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Objectives: Experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with adverse health and psychosocial outcomes for women. However, rigorous economic evaluations of interventions targeting IPV prevention are rare. This paper analyses the cost-effectiveness of Unite for a Better Life (UBL), a gender-transformative intervention designed to prevent IPV and HIV risk behaviours among men, women and […]

IFPRI is excited to announce that IFPRI’s Director for Africa, Jemimah Njuki has been chosen as one of 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2021. Read More

The theme for International Women’s Day 2021 (March 8) is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.” As leaders in gender research, we invite you to review IFPRI’s work at the intersection of gender equality and the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified existing inequalities around the world, and gender is no exception: […]

This paper discusses the feasibility of applying a near-surface remote sensing approach in the index insurance component of the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative in Ethiopia. Specifically, we test a prototype for using smartphone images of insured fields (or ‘picture-based insurance’) to monitor crops and manage basis risk in R4 insurance policies. We find that the […]