Social protection and economic strengthening

Social protection covers the range of policies and programmes to alleviate extreme poverty — including cash transfers, child grants, and school meals — that guard against social and economic insecurity. The Accelerate Hub examines the crucial role social protection can play in preventing economic hardship and advancing inclusive development.

Accelerating Progress Towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Ghanaian Story

The data used for this paper is a combination of two datasets: The first was a cross-sectional study undertaken on 614 in-school children and adolescents ...

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Two are Better Than One but Three is Best: Fast-Tracking the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Among School-Going Adolescents in Nigeria

Data used in this study was part of a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2004 to investigate the health of secondary students in rural and urban ...

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MAISHA longitudinal study

A four-wave cohort study of adult women in Mwanza, Tanzania investigating predictors and consequences of intimate partner violence, including its impact on adolescents. Team: Professor ...

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Impact of social protection programmes in Zambia

A cross-sectional study in four districts in Zambia, with data collection in 2019 from the evaluation of the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of ...

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Child and community care

This study tracks the development of children and families affected by HIV attending established community based organisations (CBOs) across South Africa, Malawi, and Zambia. Team: ...

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Evaluating the impact of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme on adolescent health and wellbeing

Led by Dr William Rudgard (University of Oxford) and Silinganisiwe Dzumbunu (University of Cape Town), this project is aimed at evaluating the effects of the ...

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Young Carers

Previous research has reported that orphaned children are more likely to have mental health problems and educational deficits, and are more likely to contract HIV ...

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Mzantsi Wakho

Mzantsi Wakho is a longitudinal mixed-method study with a cohort of 1,059 HIV-positive adolescents. This research project is intended to promote ART adherence and SRH ...

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HEY BABY

HEY BABY (Helping Empower Youth Brought up in Adversity with their Babies and Young children) is a longitudinal mixed-methods cohort study of 1046 adolescent mothers ...

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Cash and behavioural interventions combinations in Kenya

To study how large unconditional cash transfers to a household (alongside a behavioural intervention) effect psychological, health, and economic outcomes and engagement in risky behaviours ...

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