and social costs of child marriage with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children Investment … Education Global Practice at the World Bank on the role of law to end child marriage. The discussions took place within the … school children. In 2022, the Empowering Women by Balancing the Law (EWBL) initiative of the Legal Vice Presidency of the …

on conflict, young men and gender. War and violence have devastated societies and economies throughout Africa with young … if gender norms may increase the risk of renewed conflict. Specific objectives of the research in Burundi were to examine … how poor and excluded youth are faring and coping in the country's post-conflict environment; how gender dynamics are …

experts knows which programs give children’s development the best boost and how to implement them. The World Bank is committed … impact of a deworming campaign on young children whose older siblings and neighbors had received the deworming medication …. The evaluation indicates that having fewer worms in their communities gave these younger children a boost, most likely …

very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health … gender gaps in most developmental outcomes. As such, the interest is in examining also whether migration-induced resource …-household allocation of resources and risk has also shown that gender differences in the relative burden of risk may be important and that …

-poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education and gender equality, reducing infant and child mortality by two …

Somalia's history of conflict reveals an intriguing paradox--namely, many of the factors that drive armed conflict have … conflict--used to divide Somalis, fuel endemic clashes over resources and power, used to mobilize militia, and make broad … conflict mediation, clan-based customary law serves as the basis for negotiated settlements, and clan-based blood …

Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) in middle-income countries is one of today's major development challenges. It … report outlines the extent of the issue, mapping patterns of violence and conflict in middle-income countries. Drawing on a …

marginalized groups) through building their capacity to manage local conflict. Although the project induces conflict through its … manage local conflict. They discuss the interdependencies of two major analytical realms-routines of inter …-group collaboration, and sources of countervailing power-and their relation to local conflict processes and outcomes. "--World Bank web …