on an index of female agency and women's sexual and fertility preferences. Gender-targeted aid has a further positive … impact on women's sexual and fertility preferences, and more tentatively on an index focusing on gender-based violence …. However, the positive impact of gender-targeted aid disappears in patrilineal communities, and men's attitudes towards female …

borderland regions, considering that protracted armed conflict, chronic poverty, humanitarian emergencies, state failure, and … to combine efforts to reduce opium cultivation with a wider set of rural development strategies aimed at tackling poverty …, promoting gender equality, and strengthening environmental protection. The second intervention is a largescale opium …

Social transfers, a non-contributory form of social protection, present a great potential to tackle poverty and … distracted public resources (domestic and foreign) away from deeper causes of poverty and marginalization, doing a disservice to …

partners feature heavily in the shortlist. The questions also reflect the mainstreaming of gender perspectives into a wide … range of development areas, helping to cement the view that gender should be considered central to future development …