UK aid is working in parntership with the Girl Hub in Northern Nigeria, which provides Young Women Support Groups: This young woman is a peer mentor.
She had her first baby at the age of 15 and delivered safely in a health clinic with the care of a trained professional. She now tells other girls about her experience and encourages them to go to local clinics for routine check ups and delivery. She also gives them advice about how to space children using family planning.
Assistive technologies enable people to live healthy, productive, independent and dignified lives, yet most people who need them are currently unable to access them. This rapid review looks at examples of existing literature on the availability of assistive technologies and efforts to make these technologies more affordable and accessible in developing countries. A scoping review… Read more
Youth employment programmes are varied but meta-analysis and systematic reviews of impact assessments of these programmes indicate that some interventions have an overall positive effect on employment and earnings. Assessments of programmes which support youth job creation in the private sector find that larger businesses are more likely to generate jobs than micro-enterprises. In general,… Read more
