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All resources on social protection and development including materials on inclusive development; social health protection; gender equality; digital inclusion; cash transfers; child labour; and modern slavery.
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Mental health and psychosocial support for people in humanitarian contexts
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

The mental health consequences of rapid onset emergencies, fragility, conflict and violence— compounded by the cyclical relationship between poverty and mental illness—are pressing challenges, especially in humanitarian settings. People with pre-existing psychosocial disabilities are also among the most vulnerable in these contexts. In this video, Alison Schafer and Mark van Ommeren from the World Health Organization discuss… Read more

Mental Health, psychosocial support
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Mental health for children and young people
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

Roughly half of all mental health conditions start by the mid-teens, and three-quarters by the mid-twenties. Childhood and adolescence are key developmental stages when factors such as family, peers and school, as well as poverty, violence and other forms of adversity, can have lifelong consequences for mental health. At the same time, development interventions targeted… Read more

Children, Mental Health, young people
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Why mental health matters for social development
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

In this video, Julian Eaton from CBM and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses the ‘disease-model’ approach to mental health, the social risk factors that can contribute to mental health conditions, and explores how social development programmes can improve mental health and psychosocial support outcomes. This video was produced from a training… Read more

Mental Health
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Social development for mental health: scaling up promising and best practice in development
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

The 2018 Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development makes the case for mental health to be integrated into all aspects of development as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This means including people with psychosocial disabilities in the work that development organisations are already doing, incorporating more targeted approaches to mental… Read more

Mental Health, scaling up, social development
Health
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Health systems approaches to mental health
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

In this video, Jasmine Kalha, QualityRights Gujarat, discusses the benefits of a rights-based approach to mental health, the QualityRights framework in the context of health systems, the role that peer support should play in QualityRights, and her favourite Article of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). In this video, Soumitra Pathare,… Read more

health systems, Mental Health
Gender
Social Protection
Gender-Sensitive Public Works: Literature Review
Assignment
February 3, 2020

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has contracted OPM to carry out a scoping study and literature review of gender-sensitive public works. This involves collecting good practices and examples from across the globe, as well as identifying potential areas for intervention (and piloting) in Mozambique. The terms of reference (TOR) for this study required… Read more

gender-sensitive, graduation, public works
Gender
Social Protection
Gender-Sensitive Public Works in Mozambique: Scoping Study
Assignment
February 3, 2020

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has contracted OPM to carry out a scoping study and literature review of gender-sensitive public works. This involves collecting good practices and examples from across the globe, as well as identifying potential areas for intervention (and piloting) in Mozambique. This report is a scoping study of the potential… Read more

gender-sensitive, graduation, public works
To end child labour we must understand the realities of children
Blog
June 14, 2019

This blog was written by Kelly Shephard and originally appeared on the Institute of Development Studies website. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines child labour as work that “deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development”. Currently, 152 million children are recognised as being involved… Read more

Child labour, child rights, Modern Slavery
Education
Social Protection
Inclusive and Special Education Approaches in Developing Countries
Helpdesk Report
February 8, 2019

The aim of this review was to present the recent evidence on the effectiveness of inclusive and special education approaches in improving learning and behavioural outcomes, with a focus on developing countries, particularly Ethiopia. One of the key difficulties surrounding inclusive education in developing countries is the lack of research about education in these countries…. Read more

inclusive education, Inclusive learning, special educational needs
Social Protection
Modern Slavery Prevention and Responses in South Asia: An Evidence Map
Assignment
December 13, 2018

To access the full report, click the green download button above. To download the static map (Excel), please click here. To access the interactive map, please click here. The Asia Pacific region has the highest numbers of both slavery and child labour victims in the world. Although there is a growing body of research and… Read more

Modern Slavery
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Quality of Maternal & Newborn Services
Reading Pack
December 11, 2018

This resource provides an overview of the key issues in relation to Quality of Maternal and Newborn (MNH) Services, and signposts key resources for further reading. Originally designed for the cadre of Health Advisers at DFID, it has been adapted to suit a broad range of actors involved in strengthening policy and programming interventions. This resource has been collaboratively produced by… Read more

maternal and newborn health, Maternal Child and Newborn Health, Maternal Health
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