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Sourcing examples of policy and programming practice for empowering women in a rural context
Evidence on Demand, 2013This reports deals with the issue of empowering women in a rural context, aiming at promoting transformative gender policy by updating livelihoods advisers’ knowledge of gender in a changing agricultural and rural context.DocumentBrazil, India, China and South Africa in agriculture and food security in Malawi
Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2014This paper describes the involvement of four of the so-called emerging powers - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - in development cooperation activities regarding agriculture and food security in Malawi. The prime focus is on the activities and policies of governmental actors, although also development cooperation initiatives of other development actors are mentioned.DocumentAdding new spices to development cooperation. Brazil, India, China and South Africa in health, agriculture and food security
Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2013In recent years, the four so-called emerging powers or economies - Brazil, India, China and South Africa (the BICS) - have gained considerable academic, policy and media attention for their activities in development cooperation. Some authors argue that these countries employ innovative and alternative approaches to development cooperation than the traditional, i.e. OECD-DAC donors.DocumentSocial protection training day: overview
Evidence on Demand, 2013This document is a summary of key points made by each speaker in the “Social Protection Training Day” event that took place in the UK in 2013.DocumentBottlenecks to deployment! police capacity building and deployment in Africa
Institute for Security Studies, 2010This study explores the police training environment in Africa and gauges some of the key challenges to the smooth deployment of trained police officers.DocumentAdoption and extent of conservation agriculture practices among smallholder farmers in Malawi
2014Understanding factors affecting farmers’ adoption of improved technologies is critical to success of conservation agriculture (CA) program implementation.DocumentEliciting farming decisions of smallholders in response to water availability conditions in Chingale, southern Malawi.
International Water Management Institute, 2012The objective of this project is to examine adaptation strategies of smallholders in the Chingale district of Malawi to climate change impact, as well as to the implications of introducing the Integration of Aquaculture into Diversified Food production Systems (IADFS).DocumentSelf-reported drunkenness among adolescents in four sub-Saharan African countries: associations with adverse childhood experiences
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010Consumption of alcohol is associated with acute and chronic adverse health outcomes. There is a paucity of studies that explore the determinants of alcohol use among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, that examine the effects of adverse childhood experiences on alcohol use.DocumentMale youth and voluntary counseling and HIV-Testing (VCT): the case of Uganda and Malawi
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009Voluntary Counseling and HIV-Testing (VCT) is defined as a process by which an individual undergoes counseling, enabling him or her to make an informed choice about being tested.DocumentLeveraging services trade liberalisation for enhanced food security in SADC
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012The global food crisis of 2008 threw into sharp relief the problem of food security in many developing countries. In the case of Southern African Development Community (SADC), the food crisis served to highlight the decline in agricultural productivity over the years and the descent of some countries from net food exporters to net food importers.Pages