Programme result: Vulnerable Iraqis benefit from strategic gender-sensitive and ch ild-friendly research-to-policy initiatives, including means-
tested soci al transfers which stimulate economic growth and reduce dependency