According to the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises, West African countries are facing a worsening and continuous deterioration in food and nutrition security. In 2021, they were disproportionately hit, with an estimated 23,669,383 people in need...
This briefing paper follows the lives of displaced female youth in South Sudan that had unintended pregnancies under the age of 18. This paper explores the circumstances leading to pregnancy including a profound lack of access to information about...
Jukwaa Letu is a biannual newsletter produced by the Kenya and Madagascar Communication Department. The August to December 2022 edition focuses on our Country Strategic Plan, Goal 4: Access to a safe and quality education. It looks at some of the...
This guide aims at strengthening case management of unaccompanied children in Southern Africa – Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Eswatini. The guide has been developed in two editions. Edition two includes revisions...
Malawi has strong policies and frameworks for nutrition but insufficient funding to implement them. Analyses of government budgets at national level and in 10 districts from financial years 2016/17 to 2022/23, found that domestic budget...
As part of the broader country study, the aim of this paper is to highlight the involvement of children and the youth in armed conflict in Nigeria. This will include their association with these armed forces or armed groups, with particular...
More than three million children in Somalia are out of school. In many areas across the country, parents are not able to fund their children’s education due to endemic poverty. Education in Somalia is mainly driven by contributions from parents,...
This report provides an overview progress and findings from the first phase of the Connect Project which aims to develop approaches to increase first time mothers’ (FTMs’) postpartum family planning (PPFP) use that can both be feasibly...
This report summarizes the findings from a People-Driven Design process to identify small doable actions to improve child nutrition and development in Balaka and Ntcheu districts in Malawi. The process was based on formative research (available...
This report summarizes the findings of a formative research study conducted in Balaka and Ntcheu districts in Malawi, to guide the Social and Behavior Change component of the Maziko – integrated Maternal and Child Cash Grant pilot project. The...