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  Sussex research findings continue to influence policy on migration and poverty

  

  17 Dec 2019: After nearly a decade, the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium (MOOP) is drawing to a close, having conducted research in more than ten countries in an effort to uncover how and why migration plays such a significant role in poverty reduction in some contexts, but not in others.
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  Child poverty, disasters and climate change: investigating relationships and implications over the life course of children

  Overseas Development Institute, 2019

  This study examines the relationship between natural hazard-related disasters and child and
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  Our voices are strong: Lessons from women’s, girls’ and trans people’s self-led organisations

  Mama Cash, 2017

  Based on interviews with fifteen of Mama Cash’s grantee-partners, the new report Our Voices Are Strong shows that the power of women, girls and trans people at the helm of self-led organisations lies in their use of direct, personal experience to push for greater inclusion and justice in their communities.
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  Understanding, enabling and building effective leadership in nutrition

  Transform Nutrition, 2015

  Transform Nutrition’s work on leaders in nutrition explores how effective leaders understand the systems which both shape and constrain their action; and are able to translate this understanding into action which spans the boundaries of sectors and disciplinary knowledge. Researchers within the Transform Nutrition consortium carried out a study of 89 individual
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  Championing nutrition: effective leadership for action

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2016

  The calls for strong leadership in the fight against global and national malnutrition have multiplied during the past decade. The role of nutrition champions in advocating for nutrition, formulating policies, and coordinating and implementing action in nutrition have increasingly been recognized in such countries as Peru, Brazil, Thailand, and the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.
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  What drives and constrains effective leadership in tackling child undernutrition? Findings from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Kenya

  Food Policy, 2015

  Strong leadership has been highlighted as a common element of success within countries that have made rapid progress in tackling child and maternal undernutrition. Yet little is known of what contributes to nutrition leaders’ success or lack of it in particular policy environments.
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  Gender approaches in climate compatible development: lessons from Kenya

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2016

  Gender is an important driver of vulnerability to climate risks, and a key factor to consider in developing effective policy responses to climate change and development challenges. In recent years, there have been a number of efforts to support gender equality as part of responses to climate change.
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  Bringing learning to light: the role of citizen-led assessments in shifting the education agenda

  Results for Development Institute, 2015

  As governments and donors focused on increasing access to education in the wake of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the issue of learning received comparatively little concerted attention.
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  Improving Access to Health for Women and Girls in Low-income Urban Settlements

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016

  The world is becoming increasingly urbanised. Over one third of urban dwellers now reside in low-income urban settlements, where living conditions are often inadequate and there exist multiple barriers to access to health services for women and girls.
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  Women’s Rights Online: Translating Access into Empowerment

  2015

  This research, based on a survey of poor urban men and women across nine developing countries, found that while the majority of men and women own a mobile phone, women are still nearly 50% less likely to access the Internet than men in the same communities.

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