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Adding a Nutrition Behavior Change Communication Component to an Early Childhood Development Intervention in Malawi
The Nutrition Embedded Evaluation Program Impact Evaluation (NEEP-IE) cluster randomized control trial (CRCT) aimed to assess the effectiveness of implementing an agriculture and nutritional intervention through preschools, known as community-based child
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More Than Brides Alliance: Giving girls a voice and a choice
The More Than Brides Alliance brings together international partners including Save the Children and local civil society groups to empower girls to decide if and when to get married and to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health a
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Recognizing The Diversity of Adolescents and Youth: Review of service delivery approaches to reach adolescents and youth
This is a snapshot of the diversity that was found among adolescents and youths through review of service delivery approaches on Family Planning in hard to reach and under-served areas of Mwanza, Neno, Ntchisi, Nkhatabay and Rumphi
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Systems Effects of Integrated Community Case Management Projects: Malawi Country Report
Save the Children US’ Department for Global Health (DGH) funded an embedded case study of systems effects of successive integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) projects implemented in Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The study was implemented [on a s
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Empower Her, Protect Them: Evaluating the integration of family planning and immunizing services
In 2015, the Pfizer Foundation launched a pilot program with four international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in five African countries (CARE, Benin; IRC, Ethiopia and Uganda; World Vision, Kenya; Save the Children, Malawi). The grant program, Hea
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Effect of Youth in Action on Work Readiness and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Findings from Malawi
About 89 million youth between the ages of 12-24 are part of a growing cohort of out-of-school youth, approximately half of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa. While many of these youth aspire to be active members of their community, many out-of-school rural
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The Long-Term Effects of Universal Primary Education: Evidence from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda
This paper exploits the roll out of universal primary education (UPE) policies in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda as natural experiments to assess their long-term causal effects on schooling attainment, adolescent sexual and reproductive health behavior, and
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Improving Child Nutrition and Development through Preschools in Malawi
Some 12,000 community preschools in Malawi serve 45 percent of the county’s preschool population. Yet, because of food insecurity and communities’ difficulties in providing preschoolers with a midmorning meal, these schools may not survive. To address thi
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The Importance of Understanding and Monitoring the Effects of Cash Transfer Programmes on Child Labour and Education: Findings from Malawi
The Malawi Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) has been demonstrated to have a wide range of positive effects on beneficiary households, including an expansion of household agricultural business activities. This brief summarizes the results of two studi
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Review of Save the Children Norway’s Support to Prevent and Respond to Violence in and around Schools
Save the Children Norway has, with the funding from Norad and Operasjon Dagsverk, designed and supported the implementation of projects and interventions to address violence in schools in 17 countries from 2014-2018. The review provides an overview of the
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Nutrition in the WHO African Region
Today, nutrition is considered a fundamental pre-requisite to health and well-being, and a primary indicator of future human capital development. The first 1000 days of a child's life is especially crucial. Physical growth and cognitive development within
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Improving Child Nutrition and Development Through Community-based Childcare Centres in Malawi- The NEEP-IE study: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
The Nutrition Embedded Evaluation Programme Impact Evaluation (NEEP-IE) study is a cluster randomised controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of a childcare centre-based integrated nutritional and agricultural intervention on the diets, nutrition