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Emergency economies: the impact of cash assistance in Lebanon
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October 28, 2016

This report describes the impacts of the winter cash transfer programme run by UNHCR and partners from November 2013 to April 2014. The programme gave $575 USD via ATM cards to 87,700 registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon with the objective of keeping people warm and dry during cold winter months. This research measured the impacts… Read more

cash assistance, conflict-affected states, Education in emergencies, Lebanon, refugee children, Syria
Education
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Support to IDP education and pupil transition from ABE to formal school in Puntland
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June 24, 2016

This report discusses the findings and recommendations from the final evaluation of a pilot project that aimed at enabling 1000 displaced and other vulnerable children in IDP settlements around Bossaso, Puntland, to access quality primary education, and improving the learning environment in 10 partner schools. The evaluation focusses on assessing the effectiveness of providing conditional… Read more

Attendance, Conditional Cash Transfers, internally displaced persons, primary education
Health
Social Protection
Evaluation of concern Kenya’s korogocho emergency and food security cash transfer initiative: final report
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June 13, 2016

The Korogocho cash transfer initiative was intended to transfer Ksh 1,500 on a monthly basis to 2400 households, using a mobile phone bank transfer system common in Kenya and known as M-PESA. The main initiative ran from November 2009 to July 2010 (eight months of transfers), though some bed-ridden households continue to receive transfers. The initiative… Read more

cash transfer, Kenya
Education
Health
Nutrition
Water and Sanitation
Children and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: evaluation of UNICEF’s response in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives (2005-2008) – overall synthesis report
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May 24, 2016

This report is a summary of an extensive evaluation undertaken by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) of its response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It focuses on Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives — countries that had the most serious damage and received 84 per cent of UNICEF tsunami country-level funds. The evaluation mainly… Read more

child and maternal nutrition, Child health, Indonesia, Maldives, Natural Disasters, Sri Lanka, WASH
Education
Meta-evaluation of NRC’s accelerated education responses
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April 11, 2016

For over 15 years, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has supported out of school children and youth to regain access to schooling by supporting Alternative Education (AE) programming. Such programming has been and continues to be implemented across a number of the countries and regions in which NRC is responding to humanitarian and early recovery… Read more

Access to education, Children, Youth
Education
Evaluation of child friendly spaces: an inter-agency series of impact evaluations in humanitarian emergencies
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April 11, 2016

Child friendly spaces (CFS) have become a widely used approach to protect and provide psychosocial support to children in emergencies. However, little evidence documents their outcomes and impacts. There is widespread commitment among humanitarian agencies to strengthen the evidence base of programming. This report summarises studies on CFS in various crises: Buramino refugee camp, Ethiopia; Rwamwanja… Read more

Child-friendly practices, conflict-affected states
Education
Bringing learning to light: the role of citizen-led assessments in shifting the education agenda
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February 23, 2016

As governments and donors focused on increasing access to education in the wake of the Millennium Development Goals, the issue of learning received comparatively little concerted attention. Some organisations working in countries where access was rapidly increasing took notice of the fact that, while rising enrollment rates were being celebrated, there was little evidence of… Read more

citizen-led, Learning, Learning assessments, learning outcome
Education
Somalia youth livelihoods program: final evaluation
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November 18, 2015

The objective of the Somali Youth Livelihoods Program (SYLP), known locally as Shaqodoon, was to establish systems that bridge supply and demand with necessary support to young people and employers. It aimed to provide Somali youth with a greater opportunity to access work opportunities. This evaluation presents quantitative and qualitative information and data that indicate… Read more

Somalia, Youth, Youth Employment
Education
Sida/SAREC bilateral research cooperation: lessons learned
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November 1, 2015

This is the report of an evaluation of Swedish development bilateral research cooperation activities that aim to strengthen research capacity in Mozambique, Tanzania, Bolivia and Nicaragua, thus increasing their access to knowledge in areas of central importance for poverty-reducing development. The programmes in the four countries focused on capacity building of individual staff members, research infrastructure and, to a… Read more

bilateral cooperation, Research capacity building
The Role of Skills Training for Youth Employment in Nepal: An Impact Evaluation of the Employment Fund
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August 4, 2015

The Employment Fund Project (EF) was founded in 2008 and is currently one of the largest youth training initiatives in Nepal. 15,000 youths are engaged with annually. EF competitively contracts training and employment service providers. Training courses are market-driven. Providers must complete a Rapid Market Assessment during the competitive bidding process. Services include formal technical… Read more

employment, TVET, Vocational Skills
Education
Lessons from Scaling Up Cuba’s ‘Educate Your Child’ programme
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June 4, 2015

This article is a summary of a longer paper published in 2010 by the Brookings Institution with the support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Scaling-up Early Child Development in Cuba – Cuba’s Educate Your Child Program: Strategies and lessons from the expansion process, by Alfredo R. Tinajero, an early childhood development research specialist for… Read more

Children, Education
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