What do we know about what works to increase routine vaccination coverage?

Mark Engelbert 28 April 2020 blog  
World Immunisation Week 2020 has arrived, and vaccinations are on a lot of people’s minds at the moment, with everyone wondering when/if a vaccine against COVID-19 will be available.

How to improve the performance of community health workers

Paul Thissen 21 April 2020 blog  
In many interventions to improve health outcomes, community health workers (CHWs) play a pivotal role. We've recently written about two such types of interventions: efforts to improve sanitation practices and campaigns to increase vaccination rates

What works to improve vaccination rates in low- and middle-income countries?

Paul Thissen 14 April 2020 blog  
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are sickened from diseases from which they could have been protected if they had been vaccinated. In some low-income countries, less than half of children receive even the most widely-distributed vaccines, like the one for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. So what strategies are effective at raising vaccination rates in low- and middle-income countries?

Phone surveys in developing countries need an abundance of caution

Subha Mani, Bidisha Barooah 09 April 2020 blog  
Subha Mani and Bidisha Barooah write about the need for researchers to exercise an abundance of caution before conducting phone surveys to collect data during this global pandemic. In this blog, they discuss some of the risks that survey respondents might face and offer suggestions on how researchers could mitigate them.

How to get people to wash their hands

Paul Thissen 26 March 2020 blog  
If you've been following international news recently, you've likely been inundated with the message: ‘Wash your hands!’ But not everyone is tuned in to public health messages, nor is such information always effectively communicated to vulnerable communities.

Access is not the same as use: tackling behavioural barriers to the use of new resources

Charlotte Lane 22 March 2020 blog  
On World Water Day, 3ie’s Charlotte Lane provides an overview of the Indian government’s ongoing efforts to provide access to clean water and adequate sanitation and makes a stroeg case for an equal effort to address the behavioral barriers to the use of these new resources.

Empowering women through National Rural Livelihoods Mission

Ritwik Sarkar, Zeba Siddiqui 08 March 2020 blog  
Neelima Devi*, a 35-year-old Self Help Group (SHG) member, aspires to start an eatery with her husband in their village. She was one the many women we had met during our field visits to Jharkhand and Maharashtra in 2019.

Empowering women through Self-Help Groups: Evidence of effectiveness, questions of scale

Thomas de Hoop, Stuti Tripathi 08 March 2020 blog  
Since the 1980s, India has invested significantly in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and other women’s groups to improve gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Vocational training helps women find better employment

Paul Thissen 05 March 2020 blog  

Women face countless extra hurdles in the working world. They earn less than men, are more likely to be unemployed, are over-represented in vulnerable employment situations, and have extra challenges when starting their own businesses, according to the United Nations.

How do electricity access interventions affect social outcomes? A forthcoming systematic review.

Ari Perdana, Douglas Glandon, Nick Moore, Birte Snilstveit 24 February 2020 blog  
In 2017, around 89 per cent of the global population, predominantly based in high-income countries, were fortunate enough to have access to a reliable source of electricity and were able to go about their personal and professional lives without the risk of a power cut, let alone the prospect of having no electricity access at all.