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Journal article

Overcoming coloniality in adolescent health programmes: harnessing cultural values and the indigenous roles of grandmothers to promote girls’ holistic development in Senegal

12/12/2023

22 pages long

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Overcoming coloniality in adolescent health programmes: harnessing cultural values and the indigenous roles of grandmothers to promote girls’ holistic development in Senegal

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Decolonial and feminist scholars have long pointed out that theory and praxis in global health and gender and development employ models of gender and social change that are Euro-North-American-centric and fit poorly with cultural realities and community dynamics in the global South. Interventions informed by these biases are often minimally effective and can cause backlash […]

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Case study

Women’s Empowerment and Community-Based Protection Responses in Lokurunyang

17/09/2021

3 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This is a case study produced by Samuel Komakech, former Senior Protection Coordinator at Oxfam in South Sudan, as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses access to services, authority engagement, child marriage, community protection structures, empowerment of women, gender-based violence, mediation, negative coping strategies, referrals and sensitization.

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Research report

Intersecting Injustices: The links between social norms, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and violence against women and girls

12/11/2020

2 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

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In the Philippines, poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of women and girls is a grave public health challenge: one in five girls is a mother by age 19, two-thirds of women are not using any form of birth control, and more than a third of women’s pregnancies are unwanted. This study provides insights into […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Social Norms Diagnostic Tool: Sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence

12/11/2020

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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This Social Norms Diagnostic Tool is a feminist, participatory research approach designed to help programme teams identify and discuss social norms, perceptions and expectations that shape, constrain or promote gender-based violence (GBV) and intimate partner violence (IPV); child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM); and women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) within […]

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Research report

Uprooting our beliefs: Examining social norms contributing to violence against women and girls, including child marriage

01/03/2020

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) is one of the most detrimental forms of VAWG and affects 650 million women and girls in the world today. The slow pace of change is largely the result of deeply entrenched cultural values, attitudes and practices that perpetuate gender-based violence and discrimination. With determination to accelerate this progress, […]

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Research report

Marriage Decision-Making: A family affair – Insight into marriage decision-making processes and social norms around child marriage in Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan

21/06/2018

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents the findings of research conducted to support the work of the Marriage, No Child's Play programme. The programme aims to change social norms that perpetuate the practices of early and forced marriage. It currently operates in four districts of Pakistan: Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh, and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in South Punjab. To increase […]

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Overcoming coloniality in adolescent health programmes: harnessing cultural values and the indigenous roles of grandmothers to promote girls’ holistic development in Senegal

Women’s Empowerment and Community-Based Protection Responses in Lokurunyang

Intersecting Injustices: The links between social norms, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and violence against women and girls

Social Norms Diagnostic Tool: Sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence

Uprooting our beliefs: Examining social norms contributing to violence against women and girls, including child marriage

Marriage Decision-Making: A family affair – Insight into marriage decision-making processes and social norms around child marriage in Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan