Windows into Early Learning and Development sheds light on what can be done to give all children the best chance in life in their first five years. Poverty, stunting, and lack of cognitive stimulation mean that nearly half of 3- and 4-year-old...
This Growth through Nutrition policy brief summarizes research assessing the links between agricultural production, commercialization, markets, gender, and household diet diversity and discusses resulting policy recommendations.
The number of child laborers in Jordan has more than doubled in the period between 2008 and 2017, to an estimated 70,000 child laborers among Jordanians and Syrians. While there is a lack of data, the situation is expected to be similar in...
More than 1.3 million people have crossed the Mediterranean since 2015, taking potentially perilous journeys to flee conflict, instability and persecution across the Middle East and Africa. With the Balkans border closures, more than 62,590 people...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) faces very high levels of violence towards children and adolescents. In recent years, there has been a spike of violence, particularly involving boys – homicides often linked to gang activities and...
This Growth through Nutrition brief summarizes key findings on maternal nutrition and health indictors from the ENGINE Birth Cohort Study, along with policy and future research recommendations.
This report summarizes the agro-ecology specific livelihood/agriculture packages developed under Growth through Nutrition Activity, based on the relevant literature and experience from Growth through Nutrition’s predecessor, USAID ENGINE.
This learning update is from the Partnering to Save Lives project, July 2017. One outcome of PSL is focused on documenting learning and evidence that can contribute to improved policy and practices. The PSL four Learning Agenda themes are...
This Learning Update is from the Partnering to Save Lives project, July 2017. One outcome of PSL is focused on documenting learning and evidence that can contribute to improved policy and practices. The PSL four Learning Agenda themes are...
While data on student math performance in developing contexts is limited, what does exist is alarming: research conducted by SC in literacy and math in Nepal in 2013 found that grade 2 children were able to correctly respond to only 4 out of 15...