10. Reduced inequalities

Gender Mainstreaming in the Private Infrastructure Development Group
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The Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) requested support in gender mainstreaming their development finance funds. A strategy towards realising gender equality, or at least awareness of inequalities. Integration of a gender perspective This project involves the integration of a gender perspective into the preparation, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/investments, with a view to promoting equality between women […]

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The Strengthening of African Rural Smallholders
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KIT Royal Tropical Institute is engaged in assessing the impact of the “Strengthening African Rural Smallholders” project (STARS). The four-year project is funded by the MasterCard Foundation (MCF) and implemented by ICCO in four African countries. Supporting microfinance STARS supports microfinance institutions in developing financial products for smallholder commercial producers, producer groups, as well as small […]

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Integrating a Gender Lens into FMO’s Investment Process
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KIT Royal Tropical Institute is supporting FMO in the development of a Women SMEs (WSMEs) market as well as to incorporate an improved gender lens in their financing strategy and product offering. Gender equality as a cornerstone Gender equality – SDG 5 – is a cornerstone of FMO’s strategy for Financial Institutions (FIs). FMO has long seen the potential of […]

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Women’s Empowerment: Moving Beyond Access to Finance
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KIT Royal Tropical Institute developed a study on approaches to financial inclusion that enable women to overcome gender barriers. Moving beyond access to finance Access to financial products and services is believed to be a key enabler of women’s economic empowerment. But access to finance alone is not transformative. Gender barriers still constrain women from […]

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Youth in Agricultural Cooperatives
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This research builds on the outcomes of several scoping efforts, seminars and networking meetings on youth and agriculture in rural areas as well as the consortium’s broader experience in working with agricultural cooperatives. The study underscores the critical need to develop additional knowledge with respect to youth inclusion in agricultural cooperatives. Providing insights This explorative […]

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Action learning in the State of African Women campaign
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The main objective of the State of African Women (SoAW) campaign is to contribute to securing, realizing and extending women’s rights enshrined in African Union (AU) policies. The campaign seeks to influence change in both legal and social norms for women and girls’ rights in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), at the continental, […]

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State of African Women Report
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As part of an international partnership to improve the rights of women and girls across the African continent, KIT led a research team to develop the State of African Women Report. The report raises awareness of continental-African commitments to women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and progress in their implementation. Realising women and girls’ […]

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South Sudan Health Action and Research Project (SHARP)
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KIT assisted the implementation of the three-year South Sudan Health Action and Research Project (SHARP). Working closely with South Sudan’s Ministry of Health, the project aimed to improve the accessibility of reproductive health (RH) care in post-conflict South Sudan. Rebuilding and Envisioning South Sudan had the highest maternal mortality rate in the world at 2,054 women […]

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Improving Maternal Health through Social Accountability in Burundi and DRC
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By using participatory research, this project investigates if and how social accountability mechanisms improve responsiveness and performance of maternal health services in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It further assesses in which contexts these mechanisms are successful and why, leading to policy recommendations for maternal health in both countries. Intervention planning and […]

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HRH Workforce Planning and Forecasting for UHC
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KIT is working in Togo, Guinea, Benin, and Burkina Faso to improve their quality of maternal and child health services through workforce planning and forecasting. Feasible interventions have been implemented through collaboration and information sharing between stakeholders. This is part of a move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Projections and analysis With more countries adhering […]

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Impact Assessment of Dance4life’s School-Based Programme for Young People
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In 2011, dance4life (d4l) commissioned KIT to study and make recommendations to improve the efficiency and impact of its programme. As a result of the findings, d4l to launched a new campaign targeting the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young people and their communities in Russia and Uganda. Meaningful involvement and strategic planning Many […]

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Improving Sexual Health and Well-Being of Young Men in Bangladesh and Kenya
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KIT has teamed up with national researchers and partners to investigate the effectiveness of a new Motivational Intervention (MI+) approach. Our aim is to discover ways of motivating young men, specifically in Bangladesh and Kenya, to make safer choices about their sexual health and to equip service providers to better meet the needs of these […]

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