This project responds to the need to address a global learning crisis in which many children do not reach expected standards, even when attending school.
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and IDRC launched the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) to improve policies and practices that will strengthen national education systems within GPE partner countries.
In Niger, 76.3% of girls marry before the age of 18 and 57% have already started their reproductive life.
The overall objective of this project is to promote the uptake of research findings from the cohort of projects “Combatting sexual and gender-based violence and improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in West Africa”.
This project aims to empower adolescents to reduce the extent of child marriage in Niger. This includes research to understand the norms and practices for child marriage and their links to adolescent reproductive health and related rights.
Focusing on reducing the gender gap, the project aims to strengthen analytical capacities in economics in Francophone Africa.
This project aims to strengthen transformative leadership capacities in West Africa to encourage improved institutional and government use of health research and evidence in decision-making.
This project aims to document the impact of trade between member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union on their economic development, the economic situation of women, and the dynamics of relationships between men and women with
This project aims to analyze the gender dividend in West Africa. The gender dividend is the increase in national production per head attributable to more equality between women and men in the labour market.
High numbers of women and adolescent girls continue to die in Niger and Benin while giving birth. The challenge is how to address the problem.