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Hanna Alder

Programme Officer/Research Officer, Social Development

Hanna has an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics and is currently a Research and Programme Officer with the Social Development Programme. She joins ODI having previously worked with a local grassroots NGO in Peru supporting a Quechua female entrepreneurship initiative for women weavers. Prior to this, Hanna worked with the Secretariat at the UN Economic commission for Europe (UNECE) on preparations for the Beijing+15 regional review meeting and with UNDP in Bosnia Herzegovina conducting a vulnerability situation analysis of female headed households in the Upper Drina region.

In addition to administrating the Social Development Programme, Hanna provides research, writing and project management support, and leads on its communication activities.

Outputs

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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Holding cash transfers to account: beneficiary and community perspectives

Publication - Research reports and studies - 24 April 2013

Fiona Samuels and Nicola Jones with Agnieszka Malachowska

This multi-country research argues that understanding beneficiary and community perceptions of cash transfers is essential for designing effective social protection instruments.

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Ending violence against women is possible: a report from the UN

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 11 March 2013

‘Just as gender inequality causes and compounds women’s poverty, so too do poverty and marginalisation exacerbate gender inequality. It is a vicious circle that can only be broken by tackling the social norms and attitudes at the root which govern and shape women’s unequal position in society.’

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Youth and international development policy: prospects and challenges

Projects - February 2013 to March 2013

This project aims to highlight the need for international development agencies to invest in youth and view their development policies through a youth-lens.

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Transforming cash transfers: beneficiary and community perspectives on social protection programming

Projects - May 2012 to March 2013

This project investigates community perceptions of cash transfer programmes in five countries using innovative participatory and qualitative approaches. Interactive resources and publications can be accessed at transformingcashtransfers.org

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