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Electronic Transfers in Humanitarian Assistance and Uptake of Financial Services: A synthesis of ELAN case studies
Cash transfers are playing an increasingly large role in humanitarian responses. Mobile money, using a mobile device to access financial services, is growing across the globe and humanitarian agencies are taking advantage of this trend to deliver cash tra
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Climate Change, Migration and Displacement: The need for a risk-informed and coherent approach
In 2016 alone, over 24 million people were displaced by unexpected climate-related disasters. It is commonly understood that there is a correlation between climate change and human mobility, however, the lack of evidence-based findings has hindered necess
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Women's Work: Mothers, children and the global childcare crisis
This publication highlights the hidden crisis the world is facing in childcare. Written by The Overseas Development Institute, the report identifies the severe shortcomings of current early childhood care and education programming in meeting the needs of
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Bringing Taxation into Social Protection Analysis and Planning
This guidance note on social protection and tax comes after their emergence as two of the key policy instruments available to governments in the pursuit of development goals. Social protection and tax feature prominently in the Sustainable Development Goa
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Child Labour and Education: A survey of slum settlements in Dhaka
This report, produced and published by the ODI, presents findings from one of the largest surveys on child work and education conducted in Bangladesh. Their research finds that 15% of 6 to 14-year-old children in Dhaka's slums were out of school and engag
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The Hidden Costs of the 2014 Gaza-Israeli Conflict: Adolescent girls' psycho-social wellbeing
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), together with local experts, undertook an in-depth qualitative research assessment of the experiences of adolescent girls and their families in the immediate post-conflict context in Gaza. This assessment consider
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Investment for Education in Emergencies: A review of evidence
This study, through a rigorous review of literature and analysis of selected case studies, provides a snapshot of what is known – and often not known – about investment for education in emergencies. Among its findings, the study shows that communities and
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Intra-Household Inequalities in Child Rights and Wellbeing: A barrier to progress?
This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality between boys and girls within households and its contribution to overall levels of inequality in child wellbeing. Without better knowledge of this area, our view of progress towards eliminating child
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Addressing Gender in Impact Evaluation: What should be considered?
This guide provides a clear explanation of gender, false categorizations of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, and how ‘gender’ too often crops up in funding applications as a synonym for working with women. This guide also emphasizes gender as a process, rather
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Cross-generational and transactional sexual relations in Uganda: Income poverty as a risk factor for adolescents- Full report
This study is part of a two-year Oak Foundation-funded programme that explores the potential for greater linkages between child protection and anti-poverty work in low- and middle-income countries. It also seeks to better understand the drivers behind cro
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Tackling Childhood Poverty and Vulnerability: making the Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme more effective for children
This report is a product of the project: The impact of cash transfers on the rights and well-being of children in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It presents findings from a mixed methods study of the effects of the Palestinian National Cash Transfe
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Sexual exploitation of adolescent girls in Uganda: The drivers, consequences and responses to the ‘sugar daddy’ phenomenon
With this study, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) seeks to understand the multiple and overlapping reasons behind cross-generational relationships in Uganda in order to promote more comprehensive and effective responses to the issue. Cross-genera