Impact Initiative - Gender: Recent submissions
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Women's Economic Status and Sexual Negotiation: Re-evaluation of the 'Normative Precedent' in Tanzania
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Women's ability to negotiate the conditions and circumstances of sexual relations is central to their sexual and reproductive health, including mitigating HIV risk. In Africa, gender-based power imbalances constrain women's ... -
Maintaining respect: Men, Masculinities and Domestic Violence Against Women: Insights from Informal Sector Workers in Tanzania
(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2018)Informal sector employment is growing in Tanzania. As men compete to earn money and increasing number of women enter into paid work to supplement household incomes, additional tensions within the family emerge including ... -
Feminist Legal Geographies
(Sage Journals, 2019)Since the 1980s, legal geographical research as a trans-disciplinary project has drawn attention to the binding connections between law and space. Legal geography can be defined as a stream of scholarship that makes the ... -
Exploring the Equity Impact of a Maternal and Newborn Health Intervention: A Qualitative Study of Participatory Women's Groups in Rural South Asia and Africa
(BMC Springer Nature, 2019)A consensus is developing on interventions to improve newborn survival, but little is known about how to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in newborn mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Participatory learning ... -
The Equity Impact of Community Women's Groups to Reduce Neonatal Mortality: A Meta-analysis of Four Cluster Randomized Trials
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association, 2019)Socioeconomic inequalities in neonatal mortality are substantial in many developing countries. Little is known about how to address this problem. Trials in Asia and Africa have shown strong impacts on neonatal mortality ... -
A Prediction Model for Neonatal Mortality in Low- and Middle-income Countries: An Analysis of Data from Population Surveillance Sites in India, Nepal and Bangladesh
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association, 2019)Background: In poor settings, where many births and neonatal deaths occur at home, prediction models of neonatal mortality in the general population can aid public-health policy-making. No such models are available in the ... -
Impact on Birth Weight and Child Growth of Participatory Learning and Action Women's Groups with and without Transfers of Food or Cash during Pregnancy: Findings of the Low Birth Weight South Asia Cluster-randomised Controlled Trial (LBWSAT) in Nepal
(PLOS ONE, 2018)Background: Undernutrition during pregnancy leads to low birthweight, poor growth and inter-generational undernutrition. We did a non-blinded cluster-randomised controlled trial in the plains districts of Dhanusha and ... -
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Newborn Care During Facility and Home Deliveries: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Data from Demographic Surveillance Sites in Rural Bangladesh, India and Nepal
(BMC Springer Nature, 2018)Background: In Bangladesh, India and Nepal, neonatal outcomes of poor infants are considerably worse than those of better-off infants. Understanding how these inequalities vary by country and place of delivery (home or ... -
Smallholders' Demand For and Access to Private-Sector Extension Services: A Case Study of Contracted Cotton Producers in Northern Tanzania
(Wiley Online Library, 2019)This paper examines demand for and access to private‐sector extension services by contracted cotton producers in northern Tanzania. Data from a non‐random survey of 520 smallholders show that only 21.9% received any extension ... -
Paradigm Shift or Business as Usual: Workers' Views on Multi-stakeholder Initiatives in Bangladesh
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Institute of Social Studies, 2020)The scale of the tragedy at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,000 garment factory workers died when the building collapsed in April 2013, galvanized a range of stakeholders to take action to prevent future ... -
Multi-stakeholder Initiatives in Bangladesh after Rana Plaza: Global Norms and Workers' Perspectives
(London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2019)The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh in April, 2013 resulting in the death and injury of more than 2000 workers from the country’s export garment industry was one of the worst industrial disasters in ... -
‘Misbehaving’ RCTs: The Confounding Problem of Human Agency
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)This paper argues that the theoretical model of causal inference underpinning RCTs is frequently undermined by the failure of different actors involved in their implementation to behave in ways required by the model. This ... -
Randomized Control Trials and Qualitative Impacts: What do they Tell us about the Immediate and Long-term Assessments of Productive Safety Nets for Women in Extreme Poverty in West Bengal?
(London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2019)This paper is intended to show the strengths, weaknesses and potential complementarities of different methodological approaches to impact assessment. It reports on the approach and findings reported by a randomized control ... -
Randomized Control Trials and Qualitative Evaluations of a Multifaceted Programme for Women in Extreme Poverty: Empirical Findings and Methodological Reflections
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)This paper sets out to synthesize key lessons from studies using alternative methodologies to impact assessment. Drawing on Sen’s capability approach as a conceptual framework, it analyses two pairs of impact assessments ... -
(In)visibilty, Care and Cultural Barriers: The Size and Shape of Women's Work in India
(Ashoka University, 2019)Based on primary data from a large household survey in seven districts in West Bengal in India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying low labor force participation of women. In particular, we try to disentangle the ... -
Chapter 9: Gender, Poverty and Educational Equality
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)A chapter on gender, poverty and educational equality from 'The SAGE Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education'. The handbook examines policy and practice from around the world with respect to broadly conceived ... -
Global Campaigns for Girls' and Women's Education, 2000-2017: Insights from Transnational Social Movement Theory
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of global campaigns on girls’ and women’s education, including major global policy initiatives such as the MDGs and the SDGs. While scholars have critically analysed the ... -
Achieving Gender Equality in and Through Education: A Knowledge And Innovation Exchange (KIX) Discussion Paper
(Global Partnership for Education, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to describe the current landscape in gender equality in education and spark discussion and debate around potential areas for KIX investment. The paper is part of a series of discussion papers, ... -
The Many Meanings of Quality Education: Politics of Targets and Indicators in SDG 4
(Durham University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)The formulation of the SDG education targets was more inclusive than the processes linked with the MDGs. Key constituencies making representations through the Open Working Group and other consultative processes succeeded ... -
An Other Self? Education, Foreignness, Reflexive Comparison and Capability as Connection
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)The article is an attempt to explore through the lens of my identification as a foreigner, a number of different themes around work in comparative education, particularly aspects of the question of method, and some reflections ...