Nicola Jones

Nicola Jones has a PhD in Political Science and is a Research Fellow in the Social Development Programme at the Overseas Development Institute. She specialises in research and advisory work on gender, childhood and youth, social policy and social protection, and has carried out work for a range of funders (AusAID, DFID, EU, UNICEF, UNDP, IDRC, GAVI Alliance, Oak Foundation, Plan International, Save the Children, UN Women). Her country expertise is broad, having worked in East and West Africa, Asia, Latin America and more recently in the MENA region. Currently she is co-managing a DFID-funded multi-country study on participatory approaches to cash transfer evaluations in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, and another programme of work exploring the intersection of gender, adolescence and social institutions in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa for DFID. She has published widely including six books and twenty peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as reports, policy briefs and short communication pieces.

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Resilience for all? Towards gender-responsive social protection in South-East Asia

Publication - Research reports and studies - 3 September 2013

Nicola Jones and Maria Stavropoulou with Elizabeth Presler-Marshall

This report presents the findings of a desk review of social protection policies and frameworks in South-East Asia and the extent to which these policies have integrated a gender lens.

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Cash transfers: good governance and accountability in short supply

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 8 August 2013

Cash transfers are very popular way of improving social protection, with a proven track record of reducing poverty at household level and increasing access to basic services around the world. But despite generally positive results, there's been little research done on how they affect household and community dynamics, or on their impacts on marginalised groups such as women, youth, the elderly and people with disabilities.

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Amongst friends, Waiting at the Galle bus stand in Sri Lanka

Psychosocial support and service provision for adolescent girls in post-conflict settings

Projects - July 2013 to December 2015

This project is explores the extent to which services and other responses to mental health and psychosocial stresses in post conflict settings are informed by the context, by gender and by social-cultural norms.

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The links between child protection and employment and growth

Publication - Research reports and studies - 28 May 2013

Dr Josiah Kaplan and Dr Nicola Jones

This report emphasises the value of integrating a life cycle approach into the conceptualisation of inclusive growth and employment whereby childhood is considered as a time for learning and development, laying the foundations for future social and economic well-being.

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