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  Short- and Long-Term Impact of Violence on Education: The Case of Timor Leste

  P. Justino / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  This paper analyzes the impact of the wave of violence that occurred in Timor Leste in 1999 on education outcomes. We examine the short-term impact of the violence on school attendance in 2001 and its longer-term impact on primary school completion of the same cohorts of children observed again in 2007.
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  ‘One hand can’t clap by itself’: engagement of boys and men in Kembatti Mentti Gezzimma’s intervention to eliminate female genital mutilation and circumcision in Kembatta zone, Ethiopia

  E. Stern, A. Anderson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  The successful involvement of men and women as part of a community-wide approach to shifting deep-rooted norms is critical for the abandonment of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM-C). However, there is limited research exploring how and why men engage in processes of abandonment and how this relates to shifts in gender relations within private and public spaces.
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  ‘One hand can’t clap by itself’: engagement of boys and men in Kembatti Mentti Gezzimma’s intervention to eliminate female genital mutilation and circumcision in Kembatta zone, Ethiopia

  E. Stern, A. Anderson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  The successful involvement of men and women as part of a community-wide appro
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  MenCare in Latin America: challenging harmful masculine norms and promoting positive changes in men’s caregiving

  S. José Santos / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  It is estimated that 80 per cent of men will become fathers during their lifetimes, making clear the importance of, and opportunity for, engaging men and boys in care giving.
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  MenCare in Latin America: challenging harmful masculine norms and promoting positive changes in men’s caregiving

  S. José Santos / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  It is estimated that 80 per cent of men will become fathers during their lifetimes, making clear the importance of, and opportunity for, engaging men and boys in care giving.
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  How to strengthen a Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition programme in northern Nigeria

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  The treatment and prevention of severe acute malnutrition via the CMAM programme is one of four outputs of the UK Department for International Development funded Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme. This output aims to deliver effective treatment for severe acute malnutrition through local health systems in collaboration with communities.
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  Innovations from the field: gender mainstreaming from the ground up for the World Food Programme

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Food and nutrition security and gender equality are closely linked and mutually constitutive. The fact that women and girls are among the most undernourished in the world and are often hardest hit by food insecurity underlines this. Women’s productive labour and unpaid care work is central to the production, preparation and provision of food.
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  When the Hen Crows: Obstacles that Prevent Indigenous Women from Influencing Health-care Policies – A Case Study of Shillong, Meghalaya, India

  P Oosterhoff, L Saprii, D Karlyngdoh, S Albert / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  This paper examines how the Indian state prioritises health needs, and how and whether poor and indigenous women are able to participate in decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. The focus is on the indigenous Khasi population in Meghalaya, with its traditional systems of governance that exist in tandem with India’s modern institutions.
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  Constitutional Reforms and Access to HIV Services for Women in Low-resource Settings in Nairobi, Kenya

  P Ooosterhoff, E Kageha Igonya / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Four years after the approval of the new Constitution in Kenya in 2010, and one year after the devolution of health services in 2013, this case study examines: the difficulties that poor women and girls living in slum areas face in getting access to HIV services, including anti-retroviral treatment (ART); their perception of how devolution has affected HIV and other health-related services; and
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  Understanding insurgent margins in Kenya, Nigeria and Mali

  J. Lind, C. Dowd / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  In recent years, violent insurgency has gripped the margins of Kenya, Mali and Nigeria. Militant Islamist groups have attacked civilian populations, state security personnel and political-administrative officials, spreading insecurity across large areas and exploiting the mistrust between societies at the margins and central authorities.

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