Reading Cards:

• 3.1a) Reading Cards_Level 1
• 3.1a) Reading Cards Level 2
• 3.1a) Reading Cards Level 3
• 3.1a) Reading Cards Level 4
• 3.1a) Reading Cards Level 5
• 3.1b) Reading Cards for Older Learners

Numeracy Cards:

• 3.1c) Numeracy cards 1-21
• 3.1d) Financial Literacy Cards

Teacher Guides:

• 3.2a) Primary Teacher Catch-Up Guide
• 3.2b) Secondary English Teacher Catch-Up Guide
• 3.2c) Secondary Mathematics Teacher Catch-Up Guide

Community Guide:

• 3.4) Catch-Up Community Learning Champion’s Guide

School Head’s Guide:

• School Head’s Guide

These resources were developed in line with the catch-up programme’s Implementation Framework, Plan for Teacher Development and Support, and Orientation and Support for School Heads.

The Digital Access Programme (DAP) in Indonesia is designed to support digital inclusion in the country, including in the education sector. It aims to promote the development, validation, and roll-out of innovative and inclusive models of basic connectivity, digital skills, and locally relevant digital content and services for underserved communities. These priorities have become particularly relevant with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted the widening digital divide in Indonesia, as schools have increasingly adapted to online ways of learning.

The main objective of this study is to provide in-depth research, analytical support, and recommendations to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (MoECRT) and other key partners on the state of remote learning, connectivity, digital literacy, and local digital capacity in the country, in order to build digital inclusion across Indonesia’s regions. This study has two key interrelated components: Component A, which focuses on supporting MoECRT to develop a remote learning and digital skills strategy; and Component B, which is a review of DAP pilot projects involving community-based connectivity in two remote locations. Insights from the analysis of the national-level framework and strategies for remote learning conducted for this study can be applied to initiatives adopted by sub-national governments and the communities. Likewise, the good practices and lessons learned from the DAP pilot projects can also be used to inform policies at national and sub-national level.

The general objective of this study is to explore the feasibility of producing RUTF and/or RUSF in Zambia. The main specific objectives for Milestone 1, the results of which this report describes, are to assess the market dynamics of RUTF and RUSF in Zambia, estimate costs of local production, assess current and potential demand in Zambia and the region, and recommend on overall feasibility of local production.

In agreement with FCDO, this study phase focuses on lipid based RUTF and RUSF in sachets used for treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition (SAM/MAM) of children from six months of age, as per the treatment guidelines of Zambia and the relevant national and international regulations and standards.

The study consisted of document review, a stakeholder mapping, key informant interviews (30 interviews, involving 40 people), estimation of demand, and cost comparison. Data collection took place between July and October 2021.

WASH intersects with all SDGs – this publication is part of an IDS Working Paper series that looks at the intersection of sanitation and other fields.

This paper explores access to water, sanitation, and health in pastoral communities in northern Tanzania.

It argues that the concept of gender, used on its own, is not enough to understand the complexities of sanitation, hygiene, water, and health. It explores pastoralists’ views and perspectives on what is ‘clean’, ‘safe’, and ‘healthy’, and their need to access water and create sanitary arrangements that work for them, given the absence of state provision of modern water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure.

Although Tanzania is committed to enhancing its citizens’ access to WASH services, pastoral sanitation and hygiene tend to be overlooked and little attention is paid to complex ways in which access to ‘clean’ water and ‘adequate sanitation’ is structured in these communities. This paper offers an intersectional analysis of water and sanitation needs, showing how structural discrimination in the form of a lack of appropriate infrastructure, a range of sociocultural norms and values, and individual stratifiers interact to influence the sanitation and health needs of pastoralist men, women, boys, and girls.

WASH intersects with all SDGs – this publication is part of an IDS Working Paper series that looks at the intersection of sanitation and other fields.

This paper explores the relationship between accessible sanitation and disability-inclusive employment in Bangladesh and Nigeria.

Both countries have sanitation and hygiene challenges as well as disability-inclusive employment challenges, but the existing evidence on the intersection of these issues that is focused on Nigeria and Bangladesh is extremely limited. Building on the literature where this complex issue is addressed, this paper presents the findings of a qualitative pilot study undertaken in Nigeria and Bangladesh. It focuses on the need for toilets at work that are easy for people with disabilities to use in poor countries.

These are sometimes called accessible toilets. Accessible sanitation is not regarded as a challenge that must be addressed by people with disabilities themselves, but as a challenge that must be addressed by many people working together – including governments, employers, and the community.

WASH intersects with all SDGs – this publication is part of an IDS Working Paper series that looks at the intersection of sanitation and other fields.

Millions of people around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities, undermining progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 that calls for adequate and equitable sanitation for all.

Efforts to improve sanitation outcomes have been rapidly accelerated in the past decade alongside an expansion of different financial incentives or subsidies to promote access to services and motivate sanitation behaviour. In parallel, social protection has become part and parcel of development policy, with many low- and middle-income countries now offering some form of cash transfers to those most vulnerable. Comprehensive interventions that couple financial transfers with complementary support such as behaviour change communication, training, or coaching have also grown increasingly popular.

Despite similarities between water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) subsidy schemes and social protection interventions, these policy areas have largely developed in silos and limited cross-sectoral learning has taken place. This paper begins to fill this knowledge gap by assessing the potential for comprehensive social protection in addressing sanitation outcomes and drawing out policy implications for the social protection and WASH communities. It does so by focusing on a social protection programme in the context of extreme poverty in rural Haiti.

The five broad findings of the report are explained in the executive summary, while the full report provides more detail on the study.

These experiences of poverty, vulnerability, life-cycle changes and crisis are consistently gendered experiences, with women and girls over-represented among those living in poverty globally, and difference in poverty largest when care and domestic responsibilities usually assigned to women are at their peak. For example, women in the 24-34 age group 25% more likely to be in poverty,  and female headed households are staggeringly almost 50% more likely to be in extreme poverty than male headed households. COVID-19 has compounded this disadvantage, with feminized employed sectors likely to be the hardest hit during recessions, whilst critical services that respond to gendered needs, experiences and disproportionate care burdens all severely constrained – from GBV response services, to SRHR, to childcare. However, increasingly, we are seeing that social protection can contribute to a range of gender equality outcomes, as well as delivering different gendered results depending on design, implementation choices and context.

But what does the evidence say? What do we know about the impacts of social protection on gendered outcomes relating to education outcomes such as access to schools and learning? What about SRHR outcomes and maternal health – or nutrition? Do we see evidence for impacts on violence against children, gender-based violence, abuse and neglect – and do these differ for girls, boys, women and men? What do we know about the potential impacts of social protection on women’s economic empowerment?

This report provides a concise summary of the findings of a rapid evidence assessment, capturing the recent evidence on whether and how social protection programmes in low and middle-income countries can contribute to gender equality. Critically, the paper summarises evidence with a lifecycle perspective, from infancy through to adulthood. You will find the full report in the drop-down menu, which focuses on evidence relating to social protection and gender organised into four key pillars: (1) Education and Learning; (2) Health & Nutrition; (3) Child Protection & GBV and (4) Economic Empowerment. Readers also have the option to download ‘mini’ papers extracting the findings for each pillar.

The objective of this work was to review the complementary activities of the cash transfer programme using a gender approach and to formulate recommendations on how to structure these activities so that they better meet the needs of women and young girls.

The report follows an initial review of the core cash transfer module, which analysed the various risks and vulnerabilities that women and girls face in the context of Burundi, and which assessed the extent to which the cash transfer programme addressed these.

The purpose of this technical support is to assess the extent to which the cash plus programme is gender-responsive, and to provide recommendations for strategically advancing cash plus activities to achieve better results for girls and women in the project coverage areas.

This report focuses on the analysis of ‘gender’ indicators as part of the activities of the MERANKABANDI project. In particular, the study examined the extent to which the MERANKABANDI project was formulated according to a gender approach aimed at equality and equity. This study is based on an analysis of the context in Burundi, the different risks and vulnerabilities that affect women and girls, it identifies the challenges associated with the activities from a gender perspective, and proposes recommendations for the effective inclusion of gender in the implementation of the project activities.