Resource library
Below are resources translated into English, organised by publication date, with the newest listed first.
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- Tools and templates
This resource provides indicators which can be used to measure the effectiveness of activities related to women’s economic empowerment. It explains what economic empowerment is and is not, and how it should be measured. It states that tailoring…
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- Evidence digest, Policy paper
This resource summarises the findings from the Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s work on women’s property rights. It shares examples from Benin, Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda, providing lessons learned from various interventions related to improving women’s…
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- Tools and templates
This resource is a research toolkit intended to be used to help prevent child marriage and respond to the needs of married and divorced girls and boys. It focuses on promoting action and inclusion, and looks at the threats and opportunities girls…
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- Lessons from a programme
This resource outlines the limited way in which adolescents are included in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on the data gap in relation to adolescent boys and girls in the SDGs, and how their needs and risks are…
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- Lessons from a programme, Tools and templates
This resource is a self-assessment tool that provides a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) framework to help practitioners identify areas for improvement in their projects and adapt them to become more GESI transformative. Transformative…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) explains what works to ensure that people with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities can enjoy their human rights and participate at all levels of decision-making. It…
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- Report
This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) provides key facts relating to the case for promoting women’s economic empowerment in development programming and business planning. It explains what companies can do to…
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- Tools and templates
This resource is designed to be used when working with organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs). It is based on learning from programmes in the international development sector. Organisations of people with disabilities tested this tool.…
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This resource outlines factors that influence how effective teaching is for marginalised adolescent girls. It is designed to help programmes and policy makers improve their approach to teacher professional development through providing guidance on…
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- Fact sheet , Guidance document
This resource is guidance developed for country offices in the UK Government’s former Department for International Development (DFID) to support them with efforts to prevent and address violence against women (VAW) and violence, abuse and…
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- Evidence/literature review
Gender-based violence (GBV) shelters provide secure accommodation for women and children who are at risk of or have experienced GBV. This document provides a summary of the evidence and lessons learned on the management of GBV shelters, focusing on…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) synthesises evidence on the linkages between gender, social inclusion and trade, highlighting women’s different roles in trade in selected middle-income countries. It…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource sets out how high-volume road and rail transport situations in urban areas and along long-distance transport corridors can negatively affect or exclude women, girls and other marginalised groups (people with disabilities, older people…
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- Policy paper, Report
This policy paper highlights key messages from research focusing on universal cash transfers and social pension programmes from the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation. It is an output of the Impact Initiative for International…
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- Multimedia, Video
In this video, Tatiana Salisbury and Kelly Rose-Clarke from King’s College London discuss the importance of investing in child and adolescent mental health. They highlight key messages for donors and guide how to strengthen support for mental health…
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- Policy paper
This policy note summarises key findings from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) report on the wellbeing of adolescents with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It draws on a thematic evidence review, combined…
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- Report
This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) explores how women’s economic empowerment can reduce the risk of modern slavery while also creating a positive impact for women. It examines the drivers of modern…
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- Case study, Evidence/literature review, Lessons from a programme
This resource examines the intersections of disability, gender and violence. It summarises early evidence on intimate partner violence (IPV) from the global What Works Violence against Women and Girls Programme (the ‘What Works’ programme), which…
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- Guidance document
This resource offers advice on basic approaches to disability inclusion through infrastructure and urban interventions. It includes: an overview of the barriers people with disabilities face when accessing infrastructure and urban…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource summarises evidence on violence against women and girls (VAWG) and intersectionality. It shares evidence on which groups of women are at increased risk of violence due to multiple discriminations or disadvantages. It also explains how…
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- Report
This report presents the results of a 14-month exploratory research project on the links between disability and climate resilience. The report outlines the implications of the findings for policy and programme work that builds the…