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Amplifying young women’s voices and agency
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Gender transformative projects aim to address the structural and social root causes of gender inequality, but measuring that kind of change is difficult. Practitioners, researchers and NGOs have long asked how feminist principles can be applied in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), what this looks like in practice, and whether it is possible at all. […]

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Sustained impact and the road ahead
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This report evaluates the impact of the Accelerator after 3.5 years of implementation among test-at-scale households in Côte d’Ivoire. To robustly estimate the Accelerator’s progress from 2022 to 2025, four waves of survey data from 1,970 households across 28 cooperatives (all Nestlé Cocoa Plan (NCP) and Rainforest Alliance (RA) certified) were used. To estimate the […]

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Endline Evaluation
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This endline evaluation assesses the two-year impact of the EnRoute programme, a partnership between ETG–Beyond Beans Foundation, Oxfam Novib, and KIT Institute. The programme set out to test practical, scalable approaches to closing the living income (LI) gap and reducing child labour (CL) among 599 farming households. The programme tested three intervention models among cocoa-farming […]

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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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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! Climate change, youth, and SRHR: Intersections with gender equality and education, and pathways to resilience
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The Break Free! (BF!) programme is dedicated to strengthening the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescents and young people aged 10–24, while also promoting gender equality and ensuring access to quality education Building on insights from regional learning sessions held in 2024, the programme identified an urgent need to better understand the […]

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Resilience during Cocoa Sector Turbulence
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Launched in 2022, Nestlé’s Income Accelerator Program aims to reduce the Living Income (LI) gap for cocoa farming households while addressing child labor risks. Centered around four key areas – school enrollment, good agricultural practices (GAPs), agroforestry, and income diversification – the program provides conditional cash transfers and resources to encourage farming practices that benefit […]

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Health & Prosperity – Conference Report
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On 10 March, KIT Institute hosted the high-level conference “Health and Prosperity: How Dutch Investments in Global Health Drive Security and Economic Growth”, bringing together key stakeholders to examine the Netherlands’ investment role in global health initiatives. This event will highlight the economic and societal return on investment of Dutch contributions to global health financing, which […]

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Resilience and Collaboration: Lessons from the Fenomenal Funds Initiative
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Feminist movements globally are navigating complex and increasingly hostile environments. Civic space is shrinking, authoritarianism is rising, and resources for rights-based organising remain scarce and difficult to access, especially for those at the margins of mainstream funding ecosystems. Yet, at the same time, feminist movements continue to be at the forefront of innovation, resistance, and […]

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Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the Netherlands’Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV/AIDS program in Southern Africa
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The Embassy of the Netherlands in Mozambique commissioned KIT Institute to review progress of the regional SRHR/HIV Programme in Southern Africa. The second phase of this Regional Programme (2021–2026 with a budget of 89 million Euro) focuses on improving the quality of life for young people aged 10–29, particularly those in vulnerable situations. The Mid […]

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Uniting Resources and Solidarity: Gaza Initiative Conference Amsterdam
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“Uniting Knowledge, Resources and Solidarity”, the third Gaza Health Initiative (GHI) conference, held on Friday, 13 September 2024 at KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam convened over 200 humanitarian and development practitioners, global health experts and policy makers, working in Gaza and internationally, to support the recovery of Gaza’s devastated health sector. The conference discussed […]

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