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Involving youth in development policy research: lessons learned

Publication - Briefing papers - 30 June 2011

Nicola Jones with Christiana Gbedemah, Paula Monjane, Paola Pereznieto, Gisa Rosen and Eliana Villar

This Project Briefing synthesises the findings of a DFID-funded study that examines the impacts of global shocks on youth - primarily in Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam.

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Rebuilding basic education in Cambodia: Establishing a more effective development partnership

Publication - Research reports and studies - 12 June 2011

Development Progress Stories

Jakob Engel, Pauline Rose

Part of the Development Progress Stories series, this research focuses on Cambodia's progress towards universal access to education.

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Progress in health in Eritrea: Cost-effective inter-sectoral interventions and a long-term perspective

Publication - Research reports and studies - 12 June 2011

Development Progress Stories

Romina Rodríguez Pose and Fiona Samuels

Part of the Development Progress Stories series, this research focuses on Eritrea's progress in improving health, and child health in particular.

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Benin's progress in education: Expanding access and narrowing the gender gap

Publication - Research reports and studies - 12 June 2011

Development Progress Stories

Jakob Engel with Edmond Magloire Cossou and Pauline Rose

Part of the Development Progress Stories series, this research focuses on Benin's progress in tackling gender inqualities in education.

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What¹s good for girls is good for global finance

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 25 May 2011

New data released by the latest census in India shows that things are getting worse for girls. Claire Melamed argues that this is storing up big economic problems for the future – for all of us.

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Youth vulnerabilities and adaptation: Exploring the impact of macro-level shocks on youth: 3F (food, fuel, financial) crisis and climate change in Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam

Publication - Research reports and studies - 2 May 2011

Paola Pereznieto with Christiana Gbedemah, Paula Monjane, Gisa Roesen, Caroline Harper and Nicola Jones

This report presents a synthesis of the methods and findings of a participatory study in Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam, which aims to fill the knowledge gap on the social impacts of crises on youth, and to ascertain their perspectives on their vulnerabilities and coping mechanisms, with a particular focus on those resulting from the global triple-F crisis and climate change.

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Children in Oromia, Ethiopia, holding up their hands

Mainstreaming marginalised knowledge into development policy processes

Event - Public event - 18 April 2011 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

This event will discuss strategies for mainstreaming marginalised sources of knowledge - including from children, women and marginalised communities - into international development. It will draw on perspectives from the global South and North.

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Child poverty, evidence and policy

Publication - Books or book chapters - 23 February 2011

Nicola Jones and Andy Sumner

This book is about the opportunities and challenges involved in mainstreaming knowledge about children in international development policy and practice. It focuses on the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates.

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