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The Effects of Armed Conflict on Educational Attainment and Inequality
June 2016 — This report, commissioned by UNICEF, sought to answer the question: Does violent conflict affect education inequality? The study drew upon data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and the Ethnic Power Relations databases, which enabled the researchers to distinguish between ethnic and nonethnic conflicts, as well as to identify the effect of conflict onset…
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A Roadmap for the Development of Labor Market Information Systems
August 2016 — This study provides a new lens for understanding labor market information systems (LMIS) and offers guidance for the focus and sequencing of investments in their development. We argue that traditional technical assistance to support LMIS in Africa has neither succeeded in improving the functioning of labor markets nor achieved sustainability of the systems…
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USAID Communicate for Health, Ghana (activity brief)
July 2016 — This one-page activity brief prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provides a high-level overview of FHI 360’s efforts on the Communicate for Health (C4H) project and how they tie into the Government of Ghana’s vision of planning and implementing strong and coordinated health promotion initiatives. The brief includes facts about the…
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GoodLife, Live It Well (brochure)
July 2016 — The Communicate for Health (C4H) project worked to refresh and upgrade the “GoodLife, Live it Well” brand to position it as a unifying Ghana Health Service umbrella brand for all social and behavior change communication products and services. This brochure is part of the brand refresh and serves as an at-a-glance introduction to the…
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What Gets Measured, Gets Managed
May 2016 — This fact sheet introduces the Child Well-being Database Management System, which is a web-based platform housing data on the demands and provision of child-related services in every region of Ethiopia. The data — including child protection, health, education and disabilities, among others — will be accessible through the Ethiopian government website.
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Linking the Village to the Child
May 2016 — This fact sheet summarizes technical assistance by FHI 360 to Ethiopian neighborhood care groups, known as community care coalitions, with the purpose of identifying vulnerable children and linking them with critical support services.
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The Art of Better Parenting
May 2016 — This fact sheet describes the resources FHI 360 developed for use in Ethiopia to encourage parents to adopt better parenting skills, including communicating with children and developing positive disciplinary methods. The fact sheet also includes a testimonial from a parent who successfully used the resources.
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Status and Characteristics of Regional Democracy and Rights-Promoting Networks
March 2016 — This study presents an inventory of major international civil society networks working in the field of democracy and human rights, and explores ways international donors may support the work of these networks. The authors focused on networks with three characteristics: 1) membership consists of nongovernmental organizations, 2) members are drawn from more than one…
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Mobile Media Campaign Reaches Remote Villages to Promote Nutrition
September 2015 — This fact sheet outlines the mobile media campaign by the SHIKHA project in rural Bangladesh. The award-winning campaign was designed to reach communities with limited access to electricity to improve breastfeeding and complementary feeding of infants and young children and promote healthier maternal diets. Teams traveled to villages with televisions and generators…
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Designing a Food Plate for Dietary Counseling of Pregnant Women
September 2015 — The SHIKHA project is implementing interventions to improve diet and nutrition among pregnant women and children ages 0 to 2 in rural Bangladesh. As part of SHIKHA’s maternal nutrition component, nutrition workers use a food plate to counsel pregnant women about healthy and balanced diets. This fact sheet describes the seven steps used to…