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Lessons and Best practices from the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability (YW4A) initiative
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This brief presents key lessons learned and best practices from the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) programme across Egypt, Kenya, Palestine, and South Sudan. Drawing on experiences from women’s rights organisations, faith-based organisations, and young women leaders, it highlights practical and evidence-informed approaches that contributed to strengthening advocacy, leadership, gender equality, […]

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Strengthening Skills, Leadership, and Inclusion
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Between 2021 and 2025, KIT and IFDC collaborated on two initiatives: the HortiNigeria programme in Nigeria and the A3SEED programme in South Sudan, supporting and strengthening the horticultural and seed sector in these respective countries. Although the programmes operated in different sectors and settings, both prioritised gender and youth inclusion as part of their strategies. […]

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YW4A Transformation Journeys
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YW4A Transformation Journeys captures the stories of change from 23 partner organisations engaged in the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) programme across Egypt, Kenya, Palestine, and South Sudan. Developed as part of the programme’s endline reflection process and facilitated by KIT Royal Tropical Institute, the booklet builds on the Advocacy and […]

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Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability, Theory of Change mid-term Reflection brief (English, Arabic)
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This mid-term reflection brief explores the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) programme across Egypt, Kenya, Palestine, and South Sudan. It consolidates key insights from the internal Mid-Term Review and reflects on how the programme’s Theory of Change guides learning, collaboration, and action. The brief aims to inspire partners, women’s rights and […]

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Financial Inclusion for Strengthening Climate Resilience
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In collaboration with Tecnológico de Monterrey, KIT Institute is implementing a project funded by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, entitled “Financial Inclusion for Strengthening Climate Resilience: Exploring Adaptation Strategies and Supply Chain Impacts on Latin American Coffee Farmers.” As part of this project, KIT Institute conducted a comprehensive literature review to examine existing adaptation and mitigation strategies in agriculture, with a particular […]

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EmpowHER
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Through tailored training and support, this programme aims to equip VSLAs to meet the criteria for formal financial institution approval, enabling farming households to access essential savings and loan services that could drive income growth and economic resilience.

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«Rien pour nous, sans nous»
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Le programme Break Free! vise à donner aux adolescents et aux jeunes les moyens d’exercer leur droit à vivre sans grossesses précoces ni mariages d’enfants, avec le soutien de la société civile. Le renforcement du plaidoyer des jeunes sur les questions de santé sexuelle et reproductive constitue un élément important pour que les jeunes puissent […]

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“Nothing for them, without them”
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The Break Free! programme aims to equip adolescents and youth to exercise their right to live free from teenage pregnancy and child marriage, supported by civil society. Strengthening youth advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues forms an important component of young people being able to claim their rights, yet limited evidence […]

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Marya Hillesland
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In addition to her advisory and research roles, she has over eight years of university teaching and curriculum development experience in gender and development and feminist economics at the University of Oxford in the UK, and American University, Washington, DC, U.S. She has a doctorate in economics from American University and a master’s focused on […]

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Emily Hillenbrand
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Emily holds a doctoral degree in Development Sociology from Cornell University and a master’s degree in Women, Gender and Development from the Institute for Social Studies, the Hague.

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Addressing the income – child labour – gender nexus
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Child labour is a persistent global problem which adversely affects children’s physical and mental well-being. The problem is especially prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa: recent estimates from the International Labour Organisation (ILO, 2024a) reveal an increase in child labourers from 70 million in 2016 to 87 million in 2024. Many of these children work on smallholder […]

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Break Free! Exploring intergenerational divides around sexual and reproductive health and rights
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The Break Free! (BF!) Programme aims to strengthen young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and promote gender equality in nine African countries and is funded by and implemented in partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Strengthening Civil Society for SRHR partnership fund for the period from January 2021 […]

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