Findings and insights from WFP staff inquiries into how WFP programmes can be more gender sensitive in the context of supporting Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The findings were shared in a regional knowledge sharing meeting with the other WFP countries working on the Syrian response.
The cards also contain recommendations for inclusion of SRHR in the post-2015 development framework. The briefing cards were developed by partners in the Universal Access Project, which aims to bolster the U.S. government’s support for international reproductive health and family planning. However, the cards are not specific to a U.S. policy context so their content will be useful for a wide range of advocates as we move toward intergovernmental negotiations and continue to make the case with governments about the importance of ensuring the comprehensive inclusion of sexual and reproductive health and rights within the post-2015 development framework.
Nigerian Youths: Education, Welfare, Personal Development and Aspirationsseunoyeniran
In recent years, the WHO, UNICEF and EU concerted effort has been made not only to delineate youth from children and adults while promoting policy reforms and frameworks for youth investment and coordination (WHO, 2002). The question then is how do we capture or provide evidences of the social, cultural and economic orientation of youths in Nigeria? What tools does policy stakeholders need to work with in dealing with these young people? Is there any advocacy for a long-term youth development strategy in Nigeria. The primary objective of this research is to provide empirical tools for public policy analysis on how to improve youth development in relation to social, cultural and economic developments/shocks
Putting Children First: Session 3.1.C Mokhantso Makoae - Young adolescents se...The Impact Initiative
Putting Children First: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 2017
This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa, and in inspiring action towards change. The conference offered a platform for bridging divides across sectors, disciplines and policy, practice and research.
This webinar was developed by Child Trends for the Office of
Adolescent Health (OAH) as a technical assistance product for use with OAH grant programs.
The cards also contain recommendations for inclusion of SRHR in the post-2015 development framework. The briefing cards were developed by partners in the Universal Access Project, which aims to bolster the U.S. government’s support for international reproductive health and family planning. However, the cards are not specific to a U.S. policy context so their content will be useful for a wide range of advocates as we move toward intergovernmental negotiations and continue to make the case with governments about the importance of ensuring the comprehensive inclusion of sexual and reproductive health and rights within the post-2015 development framework.
Nigerian Youths: Education, Welfare, Personal Development and Aspirationsseunoyeniran
In recent years, the WHO, UNICEF and EU concerted effort has been made not only to delineate youth from children and adults while promoting policy reforms and frameworks for youth investment and coordination (WHO, 2002). The question then is how do we capture or provide evidences of the social, cultural and economic orientation of youths in Nigeria? What tools does policy stakeholders need to work with in dealing with these young people? Is there any advocacy for a long-term youth development strategy in Nigeria. The primary objective of this research is to provide empirical tools for public policy analysis on how to improve youth development in relation to social, cultural and economic developments/shocks
Putting Children First: Session 3.1.C Mokhantso Makoae - Young adolescents se...The Impact Initiative
Putting Children First: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 2017
This three-day international conference aimed to engage policy makers, practitioners and researchers in identifying solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa, and in inspiring action towards change. The conference offered a platform for bridging divides across sectors, disciplines and policy, practice and research.
This webinar was developed by Child Trends for the Office of
Adolescent Health (OAH) as a technical assistance product for use with OAH grant programs.
Maja Gavrilovic and Elsa Valli's presentation "Child Marriage and Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme: Analysis of protective pathways in the Amhara region" presented at IDS in October 2019.
HIV and AIDS still remains the greatest public health challenge globally (Strauss and Thomas, 2008).
It is undoubtedly a major cause of premature deaths in many parts of the world with the poorest regions being the most affected.
The lack of an imminent cure or vaccine means that more deaths and large disease burden are inevitable (WHO, 2001).
By the end of 2010, approximately 34 million people globally were living with HIV infection.
In the same year, nearly 2.7 million new infections including slightly over 300,000 among children and 1.8 million AIDS related deaths occurred (UNAIDS, 2010).
MOVE Congress 2019 presentation by Mark Tremblay, Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, in the track 'Discovering new perspectives on physical activity promotion among school children' on 18 October.
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How do you promote the health and well-being of adolescent girls? This presentation provides critical insights and strategic considerations based on conversations with people in Mtwara, Tanzania.
"To all the girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams."
On December 4, 2014 CERIS hosted a panel discussion to explore the unique settlement experiences of newcomer children and the services, programs, and practices that best address their needs.
Heather Krause of Peel Children and Youth Initiative presented her statistical research on newcomer parents' usage of early childhood services.
Maja Gavrilovic and Elsa Valli's presentation "Child Marriage and Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme: Analysis of protective pathways in the Amhara region" presented at IDS in October 2019.
HIV and AIDS still remains the greatest public health challenge globally (Strauss and Thomas, 2008).
It is undoubtedly a major cause of premature deaths in many parts of the world with the poorest regions being the most affected.
The lack of an imminent cure or vaccine means that more deaths and large disease burden are inevitable (WHO, 2001).
By the end of 2010, approximately 34 million people globally were living with HIV infection.
In the same year, nearly 2.7 million new infections including slightly over 300,000 among children and 1.8 million AIDS related deaths occurred (UNAIDS, 2010).
MOVE Congress 2019 presentation by Mark Tremblay, Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, in the track 'Discovering new perspectives on physical activity promotion among school children' on 18 October.
‘Falling Through the Cracks’ Adolescent Girls in Tanzania Insights from MtwaraRakesh Rajani
How do you promote the health and well-being of adolescent girls? This presentation provides critical insights and strategic considerations based on conversations with people in Mtwara, Tanzania.
"To all the girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams."
On December 4, 2014 CERIS hosted a panel discussion to explore the unique settlement experiences of newcomer children and the services, programs, and practices that best address their needs.
Heather Krause of Peel Children and Youth Initiative presented her statistical research on newcomer parents' usage of early childhood services.
Greater Manchester's Early Years work - David Morris, New Economy ManchesterCentreOf Excellence
Presentation at the Improving Information Sharing & Management dissemination event at the LGA in London on May 24th. Presentation given by David Morris, Evaluation principal at New Economy Manchester.
This presentation was featured in a webinar that explored evidence-based approaches to engage youth and young adults from foster care in the prevention of unintended or untimely pregnancies. The webinar also highlighted effective supports for young people in care as parents as they tend to their own developmental needs.
Delivering on our Corporate Parenting duties through the establishment of a V...CELCIS
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Send school leaders presentation july 2014 DfEAmjad Ali
A detailed presentation highlighting the important elements of the new SEN Code of Practice- which came into force June 2014.
Are you, your school, your local area ready for the changes which should start being enacted from September 2014?
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Do Dreams Come True? Aspirations and educational attainments of Ethiopian boy...Young Lives Oxford
How do aspirations and expectations affect boys’ and girls’ educational attainment in Ethiopia?
This paper investigates the relationship between aspirations and children’s years of schooling, as an indicator of cumulative investments in education.
It explores gender differences in aspirations (at earlier ages) and later school attainment, taking into account non-educational expectations, parental gender-based preferences and how they vary in a context of extreme poverty.
Presentation of findings from Young Lives by Virginia Morrow and Paul Dornan, at the New School New York on 5 November 2014. Further info: http://www.younglives.org.uk/news/news/event-advancing-equity-for-children
Faculty members involved with the "Heritage Under Threat" project, a collaboration between the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) and the Universities of Mosul and Iraq are presented with awards by Prof Melissa Leach (IDS), Professor Dr Kossay Al-Ahmady (UoM) and Dr Lukman Hasan (UoD).
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is geared towards improving governance in the oil, gas and minerals sector. The EITI currently includes 53 countries across the world, half of which are in Africa. It is governed by multi-stakeholder coalitions representing business, governments and civil society organisations.
The EITI started out in 2007 by disclosing payments made by companies to governments in the form of license fees, taxes and other payments. Governments in turn disclosed payments they received from companies to identify possible discrepancies in reported revenues. Disclosures under the EITI are now increasingly fine-grained, focusing on identifying beneficial owners, publicising contracts, commodity trading transparency and project level investments. The EITI seeks to tackle corruption, promote accountability, strengthen institutions, and contribute to domestic resource mobilisation. The current approach also highlights gender and environmental considerations in government and company reporting.
Many EITI countries are currently facing a triple crisis occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic: a health emergency, a massive fall in government revenues triggered by oil and commodity price falls, and an economic crisis caused by a huge reduction in global demand. This lecture explores the continued salience of governance and transparency work in the extractives sector during a period of acute global crisis, amid growing constraints on government budgets and capacity, and increasing limitations on civic space and advocacy.
This Sussex Development Lecture addresses this set of issues to place the EITI in a broader perspective as a leading global transparency and accountability initiative.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Global development challenges: towards a politics of hope.
Speaker
Mark Robinson, Executive Director of the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI
The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) potentially offer an inclusive, integrated approach to development, centred on social justice, for all of humanity. But how are they being implemented in practice? Too often a piece-meal, sectoral approach is adopted, rooted in modernist assumptions of linear transition and control.
Ian Scoones, IDS researcher and co-director of the STEPS Centre
The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development sector also help to bring about the sorts of transformations now required to prevent climate chaos?
This lecture looks at the intertwined histories of development and climate change and argues that only a very different approach to development can help to address the climate crisis we currently face.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions.
Speaker: Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
Speaker: Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development sector also help to bring about the sorts of transformations now required to prevent climate chaos?
This lecture looks at the intertwined histories of development and climate change and argues that only a very different approach to development can help to address the climate crisis we currently face.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions.
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
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The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
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.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
CBO’s Outlook for U.S. Fertility Rates: 2024 to 2054
Gender mainstreaming from the ground up: WFP Lebanon management debriefing
1. Innovations from the Field
Gender mainstreaming from the ground up
Phase 2
An IDS-WFP action research partnership, 2015-16
2. Aims of Innovations from the Field
A WFP-IDS action learning initiative to
•Understand what already works to mainstream gender equality in WFP
field programmes, and where improvements are needed
•Share that learning and knowledge effectively within WFP
•Apply lessons to strengthen gender-responsive practice across WFP
•Inform critical thinking on gender mainstreaming and contribute to
better practice globally
Pilot phase 2013 – 14 in five WFP country offices: Guatemala, Kenya,
Lesotho, Malawi and Senegal ( internal WFP focus)
Second phase 2015 – 17: continuation with four pilot countries, work
with new countries including Lebanon, Cambodia, Benin and focus on
global knowledge sharing and advocacy
3. PAL Context: Gender at WFP Lebanon
- Young office operating in complex
emergency in middle income country
Gender actions taken
- Appointment international gender focal
point in 2015
- Appointment 6 national gender focal
points
- Action plan and TOR completed
- PAL program with IDS and WFP
4. PAL
• Identifying questions and gaps
Understanding gender
mainstreaming in WFP
• What are the most important issues to
explore?
• How should we do it?
Developing PAL plans
• Who do we want to share knowledge with?
• What are the most effective ways to do so?
Developing a
knowledge sharing
strategy
5. PAL program activities Lebanon
•November mission : obtain an understanding of the context and
launch program
•Field visits, briefings, and Interviews with members of WFP
Lebanon country and sub offices, and with relevant partners
•Workshop with sub-offices to get common understanding of gender
mainstreaming in WFP and plan PAL learning enquiries
• Integrated bottom up approach Focus on questions that are based on
experiences from the field staff
•Current mission: document and analyse the results of PAL enquiries,
planning of completion, knowledge sharing and input to gender
mainstreaming of WFP. Allocate budget accordingly
6. Results: Beirut Sub-office
Has access to purchasing power through the e-card
economically empowered women?
Data needed
•Operational definition of
empowerment
•Quantitative and qualitative data
from before and after the
introduction of the e-card
quantitative and qualitative
•WFP quantitative data from
PDM before and after the e-card
introduced in October
– 197 HH January 2013-
September 2013
– 258 October –February
2014
7. Lessons and findings
– Changes in empowerment cannot be measures by PDM data
Different questions in different PDM
– Empowerment not clearly operationalized;
– 3 basic questions on food are missing: who decides what to buy,
% of e-card in total expenditures, level of debt
Additional data : Focus group discussions (FGD) and
interviews. Preliminary findings include:
– WFP card is first credit card ever for respondents
– Illiterate people have problem understanding ATM. More women
than men are illiterate.
– Women and men buy food. Women decide what to buy, men
buy what women decide both in Syria and Lebanon
– Problems with identification papers affect mobility and thus
access to e-cards and shops, services, school.
8. Zahle Sub-Office
How have the cuts affected school attendance of
both boys and girls?
Data needed
•School attendance and
withdrawal before and
after the introduction of
capping quantitative and
qualitative
•Importance of education
•Contribution of WFP
card in total household
and food expenditures
9. Lessons and findings
PDM cannot answer questions on gender and school attendance
–PDM does not ask about school attendance
–No questions about age and sex and school withdrawal
–No questions about age and sex and income generation
–Cuts are made in same period as school holiday
–PDM data show WFP card can be central and important,
sometimes contributing more than 60% of food costs but most
expenses, housing, transport, medication not covered.
Additional qualitative data collected from 84 persons (men and
women and teachers)
10. Lessons and findings
• Education at least until 9th
grade (15 age) highly valued for
child intellectual, social and psychological growth
• Men say that a certificate helps with jobs and better
position in the Syrian army. Education protects.
• Women say that girls need to be in school to prevent early
marriage, unpaid care and other homework. Girls are better
students
• Most children are in informal schools in the settlements
• Difficulties adapting to formal Lebanese curriculum,
bullying, lack of space in Lebanese schools, transportation
and other fees.
• Withdrawal is related to transportation fees, extra
expenditures, harassment by the teachers, not food.
11. Lessons and findings
• Boys withdrawn from school are engaged in
risky jobs, working as a daily
worker/assistant for a carpenter, barber,
blacksmith and working in agriculture.
Acceptable for girls to work in jobs;
hairdresser
• Child laborers face verbal and physical
harassment, violence, exploitation, fatigue,
diseases, they get paid between 5000-30000
L.P. per week.
12. Results: Qobayat Sub-Office
What are the fertility effects of the safety
program?
• Data needed: Increase or decrease in the
number of pregnancies and live births after
the introduction of the safety net
• Increase or decrease in abortions
• Uptake of family planning
• Fertility desires and choices and options
13. Quantitative data
• PDM data cannot answer question on increase or decrease
in the number of pregnancies and live births because it
only registers the eligible not the excluded people who are
in the safety net
• Sex and age not consistently recorded
• Verification includes both eligible and not-eligible people
but registers <5 yrs. We cannot know if there is a new born
• UNHCR collects data but raw data not shared
• Analysis of data of 1000 HH incomplete and sts
• No data on increase or decrease in abortions as it is illegal
14. Inconclusive data on fertility
Blue / Red 2.3 3.2 3.3 3.0
Nr of children decreasing among HH never
eligible
Decrease in nr of children after cut of satety
net among eligible HH
Number of < 2 y.o. / 1000 HHs Dec 2013 July 2014 Dec 2014 June 2015 Dec 2015 Dec /Jun 2015
1000 HHs eligible for Safety Net 2014-2015 no data 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.7 -28%
1000 HHs never eligible for Safety Net (regular assistance) no data 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 -20%
15. Qualitative data collected to
complement PDM
• Focus groups discussions with 36 women and 33 men in 3 settings,
and interviews with 2 UNHCR female volunteers, a widowed mother,
2 male chawich, political leader and 3 male refugee
16. Findings:
• People want children for many reasons that are not related
to safety net. To continue the family, because children are
part of life of being human, to replace personal and
collective losses, to help in life. All children are equally
welcome, but slight boy preference Fertility pressures.
Infertility is stigmatizing
• People are more careful about having children due to their
refugee status.
• Plan families using contraceptive pills, IUD and, natural
contraceptives/rhythm methods. Condom use low.
Abortions in private clinics
• Access to services and income impaired as a result of
difficulties with renewing papers.
17. Findings:
• SSN was important for the elderly, “non-autonomous”
persons who cannot work. It reduced overall pressure on
men to generate income
• People felt SSN were valuable but poorly managed. They
felt exclusion was decision against them as a person.
Special concern about the elderly.
• “People over 60 will feel useless and a burden to the
family” (male respondent, IDI)
• Pregnant women had to share the benefits with the whole
family.
• Nobody felt the SSN alone determined pregnancy
decisions. “ I will not get a newborn for an extra 13 dollar
per month” male respondent FGD Bire
18. Wider PAL Learning Synthesis
• Gender is not just about parity.
• Gender Intersectionality with other socio-demographic
characteristics: age, education, household compostion Safety
net cuts affect the whole family, who is affected depends on
gender, age, HH composition etc.
• Projects can lead to unintended/unexpected positive or negative
impacts for men, women and children. Gender roles can harm
and marginalize boys and girls >education good example
• Gender inequities and causes of structural disempowerment
affect WFP programs. Often causes are outside its mandate
and collaboration with others is needed at field level –referral by
monitors- and policy level
• Gender relations, norms and ideologies are dynamic; cultural
adaptation. WFP senior management and field staff can
reinforce this message
19. Wider PAL Learning Synthesis
• PDM M&E system alone does not yield data to measure gender
performance and program impact.
• An understanding of context is fundamental for mainstreaming
gender and identifying gender dimensions
• Field monitors appointed as gender focal points can–with
support- contribute to realistic and context specific program
deisgn, implementation and M &E. Without support they are
interested but passive.
• Gender mainstreaming at WFP Lebanon has made a great
start.
• Senior management plays crucial role in growing staff
confidence and skills through systematically integrating gender,
recognizing the focal points abilities, and allocate time.
20. Develop knowledge sharing strategy
• Finalize analysis and documentation of learning
enquiries
• Each office finishes PPT for sharing in WFP with
Lebanon senior management and between offices
and gender focal points
• Focal points develop these presentations and a two
pages write up of summary results for Global
learning meeting in May. (1 or 8th
April)
• IDS/WFP make a short video of whole global
program
21. Developing a knowledge sharing
strategy
Other national and global sharing options & ideas
•Gender focal points present PAL results to senior management and
partners discuss integration in 2017 program design
•Regional conference to share PAL results and lessons learned by WFP
Lebanon focusing on gender mainstreaming, e-cards, M &E
•Mainstream gender by yearly PAL prior to annual planning to check
gender impact. A bottom up and tailored approach using gender as an
entry point might reduce transaction costs of changing PDM and other
tools. It can improve motivation of staff by recognizing and enhancing
their role and capacities to contribute to program design from the ground
up.
•Other ideas?