As part of Open Access week 2016, staff at UNICEF's Office of Research Innocenti (www.unicef-irc.org) will be piloting new training on 'An Introduction to Research Management and Methods' with relevant UNICEF staff from our offices in the South Asia region. As part of the research uptake module, a key area of focus will be on understanding open access and why this is so important to maximizing global reach of the research UNICEF undertakes.