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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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Support to Sierra Leone Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment Programme (SAGE): Scoping and Design Report
Assignment
May 4, 2018

SAGE is a DFID supported, integrated programme to improve the lives of adolescent girls, responding to the multiple and interrelated disadvantages they face. It comprises two components: Delivery of integrated services for vulnerable adolescent girls through a safe spaces approach, including enhancing their access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education and services. Support for… Read more

Adolescents, Female Empowerment, Girls' Education, programme design, safe spaces, SAGE, Sexual and reproductive health
Social Protection
Disability in North Africa
Helpdesk Report
April 11, 2018

While there is not a clear picture of disability in North Africa, the available evidence suggests that people with disabilities are doing less well in comparison to people without disabilities as a result of factors including marginalisation, stigma, lack of awareness of disability prevalence, lack of comprehensive protection and enforcement of the rights of people… Read more

Health
Social Protection
Disability in South Sudan
Helpdesk Report
April 10, 2018

Decades of conflict in South Sudan, pre and post-independence in 2011, poverty and poor access to services have increased the rate of disability and rendered people with disabilities more marginalised and excluded as a result of the numerous attitudinal, environmental, and institutional barriers they face, and the lack of concerted efforts to include them. This… Read more

Access to services, Disability, Inclusive development
Social Protection
Lessons learned from youth employment programmes in developing countries
Helpdesk Report
March 27, 2018

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

Children and Youth, Work and Labour, Youth Employment
Social Protection
Assistive technologies in developing countries
Helpdesk Report
March 26, 2018

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

assistive technologies, Disability, Inclusive development, social inclusion, Technology
Social Protection
Modern slavery within the tea industry in Bangladesh
Helpdesk Report
March 19, 2018

The main factor driving modern slavery within the tea industry in Bangladesh is the extreme marginalisation of tea garden workers, who are mostly descendants of migrants from India, by wider society. Social and economic exclusion mean workers have no alternative to working under highly exploitative conditions in the tea industry. The review found considerable literature… Read more

Modern Slavery, Rights, Work and Labour
Social Protection
Leave no-one behind: infrastructure and inclusion
Helpdesk Report
March 19, 2018

This review outlines ways in which different groups of people might be unintentionally excluded if their needs and livelihoods are not taken into account in infrastructure projects. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the concept of ‘leave no one behind’ capture the desire to ensure people are not excluded as citizens in their society. Some… Read more

Livelihoods, Rights, social inclusion
Health
Social Protection
Supporting Persons with Disabilities in Somalia
Helpdesk Report
March 16, 2018

The purpose of this report is to identify how persons with disabilities can be included in humanitarian and development programmes in Somalia. There is little data on persons with disabilities in Somalia, therefore this report gains insights from organisations that are actively working in Somalia supporting persons with disabilities. Many organisations in Somalia do not… Read more

Disability, humanitarian, Inclusive development
Health
Social Protection
Health financing: UHC, social health protection, technical efficiency and addressing hospital challenges
HEART talks
February 23, 2018

This series of health financing technical seminars organised by the Oxford Policy Management (OPM) Health team, in partnership with HEART, examined how the globally evolving health financing expertise can translate into advances that national health systems make towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). More specifically, seminars brought together health financing experts from across the spectrum (government, academia,… Read more

health financing, hospital challenges, OPM Health, seminar series, social health protection, technical efficiency, UHC, universal health coverage
Health
Social Protection
Social Health Protection in low- and middle-income countries: the practical challenges, a brief discussion paper
Assignment
January 23, 2018

A seminar organised by Oxford Policy Management in June 2017 brought together practitioners and policy makers to exchange insights on practical challenges for the implementation of social health protection (SHP) programmes, and social health insurance (SHI) in particular. Kicked-off with a presentation of recent experiences from Bangladesh and Pakistan, the discussion touched on a range… Read more

health systems, social health insurance, social health protection, universal health coverage
Social Protection
Interventions to combat modern slavery
Helpdesk Report
January 23, 2018

This report details findings from evaluations of a range of interventions to combat modern slavery. While there are three broad areas of efforts to tackle modern slavery – prevention, protection and prosecution – the main focus to date has been on prevention and, to a lesser extent, protection; prosecution has received far less attention. The… Read more

Modern Slavery, Rights, Work and Labour
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