Charting the future: empowering girls to prevent early pregnancy
Elizabeth Presler-Marshall and Nicola Jones
This report explores family planning and empowerment of adolescent girls to prevent early pregnancy in developing countries.
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Brightly dressed children in Georgetown, The Gambia
Children in Georgetown, The Gambia
License: Creative Commons
Credit: tdietmut
Source: FlickrLinking action on poverty and child protection: what do we know? what are the gaps?
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) -
Will Kenya's 2010 Constitution work for women and children?
This Project Briefing looks at what has been achieved in the first year of implementing Kenya's new Constitution, and what still needs to be done to realise constitutional commitments to the rights of children and women. -
Children in crisis: seeking child-sensitive policy responses
Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones, Ronald U. Mendoza, David Stewart and Erika StrandIn 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. -
Kwakavisi community meeting
Kwakavisi community meeting - poverty ranking conducted by Shadrack and Beryl as part of the cash transfer project
License: Hanna Alder
Source: Hanna AlderTransforming cash transfers: beneficiary and community perspectives on social protection programming
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 -
Critical drivers of change for child-sensitive development
Rachel Marcus, Paola Pereznieto, Erin Cullen and Patrick CarterThis report explores the significant progress on child rights and well-being over the past few decades in the developing world. The findings have been taken forward and developed into a further report by Save the Children as part of their ‘Why international Aid is so important’ campaign. -
Progress in child well-being: building on what works
Rachel Marcus, Paola Pereznieto, Erin Cullen and Patrick Carter (ODI) with inputs from Jessica Espey and Ravi Wickremasinghe (Save the Children)This report analyses the improvements to children’s lives during the past two decades in five sectors: health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education, and child protection. It includes case studies of countries that have made strong progress in improving children’s well-being. -
Girls in school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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Credit: Vicki Francis/Department for International Development
Source: FlickrTransforming the lives of adolescent girls
This project aims to improve development outcomes for girls and young women, breaking inter-generational poverty, and providing a catalyst for change, the returns of which will ripple through wider society. -
Cash transfers for maternal health: design opportunities and challenges in low-resource settings
Based on a review of best practice, this Project Briefing outlines the components that were taken into consideration during the cash transfer design process for an operations research project on Cash Transfers (CT) for Safe Motherhood (SM) led by Interact Worldwide and supported by ODI.
