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All resources on gender equality and social inclusion; including economic empowerment, health, human rights, social protection and voice and accountability. HEART’s Gender expertise provides a comprehensive insight into gender as a cross-cutting issue across many other domains in development (health, education, governance, WASH and nutrition), including access to services and opportunities, and voice, choice, and control, the goal being to mainstream gender approaches and drive progress towards global gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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Nutrition
Health and Nutrition for Displaced Populations
Helpdesk Report
December 20, 2013

Findings on health and nutrition management of protracted population displacement include: A synthesis of food assistance programme evaluations finds unacceptably high numbers of refugees were food-insecure, women more so than men. A review of nutrition indicators evaluating performance of nutrition programmes in more than 90 camps in 18 countries found supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes… Read more

Gender, protracted displacement, psychosocial impacts
Gender
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Will Africa Benefit from a Demographic Dividend?
Helpdesk Report
November 30, 2012

Synthesis Report: Will declines in fertility boost economic growth for sub-Saharan Africa? In a region where demographic change is still at an early stage, can sub-Saharan Africa look forward to the promise of economic growth and its benefits, in the same way that East Asia has experienced? Can family planning programmes help to accelerate this… Read more

Africa, Demographic, Economic, Fertility
Gender
Health
Family Planning and the Public Sector
Helpdesk Report
June 8, 2012

There appears to be a trend of increasing uptake of family planning programmes and increasing equity of uptake.  It is difficult to establish cause and effect with the impact of public sector family planning programmes.  However, sections 2 and 3 look at the evidence on this issue.  This includes general overview papers as well as… Read more

Abortion, Contraceptive, Equity, Family Planning, Fertility, Health, Poverty, public sector, reproductive, unwanted pregnancy
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Gender
Health
Child Health and Parents’ Education
Helpdesk Report
November 18, 2011

This review shows that there is evidence of an association between child health outcomes and parents’ education.  This relationship is particularly pronounced when considering the impact of maternal education. Section 2 presents some key papers showing this relationship, including one recent paper arguing that of the 8·2 million fewer deaths in children under 5 between… Read more

Child health, child survival, curative, Education, Health, Health Services, immunisation, maternal education, mortality, Parent's Educaton, paternal education, preventative
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Gender
Mother Tongue Education- Girls and Poor/Vulnerable Children
Helpdesk Report
November 17, 2011

This review shows that there is evidence that girls, poor and vulnerable children stay in school longer if they are taught first in their mother tongue. Fifty percent of the world’s out-of-school children live in communities where the language of schooling is rarely, if ever, used at home.  The language used in schools, is one… Read more

achievement, bilingual, Children, dropout, Education, education for all, foreign language, Girls, inequality, language, minority, mother tongue, Poor, School, vulnerable
Gender
Health
Female Condoms
Helpdesk Report
October 21, 2011

This report is divided into the following sections: Who Uses the Female Condom? Typical users seem to vary in different countries and according to different studies. This section looks at different countries and identifies users and the reasons behind this. Is FC use correlated to HIV prevalence? Study results differ on whether they may be… Read more

AIDS, Contraceptive, Dual Protection, Education, Family Planning, Female Condoms, Health, HIV, Men, Prevention
Education
Gender
The Impact of Girls’ Education on Early Marriage
Helpdesk Report
September 14, 2011

There is a strong association between higher age at marriage and higher education levels. A global analysis of data by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) found that girls’ education is ‘the most important factor associated with child marriage’. Another study determined that in 29 countries, women who married at the age of 18 or… Read more

Early Marriage, Education, Gender, Gender Equality, Girls, Girls' Education
Gender
Health
Adolescent Reproductive Health in Ethiopia
Helpdesk Report
August 1, 2011

Ethiopia is unusual within the region in having very low levels of sex before marriage.  According to the 2005 DHS well over 90% of single women are virgins.  Ensuring the health of adolescent girls is vital to the nation. Ethiopia has made progress in improving youth’s health; yet, young women still suffer high rates of… Read more

Abortion, Childbirth, Early Marriage, Early Pregnancy, Education, Ethiopia, Family Planning/Contraceptive Use, Female Genital Cutting Rape, Fistula, Forced Marriage, Gender, Girls, HIV/AIDS, Lifecycle, Maternal Mortality, Nutrition, Reproductive Health, Sexual Health
Education
Gender
Safe Transport for Girls
Helpdesk Report
July 25, 2011

The importance of safe transport to improve access to education, particularly for girls has been a subject for much research. However, academic literature or general information on concrete examples of safe transport initiatives is very limited.  Literature searches yield neither any information on costs or cost-effectiveness, nor any impact evaluations of initiatives.  Also the literature… Read more

Bicycles, Costs, Education, Girls, Maintenance, Primary, Transport
Education
Gender
Social Protection
Girls’ Education in Islamic Countries
Helpdesk Report
May 24, 2011

This report provides information on which methods have worked well to improve access to education for girls in Islamic countries.  The report covers the following areas: Conditional cash transfers to girls- Evaluation results from programes include examples from Bangladesh, Punjab, Yemen and Nigeria.  All showed increased female enrolment. Women teachers increasing girls’ attendance- Information was… Read more

Afghanistan, Attendance, Bangladesh, Conditional Cash Transfers, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sanitation, Saudi Arabia, Scholarships, School Based Management, Somalia, Transport
Gender
Health
Family Planning Costing in Nepal
Helpdesk Report
January 24, 2011

It was not possible to identify a clear data set of rates for family planning interventions within the scope of this study. Relevant literature did not give very recent figures. Two benchmark rates were reported for family planning costs in Nepal: Thapa and Tsui (1990) estimated annual family planning costs of US$38.54 million per year… Read more

Costing, Family Planning, Finance, Health, Healthcare, Nepal, Service Delivery
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