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  • The potential of landscape approaches for addressing child labour in sustainability programmes in the cocoa sector

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    KIT is working with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) to map the initiatives that have taken measures to address child labour in West Africa using a landscape, or an area-based, approach. A landscape approach A landscape approach in a programme is a holistic strategy that addresses complex issues by involving all the stakeholders, recognising their […]

  • Young people’s perspectives on school-based sexuality education

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    KIT is conducting a study, commissioned by UNESCO, on young people’s perspectives on school-based education for health and well-being, including sexuality education. Sexuality education has major positive health and social outcomes for adolescents and young people. Yet, research that focuses on their experiences with such education remains limited. KIT is partnering with young researchers and […]

  • Nestlé Income Accelerator Program – Baseline report

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    Test at Scale Phase The Income Accelerator Program (IAP) aims to tackle key issues facing farm households in the cocoa sector – such as Living Income (LI) gap, child labor, and lack of women empowerment – by enhancing cocoa productivity, increasing additional income sources, improving gender equality, creating a professional labor force, and improving access […]

  • Nestlé Income Accelerator Program – Midline report of the Pilot Phase (2023)

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    The Income Accelerator Program (IAP) aims to tackle key issues facing farm households in the cocoa sector – such as Living Income (LI) gap, child labor, and lack of women empowerment – by enhancing cocoa productivity, increasing additional income sources, improving gender equality, creating a professional labor force, and improving access to loans and savings. […]

  • ‘I Trust YouthWyze’

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    Learning from the implementation of the YouthWyze intervention in Malawi and Zambia YouthWyze is an intervention implemented under the Break Free! programme by SRHR Africa Trust (SAT). It aims to disseminate information and education around SRHR and establish linkages to SRH services for young people. This study areas included urban and rural areas as the […]

  • Nestlé Income Accelerator Programme (IAP)

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    This innovative intervention aims to tackle child labour, decrease poverty, promote diversification and push for more gender equality. The Income Accelerator Programme (IAP) is a four-year program initiated by Nestlé and six of their traders aimed at increasing the income levels of 10,000 cocoa farming households in Côte d’Ivoire while reducing the prevalence and risk of […]

  • AMABIOT POUR LA FUTURE : Planification strategique avec un focus au santé sexuelle et reproductive au Mali

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    L’AMABIOT est une association professionnelle du personnel technique des laboratoires de biologie au Mali, une organisation de la société civile, avec un but non lucratif. L’AMABIOT a présentement plus de 800 membres, et elle est établie dans 8 régions sur les 10 et district de Bamako au Mali. L’accompagnement dans l’élaboration d’un plan stratégique permettra à l’association de mieux […]

  • Affordable, Quality Seed Production and Utilization in the Zambezi Valley

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    Between 2015 and 2020, KIT co-led, together with the Zambezi Valley Development Agency (ADVZ) the NUFFIC-financed project ‘Integrated Seed Sector Development, Mozambique’. Educational & Seed Sector Development In Mozambique, Agricultural Education and Training Institutes (AETI) have traditionally focused on seed production as part of breeding and agronomic programmes, but without a dedicated seed sector development discipline. Gaps therefore exist in understanding the position of farming households […]

  • Time to talk about trust

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    Public trust in health research needs nurturing. How can epidemiologists help? Do vaccines do more harm than good? A huge body of evidence from epidemiology would say “no”, that vaccines in fact do more good than harm. Yet, despite this evidence, many high-income countries are seeing a drop in vaccination coverage and a surge in […]

  • Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia

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    Legal education is key to promoting the rule of law. Law faculties need to teach their students to find solutions to legal problems which promote legal certainty and justice. The Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia (SLEEI) project is supporting four universities in Eastern Indonesia to implement changes in what they teach to law students […]

  • Strengthening Vocational Training Capacity in Mali

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    KIT Royal Tropical Institute is the lead organisation in the ‘ReCaFoP’ (Renforcer les capacités de formation professionelle) project, which aims to improve the supply of technical and vocational training (TVET) needed to tackle challenges such as natural resource management and the lack of economic opportunities for young people and women in Mali. Background Over the […]

  • FORCE (Education on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) – Mali

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    Education on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A collaboration of public and private education for the integration of adolescent and youth reproductive health into the basic curriculum of health technicians and senior health technicians. In Mali, specifically in Mopti and Sikasso, young people and adolescents have difficulty exercising their sexual and reproductive health rights […]