Publications

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 in African countries. This synthesis brief reflects on the strategies pursued by this campaign to safeguard gains made and to advance progress in women and girls’ rights in SRHR.

Results of the Yes I Do programme (2016–2020) in West Lombok and Sukabumi, Indonesia

While the health impact of COVID-19 in most African countries appears modest, the impact of social distancing measures, closing of markets and reduced mobility is felt across the board. This study uses pre- and during-shock data on agricultural cooperatives from Southeast Africa to understand how resilient these smallholder-owned organizations are.

The Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile (AGT) was signed in July 2016 to support companies in implementing due diligence, develop joint activities and projects, and ultimately address adverse social, environmental and animal welfare challenges in supply chains.

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 in African countries. This second synthesis brief (read the first one here) reflects on the strategies pursued by this campaign to advance women and girls’ rights through coalition-building and advocacy for legal and social norms change and better implementation of policy commitments at multiple levels.

Through a nationally representative household survey in Afghanistan, we conducted an operational study in two relatively secure provinces comparing effectiveness of computer-aided personal interviewing (CAPI) with paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI).

This formative evaluation, covering the period 2018-2020, seeks to guide UNICEF and its partners on how to scale-up the pilot phase of this program in the short to medium-term (at least up to 2022).

Financial Service Providers are increasingly realising that needs and preferences differ across the female economy. Differences vary depending on women’s age, class, ethnicity, marital status, religion, wealth, stage of business, profession, location and other socially defined characteristics and markers. These factors all influence and impact the way different women use and receive financial services.

Over the past decades, there has been an extensive transformation in global agri-food value chains, resulting in advances in efficiency, food quality, and food safety. Despite this transformation, many farmers and labourers active as primary producers in these chains have not experienced improvements in their living standards. Based on a study conducted in 2020 by KIT Royal Tropical Institute and Oxfam Novib, this paper explores value chain approaches that reduce social inequality and enable smallholder farmers and labourers to have decent livelihoods.

This report presents a collection of six case studies and two synthesis briefs that are the outcomes of the ‘action learning trajectory’ of the SoAW campaign. The case studies are prepared by the partners of the coalition: IPPF Africa Region, YWCA Kenya, Faith to Action Network and OAFLAD. Each case study documents and reflects on a specific piece of advocacy work carried out in the campaign. The case studies form the basis of two synthesis briefs: one on ‘Progressing on the unfinished business’, and another one on ‘Coalition-building and multilevel connections’. Both synthesis briefs seek to pull out strategies and joint learning across the diverse advocacy processes that are presented in the six case studies.

Quality assurance is one of the most important aspects of an epidemiological study, as its validity is largely determined by data quality. The mounting success of quality management in the industrial sector caused a rapid spread throughout manufacturing industries and beyond. Yet, little has been published so far on quality assurance in epidemiology.

The West African region supplies most of the food for its growing population, which now exceeds 400 million. West African countries meet most of the region’s needs for coarse grains, tuber and root crops, vegetables, fruits, and meat (excluding some areas of fast-growing consumption such as chicken).

This study explores how district-level health system decision-making is shaped by power dynamics in different decentralised contexts in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda.