Pam Baatsen

Insights from the literature and stakeholders in Eastern and Western provinces The Break Free! Consortium in Zambia is – through a mixture of interventions that include lobby and advocacy – working towards reducing child marriage in Eastern province in Zambia, a province with a high child marriage rate (45.4% of women aged 20-24 were married […]

• Policy Brief

Child marriage, defined as a legal or informal union between two people before one or both of them turn 18 years old, is a practice that is proportionately affects girls and is linked to several unfavourable health, developmental, familial and social outcomes (1). Eastern and Southern Africa are home to over 50 million child brides, […]

• Review

A Literature Review Exploration SRH Service Provision Indigenous People in Bangladesh The technical capacity of health workers to provide Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services and information to especially vulnerable people, including indigenous people, needs strengthening. As input for the “We Care” project, which works towards the strengthening of such an inclusive approach, a literature study […]

The World Health Organization recommends postnatal home visits to improve maternal and newborn health, but there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of postnatal home visits effectiveness in humanitarian settings. This paper evaluates postnatal home visits implemented in the constrained humanitarian context of Gaza.

• Research article

Posted on May 11, 2020 by BMJ GH Blogs Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted counts – William Bruce Cameron Do vaccination campaigns increase immunization rates in young children?  Do home-visiting programs for new mothers increase exclusive breastfeeding? Studies designed to answer these questions are known as health impact evaluations […]

Gaining insight into (changes in) the magnitude, causes and consequences of child marriage and teenage pregnancy in Nampula, Mozambique This report contains the end-line study conducted in the three districts in Northern Mozambique where the YES I DO programme has been implemented. The report draws on literature about child marriage and teenage pregnancy in Mozambique, […]

This study explores how young people exercise agency in rural Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia in relation to sex, relationships and marriage, to inform local programmes aiming to prevent teenage pregnancy and child marriage.

This document contains the findings from a study conducted in November 2019 in the implementation areas of the YES I DO programme in Northern Mozambique, namely Nampula, Rapale and Mogovalas districts. The YES I DO programme in Mozambique is part of a multi-country programme aiming to prevent child marriage and teenage pregnancy.

• Study

This study’s purpose is to help improve the nutrition of children and mothers in Sierra Leone. The specific purpose is helping the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to develop a Behavioural Change Communication strategy about maternal infant and young child nutrition. This summary document provides insight in he findings of the study and has recommendations […]

• Evaluation

The United Nations International Children’s Fund State of Palestine (UNICEF SoP) has contracted the KIT-Juzoor consortium to conduct an external evaluation of the Post Natal Home Visiting (PNHV) programme for postnatal mothers, neonates and their families implemented in Gaza in a humanitarian context. This final report describes the purpose of the evaluation, the methodology used, […]

• Yes i do Report

YES I DO. is a strategic alliance of five Dutch organizations which main aim is to enhance the decision making space of young women about if, when and whom to marry as well as if, when and with whom to have children. The present report details the baseline study conducted in Mozambique. The report draws […]

• Yes i do Report

Exploring possible changes in relation to child marriage and teenage pregnancy in Mozambique two and half years into the Yes I Do programme This report contains the results of the Yes I Do midline study conducted in Nametil, the capital of Mogovolas District, Mozambique between May and July 2018. The purpose of the study is […]

• Yes i do Report

This report presents the findings of the YES I DO (YID) midline study, conducted in April 2018, in Group Village Head (GHV) Mangamba, Traditional Authority (TA) Liwonde, Machinga District in Malawi. The study aimed to provide insight into the (interrelated) causes and effects of child marriage and teenage pregnancy and the extent to which these […]

• Policy Brief

Reaching out to male youth works! Reaching male youth through a multi-channel MI+ approach facilitates an open dialogue on SRHR issues among health care workers, peers and teachers. Continuous, tailored SRHR information and education enable male youth to adopt healthy and positive attitudes to sexuality and to lead meaningful lives.

Exploring new ways of improving sexual health and wellbeing of young MSM in Bangladesh through a Motivational Intervention (MI+) approach The Motivational Intervention (MI+) approach aimed to build the capacity of health providers and peer educators to elicit and strengthen young MSM’s motivation for change through four consecutive rounds of training, and a continuous process […]

Policy brief Can a motivational intervention create greater respect for the sexual and reproductive rights of groups that are currently denied their rights? The case of men having sex with men in Bangladesh.