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The politics of social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2019The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice.DocumentWhat works to prevent cyber violence against women and girls?
Department for International Development, UK, 2018Cyber violence against women and girls (Cyber VAWG) is a new and emerging form of violence and the term is used to describe how the internet and information and communication technologies exacerbate and magnify acts of violence against women and girls.DocumentWomen’s economic engagement and childcare: Moving from survival to a ‘triple boon’
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019Women’s childcare responsibilities are often seen as a barrier to them undertaking paid work. However, this is a two-way interaction, mediated by large quantities of unpaid work.DocumentMasculinities and transition in Kazakhstan: Country brief
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019In both policy-oriented and scholarly literatures on the gender dimensions of the social and economic transitions in Kazakhstan of the past 30 years, men and their gendered experiences of transitions are scarcely discussed.DocumentInvestigating domestic violence law in Cambodia
Impact Initiative, 2019Legislation seeking to address violence against women has grown in recent years – at least 144 countries now have laws on domestic violence (DV). However, many women are still prevented or deterred from accessing justice.DocumentRethinking impact: Applying the gender lens
Impact Initiative, 2019This booklet profiles the research and impact funded by the ESRC-DFID Strategic Partnership which explicitly focuses on gender inequality, but also projects where the gender dynamics emerged during the course of the work.DocumentEnsuring African women’s access to justice: engendering rights for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2019About half of the people of Sub-Saharan Africa live below the poverty line, and 80 per cent of them are women. Their access to justice is guaranteed by international and domestic laws. But these laws mean little or nothing without government support and adequate funding. This policy note offers recommendations on how to secure access to justice.DocumentESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice: Women, work and social protection
Impact Initiative, 2019is collection of ESRC-DFID-funded research explores the need for a holistic approach to social protection moving beyond a framing of poverty alleviation as primarily being about access to the traditional labour market and cash transfers to encompass a broader range of considerations. Explores research from Bangladesh, Malawi, Lesotho, South Africa and Rwanda.DocumentWomen’s agricultural work and nutrition in South Asia: From pathways to a cross-disciplinary, grounded analytical framework
Food Policy, 2019This systematic review examines the impact of women’s work in agriculture on maternal and child nutrition in South Asia. Building on previous reviews supported under the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) consortium, and recent published literature, it includes findings from new LANSA research.DocumentFactors associated with catch‐up growth in early infancy in rural Pakistan: a longitudinal analysis of the women's work and nutrition Study
Wiley Online Library, 2018The adverse health impacts of early infant stunting can be partially ameliorated by early catch‐up growth. Few studies have examined predictors of and barriers to catch‐up growth to identify intervention points for improving linear growth during infancy. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of, and factors associated with, catch‐up growth among infants in Pakistan.Pages