This document summarizes and analyzes two potential solutions to address intimate partner violence in Andhra Pradesh:
1) A self-help group intervention combining microfinance with gender empowerment training, estimated to cost $13 per woman and yield a cost-benefit ratio of 18.1-24.5.
2) A community mobilization program adapting the SASA! model from Uganda in four phases of change, estimated to cost $15 per person and yield a cost-benefit ratio of 15.7-21.3.
Both solutions were found to potentially reduce intimate partner violence by 55% and generate health, income, and economic benefits exceeding their costs.
Unplanned pregnancies, including teenage pregnancy, perpetuated by low demand for, and lack of access to family planning are linked with higher risks of birth complications such as maternal deaths and early child deaths, and malnutrition in children under-five.
Article 14(2) of Ghana’s Children’s Act (560) of 1998 defines child marriage as a marriage in which at least one partner is a child below the legal age of 18 years.
The health status of Ghanaians has evolved over time, from predominant inflictions from infectious diseases and negative maternal and child health outcomes that prevailed at the time of independence in the late 1950s, to the addition of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, stroke, diabetes, cancers, etc. that prevail in present times.
Poverty remains a problem. There is an overall reduction in national poverty over the last 3 decades, but this masks the persistent spatial concentration of poverty and high inequality.
Ghana has made great strides in education enrolment in the MDG and SDG era, with near universal primary school enrolment and equality between boys and girls (World Bank, 2019).
Unplanned pregnancies, including teenage pregnancy, perpetuated by low demand for, and lack of access to family planning are linked with higher risks of birth complications such as maternal deaths and early child deaths, and malnutrition in children under-five.
Article 14(2) of Ghana’s Children’s Act (560) of 1998 defines child marriage as a marriage in which at least one partner is a child below the legal age of 18 years.
The health status of Ghanaians has evolved over time, from predominant inflictions from infectious diseases and negative maternal and child health outcomes that prevailed at the time of independence in the late 1950s, to the addition of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, stroke, diabetes, cancers, etc. that prevail in present times.
Poverty remains a problem. There is an overall reduction in national poverty over the last 3 decades, but this masks the persistent spatial concentration of poverty and high inequality.
Ghana has made great strides in education enrolment in the MDG and SDG era, with near universal primary school enrolment and equality between boys and girls (World Bank, 2019).
Although the free senior high school (SHS) policy has greatly increased enrolment, it has led to a mismatch in the demand for secondary education and the available educational infrastructure. The double-track system was introduced to circumvent this hurdle.
Integration of the youth (15- to 34-year-olds) in Ghana, who represents 35 percent of the population, into full and productive employment can be an important driver for growth and sustained development. The inability to improve labor productivity in the country continues to limit the performance of firms and enterprises across different economic sectors.
Over the last three decades, Ghana has invested large amounts of effort in implementing various strategies to reduce maternal and child mortality in the country.
TB is responsible for around 5 percent of total deaths in Ghana annually, and the decline in TB burden is markedly slow, with an average 2.5 percent reduction in TB incidence year on year (GTB 2018).
With a population of nearly 30 million people, WHO estimates that approximately 13% of the population in Ghana suffer from a mental disorder, of which 3% suffer from a severe mental disorder and the other 10% suffer from a moderate to mild mental disorder (WHO, 2007).
“IFPRI Egypt Webinars” is a special edition of the IFPRI Egypt Seminar Series funded by USAID. This webinar took place under the title of “COVID-19 and social protection: from effective crisis protection to self-reliance”
According to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD), malaria represents the largest cause of death and morbidity in the country as measured by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) (IHME, 2019). In 2017, the disease was responsible for around 19,000 deaths, almost as much as the combined death toll from HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis (IHME, 2019).
Natalia Winder Rossi's (FAO) presentation at the South-South Cooperation Knowledge Exchange Platform on Strengthening Resilience of the Rural Poor in Nairobi (Kenya) on 18 November 2019.
Although the free senior high school (SHS) policy has greatly increased enrolment, it has led to a mismatch in the demand for secondary education and the available educational infrastructure. The double-track system was introduced to circumvent this hurdle.
Integration of the youth (15- to 34-year-olds) in Ghana, who represents 35 percent of the population, into full and productive employment can be an important driver for growth and sustained development. The inability to improve labor productivity in the country continues to limit the performance of firms and enterprises across different economic sectors.
Over the last three decades, Ghana has invested large amounts of effort in implementing various strategies to reduce maternal and child mortality in the country.
TB is responsible for around 5 percent of total deaths in Ghana annually, and the decline in TB burden is markedly slow, with an average 2.5 percent reduction in TB incidence year on year (GTB 2018).
With a population of nearly 30 million people, WHO estimates that approximately 13% of the population in Ghana suffer from a mental disorder, of which 3% suffer from a severe mental disorder and the other 10% suffer from a moderate to mild mental disorder (WHO, 2007).
“IFPRI Egypt Webinars” is a special edition of the IFPRI Egypt Seminar Series funded by USAID. This webinar took place under the title of “COVID-19 and social protection: from effective crisis protection to self-reliance”
According to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD), malaria represents the largest cause of death and morbidity in the country as measured by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) (IHME, 2019). In 2017, the disease was responsible for around 19,000 deaths, almost as much as the combined death toll from HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis (IHME, 2019).
Natalia Winder Rossi's (FAO) presentation at the South-South Cooperation Knowledge Exchange Platform on Strengthening Resilience of the Rural Poor in Nairobi (Kenya) on 18 November 2019.
Presentation given to media at PAI.org hosted roundtable in Dubai 19.02.2020 on the impact of the US Gag Rule which ties aid to women's healthcare provision by NGO's. Funds will become unavailable to organizations engaged in providing education and care related to child birth and reproduction.
Lori Heise from The Prevention Collaborative presents her work on cash transfers and intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries at our CSW63 side event in UN Women in New York in March 2019.
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Transfers, Behaviour Change Communication & IPV: Evidence from BangladeshThe Transfer Project
Shalini Roy from IFPRI presents their work on transfers, behaviour change communication and intimate partner violence in Bnagladesh at our CSW63 side event in UN Women in New York in March 2019.
For more on this work see: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/food-and-cash-transfers-coupled-nutrition-behavior-change-communication-lead-sustained
Testing a gender transformative approach combined with a fish harvesting tech...IFPRI-PIM
This presentation was given by Afrina Choudhury (World Fish), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
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Testing a gender transformative approach combined with a fish harvesting tech...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Afrina Choudhury (World Fish), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
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Olamide Okulaja_Creating synergy for PPP_PPP Conference2019Atinuke Akande
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The economic growth literature suggests that the volume of infrastructure stock as well as its quality positively and impacts economic growth by, among others, decreasing the cost of production and transportation of goods and services, improving the productivity of input factors, and creating indirect positive externalities.
Poverty remains a problem in Ghana. There is an overall reduction in national poverty over the last 3 decades, but this masks the persistent spatial concentration of poverty and high inequality.
Over 1.6 million people died globally in 2017 from harmful exposure to PM2.5 emissions from household use of solid fuels such as wood, coal, charcoal, and agricultural residues for cooking according to estimates by the Global Burden of Disease 2017 (GBD 2017) Project.
In recent years, Ghana, like many other developing countries has been going through an epidemiologic transition where the proportion of deaths from non-communicable diseases is rapidly increasing, particularly cardiovascular related diseases, cancers and diabetes (IHME, 2019).
The Copenhagen Consensus Centre in collaboration with the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), conducted a “Policy Validation” Seminar for the Ghana Priorities Project on 27 of June, 2019.
The purpose of the “Policy Validation” seminar was to present the list of policy interventions to Government agencies involved in policy formulation, planning and implementation for discussion, reach consensus and validation of the policy interventions.
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
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- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
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Russian Reader
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1. Intimate Partner Violence
Srinivas Raghavendra, Mrinal Chadha and Nata Duvvury
National University of Ireland, Galway
Andhra Pradesh Priorities conference, Vijayawada June 18-21
2. Rationale for the study
• Intimate partner violence, or violence by the spouse/partner of the
woman, is a significant problem
•Approximately 1 out of every two married women experience IPV in Andhra
Pradesh (44.% )
• Critical problem as IPV affects
•Women’s productivity –
• women lose approx. 5 days of work per incidence of violence
•Loss of output to the economy
•Affects human capital formation of next generation
3. Status of Current Response
• National law passed in 2005 – Protection of Women from Domestic
Violence Act (PWDVA)
• No evidence of robust or effective implementation in states
• Multiple interventions for empowerment of women and adolescents
but no evidence of impact on reducing violence
5. Self Help Group-Based Intervention for Combating Violence
Against Women (SHGIVAW)
• This is a microfinance intervention with special module on gender
transformation and women’s leadership – combining livelihoods with
empowerment
• Based on a intervention tested in South Africa
• Includes standard microfinance training and participatory module
focused on gender relations and women’s leadership
6. costs
• Costs estimated for pilot and scale-up
•In scale up costs were USD 13/ woman reached
•Equivalent to INR 847.86 in 2018 exchange rate
Total cost equivalent Rs. 142 crores
7. Benefits
• Reduction in IPV by 55%
• Health benefits of reduced DALYS
• Reduces deaths due to IPV
• Increase in income for households
• Overall gain in economic output
• Total benefit equivalent Rs. 3073 crores
8. Cost-Benefit Ratio
Intervention
Discount
Rate Benefit (INR Crores) Cost (INR Crores) BCR
Self Help Group-Based
Intervention for
Combating Violence
Against Women
(SHGIVAW)
3% 3478 141.7 24.5
5% 3073 141.7 21.7
8% 2565 141.7 18.1
10. SASA! Community Moblization Programme
Community mobilization program that seeks to change
•change individuals’ attitudes, community norms and structures, by supporting
entire communities through a phased process of change
•involves four phases Start, Awareness, Support, Action
•developed in Uganda and now adapted in more than 20 countries
11. Cost
• Costs estimated for pilot and scale-up
•Estimated cost $15 for implementing in intervention group 15+
•Equivalent to Rs. 978.3 in 2018 exchange rate
Total cost equivalent Rs. 164 crores
12. Benefits
• Reduction in IPV by 55%
• Health benefits of reduced DALYS
• Reduces deaths due to IPV
• Increase in income for households
• Overall gain in economic output
• Total benefit equivalent Rs. 3073 crores
