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This ODI, Development Finance International and Oxfam event will launch Government Spending Watch – a new database that tracks what developing country governments are spending on achieving the MDGs.
Cash transfer as part of a social security program in Northeastern Kenya.
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The focus of the roundtable session was on how citizen involvement in cash transfer programme governance and accountability can help support broader state-citizen relations.
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Do cash transfer programmes effectively address issues of social exclusion? These and other questions will be explored in an ODI event which will present findings from Transforming Cash Transfers, a DFID-funded study that investigates beneficiary and community perspectives on unconditional cash transfer programmes in five countries - Kenya, Mozambique, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (both Gaza and West Bank), Uganda and Yemen.
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ODI has partnered with Wikigender, the OECD, DFID and The Girl Hub to produce an online discussion exploring the impact of discriminatory social norms on adolescent girls. We would like to hear your views, lessons learned and best practices and policies on empowering adolescent girls. The inputs of this discussion will be presented via summary report at the 'Empowering adolescent girls by tackling social norms' event, to be held on the 26th April 2013.
With an introduction from Professor Maxine Molyneux- Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of the Americas, University College London - Stephen Devereux - Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies - interviews ODI researchers Rebecca Holmes and Nicola Jones about social protection, gender equality and fe
A woman stands before a tank in southern Sudan
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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.