Caroline Harper

Caroline Harper has a PhD in Social Anthropology and is currently associate director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and a Research Fellow at ODI. Previously she was director of the Childhood Poverty Policy and Research Centre (CHIP), a collaborative venture between Manchester University and Save the Children and Co-Director of Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty. She worked for Save the Children in several roles in the UK and overseas (predominantly in S.E. Asia) focussing on issues of poverty, economic adjustment, participation, research, evaluation and policy processes, and worked for 4 years for the UN in China on anti-poverty programmes.

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Adolescent girls, capabilities and gender justice: review of the literature for East Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia

Publication - Research reports and studies - 8 March 2013

ODI Background Notes

Carol Watson, James Hamilton Harding and Caroline Harper

This Background Note synthesises the results of three extensive literature reviews exploring the extent to which gender justice for adolescent girls is shaped by formal and informal laws, norms, attitudes and practices that limit them in the attainment and exercise of their capabilities.

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Gender, violence and the post-2015 framework

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 24 January 2013

Violent attacks on girls and women are nothing new. But two particularly shocking attacks on young women in 2012 have not only sparked widespread condemnation, they are also shaping the discussion on what follows the Millennium Development Goals.

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Brightly dressed children in Georgetown, The Gambia

Linking action on poverty and child protection: what do we know? what are the gaps?

Event - Public event - 5 July 2012 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

What does the evidence on linkages between child protection and broader anti-poverty action look like? What are key gaps that need to be filled? What are the implications for future knowledge and action?

ODI and the Oak Foundation host a public event to discuss these very questions with particular attention on violence against children, sexual abuse and exploitation, early marriage and inadequate care/ neglect of children. We will also discuss lessons from other areas of child protection.

If you are interested in a roundtable discussion with key experts after the event please get in touch with David Walker in the Social Development Programme (d.walker@odi.org.uk)

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Children in crisis: seeking child-sensitive policy responses

Publication - Books or book chapters - 11 May 2012

Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones, Ronald U. Mendoza, David Stewart and Erika Strand

In this book experts from the global North and South analyse the implications of economic crises on children with a particular focus on the emerging evidence from the economic crisis and food and fuel price volatility that caught global attention in 2008.

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