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Publications
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Safety and quality of healthcare from the user perspective: exploratory study of Facebook groups
The aim of the study presented in this article is to discuss the safety and quality of health care using content shared in Facebook groups and to reflect on patient’s perspective on these issues. It is a qualitative study using as data source posts from three groups that addressed these issues on Facebook during the research period. Data analysis applied the Iramutec software, and it was based on thematic content analysis.
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What Should I Aspire to? Peer Effects in Adolescents’ Friendship Networks
Economic Development and Cultural Change
In sub-Saharan Africa, economic aspirations often conflict with aspirations to follow traditional social obligations. We test whether adolescents are influenced by friends when deciding which one to prioritize. To do so, we elicit the preferences and perceived competition between economic and social aspirations of 533 Ugandan students, as well as their friendship ties.
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Research for Change: Assessing Responses to the Needs of Survivors of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Settings
Findings from Aden, Lahj, Yemen
Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) is one of the greatest protection, human rights and public health challenges that is present in all societies and is further exacerbated during humanitarian emergencies.
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Agricultural Cooperatives and COVID-19 in Southeast Africa. The Role of Managerial Capital for Rural Resilience
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.
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Value Chain Approaches for Social Change
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.
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Perspectives of young people and health workers on sexual and reproductive health and its services in Bahir Dar, Amhara region, Ethiopia.
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The potential of land shareholding cooperatives for inclusive agribusiness development in Africa
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Preventing child marriage, teenage pregnancy and female genital mutilation/cutting in Bahir Dar Zuria and Kewet districts, Amhara region
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Being dragged into adulthood? Young people’s agency concerning sex, relationships and marriage in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
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From “Etigila Entito Enkalamu” to “Eitia Entito Enkalamu” – How the Yes I Do programme changed lives in Kajiado County in Kenya
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“Teenage mothers can now go back to school” – Teenage pregnancy and child marriage in Traditional Authority Liwonde, Machinga district, Malawi
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Prevention or Punishment? – Teenage pregnancy and child marriage in Chadiza and Petauke, Eastern Zambia
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Progress on Child Marriage, but Unease about Teenage Pregnancy and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Results of the Yes I Do programme (2016–2020) in Rembang, Indonesia
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A gendered aquaculture value chain analysis in northwestern Bangladesh
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“Progress on Child Marriage, but Unease about Teenage Pregnancy and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting”
Results of the Yes I Do programme (2016–2020) in West Lombok and Sukabumi, Indonesia
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Formative Evaluation of Early Childhood Development interventions on children living with developmental delays and disabilities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
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).
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West African Food System Resilience
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).
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Mobile Migrant Population Study Suriname
Assessment of mobile migrant population size, demographics, turnover, movement, and priority health needs in Suriname.
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Mobile Migrant Population Study Suriname – Summary
This document summarizes the findings from the mobile migrant study which was conducted at the request of Suriname’s Malaria Program and looked into the ASM population’s demography, movements, health perceptions, and healthcare seeking behaviours (the full report is linked below).
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Why did informal sector workers stop paying for health insurance in Indonesia? Exploring enrollees’ ability and willingness to pay
Indonesia faces a growing informal sector in the wake of implementing a national social health insurance system—Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN)—that supersedes the vertical programmes historically tied to informal employment.