GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub

Lead Research Organisation: University of Oxford
Department Name: Social Policy and Intervention

Abstract

In thirty years' time there will be half a billion adolescents in Africa. Like youth everywhere, they possess huge potential to thrive. But more than half are trapped in cycles of poor nutrition, poverty, low education, violence and unemployment. They also have the world's highest rates of early fertility, with adverse long-term outcomes for adolescent parents and their children. Such inter-generational disadvantage creates risks not only in the region but also to global stability.

The SDGs and African Union's Agenda 2063 challenge us to take a radical new approach. The UK's Global Challenges Research Fund provides a unique opportunity to do this. The Accelerating Advantage Hub will find the combinations of services with the greatest positive impacts for Africa's adolescents and their children. We need to move beyond services focused on single outcomes, towards 'super-accelerator' impacts across multiple SDGs of health, education, violence prevention, gender equality and economic stability. With our government partners we will test combination services - for example of cash transfers, malaria prophylaxis, parenting programs, business skills and violence prevention - to identify the leanest and most effective policy packages.

The Hub has been planned with African governments and international agencies including the UN Development Program, African Union, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation. They have told us that 'evidence as usual' is not enough. When we make a personal investment, like buying a computer, we want to know not only whether it is the most efficient, but also whether it is good value for money and whether we will like to use it. Governments need the same information about services: their effectiveness, their cost-effectiveness, whether they can be delivered through existing health, education and welfare systems, and whether they will be accepted by service providers and by adolescents. The Hub will conduct large-scale studies and use existing data in Angola, Cote D'Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe. All projects will include cost-effectiveness to assist budget decisions. In short, we will provide African policy-makers with the evidence they need and want to do the best for adolescents.

The Hub will also train and support frontline workers to improve services for adolescents across Africa. We will turn evidence into training modules, freely accessible manuals and support materials. We will deliver practitioner training in 34 African countries by working with NGO partners selected for wide regional coverage, for example Paediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa, the International Rescue Committee, Clowns without Borders and the International AIDS Alliance. Skills-building for young researchers in Africa and the UK is built into the Hub's work. We will support 45 promising young academics and dedicated African policymakers to focus their careers on improving the lives of adolescents and their children.

The Hub's work is planned with adolescents themselves. Too many services have failed because they do not appeal to teenagers' aspirations and immediate goals. The Hub will work directly with adolescent advisory groups in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa to co-develop approaches that are not only effective, but also meaningful and fun for those who will use them.

We aim to reach 20 million adolescents and their children with effective combinations of services to meet their needs. Between our direct countries of research and our NGO partners, the Hub will actively engage with policymakers, practitioners and adolescents across East, West, Southern and Central Africa and including fragile and war-torn states. We have a common goal: to transform the potential of Africa's adolescents into a thriving future for the continent.

Planned Impact

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS HUB, AND HOW?

20 MILLION ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN IN AFRICA, TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL THROUGH EFFECTIVE, SCALED-UP SERVICES. The Hub will feed evidence of effective combination services directly into national and regional policies, capitalising on political will to invest in Africa's emerging workforce and constituency. Impact strategies include two researchers in UNDP and the African Union, policy briefs and high-level meetings building on existing strong networks and advisory roles. In countries with major projects (Lesotho, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia) advisors will include senior government, multilateral agencies and donors (e.g. Dr Ntuli Kapologwe, Ministry of Health Tanzania, Dr Alhaji Kamara, Ministry of Education, Science & Technology Sierra Leone, Thabani Buthelezi, National Dept Social Development South Africa). Through evidence co-creation with African governments, we will maximise uptake of findings into national policies with population-level impact.

AFRICAN POLICYMAKERS, THROUGH PROVIDING THE EVIDENCE THEY ARE ASKING FOR. The Hub responds to clear requests from African policy-makers. As they start to operationalise the Sustainable Development Goals at country-level, with globally-shrinking aid resources, governments want to know two things. First, what combinations of services will impact the greatest number of their priority SDGs? Second, what are their most cost-effective options? We will provide such evidence from Angola, Cote D'Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe. Governments and adolescents will be directly involved in selecting the combinations of services to test. Finance civil servants will be invited to join our training program and co-author cost-effectiveness analyses, thus sharing capacity and building research engagement. The Hub will partner with UNICEF, WHO, the Global Fund and the NEPAD Agency of the African Union to deliver capacity-sharing webinars and workshops for national governments on super-accelerator evidence.

PRACTITIONERS, NGOS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES DELIVERING SERVICES TO ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN IN 34 COUNTRIES, THROUGH FREE, ACCESSIBLE TOOLS AND TRAINING. We will turn research findings directly into manuals and training toolkits for effective combination services. We will work directly with our NGO partners Paediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa, International AIDS Alliance, Clowns Without Borders and International Rescue Committee and UN partners to deliver training modules within their existing networks in 34 African countries, adding Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Libya, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda and Sudan. With partners we will build capacity for practitioners in health, education and community services, to reach over a million adolescents and their children through direct service provision. The Hub team have a strong record of turning evidence into service delivery in this way: for example one of our parenting programs available on the WHO website is being delivered to 300,000 families across 10 African countries in 2018.

ACADEMICS IN AFRICA AND THE UK, THROUGH GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE, CAPACITY-SHARING, SHARED DATASETS, TOOLS AND MEASURES. The Hub will provide innovative evidence for researchers in the fields of adolescence and early childhood, intersecting across health, education, violence prevention, economic empowerment, nutrition and employment. Academics may access freely available resources and datasets, freely available for non-profit use. Early career investigators in Africa and the UK will benefit from training, mentorship and will be supported to take leadership roles - and subsequently to lead the Hub's legacy of future research and impact.

Organisations

 
Title "Let's Slow Down" theme song 
Description "Let's Slow Down" theme song by Broadway producer Mary Mitchell Campbell. The lyrics capture what parents and caregivers may be feeling during this time of crisis, and aims to inspire them to use the parenting package to stay calm, mitigate stress, and maintain healthy environments for children - all set to an energising, uplifting tune. Includes online link to Instrumental karaoke, encouraging viewers to make and share their own cover versions: https://youtu.be/wul92VyMZKs Song: Let's Slow Down Credit: Artists Striving to End Poverty Songwriters: Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Crystal Monee Hall Sung by: Crystal Monee Hall Orchestrated by: August Eriksmoen 
Type Of Art Composition/Score 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact Numerous professional artists and amateurs have made their own cover versions, creating and uploading videos to YouTube and other platforms. Available as a free for download ringtone via Safaricom, a Kenyan mobile network operator with an estimated 33.1 million subscribers. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D9FsCbRuQg28
 
Title Accelerate Hub Website Update 
Description The Accelerate Hub website has recently undergone major updates with new content and images showcasing our work. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact *Need to access statistics of website activity- maybe can ask Ruth? 
URL https://www.acceleratehub.org/
 
Title Accelerate Hub annual meeting 2021 infopack 
Description An infopack with all the details for attendees about the Hub's virtual annual meeting. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact NA 
 
Title Accelerate Hub logo redesign 
Description The Accelerate Hub logo was redesigned to include less text and colour and be simple and to the point. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact The logo redesign has informed Accelerate Hub's style and brand guideline and is included in all marketing materials. 
URL https://www.acceleratehub.org/files/acceleratehubbrandguidepdf
 
Title Audio recordings 
Description Voiceover artists from South African and Tanzania have created 40 audio clips, including relaxation activities for parents and testimonials containing feedback from users of the ParentApp for Teens app. The audios are available in English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sestwana, Sesotho, Afrikaans and Kiswahili, with some being accompanied by animations or images. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The recordings in local languages have been released on the ParentApp for Teens app. They allow parents to engage in activities and access information on parenting in a an easily accessible format and in their language of choice. 
 
Title Breakthrough on HIV adolescence: Prof. Mark Orkin 
Description SABC Digital News, Johannesburg, SA 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact National reach, general public, estimated 38,000, SABC Digital News, Johannesburg, SA 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeXfH7MFs30&feature=youtu.be
 
Title COVID-19 Parenting Audio Pack and Public Service Announcements 
Description An audio pack with radio scripts and sketches that can be used by radio stations and by organisations working with those media outlets to disseminate the materials. Radio has a large listenership in many regions, including Sub-Saharan Africa, providing a means to access families with low literacy levels and in the absence of internet. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/13pQx9yS7i3wzhRzhumqUzIPfCmGehxmR A repertoire of public service announcement messages, each with accompanying toolkit, for broadcast via mobile loudspeakers carried on vehicles, cycles, or any mode of transport. https://www.covid19parenting.com/assets/resources/psas/PSA-English.pdf https://www.covid19parenting.com/assets/resources/psas/How-to-PSA-English.pdf 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact Some country-specific instances of utilisation and dissemination of the COVID-19 parenting messaging and materials through these audio modes include: Cameroon - In collaboration with the Society for the Promotion of Initiatives in Sustainable Development and Welfare (SOPISDEW) in Bamenda, jointly with Swiss NGO Foundation Hirondelle, our COVID-19 parenting radio scripts have been broadcast through 55 media houses across Cameroon. Daily announcements based on the resources are broadcast via CBS radio in Bamenda, with families given focused follow-up support. Jamaica - In collaboration with UNICEF Jamaica and the National Parenting Commission, the parenting tips were shared on national radio, including themed radio drama sketches. Lao PDR - UNICEF, government agencies, and NGOs in Lao PDR have reached an estimated 3.4 million people (roughly 50% of the nation's population), through combined mass media campaigns and targeted outreach to vulnerable families. The parenting tips were broadcast on 18 national TV and radio stations in Lao language, two ethnic minority languages (Hmong and Khmu) and sign language. At the same time, USBs with audio files were distributed to 5,800 villages using community loudspeakers. Malawi - Featured on Blantyre Synod Radio as a permanent guest, "Forgotten Voices" has been spreading the tips and parenting advice to over 8 million weekly listeners throughout Malawi. This approach has met a direct need in the community to challenge norms and strengthen families and will continue to impact families beyond the pandemic. The Philippines - Feature spots on community radio stations have shared the parenting tips through live demonstrations and on-air "Q&A" for parents and educators. Broadcasts make use of trained facilitators from the pre-pandemic in-person PLH programmes - targeting vulnerable families. South Africa - National radio broadcasts based on the resources have been shared in seven languages, reaching over 6.8 million people through 50 different community radio stations. Zimbabwe - 1 million people were reached with the parenting tips via national radio stations. 
 
Title COVID-19 Parenting Tips Guides for Caseworkers and Faith-Leaders 
Description User-friendly guides for caseworkers and early childhood development practitioners in the form of community worker templates giving a step-by-step progression through a structured sequence of remote support conversations with parents. These can be utilised in phone-based or online chat counselling, for parenting hotlines and online parenting support groups. https://www.covid19parenting.com/assets/resources/caseworkers/caseworkers_English.pdf A Church Leaders' Pack, developed in collaboration with World Without Orphans, links the evidence-informed parenting tips to religious text from the Christian Bible and provides church leaders with scripts for radio broadcasts along with ideas for sermons, pastoral visits and social media. https://www.covid19parenting.com/assets/resources/faithbased/church_leader_pack.pdf Muslim and other faith versions are in development. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact The guides have been endorsed and advanced in a vast range and number of professional and faith forums respectively. These purpose-designed materials equip those who are at the "front lines" of community support with resources addressing pandemic parenting challenges within the established frameworks of their recognised expertise and leadership roles. In this way, these guides at once reinforce and are reinforced by the capacities of these key community actors. Some country-specific instances of utilisation of the COVID-19 parenting tips in casework programmes and faith contexts include: India - Viva Network developed an innovative, accessible phone call-based mentoring programme for at-risk families based on the caseworker guides and COVID-19 tip sheets. Extending beyond India, this programme is reaching more than 19,000 families in 16 countries and has been made available online for use by other organisations. Malaysia - Ministry of Women, Family, and Community Development; the Malaysian Association of Social Workers; the University Putra Malaysia; Maestral International; and UNICEF adapted the resources for remote case management by social workers and social welfare practitioners to facilitate child protection in the COVID-19 context. Additionally, further collaboration by the University Putra Malaysia with the National Population and Family Planning Board, and the Malaysia Department of Islamic Development (JAKIM) is producing a faith-based package for use by religious leaders to support families in the context of COVID-19. This reference guide will integrate COVID-19 Parenting resources with messages from the Quran, Hadith or sirah to be disseminated via parenting lectures, sermons, and courses in religious communities. Mosque leaders and committee members will participate in a training workshop on ways to implement the faith-based package within their communities Montenegro - UNICEF Montenegro integrated the resources into emergency parenting hotlines The Philippines - National government and UNICEF webinars have been held for 1500+ families, as well as specialist webinars for social welfare practitioners on online capacity building, parenting skills, sexual violence prevention, and stress reduction. Thailand - UNICEF and the Ministry of Public Health have utilised these materials in developing remote training protocols for the training of parenting programme facilitators working with at-risk households. Malawi - Chuch Leaders guide used in training pastors from 37 churches with family strengthening tools, reaching over 2000 households. 
URL https://www.covid19parenting.com/assets/resources/caseworkers/caseworkers_English.pdf
 
Title COVID-19 Parenting Tips in Print, Comic Strips, Social Media formats 
Description 16 parenting tip sheets, featuring over 100 activities and prompts linked to our structured parenting modules across topics including relationship building, reinforcement of positive behaviour, learning through play, nonviolent behaviour management, consistent rules and routines, online child safety, talking about COVID-19, family budgeting, anger and stress management, and support for remote learning and education. Content is rooted in real-life day-to-day situations, with pragmatic suggestions that can be implemented without any preparation or supplementary knowledge. Parents can choose from active or calming activities and those that are audio, visual or sensorial, physical, verbal or tactile, suitable for all age groups and ability levels. Crucially, the activities do not require any particular equipment or additional resources, ensuring that they are achievable and appealing regardless of a family's material circumstances. Guidance materials feature upbeat, eye-catching visuals, in bright colours and without gender-, age-, or culture-specific identifiers to increase inclusivity, and there is content targeting families living with disabilities and in crowded conditions. Wording is positive and accessible, yet culturally adaptable, with short, rhythmic and memorable phrasing. Tip sheets are available in 114 languages and a range of print-friendly sizes, making them suitable for distribution through any route and for display at any communal, commercial, or public location. Over 20 illustrated stories from the Parenting for Lifelong Health programmes have been adapted into comic strips addressing COVID-19 parenting challenges, that are transportable across contexts and cultures. These have been further reshaped into playful and engaging animated short videos in multiple languages. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/10I_OK2sstCKXON9b-hbnf6ZobpUDtOut Social media messaging with accompanying toolkit in a #covid19parenting campaign, entirely based on the COVID-19 Parenting Tips, promoted in partnership with influencers from the sports and entertainment industries. https://www.covid19parenting.com/socialmedia# 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact The tip sheets and allied COVID-19 parenting resources have reached a minimum estimate of 136.1 million people by 154 implementing partners in 187 countries. These materials have been taken up by 28 governments, and incorporated onto the websites of the WHO, UNICEF, UN Broadband Commission, and World Childhood Foundation, among others. Tip sheets have gone into food parcels in Sri Lanka, India, Cameroon, Montenegro, the Philippines, Paraguay, South Africa, and to refugee camps via UNODC. Kenya - Department of Children's Services are using the materials in developing the country's new national parenting guidelines. Zambia - Safe Motherhood Alliance distributes the tip sheets in kits dispensed to 100 new mothers every month. Namibia - The Office of the First Lady of Namibia has championed the materials, sharing them with frontline care workers and religious leaders. Ghana - education platforms supporting the national government during the pandemic are incorporating the materials into their online curriculum. South Africa - regional government offices are sharing the tip sheets with case workers and advice offices across the country. India - UNICEF India translated the tip sheets into 10 languages, which they used these for capacity building within government systems through online training sessions focused mainly on Early Childhood Development workers and caregivers. They then trans-created these tips, along with local additions, into a monthly calendar sharing "to do" activities with parents. These materials were further developed into short videos that have been used on the Saathealth app, with each tip sheet converted into two or three 90-second videos. The tips have been further shared in approximately 70,000 WhatsApp groups, readily reaching over a million parents. The government has also shared these tips on their websites, with further targeted promotion to parents in rural villages, involving their translation into a further 10 languages. ADAPT, a project focusing on adolescents, has used the tips (with local additions) to create short videos that encourage intergenerational dialogue. Multiple webinars have been offered for health care workers, who have requested the tip sheets to print and display in their offices and surgeries. The Philippines - tip sheets in 12 national languages were uploaded to a COVID-19 website and Facebook, with printed formats distributed to community services providers in Women and Child Protection Units nationwide. Booklets on the specific parenting "modules" have been printed and distributed to families without internet access. Thailand - the Ministry of Public Health distributes the tip sheets in Health Promotion Hospitals on a national level. Sudan - the tip sheets were distributed across major Coptic Christian churches, through schools and businesses such as the DAL group, via social media on Facebook and WhatsApp, and as posters throughout Khartoum, reaching an estimated 1.9 million families. Zimbabwe - Catholic Relief Services have shared the resources via MHealth and in-person consultation as part of a national HIV-prevention initiative. Others incorporating content of the tip sheets into their initiatives include a story-based educational game platform in Nigeria, a parenting support platform in Kenya, and a magazine for refugees distributed to all refugee camps in Rwanda. 
URL https://www.covid19parenting.com/assets/tip_sheets/en/merged_1.pdf
 
Title Employment as Accelerator Podcast 
Description The podcast interrogates the level of (un)employment in Africa with a specific focus on those aged between 15 and 24 (which of course adolescents fall into), and also ways of creating jobs. What are the existing barriers to job creation? What are the links between unemployment, migration and xenophobia, especially in South Africa? What could the push and pull factors of African immigrants into South Africa and Europe be around employment? This episode's conversation explores the practical ways in which jobs can be created as an intervention for young people on the African continent. The participants draw on their experience to talk about what worked particularly well in recent interventions relating to employment. Participants: Lukas Hensel (Guanghua University), Kebba-Omar Jagne (Gambia), Iyeyinka Kusi-Mensah (Cambridge) With Chair: Elleke Boehmer 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Wider audience reached through Tweets about the episode. 
URL https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/s2e2-employment-accelerator
 
Title Graphic recordings from annual meeting: Zuhura Plummer 
Description Graphic recorder Zuhura Plummer created artwork summaries from the annual meeting 3-5 Feb and the webinar which took place on 4 Feb. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Zuhura was able to visually capture the work shared by the Hub. These artworks may be used for Hub merchandise such as cups, bags, shirts as well as for posters, presentations and wall murals. 
 
Title HUB ECR video 
Description A video about our early career researchers. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This video will be used on our website, social media, and when describing our capacity sharing work to external partners. 
URL https://vimeo.com/508336746
 
Title Hub Overview video 
Description A video that summarises the work of the Hub. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This video will be used on our website, social media, when our team presents at events, and when we're pitching for funding/collaborations/partners. 
URL https://vimeo.com/508451193
 
Title Hub TAG video 
Description This video summarises our work with TAG Western Cape and TAG Kenya. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This video will be used on our website, social media, and when describing our participatory research work to external partners. 
URL https://vimeo.com/508329928
 
Title Jikelele song TAG Western Cape 
Description This song was recorded at a camp in January 2020 and created by TAG Western Cape. 
Type Of Art Composition/Score 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact This song is used as the background track for the Accelerate Hub videos. This song was also a key featureof the play the adolescents developed. 
 
Title Narrative, intervention and motivation podcast 
Description This is a conversation about narrative as enabling, empowering, motivating, and/or inspiring in situations of intervention in African contexts. It discusses how our work on motivation and storytelling helps to ground interventions in particular contexts and helps to make the relatable and ownable for people. It looks at the kinds of stories that have worked for us in our different activities and explores further things that might be done with narrative interventions, collaboratively and collectively, knowing what we now know. Participants: Alude Mahali (HSRC South Africa), Robert Muponde (Wits), Tamsen Rochat (Wits) With Chair: Elleke Boehmer 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Wider audience reached through Tweets about the podcast. 
URL https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/s2e1-narrative-intervention-motivation
 
Title PLH-SUPER South Sudan policy brief 
Description A brief to inform policy about 'Parenting programmes as a child abuse intervention in high-conflict settings' based on research published in 2020. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact No impacts yet as the policy brief was recently published. 
URL https://www.acceleratehub.org/files/plh-supersouthsudanpolicybriefpdf
 
Title Song Written By Teenage Advisory Group Participant 
Description After our first engagement activity in the Eastern Cape, one of the participants shared a song he had written with a facilitator. In the song, he reflects on a conversation he had with other participants in the group who are young fathers. The song describes some of the challenges that young parents may face and how these challenges may affect their child. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact The song was written after our first engagement activity with our Eastern Cape TAG. In an accompanying explanatory voice note, the participants explains "This track guys, I wanted to say, the group of you guys, you brought me together with young mothers and young fathers. So I collected the story there, so I could have something to write. So that means it has something to do with me and the group, you know?" This echoes the reflections of other TAG members, who have expressed that their involvement in the adolescent advisory groups gives them the opportunity to share their stories, reflect on other participant's stories, which they can learn from. 
 
Title TAGAZINE 
Description Due to COVID-19, in person meetings with Teen Advisory Groups (TAGs) were not possible. Based on suggestions from adolescents and young people, we hosted Facebook activities in a closed group to explore and document young people's experiences during this time. The young advisors were framed as ambassadors of earth who would fill a time capsule with their experiences for alien visitors. This scenario created a conceptual distance from COVID-19 and encouraged creativity and playfulness. As time went on, the alien concept did not stay but the time capsule remained. The Facebook page became a place where young advisors of TAG could document and analyse their experiences, identify solutions to local problems, and critically assess development initiatives. This TAGAZINE is a snapshot of the TAG members' experiences and the result of everyone's collective efforts and engagements over the last two years. Despite being unable to be together in person, our virtual gatherings helped us stay together in heart and spirit. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact n/a 
URL https://www.heybaby.org.za/poster-presentations/tagazine-20202021-facebook-time-capsule
 
Title Thinking Futures 
Description This installation explores how we imagine the future, and questions of future thinking especially for adolescents across Africa. In contexts of poverty and deprivation, how do young people in Africa think about tomorrow and related ideas of hope, potential, possibility (including job possibilities), future planning? What are the characteristics of the desired future? What might be their motivations in their future planning? What are the inspirations to future thinking and planning that young people in Africa encounter, that you have met in your work? What are the current barriers to attaining this imagined future for young people and how can they be overcome? 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Wider audience reached through Twitter. 
URL https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2e3-thinking-futures/id1498437330?i=1000551584917
 
Title Understanding Adolescence in African Contexts Podcasts 
Description This series of podcasts explore the question of adolescence in African contexts. They are part of the ongoing work of the 5-year, UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund Hub, Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents, hosted by the University of Oxford and the University of Cape Town. The podcasts were recorded during a three-day workshop on the theme of Understanding Adolescence in African Contexts, hosted at Rhodes House in Oxford. These podcasts are part of the innovation strand of the Hub's work, which will co-ordinate further workshops over the coming years, seeking to challenge and extend the ideas that underpin research on adolescence in Africa. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact *Awaiting to receive stats of how many times the podcasts have been listened to 
URL https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/understanding-adolescence-african-contexts
 
Title WP2 Posters 
Description Designed posters summarising the research studies in Work Package Two. These posters were displayed at the Accelerate Hub Year one meeting 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact Approximately 27 Hub members engaged with these posters which assisted in stimulating dialogue and showcasing study highlights. 
 
Title Western Cape TAG Play and Mural Painting 
Description Our Western Cape TAG chose a play and a mural painting as some of the ways in which they wanted to participate in TAG. The play and mural reflect on their engagement as advisors in various research projects. They reflect on the challenges of first coming together with different people, getting to know them, sharing and learning from each other, growing confident and to sharing their experiences and now expertise with other young people. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact "When we participate meaningfully, it isn't taking something away because it is already within us. We are just sharing it" (Western Cape TAG participant)- This participant's reflection speaks to the fact that young people are willing to share their views and perspectives and wish to do it in a meaningful way. This re-affirms the importance of meaningfully engaging participants in research about them- they have the interest and can advise researchers. 
 
Title World Without Orphans promotion of Church Leaders Guide 
Description An animation to inform church leaders of the COVID-19 Parenting Church Leaders Guide and point them to accessing and utilising it. The animation has been created in such a way that as to encourage and enable re-recording of the voiceover and subtitles in any language. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact Not yet known 
URL https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing
 
Title Year One Meeting Infopack 
Description Accelerate Hub sent out a detailed and professionally designed info pack to all attendees prior to the Year One Meeting. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact Approximately 80 delegates received this info pack via email and expressed excitement at attending the Year One meeting because of it. 
 
Title Year One meeting SDG group photo 
Description We gathered attendees of the Year One meeting to capture a photo from above with the team holding SDG signs. 
Type Of Art Image 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact We gathered approximately 80 delegates of the Year One meeting for this group shot. We are using this photo on marketing materials, on our website and in proposals. 
URL https://www.acceleratehub.org/photos
 
Description Over 2022-23, the Accelerate Hub maintained our track-record of academic excellence, South-North partnership, and policy-responsive evidence generation. Hub research continues realising substantive research impacts, publishing over 190 peer-reviewed and high-impact papers in leading global journals since 2019 - 62 since March 2022 alone (2/3rd of which included early-career researchers). Inspired by Accelerate Hub evidence, the Journal on Psychology, Health & Medicine published a special edition on development accelerators for adolescent wellbeing in Africa in November 2022, showcasing 15 multi-disciplinary publications from our team.
One of our most notable achievements has been strengthening a cadre of early-career researchers from across the African continent, who are now not only able to undertake complex quantitative research methodologies but are also able to present findings to a wider variety of academic and non-academic policy audiences which can promote better evidence-based decision making.

To remain aligned to ODA priorities, we have increased our country-level engagement and advocacy with national academics, youth, governments, UN, and development actors. We led evidence-based collaborations in over a dozen countries across sub-Saharan Africa, including eSwatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Below are a few of our key findings in ODA countries, with examples of their interweaved research-policy partnerships in ODA contexts, especially on gender equality, economic development, and inclusive public programmes:

- Education, parenting support, and violence prevention. Education, gender, and safety has been integrated within almost all Accelerate Hub research. In 2022-23, this work expanded to examine multi-dimensional service packages to support return to school of pregnant and mothering learners. In collaboration with South Africa's Department of Basic Education, we have identified the determinants of school dropout among adolescent girls, factors that support their return to school, and cost-effective interventions - this led to a series of workshops between academics, government, and adolescent mothers led by the Department of Basic Education and the National Planning Commission in South Africa.

- Gender-transformative health interventions. Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme: Early career researchers, Dr William Rudgard and Silingasiwe Dzumbunu, led research on the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia in 2021, which demonstrated wider positive impacts on the rates of child marriage, violence, and education. Over 2022, this evidence was fed back to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (at federal and state levels), UNICEF Ethiopia, and the World Bank Ethiopia - all of whom committed to endorsing and reinforcing the programme, and expressed interests in further academic collaboration. We have also led a series of presentations on social protection and child marriage outcomes in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Nigeria.

- Age-sensitive economic strengthening. Building on 2021-22 research on economic strengthening, our team has further analysed how best to target the existing grant to support young jobseekers in Kenya and South Africa. Led by Prof Kate Orkin, the team co-created new guidance and expanded our evidence base with the governments of Kenya and South Africa - including the Presidential Employment Stimulus team in South Africa, the South African Social Security Agency, the Kenya Social Assistance Unit, and the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B). In South Africa, this led to an additional $4 billion investment into unemployment programmes. Over 2022-23, we will continue to build evidence on economic strengthening packages that integrate both violence prevention and educational components, with the aim of expanding employment grants and packages to 5 million young jobseekers

Responding to changing ODA priorities post-pandemic, we have consistently consulted with African governments, donors, international agencies, and most importantly adolescents - as highlighted in the examples above, this allows us to explore their needs, address the questions they want us to investigate, and turn research findings into adolescent-sensitive public policy and services.

From these consultations and conversations, this year we plan to responsively shape and expand our comprehensive body of evidence to: A) Develop innovative methods to cost adolescent interventions and demonstrate cost-effectiveness relative to the Sustainable Development Goals, in collaboration with WHO and UNICEF - especially in the context of constrained governmental budgets; B) Scale-up our research on safeguarding high-risk adolescent groups - including orphans, girls, people living with disabilities, and adolescent mothers - in Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Tanzania; C) Intensify and expand policy influencing to advocate for evidence-based investments into social protection, welfare, violence prevention, and healthy livelihoods across sub-Saharan Africa.
Exploitation Route Our work has generated considerable interest with external partners. Our analysis on how COVID-19 has impacted on children and adolescents has informed the Global Reference Group affected by COVID-19 and Crisis which has led to: 1) The Vatican's support for addressing pandemic-linked orphanhood; 2) High-level funding commitment from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund, launched in February 2023 dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support vulnerable children; and 3) Three spin-off research projects on orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi, Tanzania, and South Africa.

Our research has informed in-country high-level advocacy, led by Dr Susan Hillis, in South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Malawi, securing several commitments to support children orphaned due to COVID-19 and other crises. Policy impacts include the South African Parliament launching a parliamentary inquiry requesting district-level data on caregiver loss. This inquiry was followed by the Department of Social Development (DSD) call for relatives caring for orphaned children to receive top-up grants.

Evidence from randomised trials of child abuse prevention programmes in low-income countries, developed with a group of multinational agencies, have led to a set of open-source resources to help parents build more positive relationships with their children and reduce the likelihood of abusive situations arising. These resources have been translated into over 100 languages and reached 210 million families in 180 countries.

In South Africa, Dr Orkin's work on social protection with the South African government has led to the implementation of highly successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people. Since 2020, the team's ongoing advice has led to the introduction of a new cash grant for 10.5 million unemployed people, the first such basic jobseekers' allowance on the African continent.

Hub researchers and advocates continue to be invited as experts on multi-disciplinary groups and guidance committees. In 2022, we advised national and international policy makers through multi-agency groups, including the WHO Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B), and the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV-Sensitive Social Protection (IATT). Hub co-Director Prof Chris Desmond shared his expertise on cost-effectiveness analysis and innovative modelling with WHO PMNCH, to support an investment case for adolescent wellbeing which will guide both country commitments and youth-focused advocacy in the 2023 UN General Assembly. Our accelerator analyses have informed the Global AIDS response through identifying how social protection and food security can reduce HIV risk behaviours, particularly amongst vulnerable adolescent girls. Our analysis has fed into new WFP regional policy guidance, led by Dr Mona Ibrahim (https://www.wfp.org/publications/social-protection-food-security-and-nutrition-critical-enablers-reducing-hiv-related). This guidance was launched at a high-level World AIDS Day event hosted by the World Food Programme, with Prof Lucie Cluver presenting Accelerator evidence on social protection as a strategy to reduce risk in adolescent girls.

Accelerate Hub has had high-level policy engagements in South Africa, including the participation of Professors Elona Toska and Chris Desmond at an event co-hosted by UNDP and South Africa's National Planning Commission. Profs Toska and Cluver also presented evidence on interventions to support South Africa's policy on teenage pregnancy and return to school at an event with the Department for Basic Education, attended by approximately 700 participants.

Accelerate Hub evidence has informed improvements in delivery of HIV prevention programming for adolescent girls and women in Kenya, Mozambique, Cameroon, Eswatini, and Lesotho, with complementary funding from the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In December 2022, University of Cape Town was asked to support the development of a new Technical Brief for HIV prevention of Adolescent Girls, informed by Hub analysis.
Sectors Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice
URL http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cphm20/27/sup1
 
Description YEAR 4 The Accelerate Hub's analysis continues to be highly relevant and valuable as countries emerge from the COVID pandemic and look for cost-effective interventions to promote adolescent wellbeing in boys and girls across multiple life dimensions. Accelerate Hub's analysis on the impact of COVID on children has been feeding into the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis, which is co-hosted by the University of Oxford. We contributed to updated estimates of Orphanhood and Caregiver Loss Among Children and to an influential report highlighting evidence-based practices, policies, and programmes to support orphaned children, their caregivers and communities. The Global Reference Group has influenced both The Vatican's support for attention and addressing of pandemic-linked orphanhood and the World Bank's funding commitment to its 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund, launched in February 2023 and dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children made vulnerable by COVID and other crises. Our research has informed in-country high-level advocacy, led by Dr Susan Hillis, in South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Malawi, securing several commitments to support children orphaned due to COVID-19 and other crises. Policy impacts include the South African Parliament launching a parliamentary inquiry requesting district-level data on caregiver loss. This inquiry was followed by the Department of Social Development (DSD) call for relatives caring for orphaned children to receive top-up grants. Accelerate Hub researchers and advocates continue to be invited as experts on multi-disciplinary groups and guidance committees. In 2022, we advised national and international policy makers through multi-agency groups, including the WHO Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B), and the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV-Sensitive Social Protection (IATT). Hub co-Director Prof Chris Desmond shared his expertise on cost-effectiveness analysis and innovative modelling with WHO PMNCH, to support an investment case for adolescent wellbeing which will guide both country commitments and youth-focused advocacy in the 2023 UN General Assembly. Accelerate Hub has had high-level policy engagements in South Africa, including the participation of Professors Elona Toska and Chris Desmond at an event co-hosted by UNDP and South Africa's National Planning Commission. Profs Toska and Cluver also presented evidence on interventions to support South Africa's policy on teenage pregnancy and return to school at an event with the Department for Basic Education, attended by approximately 700 participants. Accelerate Hub evidence has informed improvements in delivery of HIV prevention programming for adolescent girls and women in Kenya, Mozambique, Cameroon, Eswatini, and Lesotho, with complementary funding from the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In December, University of Cape Town was asked to support the development of a new Technical Brief for HIV prevention of Adolescent Girls, informed by Hub analysis. YEAR 3 The Accelerate Hub prioritised research that responds to government needs in sub-Saharan Africa. Our team has been quick to respond and adapt to COVID-19, to shifting global and national priorities, and with a focus on fragile states and countries experiencing humanitarian crises such as South Sudan, Sudan, Nigeria, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Our research continues to support economic and social transformation to accelerate achievement for Africa's adolescents. Global Leadership: The Hub has led and participated in evidence-based interagency collaborations globally, regional knowledge exchanges, and national round tables to advocate for and facilitate collaborations for adolescent wellbeing in Africa. Our evidence has informed a wide array of decision makers and global institutions, including with the governments of 33 ODA listed countries, and this includes six African governments, and beyond ODA, partners the Vatican, and the U.S. White House. Our findings have been reflected in international policy and guidance documents, including UNICEF's Mind Matters Policy Brief on mental health in COVID-19 (Oct 2021), the CDC's Hidden Pandemic brief on COVID-19- associated orphanhood (Feb 2022), and the WHO-UNICEF Brief on HIV service delivery to young mothers (Dec 2021). Academic excellence: Our team has undertaken more than 30 accelerator analyses across sub-Saharan Africa identifying provisions that impact on more than 10 Sustainable Development Goals. The Hub has produced over 100 high-impact publications, and with evidence-based messaging reaching over 210 million families globally. A large proportion of our publications have been co-authored with global leaders in international development; e.g., we co-authored high-impact publications with UNDP HIV & Health team and the WFP Regional office in Johannesburg. The Hub's work has been included in multiple citations in policy briefs, and presented in multiple high-level forums, such as the UNAIDS 2021 High-level Meeting, the UNICEF-WHO Interagency Parenting Vision Launch, and to partners at the Child Marriage Action Network and the Global Fund. Over 2021-22, our research has received international recognition and academic innovation awards, including Professor Lucie Cluver's ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize and Leading Women in Science 2021 Award, and an MBE to Professor Lorraine Sherr for services to vulnerable children and families. Capacity sharing: Despite the severe cuts in our budget, in Year 3 the Hub has continued to invest in talent both in the U.K. and across the African continent. Early career researchers (68 in total, with over 75% female) co-authored over 75 publications, 34 of which were first authored. In Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, early career researchers led policy briefs highlighting accelerator evidence and proposing their integration into national programming. Throughout the Hub's tenure, capacity sharing workshops and activities were co-organised with APHRC to strengthen the academic capacity within and across our networks. These tackled a range of themes, including policy engagement and advocacy, mentoring, scientific writing, grants proposal writing and statistical methods training. Led by an ECR, Dr. Anne Khisa, our capacity sharing programme was tailored to suit needs of early career researchers who wish to develop into research leaders on the African continent. A notable success was the advanced statistical training led by Dr. William Rudgard for 41 researchers across the U.K. and Africa, involving Hub researchers and others across our academic partners and development partners, including from the Population Council, African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), and multiple U.K. universities (Oxford University, UCL, Imperial College, LSHTM and Cardiff University). Funding cuts from 2022 have forced a reduction in our capacity development support and an end to our funding of APHRC. However, with support from the Oak Foundation, we will continue to invest in and support early career researchers in acquiring policy and advocacy skills and through a research methods masterclass on violence prevention targeted to policymakers, governments, the UN and multi-laterals. YEAR 2 The UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub continues to have a considerable economic and social impact through the generation of high-quality research which has been utilised to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and improve the lives of vulnerable adolescents in Africa. Over the last 12 months, the Accelerate Hub has been quick to respond to the new challenges posed by the COVID 19 pandemic as illustrated by the following examples: • School closures and lockdown during the pandemic has significantly increased child protection risks. By the end of March 2020, we had brought together WHO, UNICEF, the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, USAID, the CDC, UNODC and other key agencies, to develop a set of resources for parents during the lockdown, based on the Hub's research on Parenting for Lifelong Health. These COVID-19 Playful Parenting Emergency Response resources were endorsed and shared by all global agencies. Within eight months these resources reached more than 144 million families in 204 countries with 33 Governments in more than 100 languages. The resources have gained global recognition - we were a Top 10 finalist for Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs. • Our collaboration with UNICEF Innocenti on the publication Beyond Masks is another notable success. Drawing on evidence from previous crises, including the Ebola outbreaks and economic shocks, Hub researchers helped to identify the likely societal impacts of COVID-19. Together with UNICEF and other development agencies, we have identified a possible solution for mitigating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at an individual, household and societal level. In 2020, Professor Sherr was awarded an MBE for her services to vulnerable children in Africa. • Similarly, we have been quick to respond to country level support for evidence-based solutions. Dr Kate Orkin led a team of Hub academics from Oxford and Duke Universities and the University of Cape Town to develop policy briefs to the Presidency of South Africa on the design of relief measures (cash and food transfers) to protect households from the economic impacts of lockdown. Briefs drew on systematic review of cash transfers as well as an impact assessment by the University of Cape Town. In April, the South African Government shifted its approach from food parcels to cash grants. Government temporarily increased the cash grants paid to 13 million people, including grants paid to caregivers of children, and created a new temporary grant for 5 million unemployed adults for six months. In October, government extended the unemployment grant until December. Beyond the present COVID response, we continue to generate high quality research that tackles a range of development challenges. An example of this is the work we are doing with highly vulnerable adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS. Findings from the Mzantsi Wakho and HEY BABY studies (under Work Package 2) on improving access to HIV treatment and care services for adolescent mothers and their children were presented to policy makers across Africa. This included a presentation at the Annual Summit of the Paediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa (PATA) in November 2020 which was attended by 902 healthcare providers (nurses, pharmacists, doctors, peer supporters) from across 27 countries. Our adolescent HIV research has also supported greater policy engagement with UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Office with whom we have developed an evidence and programming brief which draws on a systematic review of adolescent treatment care pathways in low- and middle-income countries and evidence from the Hub's work on longitudinal studies of 1000 adolescents living with HIV in South Africa. As part of this UNICEF collaboration, ten Hub researchers, including 8 early career researchers, co-facilitated an evidence webinar with more than a dozen cross-UN country teams in Southern and Eastern Africa. We have also been forging evidence-based policy dialogue between UK academic institutions and the new Government of Sudan. The Sudan electricity project - an Engineering and Physical Science Research Centre EPSRC spin-off grant to look at electricity as an accelerator along with the University of Khartoum and the Ministry of Energy. This has been a collaboration across lead investigators across the Department of Social Policy and the Department of Engineering and the Department of Physics (in Oxford) and Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Our governance structures have been critical in helping us to extend our policy influence. Through our Advisory Board and Strategic Advisory Group, we have established excellent networks with a range of bilateral and multilateral organisations including UNDP, AUDA-NEPAD, WHO, WFP, Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria which has given access to key policy makers and mechanism to support uptake of evidence. Over the last year we deepened these partnerships including new partnerships with the World Food Programme's, Regional Bureau for Johannesburg and with the Global Fund for TB, AIDS and Malaria which will enable us to support evidence-based adolescent HIV programming in Cameroon, Mozambique, Kenya, eSwatini and Lesotho. Finally, the Hub is helping to build research excellence in the UK and Africa which can help accelerate progress towards the SDGs, as well as positioning the UK as a thought leader in international development. The Hub is investing significantly in research and policy engagement capacity. In 2020, our partners the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) and the Oxford University led the hub capacity sharing work with researchers participating in various theme specific accelerator methodology workshops. Ten researchers were also enrolled in a virtual mentorship programme and matched with mentors. This model of mentoring supports researchers at different stages of their career trajectories and progression to be independent research leaders. YEAR 2 The UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub continues to have a considerable economic and social impact through the generation of high-quality research which has been utilised to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and improve the lives of vulnerable adolescents in Africa. Over the last 12 months, the Accelerate Hub has been quick to respond to the new challenges posed by the COVID 19 pandemic as illustrated by the following examples: • School closures and lockdown during the pandemic has significantly increased child protection risks. By the end of March 2020, we had brought together WHO, UNICEF, the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, USAID, the CDC, UNODC and other key agencies, to develop a set of resources for parents during the lockdown, based on the Hub's research on Parenting for Lifelong Health. These COVID-19 Playful Parenting Emergency Response resources were endorsed and shared by all global agencies. Within eight months these resources reached more than 144 million families in 204 countries with 33 Governments in more than 100 languages. The resources have gained global recognition - we were a Top 10 finalist for Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs. • Our collaboration with UNICEF Innocenti on the publication Beyond Masks is another notable success. Drawing on evidence from previous crises, including the Ebola outbreaks and economic shocks, Hub researchers helped to identify the likely societal impacts of COVID-19. Together with UNICEF and other development agencies, we have identified a possible solution for mitigating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at an individual, household and societal level. In 2020, Professor Sherr was awarded an MBE for her services to vulnerable children in Africa. • Similarly, we have been quick to respond to country level support for evidence-based solutions. Dr Kate Orkin led a team of Hub academics from Oxford and Duke Universities and the University of Cape Town to develop policy briefs to the Presidency of South Africa on the design of relief measures (cash and food transfers) to protect households from the economic impacts of lockdown. Briefs drew on systematic review of cash transfers as well as an impact assessment by the University of Cape Town. In April, the South African Government shifted its approach from food parcels to cash grants. Government temporarily increased the cash grants paid to 13 million people, including grants paid to caregivers of children, and created a new temporary grant for 5 million unemployed adults for six months. In October, government extended the unemployment grant until December. Beyond the present COVID response, we continue to generate high quality research that tackles a range of development challenges. An example of this is the work we are doing with highly vulnerable adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS. Findings from the Mzantsi Wakho and HEY BABY studies (under Work Package 2) on improving access to HIV treatment and care services for adolescent mothers and their children were presented to policy makers across Africa. This included a presentation at the Annual Summit of the Paediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa (PATA) in November 2020 which was attended by 902 healthcare providers (nurses, pharmacists, doctors, peer supporters) from across 27 countries. Our adolescent HIV research has also supported greater policy engagement with UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Office with whom we have developed an evidence and programming brief which draws on a systematic review of adolescent treatment care pathways in low- and middle-income countries and evidence from the Hub's work on longitudinal studies of 1000 adolescents living with HIV in South Africa. As part of this UNICEF collaboration, ten Hub researchers, including 8 early career researchers, co-facilitated an evidence webinar with more than a dozen cross-UN country teams in Southern and Eastern Africa. We have also been forging evidence-based policy dialogue between UK academic institutions and the new Government of Sudan. The Sudan electricity project - an Engineering and Physical Science Research Centre EPSRC spin-off grant to look at electricity as an accelerator along with the University of Khartoum and the Ministry of Energy. This has been a collaboration across lead investigators across the Department of Social Policy and the Department of Engineering and the Department of Physics (in Oxford) and Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Our governance structures have been critical in helping us to extend our policy influence. Through our Advisory Board and Strategic Advisory Group, we have established excellent networks with a range of bilateral and multilateral organisations including UNDP, AUDA-NEPAD, WHO, WFP, Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria which has given access to key policy makers and mechanism to support uptake of evidence. Over the last year we deepened these partnerships including new partnerships with the World Food Programme's, Regional Bureau for Johannesburg and with the Global Fund for TB, AIDS and Malaria which will enable us to support evidence-based adolescent HIV programming in Cameroon, Mozambique, Kenya, eSwatini and Lesotho. Finally, the Hub is helping to build research excellence in the UK and Africa which can help accelerate progress towards the SDGs, as well as positioning the UK as a thought leader in international development. The Hub is investing significantly in research and policy engagement capacity. In 2020, our partners the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) and the Oxford University led the hub capacity sharing work with researchers participating in various theme specific accelerator methodology workshops. Ten researchers were also enrolled in a virtual mentorship programme and matched with mentors. This model of mentoring supports researchers at different stages of their career trajectories and progression to be independent research leaders. YEAR 1 Enabling adolescents to achieve positive outcomes depends on our research having an impact on policy and programming. Stakeholder participation, policy engagement and influencing are therefore an essential part of everything we do - and involve all staff and partners from early career researchers to Hub directors and academic leads. As part of this process, we are continuously consulting with governments, donors, agencies and most importantly adolescents to explore their needs and challenges, the questions they want us to investigate, and how they can turn research findings into adolescent-sensitive public policy and services. Our consultation with stakeholders takes place through specific forums such as our Teen Advisory Group (TAG) and Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA); with district and national-level bodies and institutions in research countries; and in international forums with major global agencies concerned with welfare and economic development in DAC countries. Feedback from stakeholders so far tells us that adolescents want services designed for them and to make progress across the full range of SDGs (not just health and welfare); that governments need robust evidence about interventions that can achieve multiple outcomes for different groups (girls, boys, rural and urban teens, marginalised and disadvantaged youth) and information about how to rapidly scale-up interventions; and that agencies want smarter and more cost-effective programmes that achieve better out outcomes. We can already cite examples where our policy engagement has achieved ODA impact or progress towards impact (see below). In addition, developing these relationships ensures that we build the views, needs and expectations of stakeholders into our work, ensures they are interested in and receptive to our findings, and has helped us develop an influencing strategy to achieve greater policy impact over the next few years. Examples of ODA impact/progress or steps towards ODA impact [A] The Lancet Paper: The Hub's proof-of-concept paper was published in the high-profile and prestigious 'Lancet Child and Adolescent Health' journal, where it has been widely read and cited in nine published papers, including the Bulletin of the World Health organisation. It was also included in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2019 and the forthcoming WHO Global Status Report on Preventing Violence against Children 2020. [B] Merged sexual health and violence prevention programme: The Accelerate Hub worked with USAID, PEPFAR (The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and regional NGO, Clowns Without Borders South Africa, to merge a parenting programme to reduce violence and a sexual violence prevention programme. The programme was completed in 2019 and is currently being rolled out in Ethiopia, Botswana and South Sudan, reaching nearly 180,000 families and teens. There are now plans to roll it out to five more PEPFAR countries. The Parenting for Lifelong Health Progamme (PLH) has also been included as one of the PEPFAR-approved parenting programmes for use in Africa with 9-14 year olds, and included in the PEPFAR Country Operational Plan Guidance (p175). [C] SUPER Evaluation. The SUPER study (Scale Up of Parenting Evaluation Research) is evaluating the impact of the PLH programme in 24 countries. In South Sudan, an evaluation was completed by Accelerate Hub ECRs Roselinde Janowski and Sam Bojo, assessing the PLH's impact on 205 families. It found that the programme has reduced violence, emotional abuse, and physical violence - and enhanced positive parenting, parental monitoring and parent self-efficacy. The team used this evidence to engage with the Jubek State Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development in South Sudan, which has now included the programme in its National Work Plan. The findings were also used to persuade the USAID 4Children Programme to continue to fund this programme in Juba. [D] Partnership with the UNDP Gambia Accelerator Lab: A relationship with the UNDP Accelerator Labs, developed by Dr Mona Ibrahim, a Hub researcher seconded to the UNDP Health team, has enabled us to share research findings about, and approaches to, youth employment. The Gambia Lab have now included monitoring and evaluation of a job matching programme (GamJobs) in their youth employment programme and is increasingly using the SDG framework as an impact measure, considering progress across multiple (rather than single) goals and targets. [E] UNDP secondment: The UNDP secondment has also allowed the Accelerate Hub to build relationships with UNDP departments and to influence a range of UNDP proposals, plans and communications. These include a proposal for a road safely programme in Zambia, which did not originally include youth as a risk group even though road traffic accidents are one of the most significant killers of adolescents, and an agricultural project that originally included youth as assistants in a farming programme but was restructured to include youth groups as implementing partners. Overall, the secondment at UNDP has allowed us to identify appropriate entry points to disseminate Hub approaches, analyses, and evidence, which will be invaluable in helping us to influence UN policy and practice in future years. [G] Zifune/Thula Sana work with Department of Education in SA. The Zifune trial (Work Package 4) has well established and continuing links with the South African Department of Education. It has now secured funding for work in 30 schools on adolescent mental health. The work will draw heavily on lessons from Zifune research and has links to WHO's 'Helping Adolescents to Thrive' programme. The programme, involves teachers and learner support agents will be rolled out in 2020, and will include education clubs for learners and training for staff. [H] Youth employment Accelerators: Harambee trial policy influencing: The Harambee trial (Work Package 4) identified two cost-effective interventions to boost employment: a skills audit helps young people identify and feel confident in their own skills and a certificate summarising these which enables them to share this information with a potential employer. Both interventions have increased young unemployed people's likelihood of finding employment, and helped them find better quality jobs with higher earnings and more formal contracts. These findings have been presented to policy makers in a number of contexts. Researcher engagement with one local authority in South Africa (Cape Town) has influenced the inclusion of a similar work-seeker support package in their 2019-24 Economic Plan which, if implemented, will help up to 60,000 adolescents. Aspirations trial policy engagement: The 'Aspirations' trial is investigating the impact of unconditional cash transfers and an aspirational intervention on households in western Kenya. In November, the team conducted a 'policy engagement' roadshow with stakeholders to share early findings and find out what they wanted to know from the next stage of the research, which will focus on adolescents. The team met with key national government departments including the Social Assistance Unit, Social Protection Secretariat, and the Siaya Ministry of Education, as well as agencies such as World Bank and UNICEF. Stakeholders were particularly interested in seeing randomised trial results for vulnerable sub-groups, such as women and girls, and wanted more evidence about the 'cash plus interventions' approach. The team will return to share findings and discuss their policy implications with stakeholders later in the year. [I] Social Protection Study - Zambia: ECR David Chipanta is investigating the impact of 'social protection plus awareness-raising' on the uptake of HIV services in four districts of Luapula Province in Zambia. In February, he presented his base-line report to a meeting of more than 30 representatives from government, UN agencies, donors, adolescents and people living with HIV. Stakeholders were surprised by the number of disabled people in the study (and therefore the local population), and the evidence that participants have less access to HIV services than other groups. Government officials pledged to include follow-ups and expansion of the study in their HIV-related proposal to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS and TB. [J] Parenting for Lifelong Health Digital App: The PLH App is at the early stage of development, but has already built a major collaboration with UNICEF (South Africa and HQ) who are negotiating with Mobile Service Operators to zero-rate the app in Africa (thereby making it no data costs for users), as part of their 'Internet of Good Things'. The team is also working with a number of DAC organisations, institutions and community groups to explore their preferences and priorities and ensure the App meets user's needs. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration with the core team made up of researchers from different backgrounds such as social work, education, literature and creative writing, and mathematics. [K] • The Monitoring and Evaluation Scaling Project is a research collaboration between Hub researchers and Young1ove (a youth-focused NGO in Botswana), working with a number of implementing organisations. The study is developing its first research paper, based on desk research and comparative case studies of the monitoring and evaluation processes of selected youth organisations undertaking intervention scale-ups, selected to include gender-sensitive interventions. The paper will share best practice ideas on monitoring and evaluation and will be relevant to policy makers and funders as well as to organisations, NGOs, and governments, meeting the need identified by numerous stakeholder groups for practical information about evaluation and scale-up. Development of policy impact strategy Broad stakeholder engagement and early examples of impact, have also helped us to identify opportunities and challenges for future policy influencing. Our ambition is to influence national governments to adopt Accelerate evidence in designing policies and services for adolescents, and to influence regional and international institutions to reflect our findings in country-level guidance, programmes and funding policies. To this end, we have developed an initial influencing strategy which engages key decision makers and civil servants at national level with one-to-one meetings and multi-stakeholder events, supported by written briefings, research communications materials, and information on cost-effectiveness. This national-level engagement will build on the relationships already being developed at study/trial level as well as our analysis of opportunities to achieve impact (eg where governments or institutions have a strong focus on adolescence). We will also be targeting international institutions and processes, including the High-Level Political Forum on SDGs, presenting evidence at meetings and forums where appropriate and building relationships with high-level decision makers. Going forward, the Hub will prioritise building the policy engagement motivation and capacity of all hub researchers, developing compelling materials to communicate our findings, and actively engaging with decision makers and practitioners at national, regional and international level. In this way, we intend to ensure our Accelerate research achieves maximum impact -- and delivers real, tangible welfare benefits for African adolescents.
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare
Impact Types Societal,Economic,Policy & public services
 
Description ACCELERATE HUB DEMONSTRATON OF CONCEPT PAPER INCLUDED IN UNAIDS GLOBAL AIDS UPDATE
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact ACCELERATE HUB DEMONSTRATON OF CONCEPT PAPER INCLUDED IN UNAIDS GLOBAL AIDS UPDATE The Accelerate Hub has published a demonstration of concept paper: "Improving lives by accelerating progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals for adolescents living with HIV: a prospective cohort study" in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. The study aimed to test the UN Development Programme's proposed approach of development accelerators- provisions that lead to progress across multiple SDGs-and synergies between accelerators on achieving SDG-aligned targets in a highly vulnerable group of adolescents in South Africa. This demonstration of concept paper suggests that the UN's accelerator approach for this high-risk adolescent population has policy and potential financing usefulness. It showed that provisions are associated with progress across multiple SDG goals, even for a vulnerable group, and that combination of two or more accelerators delivers increased benefits. The paper's found that safe schools, parenting support and cash transfers were effective accelerators and that all three provisons together were associated with greater benefits across more Global Goals. We have developed and shared a policy brief, and the findings have been included in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2019.
URL https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2019/2019-global-AIDS-update
 
Description APHRC Mentorship for Early Career Researchers
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The Hub has invested significantly in research and policy engagement capacity. In 2020, our partners the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the Oxford University led the hub capacity sharing work with researchers participating in various theme specific accelerator methodology workshops. Ten researchers were also enrolled in a virtual mentorship programme and matched with mentors. This model of mentoring supports researchers at different stages of their career trajectories and progression to be independent research leaders.
 
Description Adaptation of The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis's methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in systematic reviews
URL https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2
 
Description Adolescent Girls and Young Women Evidence Update
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact An evidence update on Adolescents Girls and Young Women (AGYW) that was jointly written by the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub and the UNDP- Global Fund Partnership team. The brief was circulated to the Global Fund HQ and UNDP Gender team to improve evidence-based decision making in country offices across Africa.
URL https://www.acceleratehub.org/files/130220hubagywevidenceupdatedigitalpdf
 
Description Advised a joint policy brief by Children & AIDs and UNICEF
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact The UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub advised and contributed to a UNICEF Policy Brief titled "Prioritizing the Continuity of Services for Adolescents Living with HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic ". The evidence-driven brief pushed for the continuity of essential life-saving HIV and other vital health services is a priority for adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV), to safeguard their immediate and long-term health and well-being. Hub members at the University of Cape Town, University of KwaZulu-Nata and Paediatric AIDS Treatment for Africa (PATA) contributed evidence and recommendations to the document. The brief was then circulated across key stakeholders in the Ministry of Health, Eswatini; Ministry of Health, Kenya, and; the Ministry of Health, Uganda. The document is now published with opened access on the Children and AIDs website.
URL http://www.childrenandaids.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/Prioritizing%20the%20continuity%20of%20se...
 
Description Advising Sudanese Ministry of Health COVID-19 recovery plans
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Advisory role for the Presidency of South Africa
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Advisory role for the Presidency of South Africa
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Dr Kate Orkin led a team from Oxford and Duke Universities and the University of Cape Town commissioned to provide policy briefs to the Presidency of South Africa on design of relief measures (cash transfers and food parcels) to protect households from the economic impacts of lockdown. Briefs drew on a review of international responses (Gerard et al. 2020) and systematic reviews (including funded by DFID) of effects of cash transfers (e.g. Bastalgi et al. 2016). Alongside an impact assessment by South African academics, these informed the design of the social protection response. Notes were widely used and debated in government, including circulation to the President, Cabinet and relevant departments. In 2020, on the basis of the first note, government moved from providing food aid to providing aid in cash, by temporarily increasing grants for 20 million existing social grant beneficiaries. Government also instituted a new special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant for 7 million unemployed aged 18-59. Independent analysis estimates the two additional grants together reduced the number of people with earnings below the food poverty line by 5.5 million people (Jain et al. 2020). In June 2021, informed by the second note, the latter grant was extended to March 2022.
 
Description Building on a long-standing relationship, the Department of Social Development in South Africa are planning a PLH scale-up
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description CDC: Children - The Hidden Pandemic 2021
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf
 
Description COVID-19 Evidence-based parenting resources for rhe prevention of child abuse
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact School closures and lockdown during the pandemic has significantly increased child protection risks. By the end of March 2020, we had brought together WHO, UNICEF, the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, USAID, the CDC, UNODC and other key agencies, to develop a set of resources for parents during the lockdown, based on the Hub's research on Parenting for Lifelong Health. These COVID-19 Playful Parenting Emergency Response resources were endorsed and shared by all global agencies. Within eight months these resources reached more than 141.7 million people in 204 countries with 33 Governments in more than 100 languages.
URL https://www.covid19parenting.com/home/index.html
 
Description Collaborators in the Zimbabwe government are interested in taking on the scale-up of the PLH Teen programme.
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Consultations on UNAIDS Strategic Review
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Accelerate Hub director Prof Lucie Cluver and senior Researcher Dr Elona Toska were part of strategic consultations on the next UNAIDS Strategic Review, focusing on HIV-Sensitive Social Protection. Findings from the Mzantsi Wakho and HEY BABY studies, both conducted by joint UCT-Oxford University teams were included in the evidence for adding HIV-sensitive social protection in the next UNAIDS Strategy.
 
Description Every Woman Every Child cited The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis's work
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/
 
Description Evidence dissemination to the Paediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact Findings from UKRI GCRF Accelerate studies on improving access to HIV treatment and care services for adolescent mothers and their children were presented to policy makers across Africa. This included a presentation at the Annual Summit of the Paediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa (PATA) in November 2020 which was attended by 902 healthcare providers (nurses, pharmacists, doctors, peer supporters) from across 27 countries.
 
Description Evidence sharing with international civil society organisations
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The Hub has been engaging with a number of civil society networks over the last year to share research and promote uptake at a national level - this has included work with Coalition for Children Affected by HIV and AIDS and Girls Not Brides (who have more than 500 member organisations across the African continent working on adolescent well-being)
 
Description Evidence updates to the World Food Programme RBJ
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The Accelerate Hub has embarked on a new partnership with the World Food Programme' Regional Bureau for Johannesburg. This partnership on focuses on the wellbeing of HIV-affected adolescents including adolescent mothers and their children in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The collaboration started with a concept note on HIV, Food security and Social Protection - highlighting the gaps in the evidence base across Eastern and Southern Africa. Using the Hub's longitudinal data sets, we examined whether food security is associated with HIV infection risks (such as transactional and age-disparate sex, risk behaviours). The WFP and Accelerate Hub have also organised regular monthly evidence updates inviting colleagues across the WFP Regional offices in Eastern and Southern Africa.
 
Description Facilitated a space for DAC collaborations across Africa through the Independent Advisory Board
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Government collaboration in Montenegro has led to implementation of PLH SUPER within existing social protection, healthcare and social care systems. providing transferrable lessons.
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Government collaborations in Philippines and Thailand have led to implementation of PLH SUPER within existing social protection, healthcare and social care systems. providing transferrable lessons.
Geographic Reach Asia 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Health Policy Watch
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://healthpolicy-watch.news/every-12-seconds-a-child-loses-their-caregiver-to-covid-19-says-stud...
 
Description IDENTIFYING VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACCELERATORS WITH THE WHO AND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The Global Partnership is supporting countries to implement the WHO 'INSPIRE' framework - a recommended package of programmes to reduce violence against children. Many countries however are struggling to implement the full package due to limited resources, and have requested that Accelerate Hub identify 'accelerators' that can prevent multiple forms of violence. Working directly with WHO and the Global Partnership, Accelerate Hub merged data from two studies to provide a dataset large enough to test for impacts on incidence of even rarely-reported forms of violence such as sexual assault. Analyses found that improved parenting and food security could significantly reduce sexual abuse, crime involvement, transactional sex, physical abuse, emotional abuse and community violence victimisation. Accelerate Hub Director Lucie Cluver and ECR Will Rudgard are now coauthoring a paper with WHO and Global Partnership to share findings, which will also be directly incorporated into the Global Partnership's countrylevel support.
 
Description Influenced report recommendations and remote learning presentations
Geographic Reach Asia 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2021/07/01/learning-during-and-post-covid-19-in-nepal1#3
 
Description Invitation for Lucie Cluver, Frances Gardner and Catherine Ward to join the Parent Training Guideline Development Group led by the World Health Organization
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Invitation to present on Zifune at the Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) Intervention consultation meeting
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description J. Hutchings: Parenting for Lifelong Health: Guidelines for working remotely with parents and leaders with the PLH programmes for parents of young children and parents and teens programmes
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Joint evidence-guided programming in South Sudan
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Led by Dr Samuel Bojo, Accelerate Hub team in South Sudan worked closely with Federal Ministry of Health - with the Director General for SRH as co-investigator and the UNDP as an implementation partners. The partnership allowed for active participation in meetings at national, state and community level. With some partners in UNDP, this collaboration resulted in evidence-based programming - specifically in delivering a financial literacy training program and providing seed capital of out of school adolescents and caregivers. In addition, UNDP has sourced mobile money with services provider M-Gurush where their beneficiaries will also receive free registered SIM cards. This project brought together academics, governmental officials, UN representatives and a private company to operationalize Accelerators.
 
Description Lesotho's National Plan for Social Protection
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Merged Sexual Health and Violence Programme
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact SEXUAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMME IN THREE AFRICAN COUNTRIES - SERVICES TO BENEFIT 180,000 FAMILIES AND TEENS The Accelerate Hub worked with USAID, PEPFAR (The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and regional NGO, Clowns Without Borders South Africa, to merge two adolescent interventions: a parenting programme to reduce violence and substance use and improve family budgeting, and a sexual violence prevention programme. The programme was completed in 2019 and is currently being rolled out in Ethiopia, Botswana and South Sudan, reaching nearly 180,000 families and teens. There are plans to roll it out to five more PEPFAR countries. The Parenting for Lifelong Health Programme has also been included as one of only two PEPFAR-approved parenting programmes for use in Africa with 9-14 year olds, by the PEPFAR Country Operational Plan Guidance (p175).
URL https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PEPFAR-Fiscal-Year-2019-Country-Operational-Plan-Gu...
 
Description Mzantsi Wakho team provide feedback on a WHO information note on adolescent HIV and COVID-19
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description PARENTING SUPPORT IN A CONFLICT SETTING - SERVICES INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL WORK PLAN FOR SOUTH SUDAN
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact The SUPER study (Scale Up of Parenting Evaluation Research) is evaluating the impact of the Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) programmes in 28 countries. In South Sudan, an evaluation was completed by Accelerate Hub early career researchers (ECR) Roselinde Janowski and Sam Bojo with 205 families. It found that the programme has achieved reduced violence, emotional abuse, and physical violence; and enhanced positive parenting, parental monitoring and parent self-efficacy. The team used this evidence to engage with the South Sudan Jubek State Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development, which has now included the programme in its National Work Plan. The findings were also used to persuade the USAID 4Children Programme to continue funding this programme in Juba.
 
Description Paediatric-Adolescent Treatment Africa: PATA Policy Brief
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL http://teampata.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2020SummitReport_compressed.pdf
 
Description Parenting Module/Student Mentoring - Contribution to Online Adolescent Youth Health Policy Short Course in 2020/University of Cape Town
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact There was training session on parenting interventions with focus on adolescent wellbeing that seek to build the capacity of programme managers and implementers cowering in government and provide organisations. This will support policy discourse in their organisations. In addition, there was mentoring sessions for Masters and PhD students, who are working on health intervention programmes that the government of South Africa are focusing on, and also seeking to support policy dialogue and advocacy.
 
Description Parenting Tips Church Leaders Guide
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact This Guide and accompanying training has been catalysing culture change in churches in countries where previously church leaders talking about how to parent was a 'taboo'. It is equipping church leaders with the tools to support positive parenting. The incorporation of positive parenting messages within a framework of biblical teachings increases accessibility and acceptability of the guidance.
URL https://jliflc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/COVID_19_Parenting_Church_Leader_Pack_2020_09_03.pdf
 
Description Policy Brief - COVID-19-Associated Orphanhood in Eswatini
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/grgeswatinipolicybriefpdf
 
Description Policy Brief - COVID-19-Associated Orphanhood in Malawi
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
 
Description Policy Brief - COVID-19-Associated Orphanhood in South Africa
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact The South African Government Department of Social Development called for "relatives or siblings caring for orphaned children to come forward and apply for the top-up grant" as a response to the country-level advocacy visit and meetings. Also, they primarily used the South Africa Policy Brief for the Press Release.
URL https://spi.web.ox.ac.uk/files/countrybriefsouthafricapdf
 
Description Policy Brief - COVID-19-Associated Orphanhood in Zambia
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
 
Description Policy Brief - Development Accelerators for Improved Wellbeing of Adolescents in Zambia
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.acceleratehub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/221122-AH-Zambia-policy-brief-2022.pdf
 
Description Policy Brief: HIV Sensitive Social Protection. 'Leaving no-one behind'
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact This policy brief outlines WFP's role in ensuring social protection systems are inclusive of people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV. The research team co-drafted a policy brief outlining the role WFP can play in ensuring social protection systems are inclusive of people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV at the policy, programme and intervention levels. It highlights pieces of evidence on the impact of HIV-sensitive social protection; it identifies potential entry points, and opportunities in the development and implementation of national HIV response, poverty-reduction and development plans; and it speaks to broader social policies, programmes and schemes. It further highlights relevant partnerships to complement WFP approaches. The policy brief accessible on the WFP website and has been disseminated to 20 country offices ((Angola, Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe) in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region.
URL https://www.wfp.org/publications/leaving-no-one-behind-how-wfps-approach-hiv-sensitive-social-protec...
 
Description Presentation to the American Academy of Paediatricians
Geographic Reach North America 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Proposal for the extension, redesign and repurposing of the South Africa's Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD) for the twin goals of poverty and unemployment reduction
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact Based on the proposals, economic models and recommendations, the government implemented one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phones to minimise health risks. During the pandemic, independent evaluations demonstrate the programme kept 5.5 million people from going hungry. Since 2020, the team's ongoing advice has led to the introduction of a new cash grant for 10.5 million unemployed people, the first such basic jobseekers' allowance on the African continent.
URL https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/SRD-granttargetingjobsearch_0.pdf
 
Description RCT results influenced World Bank report recommendations on remote learning during COVID
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/factsheet/2021/04/30/notes-on-school-reopening-and-learning-recove...
 
Description SADC SRHR Managers Meeting - New evidence for adolescent sexual and reproductive health: Using research to boost programming
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The research team (including an early career researcher) was invited to deliver a session linking to the SADC's SRHR strategy, gender-based violence, education, teen pregnancy, HIV and AIDs, and social environments remain major impediments to achieving SRHR in the SADC region. With the objective of examining emerging evidence on adolescent SRHR and their impact as development accelerators across the SADC region, the team presented an evidence base to further understand and mobilize linkages between SRHR, gender-transformation and social protection. The intended outcome of this session was the recognition of the impact of accelerator interventions and services on SRH outcomes, their potential to achieve SRHR for all, and wider gains for adolescent wellbeing; to identify innovative approaches to build adolescent-sensitive evidence-based policies and provisions in SADC countries; to ensure SADC SRH leadership and multi-laterals are acquainted with regional literature, recognize the value of regional knowledge-sharing initiatives and their role in supporting inclusive SRHR policies.
 
Description South Africa: Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis Country-Level Advocacy
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact The South African Government Department of Social Development called for "relatives or siblings caring for orphaned children to come forward and apply for the top-up grant" as a response to the country-level advocacy visit and meetings. Also, they primarily used the South Africa Policy Brief for the Press Release.
URL https://www.businessinsider.co.za/covid-19-orphanhood-calculations-for-south-africa-shows-at-least-1...
 
Description Support to the UNDP Zambia $1.2 mil. Road Safety programme
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Working with UNDP colleagues and the Zambian Ministry of Local Government; an Accelerate Hub researcher Dr Mona Ibrahim (seconded to UNDP), co-wrote a road safety proposal in Zambia which included adolescents as a major target group. The $1.2 million project, which has now been funded by the UN's Road Safety Fund, aims to reduce pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in Lusaka by 66% over the next three years by improving road safety measures and boosting non-motorised road transport.
 
Description THE BMJ - COVID-19 in the UK: policy on children and schools
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022-071234
 
Description The Accelerate Hub included in the official UNDP 2020 Work Plan
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact The Accelerate Hub was included in the 2020 UNDP work plans, which allows for the strategic channeling of evidence from the Hub to the Global UNDP team. This improves the evidence base for policies and services provided by the UNDP. This also puts the Hub in a good position to push for/ advise on adolescent inclusion in UNDP programmes. A Hub research officer is seconded to the UNDP office in New York, and will be able to contribute to this work plan, and would maintain the communication flow between both organisations.
URL https://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/HIV-AIDS/UNDP%20HIV%20Health%20and%20Development%20Str...
 
Description The British Medical Journal Editorial on COVID-19-linked Orphanhood
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2838
 
Description The COVID Collaborative Commitment influenced by The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact The COVID Collaborative Commitment is supporting country-level engagement and action with high-level national stakeholders in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi and Zambia.
URL https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/12/2nd-global-covid-19-summit-c...
 
Description The Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf
 
Description The Early Childhood Development the Administration for Children & Families (ACF) U.S. influenced by The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://www.acf.hhs.gov/policy-guidance/addressing-impacts-parent-and-caregiver-loss-children
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis's work influenced funding commitment from the World Bank
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Bui...
 
Description The Oak Foundation - Blog on preventing child abuse
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://oakfnd.org/improving-life-outcomes-for-adolescents-across-africa/
 
Description The U.S. President's 2nd Global COVID-19 Summit influenced by The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://www.state.gov/second-global-covid-19-summit/
 
Description The U.S. President's Executive Order influenced by The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/04/05/memorandum-on-addressing-th...
 
Description The Vatican support for pandemic-linked orphanhood
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://thepopevideo.org/
 
Description The Vatican support for pandemic-linked orphanhood
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html
 
Description The World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund - The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
 
Description Toolkit: Remote Methods For Engaging Adolescents And Young People In Research
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
URL https://esaro.unfpa.org/en/publications/remote-methods-engaging-adolescents-and-young-people-researc...
 
Description Training of Early Career Researchers - Jan 2020
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact BUILDING CAREERS FOR EARLYCAREER AFRICAN RESEARCHERS Our 43 early-career researchers (ECRs) have completed training needs analyses; joined training workshops on statistical analyses, presentation skills, policy engagement; and are being mentored to develop their career plans and next steps. Nationalities from the African continent include Zimbabwean, South Sudanese, Sudanese, Zambian, Swazi, South African, Malawian, Ghanaian, Kenyan, Nigerian, and Cameroonian, as well as others globally - British, Brazilian, American, Spanish, Italian, Israeli, German, Canadian, Belgian, Chinese and Belarusian. One of our goals is to increase the number of PhDs for early-career researchers. This year, six of our early-career researchers have won externally-funded scholarships for their doctorates: Samuel Bojo (South Sudan), Nontokozo Langwenya (eSwatini), David Chipanta (Zambia), Kathryn Roberts (UK), Kopano Monaisa and Siyanai Zhou (Zimbabwe); and Diana Ocholla (Kenya/South Africa) is starting an MPhil this year.
 
Description Turning Point: Prioritizing youth empowerment, for a transformative post-COVID-19 recovery in the Decade of Action. Briefing note to UNDP practitioners
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description UK Minister of Science brief
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact In 2020, the Minister of Science (UK) requested a brief summary of the impacts of the Accelerate Hub's evidence. The brief highlighted the vision of the Hub, and the importance of delivering 'accelerator' policies that boost multiple sustainable development goals at the same time. The brief focused on the use of accelerators in COVID-19, their impact and their unique ability to support governmental COVID-19 response plans.
 
Description UNDP Accelerator Lab in the Gambia - Youth Employment programme
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact The Accelerate Hub continues to strengthen engagement and partnership with the UNDP Accelerator Lab. In Q4 2020, the Gambia Accelerator lab used evidence from the Hub to guide evidence-based implementation of a Youth Employment program. The program provided networks, opportunities and vocational training to negate the Gambia's high youth unemployment rate.
 
Description UNICEF Eastern and Southern African Region Office policy brief
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.unicef.org/esa/media/7151/file/UNICEF-ESA-Young-Mothers-HIV-Report-2020.pdf
 
Description UNICEF Innocenti COVID-19 Accelerated solutions for children and adolescents
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact In 2020, the Accelerate Hub build on existing links with UNICEF Innocenti to influence COVID-19 policy and practice. The Hub and UNICEF teams jointly wrote and rapidly circulated some key messages on the social impacts of COVID-19 on children and adolescents. The joint brief also highlighted some key recommendations for social protection. The brief titled "Beyond Masks: Societal impacts of COVID-19 and accelerated solutions for children and adolescents" has now been circulated as a guidance note throughout UNICEF's networks, UN country offices, the Hub's academic networks, and the Hub's advisory group. More than 40 Accelerate Hub researchers - including early career researchers from ten different countries - contributed to the joint brief. The publication is now on UNICEF Innocenti's official website.
URL https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/UNICEF-Beyond-Masks-Report-Societal-impacts-of-COVID-19....
 
Description UNICEF Policy Brief on Adolescent HIV
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.unicef.org/esa/media/10231/file/Mental-Health-Treatment-Adhrence-Policy-Brief-2021.pdf
 
Description UNICEF collaboration across Africa
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The Accelerate Hub's adolescent HIV research has also supported greater policy engagement with UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Office with whom we have developed an evidence brief which draws on a systematic review of adolescent treatment care pathways in low- and middle-income countries and evidence from the Hub's work on longitudinal studies of 1000 adolescents living with HIV in South Africa. As part of this UNICEF collaboration, ten Hub researchers, including 8 early career researchers, co-facilitated an evidence webinar with more than a dozen country teams in Southern and Eastern Africa.
URL https://www.unicef.org/esa/reports/new-evidence-and-programming
 
Description UNICEF-WHO Technical Brief
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1397775/retrieve
 
Description UNODC Policy Brief
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000380128
 
Description WHO Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: PMNCH
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description WHO Working Paper
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.adolescents2030.org/media/791847/eng_08_adol-wbeing-bkg-ppr-8-agency-and-resilience-pape...
 
Description Washington State Academy of Sciences October 26, 2022 - Mitigation of Pandemic Impacts on Children A Summary of Proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://washacad.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WSAS-Fifteenth-Annual-Symposium-Proceedings-Final.pd...
 
Description Workshop at National Department of Health - South Africa - Pediatrics' and Adolescent (0-19 years olds)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Workshop delivered by Early Career Researcher on "HIV-Sensitive Social Protection" at a World Food Programme Learning Event (6-8 May) for Regional Bureau Nairobi.
Geographic Reach Africa 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact Research team was invited to deliver a workshop on "HIV-Sensitive Social Protection" at a World Food Programme Learning Event (6-8 May) for Regional Bureau Nairobi. Early career researcher (Wittesaele) delivered the session which included: 1) covering definition of HIV-Sensitive protection; 2) what WFP's role is in this and 3) participatory activities. Objectives: for attendees to 1) gain understanding of different cash and care social protection provisions that can support young people living with HIV; 2) become confident understanding some of the evidence that supports cash + care social protection for HIV prevention and supporting adherence and 3) understanding how cash transfers and food security can support HIV presentation + adherence. Participants engaged in activities to design HIV-sensitive social protection programme into school-feeding programmes. After the session we also shared social protection policy briefs to WFP Regional Bureau Nairobi - these has been disseminated to all countries covered by the regional office: Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia. 25-30 attendees representing WFP HQ (Rome); WFP Regional Bureau of Cairo (MENA) Johannesburg (Southern Africa) and Nairobi (Central and Eastern Africa region) and country offices. Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Egypt, South Africa,
 
Description World Bank high-level policy guidance
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact Hub evidence was recently cited in two key policy guidance documents: the World Bank Group's executive summary on "How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It"; and the Rapid Social Response team's guidance document on "ADAPTIVE AND DYNAMIC SOCIAL PROTECTION (RSR-ADSP)" co-financed by the governments of UK, Norway, Sweden, Austrailia, and Denmark. This will support a shift to combined social protection packages across developing countries globally.
URL https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/39403/9781464819018.pdf?sequence=6&isAllo...
 
Description World Food Programme (WFP) Social Protection Strategy
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.wfp.org/publications/world-food-programme-strategy-support-social-protection-2021
 
Description Y20 Programme: Influenced Youth Training for G20 representation
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub team collaborated with the Misk Foundation for the Y20 delegate training and development. The Y20 program is a yearly training series that equips 20 to 40 young people with the knowledge and skills they need to represent youth interests in the UN's Annual G20 forum. In 2020, the Accelerator concept was included in their syllabus as an introductory module. The session was jointly delivered by the Hub's policy engagement officer and one of the co-directors of the program.
 
Description Accelerator solutions for Africa's adolescent girls - Grant no. 16204: Department of Social Policy and Intervention: The Accelerate Project
Amount $600,000 (USD)
Funding ID Grant no. 16204: Department of Social Policy and Intervention: The Accelerate Project 
Organisation Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 11/2021 
End 10/2023
 
Description Alien Time Capsules as a Remote Participatory Arts-Based Approach to Build Resilience and Disaster Preparedness in the COVID-19 Pandemic among Adolescents in South Africa
Amount $24,717 (CAD)
Organisation Government of Canada 
Department SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Sector Public
Country Canada
Start  
 
Description CIHR COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Social Policy and Public Health Responses
Amount $295,246 (CAD)
Organisation Canadian Institutes of Health Research 
Sector Public
Country Canada
Start  
 
Description COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response: Malaysia and Philippines
Amount € 150,000 (EUR)
Organisation Generali Group 
Department The Human Safety Net
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Italy
Start 12/2020 
End 06/2021
 
Description COVID-19 Playful Parenting: South Africa
Amount $711,317 (USD)
Organisation The Lego Group 
Department Lego Foundation
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Denmark
Start 02/2021 
End 08/2021
 
Description Cash Transfers, Aspirations Interventions and Student Learning - QR GCRF grant awarded to the University of Oxford by Research England
Amount £33,000 (GBP)
Funding ID KCD00141- LE01.01 
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2019 
End 07/2020
 
Description Cash Transfers, Growth Mindsets, and Student Learning
Amount $202,945 (USD)
Funding ID GR-1146 
Organisation Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Sector Academic/University
Country United States
Start 01/2020 
End 04/2021
 
Description Changing Policy and Practice
Amount £29,853 (GBP)
Funding ID MRF-145-0018-DG-CLUV-C0950 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Department Medical Research Foundation
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2023 
End 01/2024
 
Description Child Abuse Prevention Emergency Response
Amount £532,432 (GBP)
Organisation United Kingdom Research and Innovation 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Competitive Fund for Studies of Predictive Validity of Soft Skill Measures
Amount $20,000 (USD)
Organisation Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 08/2021 
End 10/2022
 
Description EPSRC IAA Lights Laws and Livelihoods (Sudan)
Amount £4,989 (GBP)
Funding ID EPSRC IAA 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2021 
End 03/2021
 
Description ERC Proof of Concept Call 1 - ERC-2022-POC1
Amount € 150,000 (EUR)
Funding ID PROTECT: Parenting Response with Open-source Technology to End COVID-related Trauma - Proposal number 101067451 
Organisation European Research Council (ERC) 
Sector Public
Country Belgium
Start  
 
Description Global Fund Strategic Initiative on Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW-SI) Component 1
Amount $997,280 (USD)
Funding ID FA No.: 202100741 
Organisation University of Edinburgh 
Department Global Fund
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2021 
End 12/2023
 
Description Global Parenting Initiative
Amount $16,550,056 (USD)
Organisation The Lego Group 
Department Lego Foundation
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Denmark
Start 04/2022 
End 03/2027
 
Description Global Parenting Initiative Planning Grant
Amount $100,000 (USD)
Organisation Tides Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 01/2021 
End 06/2021
 
Description Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children - COVID-19 Playful Parenting activities by Clowns Without Borders South Africa
Amount $19,987 (USD)
Organisation End Violence Against Children 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 07/2020 
End 09/2020
 
Description Human and Social Dynamics for Development 2022
Amount R1,958,500 (ZAR)
Organisation South African National Research Foundation (NRF) 
Sector Public
Country South Africa
Start  
End 12/2024
 
Description Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
Amount $299,000 (USD)
Organisation National Science Foundation (NSF) 
Sector Public
Country United States
Start  
 
Description John Fell Fund: COVID-19 Child Research Unit (CCRU)
Amount £106,494 (GBP)
Funding ID COVID-19 Child Research Unit (CCRU) Reference: 0010737 
Organisation University of Oxford 
Department John Fell Fund
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2022 
End 05/2023
 
Description Knowledge translation and implementation science in humanitarian programmes: Taking advantage of the Parenting for Lifelong Health roll­out
Amount R647,480 (ZAR)
Funding ID 118571 
Organisation South African National Research Foundation (NRF) 
Sector Public
Country South Africa
Start 01/2019 
End 11/2020
 
Description LEGO Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Grant - COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING RESPONSE, University of Oxford
Amount $274,732 (USD)
Organisation The Lego Group 
Department Lego Foundation
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Denmark
Start 05/2020 
End 10/2020
 
Description NRF: Competitive Support for Unrated Researchers
Amount R524,288 (ZAR)
Organisation South African National Research Foundation (NRF) 
Sector Public
Country South Africa
Start 01/2022 
End 12/2024
 
Description OPEN Fellowship
Amount £19,857 (GBP)
Organisation Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2021 
End 07/2022
 
Description Oak Foundation: Accelerating Violence Prevention in Africa
Amount $1,692,228 (USD)
Organisation Oak Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Global
Start 07/2020 
End 03/2024
 
Description Oak Foundation: Global Parenting Initiative
Amount £3,749,995 (GBP)
Funding ID Global Parenting Initiative - Grant Number: OFIL-21-212 
Organisation Oak Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Global
Start 01/2022 
End 12/2026
 
Description Oxford University Innovation GCRF Sustainable Impact Fund (PLH Digital; WP4)
Amount £60,968 (GBP)
Funding ID KCD00141-CV02.01 
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2019 
End 07/2020
 
Description The Furaha Adolescent Implementation Research (FAIR) Study of the Kizazi Kipya Project
Amount $199,967 (USD)
Organisation The Evaluation Fund 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Start 03/2020 
End 08/2021
 
Description Tides Foundation - TF2006-092313 - COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response, University of Oxford
Amount $100,000 (USD)
Funding ID TF2006-092313 
Organisation Tides Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United States
Start 07/2020 
End 12/2020
 
Description UCT Conference hosting grant
Amount R25,000 (ZAR)
Organisation University of Cape Town 
Sector Academic/University
Country South Africa
Start 09/2019 
End 08/2020
 
Description UCT Enabling Grant-seekers Excellence Award (2019)
Amount R100,000 (ZAR)
Organisation University of Cape Town 
Sector Academic/University
Country South Africa
Start 09/2019 
End 08/2020
 
Description UCT University Research Committee Start-Up grant (2019)
Amount R20,000 (ZAR)
Organisation University of Cape Town 
Sector Academic/University
Country South Africa
Start 09/2019 
End 08/2020
 
Description UK Research and Innovation ESRC Impact Award 2021
Amount £2,500 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Description Untransmittable: reducing HIV transmission among young women living with HIV, their partners and children in South Africa
Amount $487,453 (USD)
Funding ID K43TW011434 
Organisation National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
Department Fogarty International Centre
Sector Public
Country United States
Start 08/2019 
End 04/2024
 
Title Adapted version of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning 
Description A simple and child-friendly observational tool to document child physical and cognitive development will be used to measure development of adolescents' children across five domains: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, receptive language, expressive language, and visual reception. This involves a series of game-like tasks which have been adapted to the study context. For example the list of age-appropriate words a child should know was translated into the local language - Xhosa - and unfamiliar toys were replaced with substitutes available in the study area. 
Type Of Material Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This tool was used to to measure motor and cognitive development in children of young mothers participating in the study. During baseline data collection, over 1100 motor and cognitive development assessments were administered to children over 3 months old. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this tool will not be implemented as planned during follow-up data collection. This is continually under review and the fieldwork team are preparing arrangements to consider pursuing a hybrid model of fieldwork (limited face-face research). 
 
Title Adolescent Health & Wellbeing questionnaire 
Description The adolescent health & wellbeing questionnaire was drafted over several consultations with health practitioners and adolescents who are part of the study's Teen Advisory Group. Participants choose the site of their interviews to allow for maximum privacy. The adolescent health questionnaire includes items to assess socio-demographics, healthcare service access (i.e. transport, costs, waiting times, distance and satisfaction of health services), self-reported health outcomes, and risk factors hypothesized to influence adolescent ART adherence and sexual reproductive service uptake. Measures use (where available) tools validated in Southern Africa. The adolescent health and wellbeing self-report questionnaire is administered through tablets. The questionnaire includes teen-friendly images and language designed to engage youth. 
Type Of Material Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human 
Year Produced 2014 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This questionnaire was used to collect real-life data for the world's largest longitudinal cohort of adolescents living with HIV. This has created unique opportunity to investigate risk and resilience promoting factors among adolescents living with HIV in South Africa. The study has already had major impact on policy, UN guidelines and programming for adolescents living with HIV. The team has presented findings in nearly 60 presentations at over twenty-five conferences and workshops. Findings and research priorities have been shared with several hundred of stakeholders engaged in adolescent health and HIV/AIDS policy and programming. The study has to date resulted in 42 peer-reviewed publications in journals including the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, AIDS, Journal of the International AIDS Society and PloS One. This questionnaire is now also being used to investigate predictors of maternal healthcare use amongst high-risk adolescents in South Africa. During baseline data collection, the fieldwork team have conducted 1042 surveys with adolescent mothers aged 10-19 who have at least one child. In 2020-21, the research team planned to trace the full cohort of adolescent mother-child dyads and administer repeat measures of these surveys. Due to COVID-19, the research team has adapted the adolescent parent questionnaire to be administered over telephone interviews. An extensive literature review was conducted in order to understand key considerations and adaptations required for administered such surveys telephonically. Following this, lead investigators concluded that reducing number of items in the questionnaire was necessary to keep interviews at an acceptable length for research participants. This is also important to ensure research participant engagement and maintaining the quality of data collected. In addition to reducing the numbers items in scales and measures, the survey was split into two segment in order to be administered over two telephone interviews. Pilot testing of this adapted follow-up tool concluded in 2020 and follow-up data collection is underway involving the full baseline cohort. 
URL https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54e3c4b3e4b02a415877e452/t/5dc952e3e8290d7830fee50d/157347508...
 
Title Adolescent Parent Questionnaire 
Description In 2017-18, the Adolescent parent questionnaire was drafted over several months in consultation with health practitioners and young mothers in the Eastern Cape. The questionnaire was pre-piloted with teen mothers and fathers who are part of the study's Teen Advisory Group. The adolescent parent questionnaire measures adolescent's parenting experiences, parenting stress, pregnancy experiences and assesses their child's health, nutrition and care. Measures use (where available) tools validated in Southern Africa. After pilot testing the questionnaire was further adapted so that research assistants are able to collect information about the child's care from the child's primary caregivers (usually maternal grandmothers) instead of adolescent parents. Pilot testing revealed that adolescent parents were often not able to recall or answer questions about their children's care, nutrition and health. In the study context, childcare is often provided by the adolescent parent's caregivers or extended family to ensure that the adolescent parent can return to school or to reduce stigma of associated with being an adolescent parent. By asking the primary caregiver of these children to respond to questions about childrens' health, nutrition and care we are able to collect data that is prone to biases. The adolescent parent questionnaire is administered through tablets. Participants choose the site of their interviews to avoid unnecessary transport and associated child-minding costs. The questionnaire includes teen-friendly images and language designed to engage youth. 
Type Of Material Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact During baseline data collection, the fieldwork team have conducted 1046 adolescent-parent self-report surveys with adolescent mothers aged 10-19 who have at least one child. In 2020-21, the research team planned to trace the full cohort of adolescent mother-child dyads and administer repeat measures of these surveys. Due to COVID-19, the research team has adapted the adolescent parent questionnaire to be administered over telephone interviews. An extensive literature review was conducted in order to understand key considerations and adaptations required for administered such surveys telephonically. Following this, lead investigators concluded that reducing number of items in the questionnaire was necessary to keep interviews at an acceptable length for research participants. This is also important to ensure research participant engagement and maintaining the quality of data collected. In addition to reducing the numbers items in scales and measures, the survey was split into two segment in order to be administered over two telephone interviews. Pilot testing of this adapted follow-up tool concluded in 2020 and follow-up data collection is underway involving the full baseline cohort. 
URL http://www.youngcarers.org.za/s/HEY-BABY-Adolescent-Primary-caregiver-Questionnaire_2018_Reducedsize...
 
Title Adolescent Parent Questionnaire (Follow-up) 
Description Due to COVID-19, the research team has adapted the scales and measures in the adolescent health & well-being questionnaire and the adolescent parent questionnaire for remote data collection. Firstly, an extensive literature review was conducted in order to understand key considerations and adaptations required for administering such surveys telephonically. The review explored alternative modes for administering the follow-up survey tool, the recommended duration and respective impacts on response rates. This work found that despite the lack of literature (in South Africa with young people) remote survey methodologies are both feasible and acceptable. The research team explored mixing the survey modes to leverage the strengths of each mode, and the use of modular designs. This offered a new opportunity to implement a hybrid model involving: SMS, Computer Assisted Technology Interview and remote Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing with higher frequency data collection. Importantly, the team also wanted to ensure that following up with the cohort through telephonic interviews would not lead to a significant non response and attrition bias due to mobile phone access issues and reachability of participants. To confirm whether remote interviewing would lead to significant sampling biases the fieldwork team conducted "check-in calls" with the existing cohort of adolescent mothers to learn about: access to devices among the cohort, access to mobile data, participants frequency of interaction with the research team and contact preferences. By the end of 2020, the fieldwork team had successfully reached a representative sub-sample of the cohort and learned about when and how often participants would prefer to be contact for telephone interviews and that majority of participant have access to their own smartphone. Following this, the research team reviewed items and scales in the questionnaire to reduce length of the interview while ensuring that key outcomes of interest were maintained for repeated measures. In addition to reducing the numbers items in scales and measures, the survey was split into two parts in order to be administered over two telephone interviews. Pilot testing of this adapted follow-up tool concluded in 2020 and follow-up data collection is underway involving the full baseline cohort. 
Type Of Material Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact During baseline data collection, the fieldwork team have conducted 1046 adolescent-parent self-report surveys with adolescent mothers aged 10-19 who have at least one child. Follow-up data collection is underway to trace the full cohort of adolescent mother-child dyads and administer repeat measures of key outcomes. 
 
Title Harambee toolkit 
Description The Mind and Behaviour Research Group (MBRG), based at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, developed an implementation toolkit as a step-by-step guide for actors within government agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), donor agencies, and other institutions looking to deliver a skills certificate programme to improve earnings for young job-seekers based in a developing country setting. The handbook offers an overview of this programme developed and tested by researchers, provides a flexible framework on how to approach programme delivery, and includes practical templates to aid implementers. The toolkit is also accompanied by a cost analysis of the intervention. The intervention was tested by Carranza, Garlick, Orkin and Rankin (2020) in South Africa. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The toolkit has been positively received by members of the World Bank. The UNDP Accelerator Lab in the Gambia is planning to adopt the intervention and launch an exciting new soft skills training programme for young people who have lost their jobs because of COVID-19. Gambia have adapted the intervention to the local context and are looking to do a six-month evaluation next year. The toolkit is also acting as a framework for the development of other intervention toolkits. 
URL https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-09/Skill%20Cert%20Guide.pdf
 
Title Interventions to promote future-orientation and self-affirmation. 
Description The research team, led by Kate Orkin, developed intervention videos as part of the study 'Cash Transfers and Aspirational Videos In Kenya'. They are based on role models, both male and female, and seek to promote two psychological constructs: future-orientation and self-affirmation. The team shared these videos to enable other researchers, practitioners or policymakers to use these instruments as resources in other programmes. The placebo video, which includes all content except for the psychoactive elements, is also included. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact To date, the research team received an inquiry from the Global Poverty Research Lab (Northwestern University) who are working with the Government of the Philippines on a project testing both short documentaries and soap operas as a way to deliver an aspiration raising intervention. We shared our study resources further, and these will be included in their project design. 
URL https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/aspirations-and-goal-setting-video-intervention
 
Title Labor market questionnaires (Harambee, WP2) 
Description We have developed questionnaires that reliably measure job-search behavior, expectations and knowledge about the labor market, and employment history and outcomes. The questionnaires were carefully piloted with a relevant sample of young job-seekers to ensure contextual appropriateness and reliability of survey items. The surveys are designed to be self-administered or administered over the phone. We have written a blog post on how we designed the income expectations measures (see URL included below). We will publish the full questionnaires upon publication of the final paper. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The questionnaires were used to create the data set used the research activities in the research stream. 
URL https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/method/measuring-income-expectations-using-phone-surveys
 
Title Semi-structured interview guide for assessing relevance and acceptability of digital parenting programmes 
Description Semi-structured interview guide to gather feedback from users on the relevance, acceptability, satisfaction, and usability of an app-based intervention. Tool is being used across 10 countries to explore these themes, including barriers and facilitators to engagement with the app. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The findings are being used to re-design a digital parenting app to improve the experience for target users, being low-income vulnerable families across Africa. 
 
Title Study Instruments: Pairing Cash Transfers And Aspirational Videos in Kenya 
Description Researchers conduct a randomised evaluation to understand the economic effects of watching an aspirational video, as well as whether pairing the video with an unconditional cash transfers can improve the impact of cash. All study materials (surveys, behavioural task materials, survey code) has been made publicly available. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact To date, the research team received an inquiry from the Global Poverty Research Lab (Northwestern University) who are working with the Government of the Philippines on a project testing both short documentaries and soap operas as a way to deliver an aspiration raising intervention. We shared our study resources further, and these will be included in their project design. 
URL https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/instruments-trial-cash-transfers-and-aspirational-videos-kenya
 
Title Telling stories about our own adolescence: Methodology of Self-Immersion 
Description The methodology emerged from an icebreaker, initially developed for the Understanding Adolescence in African contexts workshop, organised by the Hub's Work Package 3 researchers and staff in Oxford in October 2019. The organisers hope that the approach may prove useful in a variety of workshop or teaching contexts, in particular for researchers working with groups of individuals different from themselves, and where negative attitudes towards adolescents may be leading to inappropriate interventions. Indeed several researchers attending the workshop have reported using the exercise themselves in their own research. We will conduct an evaluation to assess the extend to which the methodology has been adopted by researchers. Methodology. Participants were asked to answer the question in two words or in a sentence: 'What kind of adolescent were you?' 2. Following the introductions the participants divided into breakout groups around tables of 6-8 people and were asked to list as many characteristics of adolescence as they could, and to group these words into positive, negative and neutral categories. 3. Each group reported back on their discussions, which was followed by general then general discussion. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Potential for more effective understanding and engagement from research participants. The methodology is still at an early stage but we intend to evaluate it - and if it proves effective - to develop some guidance or toolkit so that others can use it. 
 
Title Template analysis script in Stata that researchers can use to account for multiple correleated outcomes in their analyses of adolescent accelerators (2021) 
Description This syntax helps researchers restructure individual-level survey data to conduct statistical analysis of multiple outcomes accounting for correlations between them using the Generalised Estimating Equations approach specified with a logit link. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The research tool has been accessed and used by hub researchers in their analyses to significantly improve statistical precision in their quantitative analyses of adolescent accelerators. 
URL https://mfr.de-1.osf.io/render?url=https://osf.io/cjtrm/?direct%26mode=render%26action=download%26mo...
 
Title Toolkit for evaluating the scale-up of parenting programmes 
Description As part of the SUPER project, focused on examining the dissemination and implementation of a suite of evidence-informed parenting programmes called Parenting for Lifelong Health, we have developed a number of new research tools, namely: - interview and focus group guides for interviewing parenting programme staff (facilitators, coaches, trainers, coordinators, managers), as well as local and international policy-makers in the field of parenting programmes; - organizational surveys to capture key organisational characteristics. In addition, the following previously drafted tools have been refined as part of the study: - facilitator and coach demographic questionnaires, used to characterise the staff involved in programme delivery; - facilitator and coach assessment tools, used to understand the quality of programme delivery. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact We made the study materials freely available online in mid-2020 on the project's Open Science Framework page, which has been used since then for sharing the study tools in publications and presentations as well as directly with programme implementing agencies and researchers interested in evaluating parenting programmes. 
URL https://osf.io/v597r/
 
Title 'Being ALHIV: What do we know about adolescents living with HIV in South Africa? 
Description Qualitative interviews with Teen Advisory Groups in the Eastern (2022) and Western Capes (2021) of South Africa. This included a total of 39 adolescents across both regions. Data collection was conducted using phone interviews and participatory remote methods. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Evidence from this dataset was included in over ten policy briefs and reports across the region, advocating for youth inclusion and participation in public policy. Several research papers, led by Dr Lesley Gittings, were also published in high-impact journals detailing pre- and post-COVID lockdown challenges that adolescents were facing. 
URL http://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.34511.10407
 
Title Data and Code for: Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills 
Description This project measures job search and hiring in Johannesburg, South Africa, between 2016 and 2017 using data from surveys of firms and workseekers, field experiments with workseekers, choice experiments with firms, and a correspondence study with job applications. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The data was used in leveraging additional government funding into youth employment programmes and unemployment grants, as detailed in the policy and programming section of this report. 
URL https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/172902/view
 
Title Ghana cross-sectional dataset 
Description The data was a combination of two datasets from two separate cross-sectional studies carried out by the first author in Kumasi, Ghana. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact A series of publications, led by early career researcher Kwabena Kusi-Mensah. 
 
Title HEY BABY Dataset 
Description The research team successfully completed baseline data collection that established the first data point of a complex two-wave dataset including 1046 adolescent parent and child dyads. Variables collected from self-report questionnaire as well as extraction from participants health records will allow the research team to identify barriers and facilitators of healthcare utilisation amongst high-risk adolescent mothers and their children. A team of early career researchers and doctoral candidates and research assistants (Rudgard, Hamed Banougnin, Saal, Langwenya, He, Anquandah, Carlqvist, Shenderovich, Wittesaele, Zhou, Wittesaele, Jochim and Roberts) have led ambitious data cleaning activities to create a complex relational dataset. The first time-point of this dataset has been prepared and now in use by early career research and lead investigators to respond to real-time policy needs that will impact on health services delivery for high-risk adolescent mothers and their children. At present this dataset will includes baseline data containing (1) self-report data from adolescent mothers about their experiences and access to health services, school, mental health, well-being, access to services and parenting experiences; (2) self-report data about children of adolescent mothers; and (3) cognitive development and motor skills assessment data for children. A smaller team are completing data cleaning for data extracted from over 1000 home-based Road To Health booklets. This requires extensive cross-checking and data validation in order to ensure self-reported data and medical records are internally consistent. This has resulted in a unique and complex dataset that will allow us to determine predictors of maternal healthcare use amongst high-risk adolescents in South Africa. Additional data points continue to be prepared and appended to this data to offer unique opportunities for longitudinal analysis. In addition to preparing this dataset, the research team has prepared user-friendly guidance protocols to maximise use-ability and accessibility of this dataset. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This dataset is the first known primary research in Africa examining predictors of adolescent maternal healthcare use. By completing preparation of this baseline dataset the research team has been able to conduct responsive data analysis to respond to real-time evidence needs. This has be particularly impactful during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
 
Title Impact des programmes de protection sociale sur le VIH et les résultats de santé des personnes vivant avec, à risque ou affectées par le VIH dans quatre districts ruraux de Zambie 
Description Social protection tackles the structural determinants of health. I collected data from August 2019 to September 2019 in four districts of Luapula province, Zambia, from households receiving the social cash transfer (SCT). The SCT is the government of Zambia's flagship social safety net program. I aimed to evaluate the impact of the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) project among people receiving SCT, including persons with disability. These data comprised 2,129 households (10,226 respondents, including 2,367 persons with disability). Using these data, I led the drafting and publication of peer-reviewed journals of three articles. In article 1, we examined the differences between women aged 16-55 with and without a disability in HIV testing in preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV context. In article 2, we investigated how the quality of life (QoL) of people living with HIV may be influenced by physical illness, anxiety, and depression. In article 3, we explored, among adolescents aged 16-24, the associations between accelerators (interventions impacting two or more sustainable development goals [SDGs]) aligned well-being indicators based on the head-of-household disability status. We found that, first, women with hearing disabilities were less likely to report testing for HIV in the PMTCT context than women with no disabilities or other types of disabilities. Second, food insecurity and disability may worsen physical illness, anxiety, depression symptoms, and other QoL domains among people living with HIV. And third, social protection was associated with favorable impacts on adolescents' SDG-aligned well-being. Adolescents living with a head-of-household with disability may have benefited less before and after the accelerators. Governments may need to implement new social protection programs and complementary interventions to close the disability gap, that is, the disadvantage that persons with disability face compared to persons without disability, among people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Early career researcher, David Chipanta, has published five high-impact papers on adolescents living with disabilities, HIV prevention and successful interventions. Evidence was shared with a range of government and UN actors in an in-person workshop (co-organised with the National AIDS Commission) in November 2022 
URL https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:165376
 
Title Kenya - Adolescent Outcomes From Cash & Aspirational Video (WP4) 
Description Baseline data collection occurred in 2016 (data was collected via surveys) for about 8,000 households in western Kenya. The video intervention and goal-setting exercise was administered in 2017. Endline data was conducted in 2018 and wrapped up in early 2019. The following information was gathered during the trial: production, yields, investment, consumption, aspirations, self-efficacy, depression, other psychological outcomes, beliefs, finances (savings, remittances, loans), assets, labour supply, education, risk and time preferences. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Dataset has not yet been made public in order to achieve notable impacts. 
 
Title Kenya Randomised Control Trial on Women's Empowerment 
Description Using a sample of almost 3000 married women from a cross randomised control trial in rural Kenya, we provide evidence on whether alleviating economic and psychological constraints on their own and in combination can improve these outcomes. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact After a significant pause in work on this paper due to the pandemic, we have resumed work on the Kenya aspirations paper and have recently begun adapting some of the analysis. Early findings have been presented at Stockholm University in December 2022. 
 
Title Kenya Teenage Advisory Group: Qualitative dataset 
Description Data collection was conducted in 2021 in partnership with a local academic group called "Centre for the Study of Adolescence". Data was collected through over-the-phone interviews with 16 adolescents and young people living in Kisumu county - ranging from 16 to 28 year olds. This new qualitative database shed some light on new emerging challenges during COVID-19 lockdowns, including concerns over school closures, economic stability, and safety. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Analysis is still underway. Preliminary findings have been shared with Kenya-based researchers at Population Council and the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) 
 
Title Mzantsi Wakho (MW) male check-in data 
Description The MW male check-in data is a follow-up of the male participants from the main three-wave longitudinal cohort Mzantsi Wakho study conducted between 2014 and 2018. The main study comprised 1046 adolescents living with HIV ever initiated on ART at any of the 52 health facilities in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Evidence from the follow-up of girls and young mothers from this cohort separately (as part of a different study) showed that there were substantial cases of death reports which motivated a separate follow-up to be done for the male participants. Using a short questionnaire, the aim of this check-in was to ascertain mortality, as well as update participants' details for potential future follow-up. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This data builds upon the primary MW dataset, allowing us to further investigate risk and resilience-promoting factors among adolescents living with HIV in South Africa. Preliminary findings from this data have been presented across local teams, and recently a related abstract on mortality estimates among adolescents living with HIV was accepted as an oral presentation at The International Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis Observational Databases (IWHOD) in March 2023 where two of our team members will be presenting in Greece. 
 
Title Mzantsi Wakho - adolescent self-report data 
Description The Mzantsi Wakho dataset includes data from a three-wave longitudinal cohort study of 1050 adolescents living with HIV and 350 uninfected adolescents. This datas was collected between 2014-2018. This dataset includes self-report survey data aiming to answer several research questions about youth health, with a focus on long-term medication, contraception, and sexual and reproductive health. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact This has created unique opportunity to investigate risk and resilience promoting factors among adolescents living with HIV in South Africa. The study has already had major impact on policy, UN guidelines and programming for adolescents living with HIV. The team has presented findings in nearly 80 presentations at over thirty conferences and workshops. Findings and research priorities have been shared with several hundred of stakeholders engaged in adolescent health and HIV/AIDS policy and programming. The study has to date resulted in 60 peer-reviewed publications in journals including the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, AIDS, Journal of the International AIDS Society and PloS One. 
 
Title PLH Digital WP4 - online survey 
Description Recently, we launched a pan-African online survey and promoted it via Facebook targeted ads. We wanted to explore the feasibility and acceptability of our future parenting app. We also wanted to know among potential users how common smartphones are, how easy it is to get internet access, people's experiences with apps and their feelings about using an app to improve relationships between caregivers and teenagers. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact As data collection is still in progress, no impact has been achieved yet. 
 
Title South Sudan adolescent survey data 
Description Adolescent and caregiver survey questionnaires including a number of SOPs, curricula and guidelines. Data collection led by early career researcher Samuel Bojo, in South Sudan in partnership with the Agency for Research and Development Initiative, Juba, South Sudan. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact A toolkit was developed on emerging findings on safe caregiver-adolescent relationships. The lead author continues to engage the South Sudanese Ministry of Health and donors in multiple meetings, to advocate for increased access to sexual and reproductive health services among adolescents in South Sudan. 
 
Title Tanzania Digital Randomised Control trial 
Description We are pilot testing of ParentApp with 560 - 600 children and adolescents (150 families) in the Mwanza and Shinyanga regions of Tanzania, to analyse the role of positive parenting in ending violence against children. The project is currently establishing the necessary infrastructure and components for successful piloting, including recruitment and training of Tanzania-based Research Assistants and community mapping for recruitment of study participants. Data collection began in 2022 and is actively underway. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The project has been exceptionally well received, with the Government of Tanzania adopting ParentApp as its national programme and significant in-country interest from USAID, WHO and UNICEF - stakeholders who are crucial to the extension of ParentApp beyond the pilot population and the implementation of study findings into impactful policy making and programmatic delivery. 
 
Title Teaching materials and template analysis syntax 
Description Publication of teaching materials and accompanying syntax for using within and between (hybrid) statistical models with multiple outcomes. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The research tool has been accessed and used by hub researchers in their analyses. 
URL https://osf.io/fwy2d/
 
Title Template analysis script in Stata that hub researchers can use to guide the design of their analyses of factors in adolescents' lives (e.g. food security) and multiple health and wellbeing outcomes related to the Sustainable Development Goals 
Description The tool is a step by step template analysis script which demonstrates to hub researchers how they can program Stata to estimate the association between factors in adolescents' lives (e.g. food security) and multiple health and wellbeing outcomes related to the Sustainable Development Goals. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The research tool has been accessed and used by hub researchers in their analyses. 
URL https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
 
Title Template analysis syntax in Stata 
Description Publication of template analysis syntax in Stata that researchers in the Hub and more broadly can use to consider correlations between multiple outcomes in accelerator analyses. 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The research tool has been accessed and used by hub researchers in their analyses. 
URL https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
 
Title Workerseeker longitudinal database (Harambee, WP2) 
Description The database contains data on employment history and status, job-search activities, self-beliefs, beliefs about the job market, skills, and demographics of 6,889 job-seeking South African youths. All respondents are part of a large randomized controlled trial (RCT) that tested the impact of counseling on one's ability and counseling on and public certification of one's ability. The data is longitudinal and contains a maximum of three entries per respondent. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact We have shared this database with our partner Harambe who will use it to conduct internal analysis. We will share the data publicly upon publication of the research paper. 
 
Description Adolescent Engagement in Kenya- Partnering with local organisation, Centre for the Study of Adolescence, in initiating a Teenage Advisory Group 
Organisation Centre for the Study of Adolescence
Country Kenya 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution One of our aims with the Teenage Advisory Group in Kenya was to test some of the methods we had developed with our South African Teenage Advisory Groups in South Africa with a younger cohort. We led the development of the programme, we trained our colleagues at the Centre for the Study of Adolescence on this programme. We co-facilitated the sessions over the weekend.
Collaborator Contribution Members of Centre for the Study of Adolescence's team recruited the participants for the first Teenage Advisory Group; they approached the schools where participants were recruited from, they spoke to the caregivers of the participants to gain their consent, they also spoke to the participants themselves to gain the consent. As our local partner, they organised accommodation, booked flights, booked the venue and were responsible for all the local logistical planning. As experienced facilitators, they helped with adapting the programme for local acceptability and understanding, they led the facilitation of the sessions as well.
Impact As an initial engagement in the partnership, the most important outcome was building a relationship which led to interest from both partners to continue the engagement. One of the initial outcomes has been identifying the possible ways in which the partnership could further be nurtured. From the participants, there was interest for follow-up sessions.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Alicedale CARE (Community Attempt Reaching Empowerment) 
Organisation Alicedale Community Attempt Reaching Empowerment (CARE)
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Distributed these resources at SASSA Paypoints
Impact 1886 families reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Alliance for a Uganda without Orphans 
Organisation Alliance for a Uganda Without Orphans (AUWO)
Country Uganda 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 2,001,300 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Angaza Charity Organization 
Organisation Angaza Charity Organization
Country Kenya 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 2760 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Aspirations Trial - Kenya 
Organisation Duke University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof. Kate Orkin is leading the work on engaging the Kenyan and South African governments and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote youth empowerment through the provision of psychological support and social protection.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration, including the University of Oxford, Duke University, University of Exeter, and Stockholm University, delivered the following joint activities: • Delivery of unconditional cash transfers and hybrid behavioural support to about 3000 married women in rural Kenya. • Analysis of results to determine the impact of hybrid behavioural support on youth empowerment. • Engagement with policymakers and civil society organisations to secure support for youth empowerment through evidence-based policies and programming.
Impact • The preliminary findings of this study have been shared with multiple government and non-governmental organisations (such as the Kenya Social Assistance Unit and the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board). In addition, we summarised our findings for advisory work commissioned by the UNDP and the Presidency of South Africa. • The research evidence on the benefits of cash grants was used to support debates between the presidency and treasury on the budget allocation for South Africa's Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD). Based directly on the research findings from this work, the South African government implemented one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phone to minimise health risks. • Since 2020, the team's ongoing advice has led to the introduction of a new cash grant for 10.5 million unemployed people, the first such basic jobseekers' allowance on the African continent. Independent evaluations suggest recipients are 25% more likely to be searching for work and more likely to be running small businesses. This is the biggest and fastest extension of a social safety net ever implemented in Africa.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Aspirations Trial - Kenya 
Organisation Stockholm University
Country Sweden 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof. Kate Orkin is leading the work on engaging the Kenyan and South African governments and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote youth empowerment through the provision of psychological support and social protection.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration, including the University of Oxford, Duke University, University of Exeter, and Stockholm University, delivered the following joint activities: • Delivery of unconditional cash transfers and hybrid behavioural support to about 3000 married women in rural Kenya. • Analysis of results to determine the impact of hybrid behavioural support on youth empowerment. • Engagement with policymakers and civil society organisations to secure support for youth empowerment through evidence-based policies and programming.
Impact • The preliminary findings of this study have been shared with multiple government and non-governmental organisations (such as the Kenya Social Assistance Unit and the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board). In addition, we summarised our findings for advisory work commissioned by the UNDP and the Presidency of South Africa. • The research evidence on the benefits of cash grants was used to support debates between the presidency and treasury on the budget allocation for South Africa's Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD). Based directly on the research findings from this work, the South African government implemented one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phone to minimise health risks. • Since 2020, the team's ongoing advice has led to the introduction of a new cash grant for 10.5 million unemployed people, the first such basic jobseekers' allowance on the African continent. Independent evaluations suggest recipients are 25% more likely to be searching for work and more likely to be running small businesses. This is the biggest and fastest extension of a social safety net ever implemented in Africa.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Aspirations Trial - Kenya 
Organisation University of Exeter
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof. Kate Orkin is leading the work on engaging the Kenyan and South African governments and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote youth empowerment through the provision of psychological support and social protection.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration, including the University of Oxford, Duke University, University of Exeter, and Stockholm University, delivered the following joint activities: • Delivery of unconditional cash transfers and hybrid behavioural support to about 3000 married women in rural Kenya. • Analysis of results to determine the impact of hybrid behavioural support on youth empowerment. • Engagement with policymakers and civil society organisations to secure support for youth empowerment through evidence-based policies and programming.
Impact • The preliminary findings of this study have been shared with multiple government and non-governmental organisations (such as the Kenya Social Assistance Unit and the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board). In addition, we summarised our findings for advisory work commissioned by the UNDP and the Presidency of South Africa. • The research evidence on the benefits of cash grants was used to support debates between the presidency and treasury on the budget allocation for South Africa's Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD). Based directly on the research findings from this work, the South African government implemented one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phone to minimise health risks. • Since 2020, the team's ongoing advice has led to the introduction of a new cash grant for 10.5 million unemployed people, the first such basic jobseekers' allowance on the African continent. Independent evaluations suggest recipients are 25% more likely to be searching for work and more likely to be running small businesses. This is the biggest and fastest extension of a social safety net ever implemented in Africa.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Aspirations Trial - Kenya 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof. Kate Orkin is leading the work on engaging the Kenyan and South African governments and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote youth empowerment through the provision of psychological support and social protection.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration, including the University of Oxford, Duke University, University of Exeter, and Stockholm University, delivered the following joint activities: • Delivery of unconditional cash transfers and hybrid behavioural support to about 3000 married women in rural Kenya. • Analysis of results to determine the impact of hybrid behavioural support on youth empowerment. • Engagement with policymakers and civil society organisations to secure support for youth empowerment through evidence-based policies and programming.
Impact • The preliminary findings of this study have been shared with multiple government and non-governmental organisations (such as the Kenya Social Assistance Unit and the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board). In addition, we summarised our findings for advisory work commissioned by the UNDP and the Presidency of South Africa. • The research evidence on the benefits of cash grants was used to support debates between the presidency and treasury on the budget allocation for South Africa's Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD). Based directly on the research findings from this work, the South African government implemented one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phone to minimise health risks. • Since 2020, the team's ongoing advice has led to the introduction of a new cash grant for 10.5 million unemployed people, the first such basic jobseekers' allowance on the African continent. Independent evaluations suggest recipients are 25% more likely to be searching for work and more likely to be running small businesses. This is the biggest and fastest extension of a social safety net ever implemented in Africa.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Association for the Protection of Women's and Children's Rights (APWCR) 
Organisation Association for the Protection of Women's and Children's Rights (APWCR)
Department Association for the Protection of Women's and Children's Rights, Cameroon
Country Cameroon 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 1007 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Bay Primary School 
Organisation Bay Primary School
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources in rhe form of printed tip sheets and posters.
Collaborator Contribution The visual aids were posted on our school's Classroom Dojo. This is a platform of communication for learners and parents.
Impact 250 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Catholic Health Commission, Lilongwe Diocese 
Organisation Archdiocese of Lilongwe Catholic Health Commission (LLCHC)
Country Malawi 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 9,000 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Catholic Relief Services (CRS) local implementing partners 
Organisation Catholic Relief Services
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Onwards distribution of our resources, including via social media messaging on m-health platform
Impact 56,594 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Catholic Relief Services - Cameroon 
Organisation Catholic Relief Services
Department Catholic Relief Services, Cameroon
Country Cameroon 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources - implementing partners received the materials via email and shared with their caseworkers during weekly meetings and disseminated to families. As a result, positive parenting services were delivered to 8,538 for children and 4,474 for adolescents between April-June.
Impact 13,156 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Catholic Relief Services - South Africa 
Organisation Catholic Relief Services
Department Catholic Relief Services, South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources - shared parenting tips through bulk text messages that were followed up by phone call and radio and TV programmes as part of our child protection services during COVID 19. Reach of phone call / radio/tv unknown.
Impact 27,635 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Catholic Relief Services - South Africa 
Organisation Catholic Relief Services
Department Catholic Relief Services, South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources - shared parenting tips through bulk text messages that were followed up by phone call and radio and TV programmes as part of our child protection services during COVID 19. Reach of phone call / radio/tv unknown.
Impact 27,635 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Catholic Relief Services - Zimbabwe 
Organisation Catholic Relief Services
Department Catholic Relief Services, Zimbawe
Country Zimbabwe 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 1,065,600 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Centre for Community Justice and Development 
Organisation Centre for Community Justice and Development
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution They work with 29 community advice offices in KwaZulu-Natal, providing legal and technical support to communities. These offices are located in police stations and magistrates' courts, and are visited by more 1,000 people per month. The organisation will share the materials with staff members (roughly 50 people).
Impact 1050 households reached with child violence prevention resources, and 50 staff trained for continuing and expanding use and dissemination.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Child Development Training and Research Center 
Organisation Child Development Training and Research Center (CDTRC)
Country Ethiopia 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Shared via telegram - to a group composed of parents from my Church with 100 members.
Impact 100 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Child Welfare South Africa 
Organisation Child Welfare South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution During the annual 16 days of Activism, Child Welfare asked for financial assistance to print 2,100 tipsheets in Afrikaans, English and isiZulu, to share with communities during community outreach.
Impact 2100 households reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Childline South Africa 
Organisation Childline South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided our COVID-19 parenting resources, including specialist guidance for caseworkers
Collaborator Contribution Utilised our resources in their service delivery and training of their staff
Impact 9807 families reached with child violence prevention advice and assistance
Start Year 2020
 
Description Christelike Maatskaplike Raad 
Organisation Christelike Maatskaplike Raad (CMR)
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution The materials were used to train 18 staff members of their Hendrina chapter in Mpumalanga. These staff members work with children in CMR's community-based care programmes. The CMR's Eastern Cape branch has additionally shared the resources with five of their branches. All branches serve roughly 8,000 members overall through their developmental and families programmes.
Impact 8,000 households reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaborating with Safer Young Lives Research Centre at University of Bedfordshire's Our Voices Programme to develop and facilitate and online workshop focused on working with youth advisory groups, aimed at academics working on adolescent health, gender and violence research. 
Organisation University of Bedfordshire
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The adolescent engagement and participation research team (also known as "TAG" team) was an invited panelist in an online interactive workshop entitled "What's it like work with and being part of youth advisory groups in the context of research focussing on adolescent health, gender and violence". The panel also included the Global Early Adolescent Study, Johns Hopkins University; and the Our Voices programme, part of the Safer Young Lives Research Centre, University of Bedfordshire.
Collaborator Contribution The partners invited and convened small teams from each academic institution to provide input on the online workshop approach, priority topics, and presentation content. The partners also advertised, facilitated attendance and participation and followed up with each institution to develop a collaborative blog to summarise the findings and results of the workshop.
Impact This is a multi collaboration with researchers from multiple institutions in the US, UK and South Africa working on adolescent health, gender and violence. The outputs were: 1. A co-developed interactive online workshop aimed at academics working on the topic that were interested in engaging with youth advisory groups. The audience was mostly UK academics. 2. A blog written by Our Voices UK, reviewed and edited by workshop collaborators / presenters.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Collaboration between University College London, the University of Cape Town and the University of Oxford 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Since inception of the project, the research team at the University of Oxford has entered into a tripartite collaboration agreement with the University of Cape Town and University College London. This collaboration continues to support a long-standing and established research collaboration between researchers at the University of Cape Town and Oxford. This joint research team actively engages and collaborates to academically conceptualise research design, support data collection activities, produce high-impact research and engage closely with local, national and international partners. This collaboration supports mixed-methods research lead by Dr Elona Toska (co-PI) and Dr Rebecca Hodes (qualitative co-Investigator) at the AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town. Co-Principal Investigators (Professor Lucie Cluver & Dr Elona Toska) also provide strategic and conceptual oversight for the team and co-Investigators at the University of Cape Town. This award contributes £247,553 to this inter-disciplinary team of researchers and project & data management capacity at the University of Cape Town (Dr Toska, Dr Hodes, Rebecca Maughan-Brown, Nontokozo Langwenya, Dr Jane Kelly, Dr Wylene Saal, Siyanai Zhou, Raylene Titus, Amanda Swartz, Diana Ocholla, Lameez Mota, Akhona Mfeketo and Marius Coqui). The research team has also entered into collaboration with Professor Lorraine Sherr at University College London.
Collaborator Contribution Firstly, the research team at the University of Cape Town and Professor Sherr have been instrumental in the development of the research design, sampling strategy and data collection tools. This supported was repeated in preparation and planning activities related to pre-COVID follow-up data collection plans for the study. This included overseeing literature reviewing and designing and testing of research tools. Dr Elona Toska has maintained oversight of baseline and follow-up data collection activities with support of Professor Cluver. Dr Rebecca Hodes has led qualitative research activities. Qualitative research took place between May and November 2018. Qualitative research focused exploring intergenerational adversity, experiences of service delivery and fatherhood. The University of Cape Town also manages partnerships with South-African based partners including PATA, University of Stellenbosch and Sr N Bungane at the University of Fort Hare. In this capacity, lead researchers at the University of Cape Town also provide skills building for early career researchers such as doctoral candidate Siyanai Zhou and Director-General Conny Nxumalo at the National Department of Social Development and post-doctoral students Dr Wylene Saal. Sadly, the research team has lost Director-General Conny Nxumalo due to her recent passing from COVID-19. Through this collaboration, University of Cape Town also provides project management to ensure smooth running of fieldwork operations and successful data collection. This has led to successful recruitment of adolescent mothers (n=1027) and children (n=1124) completing multiple data points. The research team at the University of Cape Town is also contributing to data cleaning of complex adolescent-parent and child dataset. As co-Investigator Professor Lorraine Sherr, has been highly involved since the initial phase of the project. Professor Sherr has provided her expertise to conceptualise the sampling and recruitment strategy of highly vulnerable young mothers. During early engagement, Professor Sherr also supervised literature reviews that were used to inform design of research tools and provided consultation about implementation of child cognitive development assessments. Professor Sherr has subsequently maintained active engagement with lead investigators by providing expert advice on use of child development outcome measures for follow-up data collection. Through additional co-funding awarded, Prof Sherr is supervising a post-doctoral researcher (Dr Katharina Haag) who will focus on conducting quantitative analysis using the HEY BABY Baseline dataset. Prof Sherr has contributed to three publications related to this study and has supported Principal Investigators with key policy engagement activities to ensure maximum impact of research findings. Prof Sherr has also provided supervision to doctoral-candidate Kathryn Roberts, who is conducting quantitative analysis examining mental health and child cognitive development data within the cohort. In addition, Prof Sherr has regularly contributed to review of quantitative research tools, specifically including review of measures on child development and health outcomes as well as mental health measures for adolescent mothers. Throughout baseline data collection, collaborators have provided extensive oversight on research, data collection and data management activities. In addition, researchers have provided feedback on ethical quandaries that arose during baseline data collection and challenges related to ambitiously recruiting a large sample of vulnerable adolescent mothers and their children.
Impact This tripartite collaboration has been crucial for successful inception of the study and unique opportunity to establish data collection activities sooner than planned. We are delighted to report major outputs and outcomes. Set-up and implementation of HEY BABY baseline data collection 2018-19. The research team successfully secured funding through a UNICEF-ESARO Small-Scale Funding Agreement (SSFA) with partners at UNICEF-ESARO (US$45,000) and through Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) from Research England (£187,000). These funds were awarded during completion of the Mzantsi Wakho data collection. Having secured these funds allowed us to set-up HEY BABY data collection earlier than planned. The research team took advantage of established infrastructure and a highly-trained team of local researchers to support the pilot and baseline data collection for the HEY BABY study. This involved piloting new research tools, delivering additional training to the research team about new data collection tools, developing sampling strategy and engaging with local stakeholders and partners to support recruitment efforts. Design and piloting of research tools for two rounds of data collection. The research team based at Oxford, University of Cape Town and University College London developed two additional research tools: 1) adolescent parent questionnaires and 2) adapted Mullen Scales of Early Learning tool. The adolescent parent questionnaire was piloted with adolescent mums who provided feedback on priority concerns of young mothers and framing of questions. For example, young mums felt it was important to include questions about access and quality of creches and day-care. In consultation with researchers at Stellenbosch University, the Mullen Scales of Early Learning was adapted to improve contextual relevance and feasibility of implementation. For example, items that would not be easily recognised by children in the Eastern Cape would be replaced with more appropriate objects. Recruitment of 1042 adolescent mothers and their children: Recruitment of young adolescent mothers (n=1027) and their children (n=1124): The research team developed a sampling strategy that would enable us to include adolescent mothers aged 10-19 who both engaged and did not engage in formal services. This led to the successful recruitment of 1027 adolescent mothers and 1124 of their children. Between March 2018 and July 2019, we interviewed N=1,712 adolescent girls and young women. We utilised seven parallel sampling strategies to reach adolescent girls (including mothers) and adolescents girls living with HIV (10-19 years) who were both engaged and not engaged in services, and that we reached comparison adolescent girls with matched demographic profiles. Through each sampling strategy we collected details of adolescent girls, who were then traced to their communities and interviewed in their homes. First, we included all ART-initiated adolescent girls, irrespective of whether they were engaged in care, in all district health facilities providing HIV services (n=73) between March 2014 to September 2015. This group was re-traced for follow-up interviews in 2018 with 94% retention in the study. Second, we identified all maternity obstetric units (n=9) in the health district and used case files to identify all adolescent mothers. Third, we interviewed neighbouring adolescent girls of those approached through clinic files. Fourth, secondary schools were randomly selected per municipal area (n=43) within the study's catchment area (n=43) within the study's catchment area. Fifth, we used referrals by social workers and NGO service providers to identify adolescent mothers. Sixth, we included community referrals by adolescent mothers themselves. Finally, an advisory group of adolescent mothers devised recruitment methods for especially hard-to-reach adolescent mothers. For each sampling channel, we recorded refusals and consenting adolescents. Through this methodology, research participants included in the sample will report on variable experiences of health services use/access and parenting experiences which will in turn allow the research team to conduct analysis that is both rigorous and policy-relevant. Researcher resilience during COVID-19: Since completing baseline data collection, the Oxford-UCT-UCL research team mobilised to prepare for follow-up data collection to start in April 2020. This involved the review and development of all self-report questionnaires, piloting tools and establishing operational infrastructure. The planned follow-up phase of primary data collection will trace the full adolescent parent-child dyads and collaborating with over 70 health facilities in the study's catchment area to extract data from patient files and medical records. In March 2020, face-to-face research activities were halted due to COVID-19. With leadership from lead investigators, the fieldwork team collaborated closely with research staff to adapt robust data collection methodologies by conducting literature reviews and consulting with experts. A full redesign of research activities and methods took place. Following initial training and pilot testing of new tools, the next phase of remote data collection is now underway with nearly 40% of the cohort followed up. The team has documented these methodological approaches and adaptations through several working papers, conference and webinar presentations. Data cleaning for baseline data: A team of early career researchers and doctoral candidates and research assistants (Rudgard, Hamed Banougnin, Saal, Langwenya, He, Anquandah, Carlqvist, Shenderovich, Wittesaele, Zhou, Wittesaele, Jochim and Roberts) have led ambitious data cleaning activities for complex relational data collected as part of HEY BABY baseline. The first time-point of this dataset has been prepared and now in use by early career researchers and lead investigators to respond to real-time policy needs that will impact on health services delivery for high-risk adolescent mothers and their children. At present this dataset will includes baseline data containing (1) self-report data from adolescent mothers about their experiences and access to health services, school, mental health, well-being, access to services and parenting experiences; (2) self-report data about children of adolescent mothers; and (3) cognitive development and motor skills assessment data for children. A smaller team are completing data cleaning for data extracted from over 1000 home-based Road to Health booklets. This requires extensive cross-checking and data validation in order to ensure self-reported data and medical records are internally consistent. This will build a unique and complex dataset that will allow us to determine predictors of maternal healthcare use amongst high-risk adolescents in South Africa. Additional data continuously reviewed, cleaned and appended to this dataset to offer unique opportunities for longitudinal analysis. In addition to preparing this dataset, the research team has prepared user-friendly guidance protocols to maximise useability and accessibility of this dataset. Engagement with local stakeholders: Since inception of our previous study (Mzantsi Wakho) the team has engaged closely with policy-makers and implementers at local, national and international levels. This has resulted in close collaboration with local stakeholders such as the Departments of Basic Education and Health. These collaborations have been instrumental in supporting pilot and baseline data collection activities for this project. Meetings with district hospital and healthcare workers have helped us identify key research priorities that will support service delivery that will meet the needs of young parents and their children. Additionally, collaboration with the Department of Basic Education led to meeting opportunities with Learner Support Agents and schools to support research activities and also provide input into on priority research questions regarding attendance of young mothers at schools. These collaborations as well as working closely with local NGOs has also supported recruitment activities allowing us to successfully recruit over 1000 adolescent parents and child dyads. As follow-up data collection activities get underway, onsite fieldwork managers will liaise closely with local stakeholders to facilitate next wave of data collection activities due to start in early 2020. Early dissemination and abstract submissions: Due to the concerted effort of the data cleaning team, lead investigators and early career researchers have been able to conduct preliminary analysis of HEY BABY baseline data to respond to urgent policy questions. As early as December 2019, co-PI Dr Toska and C Wittesaele presented preliminary HEY BABY baseline data analysis at the 20th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) Kigali, Rwanda. Prof Cluver presented on early findings at the Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS webinar on Adolescent Mothers affected by HIV (May 2020). At a UNICEF ESARO webinar (August 2020) lead investigators (Cluver, Toska) presented on preliminary analysis on experiences of adolescent mothers and their children. By mid-2020, Toska et al. published analysis that contributes to evidence on reproductive aspirations and contraception use among adolescent mothers living with HIV. This analysis proposes that among adolescent girls and young women living in HIV-endemic communities, reproductive aspirations and contraceptive practices closely overlap with HIV risk and infection. Authors advocate that tailored service provision must account for these reproductive aspirations and contraception use and support young women to practice dual protection. Findings from qualitative research exploring intergenerational adversity, experiences of service delivery and fatherhood have also been presented at the 2020 International AIDS Society conference and at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Science Forum 2020 event which was attended by the South African National AIDS Council's Youth Sector. Relocation of server and review of data storage & Sharing: A South African equivalent data protection legislation called the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) came into effect in July 2020. The research team are now legally and ethically obliged to demonstrate that data collected and stored complies with EU and South African data protection regulations. The UCT-Oxford data management team have completed a comprehensive review of existing data processing activities across all work packages and considered options to ensure best data protection compliance. This review involved an appraisal of data protection and data processing resources available at UCT and Oxford. This review indicated that locating data management activities at UCT would be most cost-effective and allow the team to more effectively ensure compliance with GDRP and POPIA. In the spirit of (1) data protection legislation principles, (2) promoting data sovereignty and (3) addressing North-South inequalities in research, the research team has made a principal decision to house South African data within the esteemed South African institution - UCT. Remote data collection and increased volume of data demands more sophisticated data management support. The volume of data gathered has increased beyond expectation including a greater diversity of remote data collection, management and storage tools. In addition, all office-based and fieldwork researchers have respectively adapted to remote working and this has placed additional demands for more sophisticated data management and information security measures. The review of data processing resources available at UCT indicated that the research team would be able to access bespoke and advanced technologies to better support the team's data management needs at much better value-for-money.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Collaboration between University College London, the University of Cape Town and the University of Oxford 
Organisation University of Cape Town
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Since inception of the project, the research team at the University of Oxford has entered into a tripartite collaboration agreement with the University of Cape Town and University College London. This collaboration continues to support a long-standing and established research collaboration between researchers at the University of Cape Town and Oxford. This joint research team actively engages and collaborates to academically conceptualise research design, support data collection activities, produce high-impact research and engage closely with local, national and international partners. This collaboration supports mixed-methods research lead by Dr Elona Toska (co-PI) and Dr Rebecca Hodes (qualitative co-Investigator) at the AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town. Co-Principal Investigators (Professor Lucie Cluver & Dr Elona Toska) also provide strategic and conceptual oversight for the team and co-Investigators at the University of Cape Town. This award contributes £247,553 to this inter-disciplinary team of researchers and project & data management capacity at the University of Cape Town (Dr Toska, Dr Hodes, Rebecca Maughan-Brown, Nontokozo Langwenya, Dr Jane Kelly, Dr Wylene Saal, Siyanai Zhou, Raylene Titus, Amanda Swartz, Diana Ocholla, Lameez Mota, Akhona Mfeketo and Marius Coqui). The research team has also entered into collaboration with Professor Lorraine Sherr at University College London.
Collaborator Contribution Firstly, the research team at the University of Cape Town and Professor Sherr have been instrumental in the development of the research design, sampling strategy and data collection tools. This supported was repeated in preparation and planning activities related to pre-COVID follow-up data collection plans for the study. This included overseeing literature reviewing and designing and testing of research tools. Dr Elona Toska has maintained oversight of baseline and follow-up data collection activities with support of Professor Cluver. Dr Rebecca Hodes has led qualitative research activities. Qualitative research took place between May and November 2018. Qualitative research focused exploring intergenerational adversity, experiences of service delivery and fatherhood. The University of Cape Town also manages partnerships with South-African based partners including PATA, University of Stellenbosch and Sr N Bungane at the University of Fort Hare. In this capacity, lead researchers at the University of Cape Town also provide skills building for early career researchers such as doctoral candidate Siyanai Zhou and Director-General Conny Nxumalo at the National Department of Social Development and post-doctoral students Dr Wylene Saal. Sadly, the research team has lost Director-General Conny Nxumalo due to her recent passing from COVID-19. Through this collaboration, University of Cape Town also provides project management to ensure smooth running of fieldwork operations and successful data collection. This has led to successful recruitment of adolescent mothers (n=1027) and children (n=1124) completing multiple data points. The research team at the University of Cape Town is also contributing to data cleaning of complex adolescent-parent and child dataset. As co-Investigator Professor Lorraine Sherr, has been highly involved since the initial phase of the project. Professor Sherr has provided her expertise to conceptualise the sampling and recruitment strategy of highly vulnerable young mothers. During early engagement, Professor Sherr also supervised literature reviews that were used to inform design of research tools and provided consultation about implementation of child cognitive development assessments. Professor Sherr has subsequently maintained active engagement with lead investigators by providing expert advice on use of child development outcome measures for follow-up data collection. Through additional co-funding awarded, Prof Sherr is supervising a post-doctoral researcher (Dr Katharina Haag) who will focus on conducting quantitative analysis using the HEY BABY Baseline dataset. Prof Sherr has contributed to three publications related to this study and has supported Principal Investigators with key policy engagement activities to ensure maximum impact of research findings. Prof Sherr has also provided supervision to doctoral-candidate Kathryn Roberts, who is conducting quantitative analysis examining mental health and child cognitive development data within the cohort. In addition, Prof Sherr has regularly contributed to review of quantitative research tools, specifically including review of measures on child development and health outcomes as well as mental health measures for adolescent mothers. Throughout baseline data collection, collaborators have provided extensive oversight on research, data collection and data management activities. In addition, researchers have provided feedback on ethical quandaries that arose during baseline data collection and challenges related to ambitiously recruiting a large sample of vulnerable adolescent mothers and their children.
Impact This tripartite collaboration has been crucial for successful inception of the study and unique opportunity to establish data collection activities sooner than planned. We are delighted to report major outputs and outcomes. Set-up and implementation of HEY BABY baseline data collection 2018-19. The research team successfully secured funding through a UNICEF-ESARO Small-Scale Funding Agreement (SSFA) with partners at UNICEF-ESARO (US$45,000) and through Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) from Research England (£187,000). These funds were awarded during completion of the Mzantsi Wakho data collection. Having secured these funds allowed us to set-up HEY BABY data collection earlier than planned. The research team took advantage of established infrastructure and a highly-trained team of local researchers to support the pilot and baseline data collection for the HEY BABY study. This involved piloting new research tools, delivering additional training to the research team about new data collection tools, developing sampling strategy and engaging with local stakeholders and partners to support recruitment efforts. Design and piloting of research tools for two rounds of data collection. The research team based at Oxford, University of Cape Town and University College London developed two additional research tools: 1) adolescent parent questionnaires and 2) adapted Mullen Scales of Early Learning tool. The adolescent parent questionnaire was piloted with adolescent mums who provided feedback on priority concerns of young mothers and framing of questions. For example, young mums felt it was important to include questions about access and quality of creches and day-care. In consultation with researchers at Stellenbosch University, the Mullen Scales of Early Learning was adapted to improve contextual relevance and feasibility of implementation. For example, items that would not be easily recognised by children in the Eastern Cape would be replaced with more appropriate objects. Recruitment of 1042 adolescent mothers and their children: Recruitment of young adolescent mothers (n=1027) and their children (n=1124): The research team developed a sampling strategy that would enable us to include adolescent mothers aged 10-19 who both engaged and did not engage in formal services. This led to the successful recruitment of 1027 adolescent mothers and 1124 of their children. Between March 2018 and July 2019, we interviewed N=1,712 adolescent girls and young women. We utilised seven parallel sampling strategies to reach adolescent girls (including mothers) and adolescents girls living with HIV (10-19 years) who were both engaged and not engaged in services, and that we reached comparison adolescent girls with matched demographic profiles. Through each sampling strategy we collected details of adolescent girls, who were then traced to their communities and interviewed in their homes. First, we included all ART-initiated adolescent girls, irrespective of whether they were engaged in care, in all district health facilities providing HIV services (n=73) between March 2014 to September 2015. This group was re-traced for follow-up interviews in 2018 with 94% retention in the study. Second, we identified all maternity obstetric units (n=9) in the health district and used case files to identify all adolescent mothers. Third, we interviewed neighbouring adolescent girls of those approached through clinic files. Fourth, secondary schools were randomly selected per municipal area (n=43) within the study's catchment area (n=43) within the study's catchment area. Fifth, we used referrals by social workers and NGO service providers to identify adolescent mothers. Sixth, we included community referrals by adolescent mothers themselves. Finally, an advisory group of adolescent mothers devised recruitment methods for especially hard-to-reach adolescent mothers. For each sampling channel, we recorded refusals and consenting adolescents. Through this methodology, research participants included in the sample will report on variable experiences of health services use/access and parenting experiences which will in turn allow the research team to conduct analysis that is both rigorous and policy-relevant. Researcher resilience during COVID-19: Since completing baseline data collection, the Oxford-UCT-UCL research team mobilised to prepare for follow-up data collection to start in April 2020. This involved the review and development of all self-report questionnaires, piloting tools and establishing operational infrastructure. The planned follow-up phase of primary data collection will trace the full adolescent parent-child dyads and collaborating with over 70 health facilities in the study's catchment area to extract data from patient files and medical records. In March 2020, face-to-face research activities were halted due to COVID-19. With leadership from lead investigators, the fieldwork team collaborated closely with research staff to adapt robust data collection methodologies by conducting literature reviews and consulting with experts. A full redesign of research activities and methods took place. Following initial training and pilot testing of new tools, the next phase of remote data collection is now underway with nearly 40% of the cohort followed up. The team has documented these methodological approaches and adaptations through several working papers, conference and webinar presentations. Data cleaning for baseline data: A team of early career researchers and doctoral candidates and research assistants (Rudgard, Hamed Banougnin, Saal, Langwenya, He, Anquandah, Carlqvist, Shenderovich, Wittesaele, Zhou, Wittesaele, Jochim and Roberts) have led ambitious data cleaning activities for complex relational data collected as part of HEY BABY baseline. The first time-point of this dataset has been prepared and now in use by early career researchers and lead investigators to respond to real-time policy needs that will impact on health services delivery for high-risk adolescent mothers and their children. At present this dataset will includes baseline data containing (1) self-report data from adolescent mothers about their experiences and access to health services, school, mental health, well-being, access to services and parenting experiences; (2) self-report data about children of adolescent mothers; and (3) cognitive development and motor skills assessment data for children. A smaller team are completing data cleaning for data extracted from over 1000 home-based Road to Health booklets. This requires extensive cross-checking and data validation in order to ensure self-reported data and medical records are internally consistent. This will build a unique and complex dataset that will allow us to determine predictors of maternal healthcare use amongst high-risk adolescents in South Africa. Additional data continuously reviewed, cleaned and appended to this dataset to offer unique opportunities for longitudinal analysis. In addition to preparing this dataset, the research team has prepared user-friendly guidance protocols to maximise useability and accessibility of this dataset. Engagement with local stakeholders: Since inception of our previous study (Mzantsi Wakho) the team has engaged closely with policy-makers and implementers at local, national and international levels. This has resulted in close collaboration with local stakeholders such as the Departments of Basic Education and Health. These collaborations have been instrumental in supporting pilot and baseline data collection activities for this project. Meetings with district hospital and healthcare workers have helped us identify key research priorities that will support service delivery that will meet the needs of young parents and their children. Additionally, collaboration with the Department of Basic Education led to meeting opportunities with Learner Support Agents and schools to support research activities and also provide input into on priority research questions regarding attendance of young mothers at schools. These collaborations as well as working closely with local NGOs has also supported recruitment activities allowing us to successfully recruit over 1000 adolescent parents and child dyads. As follow-up data collection activities get underway, onsite fieldwork managers will liaise closely with local stakeholders to facilitate next wave of data collection activities due to start in early 2020. Early dissemination and abstract submissions: Due to the concerted effort of the data cleaning team, lead investigators and early career researchers have been able to conduct preliminary analysis of HEY BABY baseline data to respond to urgent policy questions. As early as December 2019, co-PI Dr Toska and C Wittesaele presented preliminary HEY BABY baseline data analysis at the 20th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) Kigali, Rwanda. Prof Cluver presented on early findings at the Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS webinar on Adolescent Mothers affected by HIV (May 2020). At a UNICEF ESARO webinar (August 2020) lead investigators (Cluver, Toska) presented on preliminary analysis on experiences of adolescent mothers and their children. By mid-2020, Toska et al. published analysis that contributes to evidence on reproductive aspirations and contraception use among adolescent mothers living with HIV. This analysis proposes that among adolescent girls and young women living in HIV-endemic communities, reproductive aspirations and contraceptive practices closely overlap with HIV risk and infection. Authors advocate that tailored service provision must account for these reproductive aspirations and contraception use and support young women to practice dual protection. Findings from qualitative research exploring intergenerational adversity, experiences of service delivery and fatherhood have also been presented at the 2020 International AIDS Society conference and at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Science Forum 2020 event which was attended by the South African National AIDS Council's Youth Sector. Relocation of server and review of data storage & Sharing: A South African equivalent data protection legislation called the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) came into effect in July 2020. The research team are now legally and ethically obliged to demonstrate that data collected and stored complies with EU and South African data protection regulations. The UCT-Oxford data management team have completed a comprehensive review of existing data processing activities across all work packages and considered options to ensure best data protection compliance. This review involved an appraisal of data protection and data processing resources available at UCT and Oxford. This review indicated that locating data management activities at UCT would be most cost-effective and allow the team to more effectively ensure compliance with GDRP and POPIA. In the spirit of (1) data protection legislation principles, (2) promoting data sovereignty and (3) addressing North-South inequalities in research, the research team has made a principal decision to house South African data within the esteemed South African institution - UCT. Remote data collection and increased volume of data demands more sophisticated data management support. The volume of data gathered has increased beyond expectation including a greater diversity of remote data collection, management and storage tools. In addition, all office-based and fieldwork researchers have respectively adapted to remote working and this has placed additional demands for more sophisticated data management and information security measures. The review of data processing resources available at UCT indicated that the research team would be able to access bespoke and advanced technologies to better support the team's data management needs at much better value-for-money.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Collaboration between University of Oxford and the Paediatric Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA) 
Organisation Paediatric AIDS Treatment for Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our collaboration with the Paediatric Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA) involves: 1) knowledge exchange and 2) financial contribution of £22,500. Knowledge exchange: the research team regularly meets with PATA to share relevant analysis and provide recommendations to inform PATA's implementation activities. Financial contribution: A contribution is costed towards the 2020 PATA healthcare provider intercontinental summit. This forum will be held to review and finalise the adolescent parent module with providers. This will support that attendance of 30 front-line healthcare providers from 23 countries in Africa.
Collaborator Contribution The Paediatric Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA) contributes to this project by providing access to 258-strong network of frontline healthcare providers. PATA will led in hosting the 2020 PATA healthcare provider intercontinental summit. In response to travel restrictions and various COVID-19 lockdown regulations, the PATA 2020 Summit was held via a centralised virtual platform (hub) that is connected to several regional in-country forums. A hybrid virtual summit allowed for a regional online PATA summit, linked to several in-county forums (dedicated forums and in-country meeting sites) and extended to its membership to allow for expanded participation through the central hub. A hybrid format enabled multiple sessions that build upon the PATA 2020 Summit methodology and included unifying and jointly attended prime sessions, with keynote presentations and Q&A. Using data available from baseline data collection, Dr Elona Toska presented evidence and strategies to a large regional audience of frontline healthcare providers. This equipped frontline healthcare providers with evidence to support delivery of services to adolescent and young mothers.
Impact This opportunity allowed the research team to maximise impact of research findings by building capacity amongst healthcare providers from 24 countries in South, East, West and Central Africa. The event was attended by nearly 400 attendees.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Collaboration between the University of Oxford and Stellenbosch University 
Organisation University of Stellenbosch
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The research team has collaborated with Professor Mark Tomlinson at Stellenbosch University's Department of Psychology in the conceptual planning and design of the HEY BABY study. The no-funds collaboration is formally governed by a no-fund collaboration agreement between Oxford University and the Stellenbosch University.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Mark Tomlinson has been involved in the conceptual planning and design of the HEY BABY study, specifically through expertise on investigating early child development. Marguerite Marlow, a doctoral-candidate, supervised by Professor Tomlinson, was highly involved in piloting and training the research team in early child development research tools. In 2018, Marguerite Marlow delivered two week-long training sessions to 40 members of the fieldwork team in South Africa's Eastern Cape. Marguerite Marlow's engagement also involved supporting the adaptation and translation of a research tool that measures motor skills and cognitive development among children of the adolescent mothers involved the study. Baseline early child development data was successfully collected for all but two children of adolescent mothers participating in the HEY BABY study. Since completion of baseline data collection, the research team at Stellenbosch has provided advice about considerations for cleaning and analysis of this data for the study. In addition, in preparation for HEY BABY follow-up data collection, Dr Marlow and Professor Tomlinson's team continue to provide expert advice and training support for early child development research tools and measures. Due to remote data collection in the follow-up phase of this study, the fieldwork team will not collect a second round of early child development data. The first round is being analysed with a focus on the impact of maternal HIV status on children's development.
Impact This collaboration has resulted in the training of 40 data collectors in South Africa. The fieldwork team in South Africa has conducted nearly 1200 child development assessments which will be analysed as part of HEY BABY baseline data. Through this collaboration, the research team has additionally received feedback on additional literature reviews conducted on early childhood development measures for use in comparable cohorts and settings. This informed and led to revisions and further adaptation of research tools originally planned for use for follow-up data collection. Due to COVID-19, the research team are currently not implementing face-to-face research and are reviewing appropriate strategies to collect a repeat measure for children's cognitive development. Professor Mark Tomlinson's research team have provided the research team with guidance about conducting face-to-face research while social distancing restrictions are in place.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Collaboration for Clean Electrification in Health Systems in LMICs 
Organisation Save the Children UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Hub researchers coordinated a collaboration for clean electrification of primary health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, with a primary focus on Sudan.
Collaborator Contribution The collaboration brought together leading experts across two fields - clean electrification and health system strengthening - to explore the global literature around building health systems on sustainable mini-grids - furthering achievement towards SDG 3 and SDG 7. All partners contributed in writing two joint publications.
Impact The group collaborate on two academic publications intended to guide governmental policy and practice, their findings were then presented to Save the Children UK, UNDP Regional Office, and the World Bank. They were later cited by the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the UNICEF Office in Sudan.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration for Clean Electrification in Health Systems in LMICs 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Development Programme
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Hub researchers coordinated a collaboration for clean electrification of primary health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, with a primary focus on Sudan.
Collaborator Contribution The collaboration brought together leading experts across two fields - clean electrification and health system strengthening - to explore the global literature around building health systems on sustainable mini-grids - furthering achievement towards SDG 3 and SDG 7. All partners contributed in writing two joint publications.
Impact The group collaborate on two academic publications intended to guide governmental policy and practice, their findings were then presented to Save the Children UK, UNDP Regional Office, and the World Bank. They were later cited by the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the UNICEF Office in Sudan.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration for Clean Electrification in Health Systems in LMICs 
Organisation University of Khartoum
Country Sudan 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Hub researchers coordinated a collaboration for clean electrification of primary health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, with a primary focus on Sudan.
Collaborator Contribution The collaboration brought together leading experts across two fields - clean electrification and health system strengthening - to explore the global literature around building health systems on sustainable mini-grids - furthering achievement towards SDG 3 and SDG 7. All partners contributed in writing two joint publications.
Impact The group collaborate on two academic publications intended to guide governmental policy and practice, their findings were then presented to Save the Children UK, UNDP Regional Office, and the World Bank. They were later cited by the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the UNICEF Office in Sudan.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration for Clean Electrification in Health Systems in LMICs 
Organisation University of Sussex
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Hub researchers coordinated a collaboration for clean electrification of primary health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, with a primary focus on Sudan.
Collaborator Contribution The collaboration brought together leading experts across two fields - clean electrification and health system strengthening - to explore the global literature around building health systems on sustainable mini-grids - furthering achievement towards SDG 3 and SDG 7. All partners contributed in writing two joint publications.
Impact The group collaborate on two academic publications intended to guide governmental policy and practice, their findings were then presented to Save the Children UK, UNDP Regional Office, and the World Bank. They were later cited by the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the UNICEF Office in Sudan.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration for Clean Electrification in Health Systems in LMICs 
Organisation World Bank Group
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Hub researchers coordinated a collaboration for clean electrification of primary health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, with a primary focus on Sudan.
Collaborator Contribution The collaboration brought together leading experts across two fields - clean electrification and health system strengthening - to explore the global literature around building health systems on sustainable mini-grids - furthering achievement towards SDG 3 and SDG 7. All partners contributed in writing two joint publications.
Impact The group collaborate on two academic publications intended to guide governmental policy and practice, their findings were then presented to Save the Children UK, UNDP Regional Office, and the World Bank. They were later cited by the Sudanese Ministry of Health and the UNICEF Office in Sudan.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration on content development with Clowns Without Borders South Africa 
Organisation Clowns Without Borders South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Project conceptualisation, management, and evidence-based parameters for materials produced.
Collaborator Contribution Creative content through scripting, performance and production, using specialist clowning methods and play/education input.
Impact Over 100 parent-child interaction activities have been created, across a greatly expanded repertoire of formats and media, all adapted to COVID-19 challenges and conditions.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Collaboration on sexual abuse prevention with Together for Girls 
Organisation Together for Girls
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Assessment of evidence base and adaptation and incorporation into parenting resources.
Collaborator Contribution Data, specialist knowledge and expertise in child sexual abuse prevalence and prevention within DAC countries.
Impact Evidence reviews undertaken to update and strengthen the sexual violence prevention and response components of the parenting resources. This includes focused resources on safety from online sexual exploitation in the print, online and RapidPro text system; inclusion of support for parents on how to respond to child/adolescent disclosure of sexual abuse; support for parents in teaching 'good touch/bad touch' for younger children in the print, online and RapidPro system; and working at national level to include links to child helplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Collaboration with Clowns Without Borders South Africa on the development of an app-based version of the PLH for Teens programme 
Organisation Clowns Without Borders South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Building on existing collaborations with Clowns Without Borders South Africa (CWBSA) since 2013, as reported in previous entries, we have worked collaboratively with CWBSA to develop an app-based version of the PLH for Teens programme. As the dissemination and capacity building partner for the PLH suite of parenting programmes, this has provided an opportunity to contribute towards the conceptualisation of a digital version of one of their programmes. We provide overall coordination and management of the project implementation and lead on scientific aspects of the project. The partnership is based on shared intellectual property and recognition and ensures North-South learning through ongoing research and technical development.
Collaborator Contribution CWBSA has contributed towards the adaptation of the PLH for Teens programme content for a digital audience and provided conceptual input during the iterative development process resulting in a script for the app content. CWBSA have contributed towards virtual co-design sessions resulting in a detailed Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and initial ideas for higher level design of the app, as well as towards the presentation of these ideas.
Impact Cross disciplinary collaboration between researchers and DAC partners on digital parenting platforms; A DAC co-created concept for the design and function of an open-access interactive parenting app to prevent child abuse; An Alpha version of the app for internal testing
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with ConnectEd and Zones Implementing Partners 
Organisation Young1ove, Botswana
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution I have collaborated closely with Young 1ove Organisation in Botswana to evaluate the effectiveness of its health and educaiton programs as it scales these up to new partners in new countries. These partnerships include: - World Bank and Teach for Nepal and Ministry of Education in Nepal - Building Tomorrow NGO in Uganda - New Globe in Kenya - Alokit NGO in India - IPA and Ministry of Education in the Philippines - Super Buddies in Eswatini
Collaborator Contribution The partners have implemented the programs that I worked with Young 1ove to evaluate.
Impact Economics of education: Outcomes: RCTs with over 15,000 students in 6 countries. Improved learning outcomes- currently being written into an academic paper.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Collaboration with Nace Mikus (University of Vienna) and Dr Barak Morgan (University of Cape Town) 
Organisation University of Cape Town
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As part of the Zifune project, a collaboration between Nace Mikus and Dr Barak Morgan was set up in order to include behavioural experiments and morality tasks in the post-intervention follow-up assessment. These behavioural experiments measure neuroeconomics decision-making and emotional responding, which reflect underlying brain architecture known to be influenced by experience during early childhood and adolescence. The post-intervention follow-up assessment, behavioural experiments and morality tasks were administered by the Zifune data collection team.
Collaborator Contribution Dr Barak Morgan and Nace Mikus are both experienced in the application and analysis of behavioural experiments and morality tasks. Their knowledge and experience in the field allows us to measure the effect that the Zifune intervention programme had on how participants perform these tasks. The setting-up of behavioural experiments and morality tasks, on the laptops used during assessment, was done by Nace Mikus. In addition, he provided training to all data collectors on the administering of the tasks. He is also responsible for the analysis of all data collected from these behavioural experiments and morality tasks.
Impact All data from the behavioural experements and morality tasks has been collected and cleaned by the research team. The data is currently being analysed by Nace Mikus. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary in nature as Dr Barak Morgan and Nace Mikus are interdisciplinary neuroscientist and the research team has a background in psychology.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with Nace Mikus (University of Vienna) and Dr Barak Morgan (University of Cape Town) 
Organisation University of Vienna
Country Austria 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As part of the Zifune project, a collaboration between Nace Mikus and Dr Barak Morgan was set up in order to include behavioural experiments and morality tasks in the post-intervention follow-up assessment. These behavioural experiments measure neuroeconomics decision-making and emotional responding, which reflect underlying brain architecture known to be influenced by experience during early childhood and adolescence. The post-intervention follow-up assessment, behavioural experiments and morality tasks were administered by the Zifune data collection team.
Collaborator Contribution Dr Barak Morgan and Nace Mikus are both experienced in the application and analysis of behavioural experiments and morality tasks. Their knowledge and experience in the field allows us to measure the effect that the Zifune intervention programme had on how participants perform these tasks. The setting-up of behavioural experiments and morality tasks, on the laptops used during assessment, was done by Nace Mikus. In addition, he provided training to all data collectors on the administering of the tasks. He is also responsible for the analysis of all data collected from these behavioural experiments and morality tasks.
Impact All data from the behavioural experements and morality tasks has been collected and cleaned by the research team. The data is currently being analysed by Nace Mikus. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary in nature as Dr Barak Morgan and Nace Mikus are interdisciplinary neuroscientist and the research team has a background in psychology.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with Prof Robert Kumsta from Rhur University 
Organisation Ruhr University Bochum
Country Germany 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The collaboration with Prof Robert Kumsta, from Ruhr University, provided us with the novel opportunity to measure "differential genetic susceptibility to interventions". During a earlier phase of the Zifune Study, the Thula Sana study, it was found that the influence of the original intervention (Thula Sana) was found to be driven entirely by one genotype, 5HTTLPR serotonin transporter molecule gene. This finding dramatically underscored the importance of including genetic information when measuring psychosocial outcomes. During the Zifune phase of the study, we extended this gene-environment study by collecting further DNA samples from participants.
Collaborator Contribution Prof Robert Kumsta is responsible for all the analysis of the DNA samples collected from the Zifune study participants. The gene-environment study was extended to other genes using polygenic scores and get set approaches. Both approaches rely on performing a genome-wide screen using arrays that capture single base variation at >700.000 sites in the genome. Polygenic scores are genetic summary measures, derived from large genome-wide association studies, and capture genetic liability for traits of interest. These scores are increasingly being used to examine gene-environment interactions. Gene set approaches combine polymorphisms of genes involved in certain physiological pathways of interest, e.g. hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis regulator genes, or pro-inflammatory signaling. Both polygenic scores and gene sets will be used in a plasticity score fashion with regard to key outcomes at different ages (e.g. attachment security at 18 months, internalising/externalising behaviours at 12-13 years, social skills at 16-19 years).
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary in that Prof Robert Kumsta comes from a genetic psychology background, while the research team includes academics from social science disciplines.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with UK Department for International Development (DFID) 
Organisation Government of the UK
Department Department for International Development (DfID)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub policy engagement team was approached by DFID Advisers and specialists at Social Development Direct and that are working on adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). Their team wanted to synthesize recent evidence on what works in development contexts. The Hub responded with an up-to-date summary of the findings we have on AGYW in Africa, including successful interventions/services as well as bottlenecks to development.
Collaborator Contribution The evidence update on AGYW (produced by the Hub) was distributed to DFID Advisers that are working on AGYW well-being, as well as internal audience at Social Development Direct. It was aimed to influence research groups and development groups to increasingly consider the gender vulnerability and risk factors that they may encounter in their respective studies and projects.
Impact The outputs of this collaboration focused on multiple disciplines surrounding adolescent girls and young women- this ranges from health to education, from parenting support to stigma control. The aim is to collaboratively support a holistic approach towards female empowerment in development programmes.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Collaboration with UK Department for International Development (DFID) 
Organisation Social Development Direct
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub policy engagement team was approached by DFID Advisers and specialists at Social Development Direct and that are working on adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). Their team wanted to synthesize recent evidence on what works in development contexts. The Hub responded with an up-to-date summary of the findings we have on AGYW in Africa, including successful interventions/services as well as bottlenecks to development.
Collaborator Contribution The evidence update on AGYW (produced by the Hub) was distributed to DFID Advisers that are working on AGYW well-being, as well as internal audience at Social Development Direct. It was aimed to influence research groups and development groups to increasingly consider the gender vulnerability and risk factors that they may encounter in their respective studies and projects.
Impact The outputs of this collaboration focused on multiple disciplines surrounding adolescent girls and young women- this ranges from health to education, from parenting support to stigma control. The aim is to collaboratively support a holistic approach towards female empowerment in development programmes.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Collaboration with UNICEF ESARO 
Organisation UNICEF
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution In November 2018 the research team based at Oxford University and the University of Cape Town entered into a Programme Cooperation Agreement with UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO). The UNICEF-ESARO Programme Cooperation Agreement aims to build relevant and robust evidence to identify factors affecting adolescent programming and inform provision of services and support. It will also provide expert capacity building to programme implementers, UNICEF country teams and UNICEF partners to provide differentiated services for adolescents. The research team's contribution for the duration of this the UNICEF-ESARO Programme Cooperation Agreement totals US$1,059,304. This includes costs of: cleaning the research data; ongoing training of local research teams in South Africa; ongoing engagement with policymakers; engaging annually with adolescent advisory groups to ensure that the research is adolescent-relevant and adolescent-friendly; and contribution into the dissemination of findings, reviews of evidence, and training of UNICEF staff and partners. This Programme Cooperation Agreement will also make use of two research studies which involved 5 years of data collection, training local research teams in South Africa, and engagement with policymakers in planning the research. This includes 3 years for Mzantsi Wakho data ($2,514,165) and 1 year for HEY BABY data ($793,113).
Collaborator Contribution UNICEF-ESARO will contribute US$400,000 towards 1) staff costs, workshop expenses and travel for the research team and 2) access to evidence-sharing and capacity-building opportunities for UNICEF ESARO country partners. Contributions from the research team and UNICEF-ESARO will support three main programme outputs: (1) generating real-life high-quality evidence on programming for better adolescent health and wellbeing outcomes, (2) provide expert-level knowledge exchange with ESARO country partners to strengthen the provision of differentiated adolescent programmes and (3) build the capacity of UNICEF Eastern and Southern African Regional Country Offices to engage in research and translate evidence into impactful programming. Activities corresponding to these outputs are described below. This contribution will support existing Mzantsi Wakho study and provide co-funding for data cleaning and 2 publications for this project. Programme output 1: data cleaning, merging and analysis on key programming-related research questions conducted on two major studies, manuscript drafting and policy briefs. Programme output 2: webinars, regional meetings, conferences or workshops to disseminate evidence with UNICEF and country partners and allow evidence building on programming for good health and HIV outcomes among adolescents and young people. Programme output 3: capacity building research clinics with priority countries to implement evidence-building tools to strengthen programming for good health and HIV outcomes among adolescents.
Impact Several outputs within three distinct collaboration objectives have resulted from this collaboration. 1) Generating real-life high-quality evidence on programming for better adolescent health outcomes 1a) Publication of articles and high-quality evidence shared to support programming for better adolescent health outcomes Paper 1: Offers evidence supporting adherence among adolescents and tested alternative methods of adherence including long-term ART adherence. Cluver et al. (2021) Associations with adolescent ART adherence in a prospective cohort in South Africa. AIDS (in press) Paper 2: Examines factors affecting successful transition in ART programmes among adolescents and identifies patterns of transition that may be different in ESAR to Western conceptualisations. This analysis examined pathways in HIV care. Pathways were identified by tracing movements across facility and care types. Haghighat, R., et al. "Transition Pathways Out of Paediatric Care and Associated HIV Outcomes for Adolescents Living With HIV in South Africa." JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, vol. 82, no. 2, 2019. Key findings and policy messages in the article on adolescent transition pathways are summarised in a policy brief. This will extend the impact of these highly relevant findings to reach programme implementers as well as adolescent healthcare service providers. In addition to the policy brief, findings have been presented in a webinar to UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Country Offices who deliver programming and services for adolescents living with HIV. Furthermore, the policy brief has been disseminated more widely to policymakers and programme implementers. Paper 3: This gender-disaggregated analysis investigates differentiated service delivery models for adolescent sexual and reproductive health services. Toska, E. et al. Predictors of secondary HIV transmission risk in a cohort of adolescents living with HIV in South Africa (under review at AIDS). Paper 4: This manuscript offers analysis from HEY BABY baseline data and compare most effective service approaches to improve adolescent mothers sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Toska, et al. (2020) Reproductive aspirations, contraception use and dual protection among adolescent girls and young women: the effect of motherhood and HIV status. Journal of the International AIDS Society. DOI: 10.1002/jia2.25558 1c) Regular meetings held to discuss ongoing analysis and updates on activities between the research team and UNICEF-ESARO 2) Expert-level knowledge exchange with UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa Region country partners to strengthen the provision of differentiated adolescent programmes 2a) Webinar Series: Evidence & Solutions for Adolescents in Eastern & Southern Africa The first webinar of the planned series was successfully held in September 2019. The webinar series provides an opportunity for UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Country Offices to learn about the latest evidence and solutions to strengthen their programming and services for adolescents. The webinar was attended by 14 participants from UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Country Offices. The webinar presentation slides, and recording were disseminated and shared to all 21 UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Country Offices. The first webinar was titled: Beyond the Third 90: Supporting Adolescents Living with HIV To Remain Engaged in Care as They Transition to Adulthood. During the webinar findings were presented from two recent publications: 1. Dr Marisa Casale introduced the webinar by presenting results from a systematic review of Interventions to improve retention in HIV care and adherence to antiretroviral treatment among adolescents and youth. 2. This was followed by a presentation by doctoral researcher Roxanna Haghighat, presenting newly identified transition trajectories for adolescents living with HIV. Participants highlighted that was the first they have considered the complexity of transitions in adolescent HIV care and treatment. The second webinar was delivered by the research team in August 2020 and titled 'Adolescents, HIV and motherhood: Emerging findings from South Africa'. This webinar assisted participants to learn to utilise latest evidence and solutions to strengthen programming and services for adolescents living with HIV and adolescent mothers affected by HIV. The webinar focused on (1) Results from a literature review of what we know on adolescent mothers affected by HIV and their children, (2) preliminary analyses on experiences of adolescent mothers and their children from the Mzantsi Wakho & HEY BABY studies in South Africa amd (3) new evidence on adolescents living with HIV, adherence, sexual risk, and violence. 2b) Review of evidence for UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa countries The first review of evidence has been conducted and published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. This systematic review provides an evidence update of empirically evaluated interventions that keep adolescents in HIV treatment and care. Key messages were presented to UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa Country Offices during a webinar in September 2019. This included identification of clinic and home-based interventions that show promise in improving adherence outcomes. The systematic review also highlights evidence gap and need to further develop and test multi-faceted interventions that go beyond health facilities. These may be important to address broader social barriers to adherence and retention. In addition, the research team has contributed three additional reviews of evidence that are programmatically relevant to UNICEF ESARO countries. This includes: 1. Roberts, et al. (in press) Understanding mental health in the context of adolescent pregnancy and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review identifying a critical evidence gap. AIDS & Behavior. 2. Toska, et al (2020) Adolescent mothers affected by HIV and their children: A scoping review of evidence and experiences from sub-Saharan Africa, Global Public Health. 3. Haghighat, et al. (2019) The effects of decentralising antiretroviral therapy care delivery on health outcomes for adolescents and young adults in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review 3) Build the capacity of UNICEF ESARO country offices to engage in research and use evidence-building tools in programme implementation Oxford-UCT team provided feedback on a study protocol developed for research by UNICEF Zimbabwe: Prof Lucie Cluver and Dr Elona Toska provided feedback on the strengths of a study protocol drafted by UNICEF Zimbabwe. This included feedback on both the strengths of data collection tools as well as study design. Further feedback was provided in a follow-up meeting which allowed the Oxford -UCT team to provide expert knowledge exchange. The discussion from this meeting supported the implementation of research tools that would enhance the country office's (Zimbabwe) capacity to implement evidence-building tools. Oxford-UCT team provided feedback on a study protocol developed for research by UNICEF Tanzania: In early April 2019, the collaborators met with UNICEF Tanzania to discuss a study on adolescents living with HIV and education. Feedback on this study protocol allowed the country office to ensure that research aims are feasible to answer and applied appropriate research design. This consultation provided the country office with feedback that enhances the country to office to successfully implement evidence-building activities.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Collaboration with the Accelerator Labs in four African countries 
Organisation UNDP Accelerator Lab Eswatini
Country Swaziland 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Since November 2019, the policy engagement team in the Accelerate Hub started engaging with some of the UNDP Accelerator (Innovation) Labs in Africa. We started by communicating with the Gambia Lab on youth employment, then later expanded our contact to the South Sudanese, the Ethiopian and the Eswatini Accelerator Labs around the same employment focus. Through our collaboration we have shared: 1) the relevant evidence coming out of the Hub, 2) guidance on expanding impact across the SDGs, 3) youth engagement methodologies and, 4) academic skills (via survey design, monitoring advice and ethics guidelines). In February 2020, we set up an in-person meeting in New York with the Gambia, South Sudan and Ethiopia Lab to discuss the progress they've achieved so far.
Collaborator Contribution The Accelerator Labs have communicated with us with an open mind and a willingness to build on our evidence to help improve their interventions. Our goals are aligned in that the labs want to improve adolescent well being (via employment) through projects, programmes and workshops, while the Hub is able to provide the evidence on which services are likely to be most effective. Accordingly, the collaboration has created a co-learning environment for both the Hub and the Labs.
Impact The outcomes from this partnership spans multiple disciplines. The most significant outcomes were: - The Hub has supported the planning and advised on the evaluation of a 3D Printing workshop for youth in the Gambia. While aiming to 'localize' the UNDP in the Gambia, the Accelerator lab organised a 3-day event, where they brought tens of local youth teams to participate in a Hackathon. Looking through a youth employment scope; the event fostered a platform where young people can note which waste products could be recycled (via 3D printing) to form useful equipment that could be sold. The workshop built a foundation for youth entrepreneurship. - The Gambia Lab has rolled out GamJobs (https://www.facebook.com/gamjobs/posts/undp-gambia-office-is-accepting-application-for-position-of-ta-httpwwwgamjobscom/1042216815861575/) and the Hub has advised on methods to monitor the outputs and evaluate its impact across SDGs.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the Accelerator Labs in four African countries 
Organisation UNDP in South Sudan
Department The Accelerator Labs
Country South Sudan 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Since November 2019, the policy engagement team in the Accelerate Hub started engaging with some of the UNDP Accelerator (Innovation) Labs in Africa. We started by communicating with the Gambia Lab on youth employment, then later expanded our contact to the South Sudanese, the Ethiopian and the Eswatini Accelerator Labs around the same employment focus. Through our collaboration we have shared: 1) the relevant evidence coming out of the Hub, 2) guidance on expanding impact across the SDGs, 3) youth engagement methodologies and, 4) academic skills (via survey design, monitoring advice and ethics guidelines). In February 2020, we set up an in-person meeting in New York with the Gambia, South Sudan and Ethiopia Lab to discuss the progress they've achieved so far.
Collaborator Contribution The Accelerator Labs have communicated with us with an open mind and a willingness to build on our evidence to help improve their interventions. Our goals are aligned in that the labs want to improve adolescent well being (via employment) through projects, programmes and workshops, while the Hub is able to provide the evidence on which services are likely to be most effective. Accordingly, the collaboration has created a co-learning environment for both the Hub and the Labs.
Impact The outcomes from this partnership spans multiple disciplines. The most significant outcomes were: - The Hub has supported the planning and advised on the evaluation of a 3D Printing workshop for youth in the Gambia. While aiming to 'localize' the UNDP in the Gambia, the Accelerator lab organised a 3-day event, where they brought tens of local youth teams to participate in a Hackathon. Looking through a youth employment scope; the event fostered a platform where young people can note which waste products could be recycled (via 3D printing) to form useful equipment that could be sold. The workshop built a foundation for youth entrepreneurship. - The Gambia Lab has rolled out GamJobs (https://www.facebook.com/gamjobs/posts/undp-gambia-office-is-accepting-application-for-position-of-ta-httpwwwgamjobscom/1042216815861575/) and the Hub has advised on methods to monitor the outputs and evaluate its impact across SDGs.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the Accelerator Labs in four African countries 
Organisation UNDP, Accelerator Labs
Department Ethiopia Accalerator Labs
Country Ethiopia 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Since November 2019, the policy engagement team in the Accelerate Hub started engaging with some of the UNDP Accelerator (Innovation) Labs in Africa. We started by communicating with the Gambia Lab on youth employment, then later expanded our contact to the South Sudanese, the Ethiopian and the Eswatini Accelerator Labs around the same employment focus. Through our collaboration we have shared: 1) the relevant evidence coming out of the Hub, 2) guidance on expanding impact across the SDGs, 3) youth engagement methodologies and, 4) academic skills (via survey design, monitoring advice and ethics guidelines). In February 2020, we set up an in-person meeting in New York with the Gambia, South Sudan and Ethiopia Lab to discuss the progress they've achieved so far.
Collaborator Contribution The Accelerator Labs have communicated with us with an open mind and a willingness to build on our evidence to help improve their interventions. Our goals are aligned in that the labs want to improve adolescent well being (via employment) through projects, programmes and workshops, while the Hub is able to provide the evidence on which services are likely to be most effective. Accordingly, the collaboration has created a co-learning environment for both the Hub and the Labs.
Impact The outcomes from this partnership spans multiple disciplines. The most significant outcomes were: - The Hub has supported the planning and advised on the evaluation of a 3D Printing workshop for youth in the Gambia. While aiming to 'localize' the UNDP in the Gambia, the Accelerator lab organised a 3-day event, where they brought tens of local youth teams to participate in a Hackathon. Looking through a youth employment scope; the event fostered a platform where young people can note which waste products could be recycled (via 3D printing) to form useful equipment that could be sold. The workshop built a foundation for youth entrepreneurship. - The Gambia Lab has rolled out GamJobs (https://www.facebook.com/gamjobs/posts/undp-gambia-office-is-accepting-application-for-position-of-ta-httpwwwgamjobscom/1042216815861575/) and the Hub has advised on methods to monitor the outputs and evaluate its impact across SDGs.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the African Mathis Initiative (AMI), Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Science (IDEMS) and INNODEMS on the development of an app-based version of the PLH for Teens programme 
Organisation African Maths Initiative
Country Kenya 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Digital project has continued a collaboration with AMI, a Kenyan NGO, IDEMs, a UK Community Interest Company, and INNODEMs, a Kenyan social enterprise, as reported in previous entries. We have engaged collaboratively on a regular basis through meetings, workshops and exchange of ideas to conceptualise, design and develop an app-based on version of the PLH for Teens programme. We support capacity building of AMI interns through providing opportunities to participate in research activities, provide overall coordination and management of the project implementation and lead on scientific aspects of the project. The partnership is based on shared intellectual property and recognition and ensures North-South learning through ongoing research and technical development.
Collaborator Contribution IDEMs, AMI and INNODEMS have led two major strands of the project in 2020, a capacity building effort in DAC countries and a co-design and software development process. Through a 21st Century Skills course they have given foundational skills to a small group of school leavers in Kenya who have been mentored and trained up so that they can contribute to the project and build important transferable skills which should make them highly employable in the future. Through this process a team of 6 app development interns were recruited in Kenya, they have subsequently been mentored and trained up so that they can contribute to the project and build important transferable skills which should make them highly employable in the future. The outcomes of the capacity building include soft skills (e.g. digital communication skills), technical skills related to development (e.g. skills on html and css to develop web content) and direct contributions to the PLH Digital interventions. Five full days of productive co-design sessions were held virtually resulting in a detailed Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and initial ideas for higher level design of the app. This first stage concluded with a joint presentation of these ideas. The second stage of co-design and development continued and led to the full definition of the specification of the Alpha app, a description of a possible Beta version and internal release of an Alpha app together with specific contextual and technical documentation. Further outputs included an alternative design and second Alpha release of the app for internal testing.
Impact Cross disciplinary collaboration between researchers and DAC partners on digital parenting platforms; Technological and academic capacity building opportunities for 6 DAC youth; A DAC co-created concept for the design and function of an open-access interactive parenting app to prevent child abuse; An Alpha version of the app for internal testing
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the African Mathis Initiative (AMI), Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Science (IDEMS) and INNODEMS on the development of an app-based version of the PLH for Teens programme 
Organisation Innodems
Country Kenya 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Digital project has continued a collaboration with AMI, a Kenyan NGO, IDEMs, a UK Community Interest Company, and INNODEMs, a Kenyan social enterprise, as reported in previous entries. We have engaged collaboratively on a regular basis through meetings, workshops and exchange of ideas to conceptualise, design and develop an app-based on version of the PLH for Teens programme. We support capacity building of AMI interns through providing opportunities to participate in research activities, provide overall coordination and management of the project implementation and lead on scientific aspects of the project. The partnership is based on shared intellectual property and recognition and ensures North-South learning through ongoing research and technical development.
Collaborator Contribution IDEMs, AMI and INNODEMS have led two major strands of the project in 2020, a capacity building effort in DAC countries and a co-design and software development process. Through a 21st Century Skills course they have given foundational skills to a small group of school leavers in Kenya who have been mentored and trained up so that they can contribute to the project and build important transferable skills which should make them highly employable in the future. Through this process a team of 6 app development interns were recruited in Kenya, they have subsequently been mentored and trained up so that they can contribute to the project and build important transferable skills which should make them highly employable in the future. The outcomes of the capacity building include soft skills (e.g. digital communication skills), technical skills related to development (e.g. skills on html and css to develop web content) and direct contributions to the PLH Digital interventions. Five full days of productive co-design sessions were held virtually resulting in a detailed Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and initial ideas for higher level design of the app. This first stage concluded with a joint presentation of these ideas. The second stage of co-design and development continued and led to the full definition of the specification of the Alpha app, a description of a possible Beta version and internal release of an Alpha app together with specific contextual and technical documentation. Further outputs included an alternative design and second Alpha release of the app for internal testing.
Impact Cross disciplinary collaboration between researchers and DAC partners on digital parenting platforms; Technological and academic capacity building opportunities for 6 DAC youth; A DAC co-created concept for the design and function of an open-access interactive parenting app to prevent child abuse; An Alpha version of the app for internal testing
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the African Mathis Initiative (AMI), Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Science (IDEMS) and INNODEMS on the development of an app-based version of the PLH for Teens programme 
Organisation Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Sciences
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Digital project has continued a collaboration with AMI, a Kenyan NGO, IDEMs, a UK Community Interest Company, and INNODEMs, a Kenyan social enterprise, as reported in previous entries. We have engaged collaboratively on a regular basis through meetings, workshops and exchange of ideas to conceptualise, design and develop an app-based on version of the PLH for Teens programme. We support capacity building of AMI interns through providing opportunities to participate in research activities, provide overall coordination and management of the project implementation and lead on scientific aspects of the project. The partnership is based on shared intellectual property and recognition and ensures North-South learning through ongoing research and technical development.
Collaborator Contribution IDEMs, AMI and INNODEMS have led two major strands of the project in 2020, a capacity building effort in DAC countries and a co-design and software development process. Through a 21st Century Skills course they have given foundational skills to a small group of school leavers in Kenya who have been mentored and trained up so that they can contribute to the project and build important transferable skills which should make them highly employable in the future. Through this process a team of 6 app development interns were recruited in Kenya, they have subsequently been mentored and trained up so that they can contribute to the project and build important transferable skills which should make them highly employable in the future. The outcomes of the capacity building include soft skills (e.g. digital communication skills), technical skills related to development (e.g. skills on html and css to develop web content) and direct contributions to the PLH Digital interventions. Five full days of productive co-design sessions were held virtually resulting in a detailed Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and initial ideas for higher level design of the app. This first stage concluded with a joint presentation of these ideas. The second stage of co-design and development continued and led to the full definition of the specification of the Alpha app, a description of a possible Beta version and internal release of an Alpha app together with specific contextual and technical documentation. Further outputs included an alternative design and second Alpha release of the app for internal testing.
Impact Cross disciplinary collaboration between researchers and DAC partners on digital parenting platforms; Technological and academic capacity building opportunities for 6 DAC youth; A DAC co-created concept for the design and function of an open-access interactive parenting app to prevent child abuse; An Alpha version of the app for internal testing
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the City of Cape Town Policy and Strategy Department 
Organisation City of Cape Town
Country South Africa 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Through an ongoing partnership with the NGO Harambee Youth Accelerator and J-PAL South Africa, Dr Kate Orkin and her research team have been engaged in an advisory role by the City of Cape Town's Policy and Strategy Department. In particular, the researc team have engaged in labour-market specific advice, including the scaling up of a labour market intervention with Harambee. Dr Orkin gave a presentation on labour market interventions to the City of Cape Town mayoral committee, which was later followed up with a full day evaluation workshop with the public works programme team.
Collaborator Contribution The COVID-19 pandemic led to temporary de-prioritisation of the conversations regarding programme scale-up. However, collaborators in South Africa, based at J-PAL, have continued to engage with this partner and are planning a follow-up workshop on labour market interventions with a particular focus on the City of Cape Town's public works programme - one of the key tools deployed to tackle the fall in employment resulting from the pandemic.
Impact The collaboration is not inter-disciplinary, focusing instead on labour market economics specialists across several partner organisations - Unviersities of Oxford and Duke, as well as J-PAL South Africa. The team is redefining its input into the City of Cape Town's programmes, based on its post-COVID labour market strategy. The team will directly support the design of the strategy and advise on implementation and the need for impact evaluation.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the Department of Basic Education South Africa 
Organisation Department of Basic Education
Country South Africa 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution A national school intervention package will be developed, called Health Action in ScHools for a Thriving Adolescent Generation (Project HASHTAG), which are being co-produced in collaboration with the Department of Basic Education South Africa. Project HASHTAG aims to promote positive mental health, prevent mental disorders, and prevent a range of risk behaviours. Core components from the Zifune intervention programme, along with findings from the Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) evidence review, will be incorporated into the intervention package. The intervention package will be developed by the same research team involved in the development of the Zifune intervention programme. The intervention package will be developed in collaboration with the Department of Basic Education South Africa, learners of the targeted age group, as well as parents and teachers.
Collaborator Contribution Project HASHTAG is co-designed with the Department of Basic Education. Resources and structures that are already put into place by the Department of Education will be used for the implementation and sustainability of the initiative.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary - it includes partners from the Department of Basic Education, learners from the targeted age group, teachers from various involved schools, and members from the Zifune research team who have a background in global health.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the Department of Basic Education South Africa and Vodacom 
Organisation Department of Basic Education
Country South Africa 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Following the Zifune project, and in partnership with the Department of Education in South Africa, a national school intervention package will be developed to target bullying in schools. This anti-bullying initiative, called STOP-THINK-CONNECT is based on a model that focuses on the strength and quality of social connection. Core components from the Zifune intervention programme, along with findings from the Helping Adolescents Thrive (HAT) evidence review, will be incorporated into the STOP-THINK-CONNECT intervention package. The intervention package will be developed by the same research team involved in the development of the Zifune intervention programme. The intervention package will be developed in collaboration with the Department of Basic Education South Africa, learners of the targeted age group, as well as teachers.
Collaborator Contribution The anti-bulling initiative is co-designed with the Department of Basic Education. Resources and structures that are already put into place by the Department of Education will be used for the implementation and sustainability of the initiative.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary - it includes partners from the Department of Basic Education, learners from the targeted age group, teachers from various involved schools, and members from the Zifune research team who have a background in psychology.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the UNDP Global HIV and Health team 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Development Programme
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The UNDP Global HIV and Health team started collaborating with the Accelerate Hub since its inception. In September 2019 the Hub hired a research officer that is now based in the UNDP HIV and Health team office in New York. The officer works closely with the team to identify routes to impact and to support an evidence-based approach to increasing adolescent well being in development contexts- specifically in Africa.
Collaborator Contribution One of the Hub's major goals is to translate research to impact, and the UNDP is a key partner that can strategically engage with the evidence produced throughout the lifetime of the award. The UNDP has contributed to this collaboration through: 1) Providing support and advise in the consolidation of the "Accelerator" concept 2) Participating in the Hubs' strategic advisory group (STRATA) and offering advice on which outcomes would be most useful to international development 3) Identifying potential entry points for youth and adolescent research in their workplans
Impact This is a multi-disciplinary partnership that connects health to other sectors and disciplines (especially to education, cash transfers, social welfare and climate change) . An Accelerate Hub research officer is now placed in the UNDP offices to further support the partnership; this has rippled on to support the inclusion of youth in UNDP country office programmes and to create a platform for supportive evidence from the Hub.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the UNDP Regional Service Center for Africa (RSCA) 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Development Programme
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Through the Hub's partnership with the UNDP, we were introduced to the Climate team in UNDP regional service center for Africa (RSCA), based in Ethiopia. The UNDP RSCA leads on UNDP climate change policies and programmes across Africa. The Hub's role including the provision of evidence surrounding successful youth engagement. This supported more youth-inclusive planning within the UNDP RSCA office.
Collaborator Contribution To be able to turn evidence into practice, the UNDP RSCA is a key partner, especially since they're responsible for oversight of all country offices across Africa. They are keen to take up the evidence produced by the Accelerate Hub, as well as our approach to addressing the SDGs. On the other hand, the RSCA also provides the Hub with more contextual understanding on which evidence is most relevant to the UN country offices in Africa.
Impact This collaboration aggregates multiple disciplines to benefit young people, those include: agriculture, health, nutrition and digital technologies. Outputs: In Dec 2019, the RSCA was drafting out a programme promoting agriculture in peri-urban areas. The Hub supported the planning of this programme through highlighting the importance of including youth and digital technologies in agriculture; and the benefit of re-framing agriculture to be more appealing to youth and promote their involvement. The project proposal was submitted to the UNDP regional office in Feb 2020.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the UNDP Regional Service Center for Africa (RSCA) 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Development Programme
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Through the Hub's partnership with the UNDP, we were introduced to the Climate team in UNDP regional service center for Africa (RSCA), based in Ethiopia. The UNDP RSCA leads on UNDP climate change policies and programmes across Africa. The Hub's role including the provision of evidence surrounding successful youth engagement. This supported more youth-inclusive planning within the UNDP RSCA office.
Collaborator Contribution To be able to turn evidence into practice, the UNDP RSCA is a key partner, especially since they're responsible for oversight of all country offices across Africa. They are keen to take up the evidence produced by the Accelerate Hub, as well as our approach to addressing the SDGs. On the other hand, the RSCA also provides the Hub with more contextual understanding on which evidence is most relevant to the UN country offices in Africa.
Impact This collaboration aggregates multiple disciplines to benefit young people, those include: agriculture, health, nutrition and digital technologies. Outputs: In Dec 2019, the RSCA was drafting out a programme promoting agriculture in peri-urban areas. The Hub supported the planning of this programme through highlighting the importance of including youth and digital technologies in agriculture; and the benefit of re-framing agriculture to be more appealing to youth and promote their involvement. The project proposal was submitted to the UNDP regional office in Feb 2020.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with the UNDP-Global Fund partnership team 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Development Programme
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Global Fund Partnership team is a group within the global UNDP team that holds the Global Fund grants to Southern and Eastern Africa. We have started collaborating with them for the well-being of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW). The Global Partnership team is well known for focusing on HIV, TB and Malaria; however, since AGYW are particularly vulnerable to those illnesses, they will be launching an AGYW programme (in 2021) to improve their conditions and promote gender equity. Combining evidence that came up from our studies, the Accelerate Hub will be providing an 'evidence summary' of the interventions/ policies/ services that positively impact AGYW.
Collaborator Contribution The summary will be distributed to UNDP country offices and is intended to guide planning for AGYW programmes in UNDP country offices around Africa. They are keen to have a concrete evidence base for the AGYW programmes they will enroll in 2021.
Impact This work focuses on multiple disciplines surrounding adolescent girls and young women- this ranges from health to education, from parenting support to stigma control. The aim is to collaboratively support a holistic approach towards female empowerment in development programmes.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Community Advice Offices South Africa (COASA) 
Organisation Community Advice Offices South Africa (COASA)
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 3,000 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Community Advice and Law Centre, South Africa 
Organisation Community Advice and Law Service
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting tip sheets and other resources
Collaborator Contribution Shared our resources with 750 schools
Impact 76,000 families reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Forgotten Voices International 
Organisation Forgotten Voices International
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources - advocating for family strengthening during the pandemic by using tools that will sustain a rhythm of good parenting, thereby propagating a ripple effect as we are intentionally empowering churches to sustain the impact in their respective communities.
Impact 8,042,714 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Forgotten Voices International - Zambia 
Organisation Forgotten Voices International
Department Forgotten Voices international, Zambia
Country Zambia 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 11,274 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation Coventry University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation London International Development Centre
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation Newcastle University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation Royal Veterinary College (RVC)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF Hubs cohort collaboration 
Organisation University of Strathclyde
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our Hub manager, Maria Michalopoulou, engages on a regular and systematic basis with the Managers from the other Hubs in the cohort, through meetings, workshops, exchange of ideas, addressing common challenges, sharing of resources, drafting of common plan on joined up activities. This is a very effective forum and one that been created since the beginning of- and because of this award.
Collaborator Contribution Resources and issues raised by partners are communicated through the Hub manager across to this collaborative forum of Hub managers to offer or seek solutions that would benefit all Hubs in the cohort, especially on common processes and challenges.
Impact 1. Monthly Hub managers meeting, sharing progress, solutions and discussing issues raised within the Hubs. 2. Hub managers workshop in Newcastle, Nov 2019, led to a common statement/feedback shared with UKRI GCRF team. 3. Hub managers workshop in Cambridge, March 2020, to discuss current and new challenges across the cohort. 4. Coordination and cohort meetings on MEL framework, ongoing, to create a collaborative understanding and approach on MEL throughout the cohort.
Start Year 2019
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation Agency for Research and Development Initiative
Country South Sudan 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation Alternativa Institut za brak,semejstvo i sistemska praksa
Country Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation Ateneo de Manila University
Country Philippines 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation Bangor University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation Clowns Without Borders South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation Health For Youth Association
Country Moldova, Republic of 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation IDEMS International Community Interest Company
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation University of Cape Town
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation University of KwaZulu-Natal
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCRF-Newton Fund COVID-19 Parenting Emergency Response Partners and Sub-Partners 
Organisation World Without Orphans
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The PIs identified and brought together institutions and organisations capable of contributing essential expertise to the global dissemination and evaluation of COVID-19 parenting resources. Partner-specific deliverables were established for immediate action. We have convened a monthly meeting of Partners and Sub-Partners addressing common governance matters (e.g., ethics, data management); sharing emerging evidence and examples of effective methods, tools, practices; exchanging contextual and cultural learnings. Our Project Manager administrated the inter-institution formal agreements and budget oversight.
Collaborator Contribution (UKZN) Technical support to improve the cost predictions and analysis of proposed interventions. Additional analysis of household determinants of child wellbeing to inform intervention refinement. (Bangor University) Development of guidelines for remote programme delivery. (World Without Orphans) Translation and dissemination of the Parenting Tips: Church Leaders Guide with associated intensive facilitators/mentors training, embedding in established programmes, production of videos and webinars, pilot studies and onwards development. Countries reached: Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Paraguay, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Albania, Romania, Moldova. (UCL) Qualitative evaluation of the Covid-19 parenting tips via remote (Zoom) platform including engaging partner organizations, initiating participant recruitment, in-depth interviews conducted and generation of interview transcripts. Nvivo 12 software and other Microsoft office tools (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) were used for results analyses, as well as drafting and producing the final report for the qualitative study. adaptive testing quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
Impact Guidelines produced for remote programme delivery: Many partner agencies are in DAC countries. Since the result of COVID-19 is that many of our partner agencies are by necessity now delivering remotely these Guidelines are proving to be an invaluable resource. Furthermore to ensure broad programme roll out across rural areas it is likely that remote programme delivery will be a useful resource even after COVID-19 restrictions are no longer in place. This work has already fed into a large H2020 project involving three LMICs in Eastern Europe. Benefits of the provision of resources for remote delivery include: • Less environmental impact than from physical groups • Less travelling and associated costs for participants and leaders • Convenience for participants so potentially greater accessibility • Possibility of greater partner involvement • If the programme is used/delivered on a 1:1 basis it enables flexible re scheduling of time to suit individual parents Dissemination of Church Leaders' Guide: Animation produced for adaptation by church leaders globally https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIAYlWUzDhAFWd3DXH8lpRsabHOUN5B2/view?usp=sharing Qualitative interviewing in Paraguay, South Africa, Israel, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Macedonia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan: Study findings highlight the emerging global themes related to complex parenting challenges, and the utility of the parenting tips materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific stressors that were widely described by participants included emotional stress, balancing work with parenting, assisting children with schooling from home, keeping children occupied , providing for families, low levels and/or lack of social support, and restrictions on outdoor activities/movement. Additionally, some challenges experienced by adolescent participants revolved around being unable to do what they usually do, including attending school, socializing with their friends and boredom. The parenting tips equipped parents with information and practices which transformed their everyday lives, interactions with their children and the challenges from the parenting pressures. They provided prompts and permissions, enabled communications and offered ways to reduce stress, monitor behaviour, enhance communication and navigate discipline. Participants described the impact of using the parenting tips has had on their families in the course of the current study. Key outcomes included impacting parental behaviour and techniques as well as reduction in harsh disciplinary forms used on children, potentially preventing child abuse during the pandemic. The findings also show the timeliness of the resources as well as the clarity and ease of use were seen as advantages by users. Future direction and possible hurdles related to adaptations needed according to recipient, child age, local context, culture and new challenges. Disciplines involved include: Economics (cost analysis), Clinical and Health Psychology,
Start Year 2020
 
Description Government of Kenya 
Organisation Government of Kenya
Country Kenya 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources - Unicef working with Government
Impact No direct outputs / outcomes yet reported
Start Year 2021
 
Description Government of Lesotho 
Organisation Government of Lesotho
Country Lesotho 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact While there has been no direct reporting from government partners, we are aware that they have disseminated the resources.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Government of Somalia 
Organisation Government of Somalia
Country Somalia 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact No direct contact from government partners, but we are aware that they have disseminated the resources.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Government of Uganda 
Organisation Government of Uganda
Country Uganda 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact Makerere University is part of national government and led the distribution of resources.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Harambee Youth Accelerator 
Organisation Duke University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof. Kate Orkin is leading the work on engaging the South African government and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote youth empowerment through social protection.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration, including the University of Oxford, Duke University, World Bank, University of Stellenbosch and Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, delivered the following joint activities: • Skill assessments, certifications and job search support for low-income job-seeking youths with limited work experience. • Provision of online platforms that allowed firms to filter jobseeker profiles by location and skills performance. • Engagement with policymakers and civil society organisations to secure support for youth empowerment through evidence-based policies and programming.
Impact • A Guide to Job-Seeker Skills Certificate Programme intervention implementation toolkit for policymakers or implementers interested in using this intervention in their own programming. Available at https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/harambee-intervention • Engagement with the Presidency of South Africa on the design of their post-COVID-19 active labour market policy for the entire country. • A policy note (https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/SRD-granttargetingjobsearch_0.pdf) outlining job search support package policy designs that could be implemented in conjunction with a social grant. The social grant would support recipients to cover necessities and the expenses of looking for work. • Utilising our evidence to guide the South African government in the on-going implementation of one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phone to minimise health risks. By March 2023, 10.5 million recipients will have received a total of £4.5 billion in payments through the programme, and 4.5 million will have accessed online training services. • Several meetings and seminars with the South African Presidential Employment Stimulus team. Strengthening its relationships with the South African presidency, including Kate Philip, chief economist in charge of South Africa's public works programs, and forming relationships with central government agencies, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). In the coming months SASSA will support the team in assessing the impact of the job search interventions by granting the team access to their data on grant recipients. • Working with Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator which stands to benefit women and reduce gender-gaps in labour market outcomes in South Africa as women outnumber men by 2:1 on the Harambee online job-matching platform. • Beyond South Africa, the implementation toolkit has been received by the UNDP in Gambia, the Government of Nairobi, and the World Bank Jobs Practice. • The full details of the team's policy partnership, with the South African Treasury and Presidency, are available at https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/policy-partnerships.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Harambee Youth Accelerator 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof. Kate Orkin is leading the work on engaging the South African government and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote youth empowerment through social protection.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration, including the University of Oxford, Duke University, World Bank, University of Stellenbosch and Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, delivered the following joint activities: • Skill assessments, certifications and job search support for low-income job-seeking youths with limited work experience. • Provision of online platforms that allowed firms to filter jobseeker profiles by location and skills performance. • Engagement with policymakers and civil society organisations to secure support for youth empowerment through evidence-based policies and programming.
Impact • A Guide to Job-Seeker Skills Certificate Programme intervention implementation toolkit for policymakers or implementers interested in using this intervention in their own programming. Available at https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/harambee-intervention • Engagement with the Presidency of South Africa on the design of their post-COVID-19 active labour market policy for the entire country. • A policy note (https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/SRD-granttargetingjobsearch_0.pdf) outlining job search support package policy designs that could be implemented in conjunction with a social grant. The social grant would support recipients to cover necessities and the expenses of looking for work. • Utilising our evidence to guide the South African government in the on-going implementation of one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phone to minimise health risks. By March 2023, 10.5 million recipients will have received a total of £4.5 billion in payments through the programme, and 4.5 million will have accessed online training services. • Several meetings and seminars with the South African Presidential Employment Stimulus team. Strengthening its relationships with the South African presidency, including Kate Philip, chief economist in charge of South Africa's public works programs, and forming relationships with central government agencies, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). In the coming months SASSA will support the team in assessing the impact of the job search interventions by granting the team access to their data on grant recipients. • Working with Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator which stands to benefit women and reduce gender-gaps in labour market outcomes in South Africa as women outnumber men by 2:1 on the Harambee online job-matching platform. • Beyond South Africa, the implementation toolkit has been received by the UNDP in Gambia, the Government of Nairobi, and the World Bank Jobs Practice. • The full details of the team's policy partnership, with the South African Treasury and Presidency, are available at https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/policy-partnerships.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Harambee Youth Accelerator 
Organisation University of Stellenbosch
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof. Kate Orkin is leading the work on engaging the South African government and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote youth empowerment through social protection.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration, including the University of Oxford, Duke University, World Bank, University of Stellenbosch and Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, delivered the following joint activities: • Skill assessments, certifications and job search support for low-income job-seeking youths with limited work experience. • Provision of online platforms that allowed firms to filter jobseeker profiles by location and skills performance. • Engagement with policymakers and civil society organisations to secure support for youth empowerment through evidence-based policies and programming.
Impact • A Guide to Job-Seeker Skills Certificate Programme intervention implementation toolkit for policymakers or implementers interested in using this intervention in their own programming. Available at https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/harambee-intervention • Engagement with the Presidency of South Africa on the design of their post-COVID-19 active labour market policy for the entire country. • A policy note (https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/SRD-granttargetingjobsearch_0.pdf) outlining job search support package policy designs that could be implemented in conjunction with a social grant. The social grant would support recipients to cover necessities and the expenses of looking for work. • Utilising our evidence to guide the South African government in the on-going implementation of one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phone to minimise health risks. By March 2023, 10.5 million recipients will have received a total of £4.5 billion in payments through the programme, and 4.5 million will have accessed online training services. • Several meetings and seminars with the South African Presidential Employment Stimulus team. Strengthening its relationships with the South African presidency, including Kate Philip, chief economist in charge of South Africa's public works programs, and forming relationships with central government agencies, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). In the coming months SASSA will support the team in assessing the impact of the job search interventions by granting the team access to their data on grant recipients. • Working with Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator which stands to benefit women and reduce gender-gaps in labour market outcomes in South Africa as women outnumber men by 2:1 on the Harambee online job-matching platform. • Beyond South Africa, the implementation toolkit has been received by the UNDP in Gambia, the Government of Nairobi, and the World Bank Jobs Practice. • The full details of the team's policy partnership, with the South African Treasury and Presidency, are available at https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/policy-partnerships.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Harambee Youth Accelerator 
Organisation World Bank Group
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Prof. Kate Orkin is leading the work on engaging the South African government and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote youth empowerment through social protection.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration, including the University of Oxford, Duke University, World Bank, University of Stellenbosch and Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, delivered the following joint activities: • Skill assessments, certifications and job search support for low-income job-seeking youths with limited work experience. • Provision of online platforms that allowed firms to filter jobseeker profiles by location and skills performance. • Engagement with policymakers and civil society organisations to secure support for youth empowerment through evidence-based policies and programming.
Impact • A Guide to Job-Seeker Skills Certificate Programme intervention implementation toolkit for policymakers or implementers interested in using this intervention in their own programming. Available at https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/harambee-intervention • Engagement with the Presidency of South Africa on the design of their post-COVID-19 active labour market policy for the entire country. • A policy note (https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/SRD-granttargetingjobsearch_0.pdf) outlining job search support package policy designs that could be implemented in conjunction with a social grant. The social grant would support recipients to cover necessities and the expenses of looking for work. • Utilising our evidence to guide the South African government in the on-going implementation of one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phone to minimise health risks. By March 2023, 10.5 million recipients will have received a total of £4.5 billion in payments through the programme, and 4.5 million will have accessed online training services. • Several meetings and seminars with the South African Presidential Employment Stimulus team. Strengthening its relationships with the South African presidency, including Kate Philip, chief economist in charge of South Africa's public works programs, and forming relationships with central government agencies, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). In the coming months SASSA will support the team in assessing the impact of the job search interventions by granting the team access to their data on grant recipients. • Working with Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator which stands to benefit women and reduce gender-gaps in labour market outcomes in South Africa as women outnumber men by 2:1 on the Harambee online job-matching platform. • Beyond South Africa, the implementation toolkit has been received by the UNDP in Gambia, the Government of Nairobi, and the World Bank Jobs Practice. • The full details of the team's policy partnership, with the South African Treasury and Presidency, are available at https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/policy-partnerships.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Harvest Bible Fellowship Rwanda-Mahoko 
Organisation Harvest Bible Fellowship Rwanda
Country Rwanda 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources with 20 people leading one-to-one meetings.
Impact 440 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Icora FM 
Organisation Icora FM
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources, particularly specialist media pack
Collaborator Contribution Indonsakusa Community Radio commonly known as ICORA FM is a community radio based at Empangeni the Northern part of Kwa-Zulu Natal. It is registered as a non-profit company. Its structure has 7 board members, management that consists of the Station Manager, Marketing Manager, Human Resource & Admin Manager and Production/ Programs Manager. The idea of forming this radio station was born out of the conviction that the station would stimulate and guide the communities to action, under the motto: "The Voice of the Voiceless". Programs that are being broadcast cover topics including teenage pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, child abuse, drug addictions, youth and social development issues, to name a few. Our Mission Statement: To provide adequate and accurate, apolitical, unbiased information in a transparent manner, which empowers our community and create awareness keeping up with times. Numerous broadcasts including and featuring our resources
Impact Audience of 40,427 listeners reached with child abuse prevention information and resources.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on HIV-Sensitive Social Protection 
Organisation International Labour Organization (ILO)
Country Switzerland 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution There are ongoing discussions on regionalising HIV-sensitive social protection in sub-Saharan Africa to include adolescent girls and young women
Collaborator Contribution The partnership brought together the leading UN agencies on HIV-sensitive social protection for evidence-sharing and uptake.
Impact Hub researchers were invited to present in all IATT-led events in 2021-22 including ICASA, Regional dialogues in Eastern and Southern Africa, and the UNAIDs High-level Meeting on HIV-inclusive social protection.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on HIV-Sensitive Social Protection 
Organisation Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution There are ongoing discussions on regionalising HIV-sensitive social protection in sub-Saharan Africa to include adolescent girls and young women
Collaborator Contribution The partnership brought together the leading UN agencies on HIV-sensitive social protection for evidence-sharing and uptake.
Impact Hub researchers were invited to present in all IATT-led events in 2021-22 including ICASA, Regional dialogues in Eastern and Southern Africa, and the UNAIDs High-level Meeting on HIV-inclusive social protection.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on HIV-Sensitive Social Protection 
Organisation World Food Programme (Italy, Sudan, Senegal)
Country Italy 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution There are ongoing discussions on regionalising HIV-sensitive social protection in sub-Saharan Africa to include adolescent girls and young women
Collaborator Contribution The partnership brought together the leading UN agencies on HIV-sensitive social protection for evidence-sharing and uptake.
Impact Hub researchers were invited to present in all IATT-led events in 2021-22 including ICASA, Regional dialogues in Eastern and Southern Africa, and the UNAIDs High-level Meeting on HIV-inclusive social protection.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation Clowns Without Borders South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation Early Childhood Development Action Network
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation End Violence Against Children
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation End Violence Against Children
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation IDEMS International Community Interest Company
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation Maestral International
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation Pan American Health Organization
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation Together for Girls
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation UNICEF
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation United States Agency for International Development
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation World Childhood Foundation
Country Germany 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation World Health Organization (WHO)
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Interagency Group 
Organisation World Without Orphans
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our lead PIs identified Interagency Group members and convened meetings, webinars and focus-topic working sessions. Continued engagement was maintained through circulation of monthly newsletters and other updates. Dialogue was expanded through linking Interagency Group members and their onwards contacts with our Global Dissemination and Monitoring & Evaluation teams. This Group is continuing post-award, in the ongoing effort to maintain children and families in the forefront of global agenda-setting.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership contributed strategic guidance and networking access to regional and localised programmatic stakeholders. Staff time and expertise provided content development, translation and adaptation of materials; support with regional dissemination, evaluation and advocacy spheres; specialist knowledge on high fragility contexts (such as refugee populations) and faith-based engagement. Technical support included provision and guidance on access via the Internet of Good Things, as well as server space, website management, printing.
Impact Ongoing engagement and wider strategic networking.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Jairos Jiri Association 
Organisation Jairos Jiri Association
Country Zimbabwe 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources, including disability-specific materials, in their work enhancing the lives of Zimbabweans with disabilities.
Impact 3,000 households living with disability reached with child abuse prevention resources.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Jelly Beanz 
Organisation Jelly Beanz
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources, including specialist guidance for caseworkers
Collaborator Contribution Utilised our materials in their therapeutic and other support work with children who have experienced abuse and trauma and their parents/ carers
Impact Reached 5600 families with experience of child abuse with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Kgatelopele Social Development Programme 
Organisation Kgatelopele Social Development Forum (KSDF)
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and shared our resources with local households
Impact 2980 households reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Kids Haven 
Organisation Kids Haven
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources including specialist caseworker guidance materials.
Collaborator Contribution Kids Haven look after 150 vulnerable children, providing shelter, protection, education, training and therapy. The organisation is using the materials to train their staff of 20 child care workers, who will also be sharing the materials with their own networks.
Impact 150 vulnerable households reached with child violence prevention resources, and 20 staff trained to disseminate these materials and information throughout their wide networks.
Start Year 2021
 
Description KwaZulu Natal Christian Council (KZNCC) 
Organisation KwaZulu Natal Christian Council (KZNCC)
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources. A church leaders group consisting of 50 leaders, and an interface council with 12 different religions meets every Monday. They shared the resources with the group and council. The council works with eight theological training institutions in KwaZulu-Natal, with an average of 30 graduates per institution. The materials were shared with the graduates to use when they start practising. They also have five regional ecumenical organisations who conduct awareness campaigns in different communities about Gender Based issues with community members.
Impact 290 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Learn to Play Botswana 
Organisation Learn to Play
Country Botswana 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution COVID-19 parenting resources provided
Collaborator Contribution Mobile mentoring is a programme we established during lockdown where we called each family every week to see how they are doing, give them weekly play ideas, send play packs home to their children and talked them through the poster info on each poster we created with yourselved - we also sent it on whatsapp to families in need
Impact 3489 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Learn to Play Botswana 
Organisation Learn to Play
Country Botswana 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution COVID-19 parenting resources provided
Collaborator Contribution Mobile mentoring is a programme we established during lockdown where we called each family every week to see how they are doing, give them weekly play ideas, send play packs home to their children and talked them through the poster info on each poster we created with yourselved - we also sent it on whatsapp to families in need
Impact 3489 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Lifeline/Childline Namibia 
Organisation LifeLine/ChildLine
Country Namibia 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources, with accompanying guidance materials for caseworkers
Collaborator Contribution Utilised our resources on their helpline calls
Impact 2014 callers to helpline received COVID-19 specific child abuse prevention informed guidance
Start Year 2020
 
Description MOSAIC 
Organisation Mosaic
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Shared our resources with 45 staff members
Impact 45 staff members trained to apply our child violence prevention resources within their therapeutic work with girls and women survivors of domestic violence.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Makerere University Child Health and Development Centre 
Organisation Makerere University
Department Child Health and Development Centre
Country Uganda 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources
Impact 581,600 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited 
Organisation Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited
Country South Africa 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution A financial services group, Momentum Metropolitan shared the materials with staff of more than 50 members.
Impact 50 households reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Mother Francisca Mission 
Organisation Mother Francisca Mission Hospital
Country Kenya 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources, reaching participants through positive parenting sessions and home visits.
Impact 594 families reached with child abuse prevention resources.
Start Year 2021
 
Description National Health Laboratory Services of South Africa 
Organisation National Health Laboratory Services, South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Since the study started, the research team has built a collaboration with Professor Gayle Sherman at the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) of South Africa. Through this partnership, we will match - using an algorithm developed and tested by the NHLS team - adolescent parent and child laboratory outcomes (HIV test results, viral load, TB tests) to their interview data in 2018-2021. The research will collect secondary data to link adolescent and child medical records to adolescent interviews in collaboration with the NHLS of South Africa. Most adolescent parents and their children access public health services in one of the 79 health facilities with whom our research team works closely. These facilities collect and store health information such as access to PMTCT (prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV) care, child HIV testing and results, and child immunisation records. The study has asked consent from all adolescent parents and caregivers to access this information from their medical files. Upon completion of baseline data collection in July 2019, lead investigator (Dr Toska) and a team of early career researchers (Janina Jochim, Nontokozo Langwenya, Eda He, Roxanna Haghighat, Dr Anna Carlqvist, Siya Zhou & Silinga Dzumbunu) prepared a dataset to facilitate matching of up to 1500 adolescents living with HIV (including adolescent mothers and their children). Facilitated through a formal collaboration agreement with the NHLS team, data is transferred for matching. By early 2020, the team of researchers leading this endeavour completed preparations of the dataset required for the NHLS team to run matching algorithms. The first phase of matching has attempted to identify child laboratory outcomes for all children in the HEY BABY cohort (n=1124). To date, this has results in 315 exact matches and 40 possible matches. This collaboration is actively ongoing to increase the number of matches between the cohort sample and the laboratory outcomes. In the next phase of this collaboration, the research team will aim to identify laboratory outcomes ((HIV test results, viral load, TB tests) for the completed adolescent cohort including adolescent mothers.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Gayle Sherman at the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) of South Africa will use participant information collected by the research team to match study participants to data stored at the NHLS repository. Professor Sherman's team has provided consultation about type of information the research team should collect from participants - for example, variations in name spellings - in order to maximise possibility of accurately matching research participants to data sorted at the NHLS.
Impact This will enable us to use social science data and methods to identify what can help with health outcomes measured through rigorous biomedical tests. The collaboration with NHLS extends the existing medical records data collection that the team has been already conducting, by ensuring that data available from health facilities outside the catchment area are included in the dataset, with adolescent patient and caregiver consent.
Start Year 2018
 
Description National Institute for Medical Research Tanzania 
Organisation National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
Country Tanzania, United Republic of 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources in their work and networks
Impact 30 members of staff disseminated child abuse prevention resources to unknown number of families within their professional networks and communities
Start Year 2020
 
Description Nigeria - Development Accelerators for Improved Adolescent outcomes 
Organisation University of Ibadan
Country Nigeria 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Prof Olayinka Omigbodun is engaging government and civil society organisations in Nigeria to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote adolescent outcomes.
Collaborator Contribution The team engaged in research, publication and dissemination of peer-reviewed journals and policy briefs to promote adolescent outcomes.
Impact o The team published and disseminated peer-reviewed journals and policy briefs. o The team organised a press conference on June 16, 2022, to disseminate the policy brief. Present at the meeting were adolescents, school administrators, teachers, leaders of adolescent groups in religious organisations, child health professionals, child advocates, media houses (print and broadcast), and representatives of non-governmental. o The team members attended and presented at the 2022 annual International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) conference in Dubai. They presented the findings and recommendations from these studies with a global audience comprising professionals and policy influencers within the child health and social welfare realms.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Parent and Educational Training 
Organisation Parent and Educational Training (PTY) Ltd
Country South Africa 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and distributed these resources to participants on their parenting programmes.
Impact 3500 families reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Partnership with African Union - NEPAD 
Organisation African Union Development Agency
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Hub jointly organised the 5th Calestous Juma Executive Dialogue (CJED) with the African Union - NEPAD on health research, investments, and innovation. We supported the space with emerging evidence on adolescent wellbeing and its integration into regional policy and practice.
Collaborator Contribution The African Union - NEPAD invited the Hub to participate in various knowledge exchange platforms, including joint presentations and social media strategies. We will continue to build this partnership over 2022-23.
Impact The Hub researchers presented in the 5th Calestous Juma Executive Dialogue (CJED), with an audience of around 100 representatives from state governments, African academic institutions, civil society, UN and multi-laterals attended the meeting. Among many regional forums, Hub evidence was also shared with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Pediatric and Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative for Africa (PAHLCA).
Start Year 2020
 
Description Partnership with Oak Foundation 
Organisation Oak Foundation
Country Global 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Oak Foundation and the Accelerate Hub have identified the potential for a strategic advocacy partnership to embed CSAE and violence prevention into the SDG agenda. The Hub is planning to jointly contribute to a series of advocacy and policy engagement activities to improve research uptake and capacity building. This includes: A) launching a strategic advocacy and impact portfolio; B) focusing on executive leadership for African policymakers (including politicians and officials) in collaboration with the Mandela School of Government at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and; C) building the influencing capacity of early career researchers by developing a cohort of African researchers with expertise in both research and in policy engagement and influencing. This programme is planned to be executed over a period of four years - from 2020 to 2024.
Collaborator Contribution Through strategic advice, knowledge exchange and additional funding - the Oak foundation collaboration has: A) increased the capacity of the Accelerate Hub to work on policy engagement, advocacy and influencing; B) positioned the Hub's evidence on violence prevention in global platforms to increase research uptake and operationalization.
Impact So far, the partnership brings a range of multi-discipline skills and expertise from across the academic, policy, humanitarian and international development sectors. The collaboration has enabled the Hub to research the impacts and predictors of violence prevention in African contexts, for example, this includes the impacts of violence prevention on education, mental health, teen marraige, adolescent pregnancy, HIV risks, and youth employment. These findings have been formulated into academic and policy publications - including the latest publication titled "the parenting vaccine". On the other hand, the partnership has also strengthened ECR research and policy engagement skills through partnership with APHRC as a part of the joint mandate to strengthen executive leadership. The Hub and the Oak Foundation will continue to build on this collaboration over the coming months.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Partnership with UNDP Accelerator Labs 
Organisation UNDP, Accelerator Labs
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution In 2020, the UNDP Accelerator Lab headquarters signed a collaboration agreement with the UKRI GCRF. This agreement allowed for multidiscipline partnerships across the Accelerator Labs and the Accelerate Hub. The Hub is particularly close with the Gambia and the South Sudan Accelerator Labs, we supported them through evidence provision throughout their program cycles; this included joint program planning, considerations of vulnerable populations, program evaluation and report writing. The Hub also helped in expanding the Lab's exposure and audience reach by organizing joint webinars.
Collaborator Contribution The Accelerator Labs have provided many opportunities for evidence uptake, therefore supporting the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub's work through evidence-based programming, strengthening youth engagement, and operationalizing the Sustainable Development Goals. The South Sudanese UNDP Accelerator Lab, for example, delivered a financial literacy training program and providing seed capital for out-of-school adolescents based on evidence from early-career researcher Samuel Bojo. The Lab also continues to emphasize the value of combined interventions in their day-to-day programming. The Gambia Accelerator Lab has also used the Accelerate Hub's evidence to design a youth employment program - this brought together partners from across government, civil society and the private sector. Based on the Hub's advice, the program included vocational skills trainings, motivational sessions, youth engagement and program follow-up to assess its impact.
Impact This partnership allowed for innovative multidiscipline collaborations, this included: connecting with companies like M-Gurush (a private telecommunications company in South Sudan) to provide free SIM cards to adolescent girls and young women; strengthening engagement with early- and mid- career academics through joint webinars, and; Accelerator Lab evidence-based program planning, implementation and evaluation.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Partnership with UNICEF Innocenti 
Organisation UNICEF
Department Innocenti Research Centre
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution In 2020, the Accelerate Hub build on our existing links with UNICEF Innocenti. The key highlights of this partnership was the jointly written policy brief titled "Beyond Masks: Societal impacts of COVID-19 and accelerated solutions for children and adolescents". More than 40 Accelerate Hub researchers - including early career researchers from ten different countries - contributed to the joint brief. The publication is now on UNICEF Innocenti's official website.
Collaborator Contribution Dr Priscilla Idele, the deputy Director of the UNICEF's Office of Research-Innocenti HQ has been a member of the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub's advisory board since 2019. As the partnership across our teams was strengthened over the last two years, UNICEF Innocenti has continued to provide opportunities for research uptake. Their contribution to the partnership included invitations for internal UNICEF meetings, support in the Hub's COVID-19 response, and jointly writing a policy brief in late 2020.
Impact Tens of researchers, practi and policymakers from UNICEF Innocenti and the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub contributed to this partnerships; many represent different disciplines including social protection, public health, child protection and humanitarian aid. The partnership resulted in a jointly writing a policy brief in late 2020.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Partnership with the Global Fund on Adolescent Girls and Young Women 
Organisation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Country Switzerland 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub has launched a new project in collaboration with the Global Fund for TB, AIDS and Malaria which will improve HIV impacts for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). This project has a focused goal: to support AGYW HIV incidence reduction and optimal HIV-related outcomes in five focus countries, Lesotho, eSwatini, Cameroon, Kenya and Mozambique. The highly-experienced and impact-driven team-led by the University of Cape Town in South Africa (UCT)-will assess existing (or potential, in Cameroon) frameworks and their corresponding service packages. The team will assess existing and potential frameworks and service packages, make recommendations on how they can be refined to ensure they are evidence-informed, cost-effective and aligned with latest technical guidance.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Fund team will jointly work with our team on recommendations for policy and practice so that they are i) aligned with technical guidance for Global Fund programmes, ii) evidence-informed, iii) cost-effective, iv) appropriately tailored geographically and for sub-populations, and v) work synergistically as a combination of interventions to maximize impact. While the immediate work will support five countries, it can also identify lessons learned and inform effective programming across all Global Fund's 13 AGYW priority countries.
Impact This exceptionally strong multi-disciplinary team is led by the UKRI GCRF's network, this includes: University of Cape Town (Toska, Maughan-Brown), with University of Oxford (Cluver, Langwenya), University College London (Sherr), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Birdthistle, Floyd) and expert consultants with extensive experience of Global Fund regional and country-level programs (Ferguson, Johnson-Darkoh, Odenyo). Strategic leadership is based in Sub-Saharan Africa (Dr Elona Toska, UCT), with Prof Lucie Cluver, Oxford/ UCT, Prof Lorraine Sherr, UCL, and Dr Chris Desmond, University of KwaZulu-Natal. A strong team at UCT (Toska, Maughan-Brown, Kelly, Mfeketo) will provide management and financial oversight. Country-level engagements will build on existing partnerships with UNICEF's Eastern and Southern Africa (Laurie Gulaid, Alice Armstrong) and Western and Central Africa (Dr Landry Tsague, Dr Prerna Banati) regional offices, and UNFPA Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (Renata Tallarico) with the goal of facilitating effective linkages to country offices and national programs. Additional value will be added through country-specific consultants (i.e. Tamarabang-Cameroon, Langwenya-eSwatini, Odenyo-Kenya, Mozambique, Kelly-Lesotho). The partnership will combine evidence generation and synthesis with country-level, regional and international engagement with key stakeholders to co-develop recommendations to improve national AGYW approaches.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Partnership with the Kenya Social Assistance Unit (SAU) at the Kenya Social Protection Secretariate 
Organisation Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
Department Social Protection Secretariat (SPS)
Country Kenya 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Mind & Behaviour Research Group led by Dr Kate Orkin held a half-day event with the Social Assistance Unit and the Social Protection Secretariat on 27th of November, 2019 to present the design of the Kenya Aspirations trial, gather questions from policymakers as it relates to future work, and discuss the best ways to engage in dissemination with the team in the upcoming months. Tentative plans were put in place to hold a follow up dissemination event with the unit in May 2020. These plans have been delayed by COVID-19, but the team remain in touch with SAU. We received input from SAU on areas where evidence would be useful in the design of cash transfers related to COVID19, which informed some briefs we developed (see below).
Collaborator Contribution The feedback from members of SAU informed the design of fieldwork for the Kenya Adolescents project, which began fieldwork in February 2021.
Impact These consultations (in November 2019 and by email and phone during COVID) informed the design of a series of policy briefs on how cash transfers can be designed to maximise efficacy during COVID-19 pandemic. These briefs responded to issues raised by SAU. The briefs cover: - How cash transfers might prevent negative impacts on education: https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/233 - Effects of cash transfers on intimate partner violence: https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/234 - How to encourage people to share cash transfers with those not receiving them: https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/228 - How labelling unconditional cash transfers can encourage people to use them in particular ways: https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/226
Start Year 2019
 
Description Partnership with the Sudanese Ministry of Energy 
Organisation Government of South Sudan
Department Ministry of Energy & Mining
Country South Sudan 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution In 2021, a partnership was launched with the Ministry of Energy, Sudan; it is jointly led by the Social Policy and Intervention Department at Oxford University, the Engineering Department at Oxford University, and the Engineering Department at the University of Khartoum. The collaboration looks at electricity access as an accelerator for population wellbeing - improving employment, health, gender equality and education. A Hub early-career-researcher led a series of high-level stakeholder engagement sessions and one systematic review to collect recommendations and suggestions on the multi-dimensional impacts of electricity access.
Collaborator Contribution The Ministry of Energy and the university of Khartoum contributed to the collaboration through a strengthening the projects' networks within and across ministries and academic institutions. The University of Khartoum, for example, streamlined communications with engineering students to collect their recommendations while also strengthening their academic capacity. The Ministry of Energy, on the other hand, was interested in strengthening research and evidence uptake within their decision making routes.
Impact The partnership has so far organised five high-level focused group discussions bringing together regional specialist in electrical engineering, conflict recovery, anthropology, health system strengthening, higher-education education and policy. The team also plans to encapsulate the recommendations into a policy brief in collaboration with the Minister of Energy himself.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Partnership with the UNDP Global Youth Team 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Development Programme
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution In October 2019, the Hub started a partnership with the Global UNDP Youth team in New York. The Hub has agreed to provide evidence to the youth team (especially on adolescent health and its benefit across SDGs), and assist with our in-team academic expertise.
Collaborator Contribution The Global UNDP Youth team is responsible for oversight of all the UNDP teams that are working on youth development, they are also the organisational focal point for other UN agencies that want to start projects/ policies surrounding the well-being of young people. The Youth team has been eager to use the evidence arising from the Hub to improve on their current programmes as well as start planning new ones.
Impact The outputs from this partnership connect adolescents' health to multiple disciplines (education, violence prevention, political capita...etc). So far we have been working with the Youth team on a call of action for violence prevention, on an external UN webinar, on youth engagement in UN programmes and on focusing further on African services/ projects.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Partnership with the World Food Programme 
Organisation World Food Programme, Johannesburg
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has embarked on a new partnership with the World Food Programme' Regional Bureau for Johannesburg. This partnership on focuses on the wellbeing of HIV-affected adolescents including adolescent mothers and their children in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Using the Hub's longitudinal data sets, we examined whether food security is associated with HIV infection risks (such as transactional and age-disparate sex, risk behaviours). The WFP and Accelerate Hub have also organised regular monthly evidence updates inviting colleagues across the WFP Regional offices in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Collaborator Contribution The partnership started in Sep 2019, when the The World Food Programme (WFP) Southern Africa Regional Office in Johannesburg offered the Hub's team an opportunity to write a joint policy brief on WFP's approach to HIV- sensitive social protection, and its impacts on poverty and hunger across Eastern and Southern Africa. The team has since provided a plethora of opportunities to the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub to not only influence their internal programming, but to also influence other WFP Regional Offices and their external partners. The WFP has provided catalytic funding for a novel study focused on assessing the linkages between HIV, food security, social protection and their directionality. The WFP Johannesburg has also organized three joint sessions to date to facilitate evidence-sharing across WFP sub-teams. Their team is also exploring evidence uptake points in WFP programming, routes to strengthen WFP datasets in-country, and key messages to share with their networks and funders.
Impact A stronger evidence base is needed to build a conceptual framework of the linkages between food, nutrition, HIV and social protection. This needs to acknowledge the bi-directional and cyclical relationships between HIV, food and nutrition, and the role of social protection in shaping these relationships. The latest findings in this analysis suggest that the adolescent mothers are a key vulnerable population and may have increased risk of economically-driven HIV risks.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Reabetswe Support Group 
Organisation Reabetswe Support Group
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provide COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Shared with staff and children in a school, sent materials home with students.
Impact 71,218 families reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Refugee camps in Rwanda 
Organisation Proof Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided our COVID-19 parenting tip sheets and other materials
Collaborator Contribution Shared the tips and further resources in a print magazine distributed to six refugee camps every three months
Impact Child violence prevention information and materials reached over 170,000 refugees
Start Year 2021
 
Description Research collaboration to apply quantitative causal inference methods to adolescent accelerators 
Organisation University of Oxford
Department Department of Statistics
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution We have provided insight on the evaluation of adolescent accelerators and access to data for analysis
Collaborator Contribution They have provided insight on complicated statistical methods used to explore causal estimates of effect
Impact Disciplines: Epidemiology Mathematics"
Start Year 2020
 
Description SOPISDEW 
Organisation SOPISDEW
Country Cameroon 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources through a Church seminar on fathers' involvement, and a helpline for parents who need support, and reaching families through door-to door visits.
Impact 53,240 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Safaricom 
Organisation Safaricom PLC
Country Kenya 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources, especially specialist media-pack
Collaborator Contribution Safaricom is the leading communications company in Kenya, with the widest Network coverage. They disseminated our resources throughout their customer base, and adopted our COVID-19 parenting theme song as their ringtone.
Impact 1,900,000 users of Safaricom reached with child abuse prevention information and resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Safe Motherhood Alliance Zambia 
Organisation Safe Motherhood Alliance
Country Zambia 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution They distribute the tip sheets in their newborn kits, which go to between 100 and 1,000 new mothers every month (figures depend on the level of COVID-19 lockdown in Zambia each month).
Impact Minimum 1,000 (anticipated many multiples of that) families reached with child abuse prevention resources, at time of heightened intensity.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Safer Spaces 
Organisation Safer Spaces
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution SaferSpaces is an interactive platform consisting of 175 organisations working towards violence and crime prevention, and promoting community safety. They have published our materials on their website and in their digital newsletter.
Impact 1115 families reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Save the Children, South Africa 
Organisation Save the Children
Department Save the Children South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Shared our materials via WhatsApp and Facebook. We are using the materials we adapted from your covid 19 ones. We have since used your materials as a model and designed a few more to use in our own Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting programme. It has tips on Warmth and Structure, how children think and feel at different stages, developing long term goals and using behaviour challenges as opportunity to model non-violent problem solving and regulating and co-regulating with your child.
Impact 113,303 families reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Seriti 
Organisation Seriti Institute
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources in their local community work
Impact 2256 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description Sonke Gender Justice 
Organisation Sonke Gender Justice
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources throughout their programmes and networks
Impact 902,000 households reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description South African Broadcasting Corporation 
Organisation South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
Country South Africa 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources, particularly specialist media pack
Collaborator Contribution Numerous broadcasts including and featuring our resources
Impact Audience of 6,800,000 viewers/listeners reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation African Union Development Agency
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Country Switzerland 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation International AIDS Society (IAS)
Department Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research
Country Switzerland 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation New York University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation Oak Foundation
Country Global 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation UN Women
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation UNAIDS, Eastern and Southern Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation UNDP, Accelerator Labs
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation UNICEF
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Development Programme
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Development Programme
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation United Nations Population Fund
Department Adolescent and Youth Programme
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health
Country Malaysia 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation United States Agency for International Development
Department Orphans and Vulnerable Children Department
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation United States Agency for International Development
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) 
Organisation World Health Organization (WHO)
Department Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health
Country Switzerland 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has developed a Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA)', a group of international partners and collaborators who are interested in our work and able and willing to provide strategic advice on how to take it forward to ensure it has maximum impact on policy and practice. The group includes representatives from many high-profile agencies, including UNDP, African Union, WHO, World Food Programme, Oak Foundation, UNAIDS, UNICEF, Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, USAID-PEPFAR, The Global Fund, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, UN University and UN Women. Representatives include high-profile men and women, representatives from DAC countries, and those working in a variety of disciplines. The group met face-to-face in New York in September, where Hub Leads presented on the 'Accelerator' concept, shared evidence from the Hub's proof-of-concept paper published in the Lancet in 2019, and talked about future research plans and work with our Teen Advisory Group.
Collaborator Contribution The partners shared their thoughts and insights on the Accelerator concept, early evidence and work plans - and offered strategic advice and guidance on how to take forward and develop our work in a number of areas. In particular they highlighted the need to develop a focused and systematic approach to policy engagement and influencing, particularly at country level, in order to maximise the impact of its evidence by national governments, institutions and agencies. We continue to engage with STRATA members on an ongoing basis according to their interests, and to take forward particular elements of our research or influencing with individual members..
Impact STRATA is multi-disciplinary and includes members from various organisations, including UN organisations, private foundations, and other agencies. Their backgrounds range from health and social welfare to economics and development.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Support to the South African Human Sciences Research Council to understand the impacts of Covid-19 lockdowns on mental health and the social patterning of vaccine hesitancy in South Africa 
Organisation Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution We provide ongoing support to the repeat surveys of the University of Johannesburg and the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa: in weighting the opt-in samples, log-linear analysis of changes in mental health that were reported in the media, and latent class analysis profiling salient population subgroups with widely varying levels of vaccine hesitancy.
Collaborator Contribution Partners provided data and relevant analtical expertise.
Impact Support to the South African Human Sciences Research Council to understand the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns on mental health led to results being published in the media. Support to the South African Human Sciences Research Council to understand the social patterning of vaccine hesitancy contributed to a report that was used by the South African Department of Health's communication strategy, and circulated among both Ministerial Advisory Committees.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Swaziland Pact Eswatini 
Organisation Pact
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated materials through many hundreds of small group conference calls with project beneficiaries
Impact 20,347 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Technology for Improved Adolescent Outcomes 
Organisation Young1ove, Botswana
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Dr Claire Cullen is engaging governments and civil society organisations to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that utilise technologies to promote youth education and wellbeing.
Collaborator Contribution The partners in this collaboration are working closely to evaluate the effectiveness of health and education programmes that leverage low-technology digital solutions.
Impact • Publications: o Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 49-73, o Other upcoming papers: ? Noam Angrist, Micheal Ainomugisha, Saipramod Bathena, Peter Bergman, Claire Cullen, Colin Crossley, Thato Letsomo, Moitshepi Matsheng, Rene Marlon Panti, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Tim Sullivan. Learning curve: Progress in the Replication Crisis. ? Education in Emergencies: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries ? Effectiveness of community mobilisation and group-based interventions for preventing intimate partner violence: A systematic review and meta-analysis ? Empowering Girls: A Randomized Trial on mHealth 'Safe Spaces' During COVID-19 ? The Impacts of an Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda • Engagement with high-level national governments and stakeholders, including Botswana Government, Australian Government, the Philippines Government, US Envoy to Afghanistan for Women and Girls and IADB. • Presentation at several academic conferences, including The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Economics Conference, the Australian Gender Economics Workshop, the Australian Development Conference, and the European Experimental Economic Conference. • Presentation at several events bringing practitioners and researchers together, including the Global Schools Forum Impact at scale labs and NetWorks humanitarian evidence meeting.
Start Year 2021
 
Description The Banakekeli - Young Carers 3 - South Africa 
Organisation North-West University
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution A/Prof Franziska Meinck is engaging governments and civil society organisations in South Africa to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes to end violence against children.
Collaborator Contribution The team engaged in an in-depth 4-week training in March 2022. This training was followed by the main fieldwork and interviews of participants, which will continue as planned until 2024.
Impact o The team has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and has others under review. o The team has developed and contributed to a Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) online training course on measuring violence against children. Measuring Violence Against Children: From Concept to Action. A self-paced online course designed for Sexual Violence Research Initiative https://svri.thinkific.com/courses/take/measuring-violence-against-children o The Principal investigator is engaging regularly with the Mpumalanga Province government, specifically the Deputy Director for the Office on the Rights of the Child and the Director General for governance and criminal justice. At this stage, this engagement informs them of progress in ongoing data collection and problems with service delivery, particularly around services for victims of violence.
Start Year 2021
 
Description The Banakekeli - Young Carers 3 - South Africa 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution A/Prof Franziska Meinck is engaging governments and civil society organisations in South Africa to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes to end violence against children.
Collaborator Contribution The team engaged in an in-depth 4-week training in March 2022. This training was followed by the main fieldwork and interviews of participants, which will continue as planned until 2024.
Impact o The team has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and has others under review. o The team has developed and contributed to a Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) online training course on measuring violence against children. Measuring Violence Against Children: From Concept to Action. A self-paced online course designed for Sexual Violence Research Initiative https://svri.thinkific.com/courses/take/measuring-violence-against-children o The Principal investigator is engaging regularly with the Mpumalanga Province government, specifically the Deputy Director for the Office on the Rights of the Child and the Director General for governance and criminal justice. At this stage, this engagement informs them of progress in ongoing data collection and problems with service delivery, particularly around services for victims of violence.
Start Year 2021
 
Description The Banakekeli - Young Carers 3 - South Africa 
Organisation University of the Witwatersrand
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution A/Prof Franziska Meinck is engaging governments and civil society organisations in South Africa to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes to end violence against children.
Collaborator Contribution The team engaged in an in-depth 4-week training in March 2022. This training was followed by the main fieldwork and interviews of participants, which will continue as planned until 2024.
Impact o The team has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and has others under review. o The team has developed and contributed to a Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) online training course on measuring violence against children. Measuring Violence Against Children: From Concept to Action. A self-paced online course designed for Sexual Violence Research Initiative https://svri.thinkific.com/courses/take/measuring-violence-against-children o The Principal investigator is engaging regularly with the Mpumalanga Province government, specifically the Deputy Director for the Office on the Rights of the Child and the Director General for governance and criminal justice. At this stage, this engagement informs them of progress in ongoing data collection and problems with service delivery, particularly around services for victims of violence.
Start Year 2021
 
Description The Banakekeli - Young Carers 3 - South Africa 
Organisation Wits Health Consortium
Country South Africa 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution A/Prof Franziska Meinck is engaging governments and civil society organisations in South Africa to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes to end violence against children.
Collaborator Contribution The team engaged in an in-depth 4-week training in March 2022. This training was followed by the main fieldwork and interviews of participants, which will continue as planned until 2024.
Impact o The team has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and has others under review. o The team has developed and contributed to a Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) online training course on measuring violence against children. Measuring Violence Against Children: From Concept to Action. A self-paced online course designed for Sexual Violence Research Initiative https://svri.thinkific.com/courses/take/measuring-violence-against-children o The Principal investigator is engaging regularly with the Mpumalanga Province government, specifically the Deputy Director for the Office on the Rights of the Child and the Director General for governance and criminal justice. At this stage, this engagement informs them of progress in ongoing data collection and problems with service delivery, particularly around services for victims of violence.
Start Year 2021
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 
Organisation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Professor Cluver works with the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Between 2022- 2023, our team contributed to the following partnership outcomes: - Developing the relevant tools (including policy briefs and desk reviews) linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022. https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - Contributing to the intellectual and technical development of the orphanhood calculator which gives national and regional estimates of covid-19 associated orphanhood. https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_trends - Supporting evidence-based public messages and media on COVID-associated orphanhood were publicised in over 1500 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News, the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. - Hands-on support with country-level advocacy and influencing in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Zambia, Brazil, United States of America. - Global-level advocacy and influencing including the World Bank, the Vatican and Every Woman Every Child.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 was established in July 2021, to produce global estimates for the numbers of children facing pandemic-associated deaths of their parents and caregivers, as well as to develop a unified strategy for evidence-based action. Its main task is to support and advocate for the integration of 'care for children' affected by second order impacts of COVID-19 into mainstream COVID-19 Emergency Response planning and action. In 2022-23, partners adopted/ integrated evidence into their respective team's programming. A few notable examples the contributions of the World Bank and PEPFAR: the World Bank Group facillitated a new Social Assistance funds for countries to support cash+care packages for orphans and vulnerable children and PEPFAR led advocacy missions to leverage country-level commitements in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Eswatini.
Impact Together we relevant tools linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the 'Strategy for Caring Action,' in Children: The Hidden Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf . Evidence-based messages on COVID-associated orphanhood was publicized in over 15 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. Some key outcomes over 2022-23 were: - The development of policy and academic knowledge products, including an update to the proof of concept "Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report". https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - The Vatican released a statement to demonstrate a commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html - The Vatican, Pope Francis released a video articulating the importance of children in adversity in families. https://thepopevideo.org/ - Adaptation of our methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer: Florence Guida, Rachel Kidman, Jacques Ferlay, et al. used our methods to calculate orphanhood due to breast cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2 - The "Every Woman Every Child" conference, where the reference group's work was emphasized the importance of including orphaned and vulnerable children as a part of COVID-19 responses. One of the speakers also talked about our work on the live stream. Available https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/ - Leveraging funding commitments from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Building-Adaptive-Social-Protection-Systems-to-Protect-the-Poor-and-Vulnerable.pdf
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 
Organisation Imperial College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Cluver works with the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Between 2022- 2023, our team contributed to the following partnership outcomes: - Developing the relevant tools (including policy briefs and desk reviews) linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022. https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - Contributing to the intellectual and technical development of the orphanhood calculator which gives national and regional estimates of covid-19 associated orphanhood. https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_trends - Supporting evidence-based public messages and media on COVID-associated orphanhood were publicised in over 1500 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News, the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. - Hands-on support with country-level advocacy and influencing in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Zambia, Brazil, United States of America. - Global-level advocacy and influencing including the World Bank, the Vatican and Every Woman Every Child.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 was established in July 2021, to produce global estimates for the numbers of children facing pandemic-associated deaths of their parents and caregivers, as well as to develop a unified strategy for evidence-based action. Its main task is to support and advocate for the integration of 'care for children' affected by second order impacts of COVID-19 into mainstream COVID-19 Emergency Response planning and action. In 2022-23, partners adopted/ integrated evidence into their respective team's programming. A few notable examples the contributions of the World Bank and PEPFAR: the World Bank Group facillitated a new Social Assistance funds for countries to support cash+care packages for orphans and vulnerable children and PEPFAR led advocacy missions to leverage country-level commitements in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Eswatini.
Impact Together we relevant tools linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the 'Strategy for Caring Action,' in Children: The Hidden Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf . Evidence-based messages on COVID-associated orphanhood was publicized in over 15 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. Some key outcomes over 2022-23 were: - The development of policy and academic knowledge products, including an update to the proof of concept "Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report". https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - The Vatican released a statement to demonstrate a commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html - The Vatican, Pope Francis released a video articulating the importance of children in adversity in families. https://thepopevideo.org/ - Adaptation of our methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer: Florence Guida, Rachel Kidman, Jacques Ferlay, et al. used our methods to calculate orphanhood due to breast cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2 - The "Every Woman Every Child" conference, where the reference group's work was emphasized the importance of including orphaned and vulnerable children as a part of COVID-19 responses. One of the speakers also talked about our work on the live stream. Available https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/ - Leveraging funding commitments from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Building-Adaptive-Social-Protection-Systems-to-Protect-the-Poor-and-Vulnerable.pdf
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 
Organisation United States Agency for International Development
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Professor Cluver works with the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Between 2022- 2023, our team contributed to the following partnership outcomes: - Developing the relevant tools (including policy briefs and desk reviews) linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022. https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - Contributing to the intellectual and technical development of the orphanhood calculator which gives national and regional estimates of covid-19 associated orphanhood. https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_trends - Supporting evidence-based public messages and media on COVID-associated orphanhood were publicised in over 1500 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News, the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. - Hands-on support with country-level advocacy and influencing in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Zambia, Brazil, United States of America. - Global-level advocacy and influencing including the World Bank, the Vatican and Every Woman Every Child.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 was established in July 2021, to produce global estimates for the numbers of children facing pandemic-associated deaths of their parents and caregivers, as well as to develop a unified strategy for evidence-based action. Its main task is to support and advocate for the integration of 'care for children' affected by second order impacts of COVID-19 into mainstream COVID-19 Emergency Response planning and action. In 2022-23, partners adopted/ integrated evidence into their respective team's programming. A few notable examples the contributions of the World Bank and PEPFAR: the World Bank Group facillitated a new Social Assistance funds for countries to support cash+care packages for orphans and vulnerable children and PEPFAR led advocacy missions to leverage country-level commitements in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Eswatini.
Impact Together we relevant tools linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the 'Strategy for Caring Action,' in Children: The Hidden Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf . Evidence-based messages on COVID-associated orphanhood was publicized in over 15 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. Some key outcomes over 2022-23 were: - The development of policy and academic knowledge products, including an update to the proof of concept "Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report". https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - The Vatican released a statement to demonstrate a commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html - The Vatican, Pope Francis released a video articulating the importance of children in adversity in families. https://thepopevideo.org/ - Adaptation of our methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer: Florence Guida, Rachel Kidman, Jacques Ferlay, et al. used our methods to calculate orphanhood due to breast cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2 - The "Every Woman Every Child" conference, where the reference group's work was emphasized the importance of including orphaned and vulnerable children as a part of COVID-19 responses. One of the speakers also talked about our work on the live stream. Available https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/ - Leveraging funding commitments from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Building-Adaptive-Social-Protection-Systems-to-Protect-the-Poor-and-Vulnerable.pdf
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Cluver works with the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Between 2022- 2023, our team contributed to the following partnership outcomes: - Developing the relevant tools (including policy briefs and desk reviews) linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022. https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - Contributing to the intellectual and technical development of the orphanhood calculator which gives national and regional estimates of covid-19 associated orphanhood. https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_trends - Supporting evidence-based public messages and media on COVID-associated orphanhood were publicised in over 1500 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News, the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. - Hands-on support with country-level advocacy and influencing in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Zambia, Brazil, United States of America. - Global-level advocacy and influencing including the World Bank, the Vatican and Every Woman Every Child.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 was established in July 2021, to produce global estimates for the numbers of children facing pandemic-associated deaths of their parents and caregivers, as well as to develop a unified strategy for evidence-based action. Its main task is to support and advocate for the integration of 'care for children' affected by second order impacts of COVID-19 into mainstream COVID-19 Emergency Response planning and action. In 2022-23, partners adopted/ integrated evidence into their respective team's programming. A few notable examples the contributions of the World Bank and PEPFAR: the World Bank Group facillitated a new Social Assistance funds for countries to support cash+care packages for orphans and vulnerable children and PEPFAR led advocacy missions to leverage country-level commitements in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Eswatini.
Impact Together we relevant tools linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the 'Strategy for Caring Action,' in Children: The Hidden Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf . Evidence-based messages on COVID-associated orphanhood was publicized in over 15 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. Some key outcomes over 2022-23 were: - The development of policy and academic knowledge products, including an update to the proof of concept "Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report". https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - The Vatican released a statement to demonstrate a commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html - The Vatican, Pope Francis released a video articulating the importance of children in adversity in families. https://thepopevideo.org/ - Adaptation of our methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer: Florence Guida, Rachel Kidman, Jacques Ferlay, et al. used our methods to calculate orphanhood due to breast cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2 - The "Every Woman Every Child" conference, where the reference group's work was emphasized the importance of including orphaned and vulnerable children as a part of COVID-19 responses. One of the speakers also talked about our work on the live stream. Available https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/ - Leveraging funding commitments from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Building-Adaptive-Social-Protection-Systems-to-Protect-the-Poor-and-Vulnerable.pdf
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 
Organisation University of Cape Town
Department UCT Lung Institute
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Cluver works with the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Between 2022- 2023, our team contributed to the following partnership outcomes: - Developing the relevant tools (including policy briefs and desk reviews) linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022. https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - Contributing to the intellectual and technical development of the orphanhood calculator which gives national and regional estimates of covid-19 associated orphanhood. https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_trends - Supporting evidence-based public messages and media on COVID-associated orphanhood were publicised in over 1500 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News, the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. - Hands-on support with country-level advocacy and influencing in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Zambia, Brazil, United States of America. - Global-level advocacy and influencing including the World Bank, the Vatican and Every Woman Every Child.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 was established in July 2021, to produce global estimates for the numbers of children facing pandemic-associated deaths of their parents and caregivers, as well as to develop a unified strategy for evidence-based action. Its main task is to support and advocate for the integration of 'care for children' affected by second order impacts of COVID-19 into mainstream COVID-19 Emergency Response planning and action. In 2022-23, partners adopted/ integrated evidence into their respective team's programming. A few notable examples the contributions of the World Bank and PEPFAR: the World Bank Group facillitated a new Social Assistance funds for countries to support cash+care packages for orphans and vulnerable children and PEPFAR led advocacy missions to leverage country-level commitements in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Eswatini.
Impact Together we relevant tools linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the 'Strategy for Caring Action,' in Children: The Hidden Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf . Evidence-based messages on COVID-associated orphanhood was publicized in over 15 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. Some key outcomes over 2022-23 were: - The development of policy and academic knowledge products, including an update to the proof of concept "Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report". https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - The Vatican released a statement to demonstrate a commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html - The Vatican, Pope Francis released a video articulating the importance of children in adversity in families. https://thepopevideo.org/ - Adaptation of our methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer: Florence Guida, Rachel Kidman, Jacques Ferlay, et al. used our methods to calculate orphanhood due to breast cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2 - The "Every Woman Every Child" conference, where the reference group's work was emphasized the importance of including orphaned and vulnerable children as a part of COVID-19 responses. One of the speakers also talked about our work on the live stream. Available https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/ - Leveraging funding commitments from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Building-Adaptive-Social-Protection-Systems-to-Protect-the-Poor-and-Vulnerable.pdf
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Professor Cluver works with the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Between 2022- 2023, our team contributed to the following partnership outcomes: - Developing the relevant tools (including policy briefs and desk reviews) linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022. https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - Contributing to the intellectual and technical development of the orphanhood calculator which gives national and regional estimates of covid-19 associated orphanhood. https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_trends - Supporting evidence-based public messages and media on COVID-associated orphanhood were publicised in over 1500 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News, the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. - Hands-on support with country-level advocacy and influencing in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Zambia, Brazil, United States of America. - Global-level advocacy and influencing including the World Bank, the Vatican and Every Woman Every Child.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 was established in July 2021, to produce global estimates for the numbers of children facing pandemic-associated deaths of their parents and caregivers, as well as to develop a unified strategy for evidence-based action. Its main task is to support and advocate for the integration of 'care for children' affected by second order impacts of COVID-19 into mainstream COVID-19 Emergency Response planning and action. In 2022-23, partners adopted/ integrated evidence into their respective team's programming. A few notable examples the contributions of the World Bank and PEPFAR: the World Bank Group facillitated a new Social Assistance funds for countries to support cash+care packages for orphans and vulnerable children and PEPFAR led advocacy missions to leverage country-level commitements in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Eswatini.
Impact Together we relevant tools linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the 'Strategy for Caring Action,' in Children: The Hidden Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf . Evidence-based messages on COVID-associated orphanhood was publicized in over 15 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. Some key outcomes over 2022-23 were: - The development of policy and academic knowledge products, including an update to the proof of concept "Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report". https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - The Vatican released a statement to demonstrate a commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html - The Vatican, Pope Francis released a video articulating the importance of children in adversity in families. https://thepopevideo.org/ - Adaptation of our methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer: Florence Guida, Rachel Kidman, Jacques Ferlay, et al. used our methods to calculate orphanhood due to breast cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2 - The "Every Woman Every Child" conference, where the reference group's work was emphasized the importance of including orphaned and vulnerable children as a part of COVID-19 responses. One of the speakers also talked about our work on the live stream. Available https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/ - Leveraging funding commitments from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Building-Adaptive-Social-Protection-Systems-to-Protect-the-Poor-and-Vulnerable.pdf
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 
Organisation World Bank Group
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Professor Cluver works with the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Between 2022- 2023, our team contributed to the following partnership outcomes: - Developing the relevant tools (including policy briefs and desk reviews) linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022. https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - Contributing to the intellectual and technical development of the orphanhood calculator which gives national and regional estimates of covid-19 associated orphanhood. https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_trends - Supporting evidence-based public messages and media on COVID-associated orphanhood were publicised in over 1500 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News, the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. - Hands-on support with country-level advocacy and influencing in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Zambia, Brazil, United States of America. - Global-level advocacy and influencing including the World Bank, the Vatican and Every Woman Every Child.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 was established in July 2021, to produce global estimates for the numbers of children facing pandemic-associated deaths of their parents and caregivers, as well as to develop a unified strategy for evidence-based action. Its main task is to support and advocate for the integration of 'care for children' affected by second order impacts of COVID-19 into mainstream COVID-19 Emergency Response planning and action. In 2022-23, partners adopted/ integrated evidence into their respective team's programming. A few notable examples the contributions of the World Bank and PEPFAR: the World Bank Group facillitated a new Social Assistance funds for countries to support cash+care packages for orphans and vulnerable children and PEPFAR led advocacy missions to leverage country-level commitements in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Eswatini.
Impact Together we relevant tools linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the 'Strategy for Caring Action,' in Children: The Hidden Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf . Evidence-based messages on COVID-associated orphanhood was publicized in over 15 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. Some key outcomes over 2022-23 were: - The development of policy and academic knowledge products, including an update to the proof of concept "Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report". https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - The Vatican released a statement to demonstrate a commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html - The Vatican, Pope Francis released a video articulating the importance of children in adversity in families. https://thepopevideo.org/ - Adaptation of our methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer: Florence Guida, Rachel Kidman, Jacques Ferlay, et al. used our methods to calculate orphanhood due to breast cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2 - The "Every Woman Every Child" conference, where the reference group's work was emphasized the importance of including orphaned and vulnerable children as a part of COVID-19 responses. One of the speakers also talked about our work on the live stream. Available https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/ - Leveraging funding commitments from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Building-Adaptive-Social-Protection-Systems-to-Protect-the-Poor-and-Vulnerable.pdf
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 
Organisation World Health Organization (WHO)
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Professor Cluver works with the Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Between 2022- 2023, our team contributed to the following partnership outcomes: - Developing the relevant tools (including policy briefs and desk reviews) linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report September 2022. https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - Contributing to the intellectual and technical development of the orphanhood calculator which gives national and regional estimates of covid-19 associated orphanhood. https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_trends - Supporting evidence-based public messages and media on COVID-associated orphanhood were publicised in over 1500 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News, the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. - Hands-on support with country-level advocacy and influencing in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Zambia, Brazil, United States of America. - Global-level advocacy and influencing including the World Bank, the Vatican and Every Woman Every Child.
Collaborator Contribution The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 was established in July 2021, to produce global estimates for the numbers of children facing pandemic-associated deaths of their parents and caregivers, as well as to develop a unified strategy for evidence-based action. Its main task is to support and advocate for the integration of 'care for children' affected by second order impacts of COVID-19 into mainstream COVID-19 Emergency Response planning and action. In 2022-23, partners adopted/ integrated evidence into their respective team's programming. A few notable examples the contributions of the World Bank and PEPFAR: the World Bank Group facillitated a new Social Assistance funds for countries to support cash+care packages for orphans and vulnerable children and PEPFAR led advocacy missions to leverage country-level commitements in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Eswatini.
Impact Together we relevant tools linked to implementing evidence-based and best practice policies and programs at national-to-local levels, as outlined in the 'Strategy for Caring Action,' in Children: The Hidden Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/community/orphanhood-report.pdf . Evidence-based messages on COVID-associated orphanhood was publicized in over 15 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, the New York Times, ABC News the Guardian, BBC, France 24, Vanity Fair, the Telegraph, and the Financial Times. Some key outcomes over 2022-23 were: - The development of policy and academic knowledge products, including an update to the proof of concept "Children: The Hidden Pandemic Report". https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/files/hidden_pandemic_report_september_2022_update_pdf - The Vatican released a statement to demonstrate a commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/12/22/211222f.html - The Vatican, Pope Francis released a video articulating the importance of children in adversity in families. https://thepopevideo.org/ - Adaptation of our methods to produce global estimate of orphanhood due to Breast Cancer: Florence Guida, Rachel Kidman, Jacques Ferlay, et al. used our methods to calculate orphanhood due to breast cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02109-2 - The "Every Woman Every Child" conference, where the reference group's work was emphasized the importance of including orphaned and vulnerable children as a part of COVID-19 responses. One of the speakers also talked about our work on the live stream. Available https://protect.everywomaneverychild.org/ - Leveraging funding commitments from the World Bank's 2023 Rapid Social Response Fund dedicating 2.5 million dollars to catalyse action and drive momentum to support children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/892081579159887574/pdf/Rapid-Social-Response-Program-Building-Adaptive-Social-Protection-Systems-to-Protect-the-Poor-and-Vulnerable.pdf
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Regional Inter-agency Task Team on Children and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa (RIATT) 
Organisation Regional Interagency Task Team on Children and AIDS (RIATT)
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution They have shared the materials with 30 active partner organisations. Each one of those reaches more than 1,000 people.
Impact Up to 30,000 households reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description The Seven Passes Initiative 
Organisation Seven Passes Initiative
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and shared our resources in their home visits to vulnerable families
Impact 76 at risk families reached with child violence prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description The WHO Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health 
Organisation World Health Organization (WHO)
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our team was represented in various evidence-sharing and knowledge exchange forums, including monthly collaboration check-ins and evidence-informed policy briefs. We support the WHO PMNCH's advocacy and policy engagement using our emerging evidence.
Collaborator Contribution As members of the steering commitee and the working group, Hub researchers were invited to input into 12 background papers published with the BMJ, and 3 policy brief.
Impact The Hub jointly authored 15 publications in a WHO-BMJ Collection defining adolescent wellbeing. We have also contributed to two policy briefs on climate change and adolescent health and presented findings in a COP26 side event.
Start Year 2021
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation African School of Economics
Country Benin 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation African Union Development Agency
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation Agency for Research and Development Initiative
Country South Sudan 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
Country Kenya 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
Department Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit (MITU)
Country Tanzania, United Republic of 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation North-West University
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University of Cape Town
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University of Dodoma
Country Tanzania, United Republic of 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University of Ibadan
Country Nigeria 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University of KwaZulu-Natal
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University of Stellenbosch
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University of Zambia
Country Zambia 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation University of the Western Cape
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Research Partnership 
Organisation Wellcome Trust
Department KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Country Kenya 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Accelerate Hub has made research grants available to the research partners listed above. We also provide coordination, support, capacity building and administrative support available to the partners.
Collaborator Contribution Research partners are contributing to the development of individual trials and studies. They are also contributing to the overall development of our thinking and understanding about accelerators.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary. The collaboration covers social science, economics, psychology, health sciences, english and humanities.
Start Year 2019
 
Description UNICEF Country Office Algeria 
Organisation UNICEF
Department UNICEF Algeria
Country Algeria 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources throughout their work
Impact 6,900 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description UNICEF Country Office Côte d'Ivoire 
Organisation UNICEF
Department UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire
Country Cote d'Ivoire 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources in their work
Impact 418,600 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description UNICEF Country Office Kenya 
Organisation UNICEF
Department UNICEF Kenya
Country Kenya 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources in their work
Impact 249,700 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description UNICEF Country Office South Africa 
Organisation UNICEF
Department UNICEF South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources in their work
Impact 504,510 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description University of Cape Town 
Organisation University of Cape Town
Country South Africa 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Resources shared with academics and other staff for onward distribution through their networks
Impact Initial 464 people disseminated child abuse prevention resources through their work and wider community contacts.
Start Year 2020
 
Description University of Ibadan 
Organisation University of Ibadan
Country Nigeria 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Shared our resources with 5 institutional leads for onwards distribution
Impact Families (quantity unknown) reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description University of Nairobi 
Organisation University of Nairobi
Country Kenya 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources via their Facebook and other social media, emails, and additionally in one-to-one phone calls with 50 families identified as vulnerable.
Impact 51,550 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description VOC (the Voice of the Cape) FM 
Organisation Voice of the Cape (VOC)
Country South Africa 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources, particularly specialist media pack
Collaborator Contribution VOC FM became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa in January 1995. VOC is an interest-defined community broadcaster licensed to serve the cultural interest of the Muslim community. The station's mandate is to inform and educate the community about Islam, with an inherent focus on religious teachings. Another focus of VOC's programming is to report matters of cultural, political, social and economic significance. Numerous broadcasts made including and featuring our COVID-19 parenting messages and resources.
Impact Audience of 90,800 listeners reached with child abuse prevention information and resources.
Start Year 2021
 
Description WHO Nigeria 
Organisation World Health Organization - Nigeria
Country Nigeria 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources in their work
Impact 820,900 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description WHO PMNCH Interagency Group on adolescent wellbeing 
Organisation World Health Organization (WHO)
Country Global 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution The WHO Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) launched a working group that advocates for adolescent wellbeing across the United Nations and youth-focused international civil society groups; this includes independent groups of experts from youth-led and youth-serving organizations, including members of the PMNCH Adolescents and Youth Constituency identified to provide overall guidance and inputs on the advocacy briefs on adolescents to the UN Secretariat staff. The UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub provided hands-on support to this partnership through provision of evidence, support with literature reviews, policy brief writing and dissemination of advocacy messages. Dr Anne Khisa and Dr Mona Ibrahim - Hub researchers leading WP1a and WP1b respectively - are active members of the PMNCH group.
Collaborator Contribution The WHO PMNCH has continuously expressed their support for the Accelerate Hub. They've requested evidence for seven WHO background papers that advocate for governmental investment in adolescent wellbeing. The team has provided multiple opportunities for evidence uptake.
Impact So far this partnership produced a joint policy brief on adolescents and climate change. This will be disseminated through the UN inter-agency task force on Youth and through civil society networks across the world. We also expect that this partnership will lead to at least five background papers on different dimensions of adolescent wellbeing.
Start Year 2020
 
Description WHO Zimbabwe 
Organisation World Health Organization - Zimbabwe
Country Zimbabwe 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources in their work
Impact 5,900 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description WP4&5: Partnership with Clowns Without Borders South Africa 
Organisation Clowns Without Borders South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Several researchers from the GCRF Accelerate Hub working on the Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) suite of parenting programmes have partnered with Clowns Without Borders South Africa (CWBSA) since 2013. CWBSA, as the dissemination and capacity-building partner for PLH, has led the implementation and scale-up of programmes across 25 low- and middle-income countries, reaching over 600 000 beneficiaries. Through the Hub's PLH-SUPER study (WP5), our team has contributed to building the evidence-base of the programmes that CWBSA delivers. Our team has also provided intellectual input into the development of monitoring and evaluation tools and training that CWBSA provides to its clients. Through this, and through ongoing studies of PLH, we have contributed to building the evidence-base of the programmes that CWBSA delivers. Through the Hub's PLH Digital study (WP4), our team has provided CWBSA with an opportunity to contribute to a digital interaction of one of their programmes, which will draw greater interest to their work.
Collaborator Contribution For PLH-SUPER, CWBSA provides valuable connections to implementing partners delivering the PLH programmes and is the vehicle through which monitoring and evaluation support is provided to programme implementers. CWBSA offers critical insights into the realities of implementation on the ground, which can inform programme development and the research's team's research approach. For PLH Digital, CWBSA will be central to developing the script for the digital version of the programme.
Impact This collaboration is multi-disciplinary in that CWBSA is an arts-based non-profit organisation, which includes staff members who are performing artists, while the research team includes academics from social science disciplines (i.e., Psychology, Social Work).
Start Year 2013
 
Description WP4: Collaboration with UNICEF Headquarters and UNICEF South Africa 
Organisation UNICEF
Department UNICEF South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Our research team has organised and held several meetings with the Child Protection and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) teams of UNICEF to discuss the possibility of them collaborating with us on the Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Digital project. As a result of these meetings, we had staff from UNICEF South Africa and UNICEF Headquarters (HQ) participate in the development meeting we held in January 2020 with the app developers and other key stakeholders. At the invitation of UNICEF HQ, we presented on PLH Digital at UNICEF HQ in New York. Based on the recommendation of UNICEF HQ, we developed personas and user stories of potential users, which led to more fruitful brainstorming sessions with them. Further, at their request, we are working on building a business case for the project.
Collaborator Contribution Although the collaboration with UNICEF on PLH Digital was only initiated in November 2019, they have already made invaluable contributions to the project. In our development meetings, colleagues from UNICEF South Africa and UNICEF HQ actively contributed to app conceptualisation and planning. Our meetings with the ICT team at the HQ led to the development of personas and user stories. These tools have enabled us to conceptualise and visualise what potential users would want to see in the app. Additionally, staff of UNICEF HQ introduced us to the UNICEF team working on Internet of Good Things (IOGT) which offers data-free access to the internet to people all over the world; IOGT is presently in 64 countries but is expanding. The collaboration with the IOGT team may lead to the app being embedded within IOGT thus allowing adolescents and parents to use the app without the worry of data costs.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description WP4: Collaboration with UNICEF Headquarters and UNICEF South Africa 
Organisation UNICEF
Country United States 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our research team has organised and held several meetings with the Child Protection and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) teams of UNICEF to discuss the possibility of them collaborating with us on the Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Digital project. As a result of these meetings, we had staff from UNICEF South Africa and UNICEF Headquarters (HQ) participate in the development meeting we held in January 2020 with the app developers and other key stakeholders. At the invitation of UNICEF HQ, we presented on PLH Digital at UNICEF HQ in New York. Based on the recommendation of UNICEF HQ, we developed personas and user stories of potential users, which led to more fruitful brainstorming sessions with them. Further, at their request, we are working on building a business case for the project.
Collaborator Contribution Although the collaboration with UNICEF on PLH Digital was only initiated in November 2019, they have already made invaluable contributions to the project. In our development meetings, colleagues from UNICEF South Africa and UNICEF HQ actively contributed to app conceptualisation and planning. Our meetings with the ICT team at the HQ led to the development of personas and user stories. These tools have enabled us to conceptualise and visualise what potential users would want to see in the app. Additionally, staff of UNICEF HQ introduced us to the UNICEF team working on Internet of Good Things (IOGT) which offers data-free access to the internet to people all over the world; IOGT is presently in 64 countries but is expanding. The collaboration with the IOGT team may lead to the app being embedded within IOGT thus allowing adolescents and parents to use the app without the worry of data costs.
Impact No outputs yet.
Start Year 2019
 
Description WP4: Collaboration with the African Maths Initiative (AMI) and Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Sciences (IDEMS) 
Organisation African Maths Initiative
Country Kenya 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Parenting for Lifelong Health Digital (PLH Digital) project includes a collaboration with the African Maths Initiative (AMI) and Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Sciences (IDEMS). To facilitate this collaboration, our team organised several meetings with members of both of these organisations, where we laid the initial groundwork of the partnership. Additionally, to provide relevant background on the project and the PLH for Teens programme, we held a development meeting which was attended by IDEMS, AMI, developers of the PLH for Teens programme, implementers and other relevant parties. Thereafter, we held focus group discussions with past PLH for Teens participants so that the team, including IDEMS and AMI, could learn more about the impact of the in-person programme and the expectations of potential app users. The focus group discussions also provide IDEMS and AMI access to families that will form the app co-creation team. For successful collaboration, we have made and continue to make available to IDEMS and AMI our network of resources. This collaboration will also give young Kenyan coders an opportunity to get experience in a project-oriented atmosphere thereby contributing to capacity building in DAC countries and enabling us to adhere to the theme of "for DAC families, by DAC families".
Collaborator Contribution IDEMS is a UK Community Interest Company that aims to create the next generation of software and app developers in DAC countries. In addition to the experience in software development that they bring on board, they have worked extensively in DAC countries and understand the context. Hence, they are in an excellent position to design and develop an app that will be usable and acceptable in DAC countries. Their vision for capacity-building through the development of app developers in Kenya aligns with our mission to build capacity in DAC countries. We have been deeply impressed by their enthusiasm and commitment, both of which are crucial to the project's success. AMI is a Kenyan NGO formed by mathematicians and mathematics educators who are working to create a stronger mathematical community and culture of mathematics across Africa in all academic levels. Besides the enthusiasm and commitment that AMI has shown in the project, they have graciously offered the use of their office, at no cost, for the focus group discussions in Kenya. These discussions are aimed at building a co-creation team for the app development and design. Both IDEMS and AMI will work together to design and develop the app, with feedback from the co-creation team.
Impact Through this partnership, our team conducted focus group discussions with past PLH for Teens participants in South Africa to inform app development. These discussions also led to the creation of the co-development team, which includes caregivers and adolescents.
Start Year 2019
 
Description WP4: Collaboration with the African Maths Initiative (AMI) and Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Sciences (IDEMS) 
Organisation Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Sciences
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The Parenting for Lifelong Health Digital (PLH Digital) project includes a collaboration with the African Maths Initiative (AMI) and Innovations in Development, Education and the Mathematical Sciences (IDEMS). To facilitate this collaboration, our team organised several meetings with members of both of these organisations, where we laid the initial groundwork of the partnership. Additionally, to provide relevant background on the project and the PLH for Teens programme, we held a development meeting which was attended by IDEMS, AMI, developers of the PLH for Teens programme, implementers and other relevant parties. Thereafter, we held focus group discussions with past PLH for Teens participants so that the team, including IDEMS and AMI, could learn more about the impact of the in-person programme and the expectations of potential app users. The focus group discussions also provide IDEMS and AMI access to families that will form the app co-creation team. For successful collaboration, we have made and continue to make available to IDEMS and AMI our network of resources. This collaboration will also give young Kenyan coders an opportunity to get experience in a project-oriented atmosphere thereby contributing to capacity building in DAC countries and enabling us to adhere to the theme of "for DAC families, by DAC families".
Collaborator Contribution IDEMS is a UK Community Interest Company that aims to create the next generation of software and app developers in DAC countries. In addition to the experience in software development that they bring on board, they have worked extensively in DAC countries and understand the context. Hence, they are in an excellent position to design and develop an app that will be usable and acceptable in DAC countries. Their vision for capacity-building through the development of app developers in Kenya aligns with our mission to build capacity in DAC countries. We have been deeply impressed by their enthusiasm and commitment, both of which are crucial to the project's success. AMI is a Kenyan NGO formed by mathematicians and mathematics educators who are working to create a stronger mathematical community and culture of mathematics across Africa in all academic levels. Besides the enthusiasm and commitment that AMI has shown in the project, they have graciously offered the use of their office, at no cost, for the focus group discussions in Kenya. These discussions are aimed at building a co-creation team for the app development and design. Both IDEMS and AMI will work together to design and develop the app, with feedback from the co-creation team.
Impact Through this partnership, our team conducted focus group discussions with past PLH for Teens participants in South Africa to inform app development. These discussions also led to the creation of the co-development team, which includes caregivers and adolescents.
Start Year 2019
 
Description WP4: GiveDirectly in Kenya 
Organisation GiveDirectly
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution GiveDirectly was the implementing partner in our research trial. We contributed to this partnership in a few ways. 1. We supplied the theory and resources around developing the a video / documentary that targets psychological constraints of GiveDirectly beneficiaries. 2. We conducted a randomized controlled trial with almost 8,000 of GiveDirectly beneficiaries to test the impact of whether aspirational video used in testing whether alleviating internal constraints can improve economic outcomes
Collaborator Contribution GiveDirectly has contributed to this partnership in a few ways: 1. They allow us to a run scientific study as part of their normal operations. They covered the expenses for the logistical part of the randomized controlled trial and provided the necessary contacts to the study participants. 2. They have given each household a cash transfer of $1,100 (USD in nominal terms) to a total of 8,000 households in western Kenya as part of the study to see impact of cash transfers and aspirational videos.
Impact Outputs will be a working paper, forthcoming.
Start Year 2016
 
Description WP4: IPA in Kenya 
Organisation Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution We contributed to this partnership in a few ways: 1. We provided the intervention needed (an aspirational documentary) in order to implement the randomised trial. 2. We worked with IPA staff members weekly to ensure study design was implemented to the highest standards, helped troubleshoot issues in the field, and gave overall guidance (timelines, data quality, etc) needed for the study.
Collaborator Contribution Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) was our collaboration research partner for the GiveDirectly research trial in western Kenya. IPA contributed in two ways: 1. They dedicated existing staff time before, during, and after the execution of the randomised trial to ensure study was done to the standards of principal investigators 2. They were our on-the-ground partners in gathering data and administering the intervention. This included all hiring, training, and field monitoring needed to ensure the randomised trial was implemented correctly.
Impact A working paper will be the output, forthcoming.
Start Year 2016
 
Description WP4: JPAL in South Africa 
Organisation J-PAL
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution We contributed to this partnership in a few ways: 1. We provided the intervention needed (assessments tests that illustrated skill signalling) in order to implement the randomised trial. 2. We worked with JPAL staff members weekly to ensure study design was implemented to the highest standards, helped troubleshoot issues in the field, and gave overall guidance (timelines, data quality, etc) needed for the study.
Collaborator Contribution JPAL was our collaboration research partner for the Harambee research trial in Johannesburg. JPAL contributed in two ways: 1. They dedicated existing staff time before, during, and after the execution of the randomised trial to ensure study was done to the standards of principal investigators 2. They were our on-the-ground partners in gathering data and administering the intervention. This included all hiring, training, and field monitoring needed to ensure the randomised trial was implemented correctly.
Impact Working paper "Job Search and Matching with Two-Sided Limited Information".
Start Year 2012
 
Description WP5 Collaboration-Young1ove 
Organisation Young1ove, Botswana
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Collaboration with Young1ove: the main contributions so far have been: (1) setting up the project and administering the collaboration/liaising with GCRF; (2) running the entire recruitment process for the post-doc position; (3) my visit to Young 1ove and meetings with management there to solidify the collaborative relationship; and (4) my visit to and meetings with Young 1ove and current work writing up the Young 1ove M&E scaling case study. This last point is an essential component of the partnership. N.B. Young 1ove's research manager will be coming to visit Oxford but this is not yet arranged and clearly isn't covered in the reporting period.
Collaborator Contribution Collaboration with Young1ove-In terms of contributions to the collaboration, Noam's input to: (1) the overall project focus, design and set-up; and (2) recruitment of the post-doc who will jointly based in Oxford and at Young1ove in Botswana, are key from the Young1ove side. The Young1ove research manager also e-met with the top two candidates as part of the recruitment vetting process. In addition, Young1ove hosted me when I visited the organisation.
Impact • Comparative case studies of selected multi-disciplinary organisations working with African youth undertaking intervention scale-ups about their monitoring and evaluation processes.
Start Year 2019
 
Description WP5: Collaboration with Parenting for Lifelong Health Implementing Partners 
Organisation Clowns Without Borders South Africa
Department Parenting for Lifelong Health Implementing Partners
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Together with Clowns Without Borders South Africa, the Parenting for Lifelong Health Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research (PLH-SUPER) study has partnered with various implementing partners delivering the PLH programmes across the globe, including in 16 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe). Implementing partners include large international development agencies, including Pact (Eswatini, Tanzania, South Sudan, Zambia), Catholic Relief Services (DRC, Cameroon, Lesotho, Malawi, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe), AMPATH, FHI360 (Ethiopia) and Stepping Stones International (Botswana); and smaller community-based organisations, such as the Keiskamma Trust (South Africa), Mothers2Mothers (South Africa), ARDI (South Sudan), Lilongwe Catholic Health Commission (Malawi); and national programmes, such as the Programme National des Orphelins et Enfants (Cote D'Ivoire). The scale of implementation ranges from site to site, but has typically been between several hundred families to 40,000 families. Our research team works with partners to strengthen their monitoring and evaluation processes so that they are more able to track the programme delivery and impact among their beneficiaries. Capacity-building in this area is valued by partners as it allows for strengthened services provision and ability to report on outcomes to donors.
Collaborator Contribution Implementing partners share their anonymised routine monitoring and evaluation data with the research team. This sharing of data allows the research team to create a multi-country dataset that will enable much-needed real-world insights into programme delivery and effectiveness at scale and in the real-world (and across contexts). Partners also provide the research team with an understanding of on the ground implementation challenges which helps us interpret incoming data and inform the monitoring and evaluation training we provide to them.
Impact This collaboration brings together academic researchers and staff from non-profit organisations. Several papers and study protocols have been published in journals (see Publications entries), with presentations to conferences and also to government policymakers (see Engagement Activities entries).
Start Year 2017
 
Description World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa 
Organisation World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
Country Congo 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Utilised and disseminated our resources in their work
Impact 1,944,000 households reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2021
 
Description World Without Orphans 
Organisation World Without Orphans
Department World Without Orphans, Zambia
Country Zambia 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 3,076,575 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Young Carers; HEY BABY; Mzantsi Wakho & Sinovuyo Teen Study: Lifeline South Africa 
Organisation Lifeline South Africa
Country South Africa 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The research team pays for counselling services for our most vulnerable research participants and local fieldwork staff. The research team also provides knowledge exchanges by reporting on relevant research findings to partners at Lifeline South Africa.
Collaborator Contribution We provide referral of participants and local staff to counselling services. Lifeline South Africa provides counselling for all of our local staff who may have experienced vicarious trauma throughout conducting fieldwork activities. Lifeline also provides counselling to our young research participants.
Impact Access to Lifeline allows us to refer research participants to counselling services. During interviews participants may disclose traumatic events they have experienced and ask research assistants support for accessing local services to support mental health and wellbeing. In addition, we have found this service useful to refer team members to who may experience vicarious trauma.
Start Year 2014
 
Description Youth AID Initiative Ghana 
Organisation Youth AID Initiative Ghana
Country Ghana 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution House to house and community engagement
Impact Local families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Youth Advocates Ghana 
Organisation Youth Advocates Ghana
Country Ghana 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Local distribution of our resources
Impact 8900 families reached by child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana 
Organisation Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana (YHFG)
Country Ghana 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution Locally distributed through sensitisation programmes
Impact 8900 families reached with child abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description Zambia - Accelerating Adolescent outcomes 
Organisation University of Zambia
Country Zambia 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Dr David Chipanta is engaging government and civil society organisations in Zambia to support the implementation of evidence-based policies and programmes that promote adolescent outcomes.
Collaborator Contribution The team engaged in research, publication and dissemination of peer-reviewed journals and policy briefs to promote adolescent outcomes.
Impact o Publications: Three peer-reviewed journals and one policy brief. o A one-day hybrid policy engagement event hosted by the National AIDS Council Zambia to disseminate the impact of social protection and peer support on adolescent wellbeing in Zambia and virtually (via Zoom). Participants included 50+ stakeholders from the Zambian Government, the University of Oxford, the University of Cape Town, the University of Zambia, USAID, PEPFAR, UNAIDS, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), Palm Associates, Elma Philanthropies, Global Fund, PATA, Youth Groups, Disability Groups, Kabangwe Creative Initiative Association (KCIA), and others.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Zixtech Organization Cameroon 
Organisation Zixtech Organization
Country Cameroon 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution "- Pastors, Priest, Church leaders (Religious Organizations) - We shared to 12 Churhes that have an average of 200 members, so its an estimated number of about 2400 people - Local Councils - Announcement was made and 6 local quarter heads were involved - it more than 1000 people reached"
Impact 10,800 families reached with child-abuse prevention resources
Start Year 2020
 
Description iThemba Lethu 
Organisation iThemba Lethu
Country South Africa 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Provided COVID-19 parenting resources
Collaborator Contribution The organisation hosted six parental workshops for their Youth Life Skills Programme to enhance impact on parenting skills. More than 500 parents attended the workshops. They have additionally used the materials to train 2,500 caregivers who care for up to 3,500 children, and as a training tool for their community upliftment team.
Impact 7188 families reached with child violence prevention resources, and community workers trained for widening and lasting impact.
Start Year 2021
 
Title ParentApp 
Description ParentApp is an app version of the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Parents and Teens (PLH for Teens) programme, designed for parents and caregivers of adolescents aged 10 to 17 years. This is the first offline-accessible, open-source, evidence-based parenting app to be designed and rigorously tested in low-resource settings. It is designed to complement in-person programme delivery and can be used as a self-led option or delivered through a hybrid human-digital approach. It aims to deliver free evidence-based parenting support and child abuse prevention in multiple languages and an adaptable design. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Earlier formative phases of the research explored the relevance, acceptability, satisfaction, and usability of ParentApp for Teens with users from nine African countries. Findings confirmed that the content is acceptable, relevant, and useful, and that the app is easy to use. These findings were supported in a small feasibility pilot in South Africa, although low engagement and participant feedback on design informed several adaptations. The app is being piloted in Tanzania and optimised through a cluster randomised factorial trial before the effectiveness is rigorously tested in a subsequent randomised controlled trial. 
URL https://globalparenting.org/parentapp
 
Title ParentApp Alpha app: App-based version of the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens programme 
Description ParentApp is a digital application adaptation of the in-person Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens programme. The Alpha version of the app was submitted to the Play Store as an internal release. Internal testers from the multidisciplinary core development team, comprised of researchers and app developers, were manually registered using their email account for the Play Store. The release was compatible with Android version 5.1. The app will be licensed under an open license. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2020 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact The Alpha release allowed further design and development iterations and a revised set of specifications and requirements. The resulting design for the app means it is much better placed for impact at scale. 
 
Title ParentApp Beta app: App-based version of the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens programme 
Description ParentApp is a digital application adaptation of the evidence-based in-person Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens programme. The beta version of the app was released on the Google Play Store in South Africa after a series of upgrades to content and stability of the app. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact The beta release allowed further design and development iterations and a revised set of specifications and requirements. The resulting design for the app means it is much better placed for impact at scale. Other updates included translations of the app into 5 local South African languages (isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana, Sesotho and Afrikaans) and well as Kiswahili. It is intended to reach parents with evidence-based parenting support, improve positive parenting and reduce family-level violence. 
URL https://plh-teens-app1.web.app
 
Title ParentChat 
Description ParentChat aims to promote playful parenting and prevent violence through online support groups for parents/caregivers of children aged 2 to 17. The content is adapted from the Parenting for Lifelong Health programmes for young children and adolescents into a support group programme delivered via online text messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Viber, Signal, or Telegram. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact ParentChat was piloted in 2021 in six counties: Malaysia, Montenegro, Moldova, North Macedonia, South Africa, and the Philippines. Initial findings demonstrated an impact on increased positive parenting and reduced violence against children, child behaviour problems, parenting stress and depression, and intimate partner violence victimisation. ParentChat is currently being piloted in a mixed-methods feasibility study in Malaysia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, South Africa, and the Philippines. The main aim of this study is to examine its initial impact on reducing violence against children and improving positive parenting. 
URL https://globalparenting.org/parentchat
 
Title ParentText 
Description ParentText is an automated text messaging service for parents/caregivers of children aged 0 to 17. It is delivered using RapidPro, an open-source application serving low-income communities without smartphone access, and through SMS and messaging platforms such as Telegram, WhatsApp, and Facebook messenger. The application supports multiple languages, including English and local languages. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact In 2022, ParentText will be piloted with UNICEF in Jamaica, Malaysia (2021), South Africa, and the Philippines, with further interest for deployment from partners in India, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Myanmar and Cambodia. 
URL https://globalparenting.org/parenttext
 
Description "Empowering Girls: A Randomised Trial on mHealth Safe Spaces During Covid-19" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Economic Sciences Association of Europe, Bologna, Italy - event participation by the project Youth Impact, Botswana, with presentation by ECR Claire Cullen. Main audience was ECRs and researchers. Academics were potentially influenced through this activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description "Playful parenting in a pandemic: Preventing violence against children" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Opinion piece in "Maverick Citizen", issue of 3 December 2020
Authors Kufre Okop, Catherine L Ward, Lucie Cluver and Suzan Eriksson: "Playful parenting in a pandemic: Preventing violence against children2
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-12-03-playful-parenting-in-a-pandemic-preventing-violen...
 
Description "What's it like work with and being part of youth advisory groups in the context of research focussing on adolescent health, gender and violence" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We collaborated with Safer Young Lives Research Centre at University of Bedfordshire's Our Voices Programme to co-develop and facilitate and online workshop focused on working with youth advisory groups, aimed at academics working on adolescent health, gender and violence research. We presented our experience and perspectives working with young research advisors, and one of our advisors prepared a pre-recorded contribution about his experience being a research advisor with the Eastern Cape Teen Advisory Group (TAG).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.our-voices.org.uk/news/2023/what-its-like-working-with-and-being-part-of-youth-advisory-...
 
Description 10th International Workshop on HIV & Women - Boston, USA 6-7 March 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Plenary session delivered by Professor Lorraine Sherr, Accelerate Hub Co-Director, at 10th International Workshop on HIV & Women, in Boston MA, USA on 6 March
Talk - 'Psychosocial issues for women living with HIV'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description A blog - Reducing labour market information frictions with skill certificates: Evidence from South Africa - VoxDev 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A non-academic knowledge product for policymakers and implementers interested in using this intervention in their own programming.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://voxdev.org/topic/labour-markets-migration/reducing-labour-market-information-frictions-skill...
 
Description A series of interactive presentations with NGOs in South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The PLH ParentApp for Teens team facilitated multiple presentations with various audiences in South Africa on the development and delivery of app-based parenting support in the time of COVID-19. Audiences included UNICEF South Africa and the Department of Social Development at provincial and national level as well as NGOs Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust, FAMSA Potchefstroom, Restoring Youth and Hartebeespoort and the Parent and Child Counselling Centre. Engagements allowed knowledge sharing between researchers, government and NGO implementing partners on opportunities and barriers for the digital delivery of parenting programmes in South Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description A series of parenting meetings with NGOs in West and Central Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Dr Isang Awah conducted a series of meetings with NGOs in Ghana, Cameroon, Liberia, Nigeria and Gambia aimed at sharing learnings on parenting during Covid-19. These meetings resulted in Dr Awah conducting a parenting seminar for fathers in Bamenda, Cameroon and sharing information on the PLH Digital app, generating interest in the app as a future related activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020,2021
 
Description AIDS 2022: "Social support attenuates the syndemic of poor HIV care and stigma on suicidal tendencies among South African young women living with HIV" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Presentation by Early Career Researcher Wylene Saal, giving evidence from HEY BABY and Mzantsi Wakho research studies. Fellow researchers and activists were potentially influenced through this activity. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.aidsmap.com/news/aug-2022/social-support-can-buffer-effects-stigma-suicidality-among-you...
 
Description AIDS 2022: "South African Adolescents living with HIV talk priorities!" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Online presentation given by Early Career Researcher, Jane Kelly at AIDS 2022, Montreal, the 24th International AIDS Conference, which aims to define future research agendas, shift latest evidence to action, and chart a new consensus on overcoming the HIV epidemic as a threat to public health and individual well-being. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to influence practitioners, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description AIDS 2022: presentation "Mental Health of Young people living with HIV" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation by early Career Researcher, Wylene Saal, University of Cape Town giving evidence from HEY BABY Research Study at AIDS 2022, Montreal Canada. Non-profit organizations, activists and fellow researchers were potentially influenced through this activity. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate further interest, influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description AIDSImpact conference, London, UK - Aug 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Various presentations at the 14th AIDS Impact conference July 29th - 31st 2019, London, United Kingdom - given by members of the Hub team.

Conference looking at HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care, focusing both globally and on specific communities and countries hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.aidsimpact.com/
 
Description AUDA-NEPAD Blogs on Gender and Innovation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Series of evidence-based blog posts jointly published by the Accelerate Hub and AUDA-NEPAD on emerging innovations, technologies, and capacity strengthening across sub-Saharan Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Abstract poster presentation at International AIDS Society Conference on adolescent motherhoods' vulnerability to HIV risk behaviours in South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We presented research findings from our analysis of the relationship between adolescent motherhood and multiple HIV risk behaviours (accounting for the correlated nature of outcomes) at the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Abstract presentation at Society for Social Medicine & Population Health annual scientific meeting on accelerator impacts of the Health Extension Programme for adolescents in Ethiopia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We presented research findings from our analysis of the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia at the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health annual scientific meeting, which sparked questions and interest in the topic from the audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Accelerate Hub Nigeria Team Stakeholders' Dissemination Meeting (Workshop): "That Adolescents in Africa May Thrive: Moving from Aspirations to Implementation" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Accelerate Hub Nigeria Team Stakeholders' Dissemination Meeting: "That Adolescents in Africa May Thrive: Moving from Aspirations to Implementation" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KVh1Cf5_TlFRDNCieA8bxUYN330l50XN?usp=sharing
 
Description Accelerate Hub Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 22 October: Dr Elona Toska and team presented at University of Cape Town. Seminar was attended by about 25 people: 10 Hub colleagues, 8 NGO partners and 7 students (give or take)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Accelerate Hub Team Bulletin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Accelerate Hub has sent out 8 Hub Bulletins to the team. The Bulletins showcase our work, welcome new team members, share opportunities and more.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020,2021
URL https://mailchi.mp/8c081862531b/ffd8kbosso-12609654
 
Description Accelerate Hub Twitter account 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Since launching our Twitter account, we have gained 300 followers in a year. Our Twitter channel is an opportunity to engage with new audiences and keep existing audiences informed about our work. Our top new follower is Research Africa @ResearchAfrica (9653 followers) and we have been retweeted by large organisations like UNICEF Office of Research, Innocenti @UNICEFInnocenti (32.6k followers), UCL Institute for Global Health @UCLGlobalHealth (10.5k followers) and more.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020,2021
URL https://twitter.com/accelerate_hub
 
Description Accelerate Hub Virtual Annual Meeting 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact From 3-5 February 2021, the Accelerate Hub came together virtually as a team to reflect on the incredible work we accomplished in the past year, and to discuss and consider our collective vision for 2021. The event was an opportunity to connect with the team to start the year off on the 'same footing' and inspire one another.

"As someone who was attending their first annual meeting, this was informative and interesting. The team did an excellent job organising this, it was quite informative."- Attendee
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Accelerate Hub at One to One Children's Fund Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact On 1 December, three of the world's leading experts on HIV/AIDS, Prof Lorraine Sherr, (codirector of Accelerate Hub), Dr Shaffiq Essajee, and Peter Piot, presented for a World AIDS Day special livestream. They looked at the impact of HIV on children and parenting, including in the context of COVID-19.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Accelerate Hub: Partnering with young people, government partners and implementers to find cost effective solutions to accelerate adolescent SDG achievement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Accelerating Gains in Adolescent HIV: Evidence from two South African Studies 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A presentation given by Principal Investigator, Elona Toska, University Of Cape Town on HEY BABY & Mzantsi Wakho research data to a select group of government and multi-lateral agency representatives. (ESARO ,UNICEF SACO, ANC/ PMTCT, Government sector - health & nutrition, education, social policy). This opportunity for advocacy supported relationship building with stakeholders, policy change and invitations to other events. Next steps to include linkages with Education team at UNICEF and links with DSD via UNICEF SACO to take forward the idea of the support package for adolescent mothers beyond Department Basic Education work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Adolescent engagement at the Accelerate Hub: the story so far 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation at Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub Annual meeting. Cape Town, South Africa
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Adolescent girls & young women: The role of food security across the HIV cascade 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Adolescent mothers living with HIV & their children: Evidence on accelerating access to services and rights 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description African arguments publication: Mental health 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Olayinka Omigbodun was published in African Arguments for her article on mitigating mental health impacts of COVID for young Africans.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://africanarguments.org/2020/04/the-pandemic-will-affect-the-mental-health-of-all-these-groups/
 
Description Ahfad University, Sudan research project on integrated childhood services 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Support to Sudan-led research project on integrating community-based health programming for children and adolescents. Ahfad University sought to integrate health delivery of vaccines, child and maternal health programming, and sexual and reproductive health based on evidence from the Hub and a recent vaccination trial. The Hub was invited to contribute to conceptualising the project at the grant-writing stage.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Alien Time Capsules: An Online Participatory- and Arts-based Approach for COVID-19 Research with Adolescents and Young People in South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact To share research findings with academic, programmatic and policy audiences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Alliance for Medical and Relief Services (AMRES) - South Sudanese National Organization partnership engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact -Held meetings and discussed the scope of work and funding for the Accelerate Hub;
-Ongoing discussions on possible areas of collaboration in consortia work and sharing resources for enhancing adolescents HIV health education.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description An update to funding organisations (GCRF, BEIS and the Newton Fund) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact In January 2020, the Accelerate Hub had a meeting in South Africa that brought together all the research teams and working groups. During the same time, some representatives from BEIS, GCRF and the Newton Fund came to visit the country. So a meeting was set up to a) introduce the Hub, its findings and methodologies, b) share experiences of policy engagement, and c) to hear and learn from their input and feedback.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Article (Umthombo e-magazine) "New evidence that the Work of UN Agencies is EFFECTIVE" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Article in UCT e-Magazine Umthombo Issue 3/2019 (page 33). This article further disseminates concept of effective SDG-accelerators.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.paperturn-view.com/uctresearchoffice/umthombo-3?pid=NTM53953&v=1.1
 
Description Article published on the UNAIDS Website 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Article: Development Accelerators for Adolescents Living with HIV (pgs.169-171), Chapter: Integrated People-Centred Services (pgs. 160-171), UNAIDS Global AIDS UPDATE 2019: Communities at the centre: Defending rights breaking barriers reaching people with HIV services.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/2019-global-AIDS-update_en.pdf
 
Description Australian Development Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Evidence dissemination at the Australian Development Conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Australian Gender Economics Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Evidence dissemination at the Australian Gender Economics Workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Better access to stories can improve adolescent lives in Africa (WP3) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact An article was published in The Conversations Africa on 23 June 2020 at the commemmoration of the Day of the African Child. The Herald, a Zimbabwean daily, then published it on 29 June 2020 under the Creative Commons license. The article was aimed at showcasing the work being done in the Hub as well as generating discussions with academics and the general public on the importance of narrative and the creation of spaces for adolescents to tell their stories as part of the empowerment drive across the continent.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.herald.co.zw/better-access-to-stories-can-improve-adolescent-lives-in-africa/
 
Description Blog post for International Step by Step Association (ISSA) website - "Prioritising Children In and Through Pandemic" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited to provide blog post for ISSA members/readership on COVID-19 parenting resources, impact stories, learning from research and implementation to date.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Botswana: Meeting with stakeholders 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Validation meeting with stakeholders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Brazil: Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis Country-Level Advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Andrea Santos Souza, a family lawyer inspired by the work of The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis partnership, used death certificates to locate and advocate for children in Campinas (São Paulo State) who have lost parents. Campinas municipality has a new law to support orphaned children, and a law at the state level is being considered.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Broader Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa. Expanding access to education, livelhoods and employment for adolescent girls and young women 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Build Peace 2020: Regional Dialogue on Digital Accelerators 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Build Peace 2020 is an annual conference that brings together practitioners and academics from across Africa to discuss a certain developmental theme. In 2020, the discussion was focused on Accelerating wellbeing through Digital innovations. Two members of the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub - Ms Diana Ocholla (South Africa) and Dr Mona Ibrahim (Sudan) - were invited to present innovative approaches to use digital technologies. The presentation included examples from the Parenting for Lifelong Health project, including how technologies were used as a tool to get to hard-to-reach populations. The presentations invited a lot of discussions throughout the conference, and concluded that evidence-driven digital innovations play a key role in accelerating development across Africa. The talks were recorded and published on Youtube.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk4jYshgmnU
 
Description COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs and Intentions among HIV-affected adolescents and young people in South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description COVID-19 Webinar Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Given the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of webinars have been launched for all Accelerate Hub participants to explore the impacts of the pandemic on a multitude of factors related to research design, inclusion of COVID-19 factors into subsequent studies, understanding the impact of COVID-19 on adolescents more generally, and exploring methodological and analytical factors associated with the pandemic that may resonate with the work of various Hub members and Work Packages. These have been fascinating and highly relevant with a number of studies exploring future research questions, harmonising concepts, and giving time and space to understand challenges to data collection as well as solutions in the time of the pandemic. Three webinars were internal and two were open to the public. Five webinars in total have been hosted.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020,2021
 
Description COVID-19 caused millions of school closures. Here's the low-tech solution ( ConnectED) that is keeping kids in developing nations learning 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact A news article on the success of the new phone learning programme ( ConnectED) trialled in Botswana and the plan to trail intervention in Australia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-13/phone-learning-developing-nations-covid-19/101326670
 
Description CSAE and Mind & Behaviour Research Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 20 June: Meta-analysis in Development Economics at Blavatnik School of Govt with speakers: Michael Gechter (Penn State), Rachael Meager (LSE), Eva Vivalt (ANU), Marc Witte (Oxford). Organisers: Ondine Berland, Kate Orkin, Marc Witte
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Capacity Building Series around Multilevel Modelling Applied to Multiple Outcome Analyses 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We organised and delivered an 11 week capacity buillding series around multilevel modelling targeted at Early Career Researchers in the Hub, and research partners at Population Council Kenya and the US Centres for Disease Control. The series used material provided by the online Learning Environment for Multilevel Methods and Applications (LEMMA) resource offered by the University of Bristol. The objectives of the series were 1) to give examples of multilevel data that are used to investigate important social science questions; 2) explain how cluster (or group)-specific random effects can be used to account for the dependency of multilevel data; and 3) enable researchers to apply and interpret the output from multilevel models fitted to clustered social science data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
 
Description Capacity building presentation on how to conduct analyses with multiple exposures and outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The purpose of the session was to consolidate understanding of the research methodology used to study the relationship between factors in adolescents' lives (e.g. food security) and multiple health and wellbeing outcomes related to the Sustainable Development Goals. The session was developed as a follow-up to a previous methods session delivered in October 2019. Additional areas that were not covered in the previous session included how to account for multiple hypothesis testing, and estimating predicted probabilities. A motivating example used a recent analysis investigating the association between family factors and multiple types of child violence (sexual abuse, transactional sex, emotional abuse, physical abuse, youth lawbreaking and community violence victimisation). The presentation helped researchers further understand how they will go about conducting accelerator analyses and strengthened links between methodologists and researchers. Specific questions that arose relating to planned analyses were discussed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Capacity building presentation series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The purpose of the presentations series was to inform good practice in the process of interpreting results from accelerator analyses using survey data. The series focused on the need to unpack the plausibility, presentation, and specificity of findings. The series was presented at the Accelerate Hub annual meeting and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Capacity building webinar on predictive margins using Stata 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A workshop was held collaboratively with WP 1a. The purpose of the session was to introduce Accelerate Hub early career researchers to a key step in the research methodology for estimating the risk reduction associated with single or combination accelerators. All resources for the webinar are freely available on Work Package 0's Open Science Framework Methods Page: https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Capacity building webinar series on longitudinal multilevel modelling 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The purpose of the session was to introduce Accelerate Hub researchers to complex multilevel modelling approaches, able to make stronger claims abour plausible causality. Methods are able to account for clustering in data, unmeasured time-invariant factors, and explore possible reverse-causality. All resources for the webinar series are freely available on Work Package 0's Open Science Framework webpage: https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
 
Description Capacity building workshop on semi-structured interviewing with young Kenyan app developers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact As part of the PLH Digital capacity building arm, researchers from the University of Oxford held a series of workshop with 3 interns from the African Maths Initiative (AMI). The interns are Kenyan youth that have been recruited and mentored to work on the development of the app-based version of the PLH for Teens programme. The workshops focused on how to conduct semi-structured interviews and enabled the interns to actively participate in conducting user testing to inform the project. The interns went on to conduct 30 interviews with service users in Kenya that were used to feedback into the development of the app, the very project on which they are working. Interns were capacitated with knowledge and experience that can be used in their future projects when testing other apps or digital products.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Capacity sharing and building workshop for Early Career Researchers at the annual Hub meeting in Cape Town in January 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The Hub organised a full day capacity sharing and building workshop for early career researchers at its annual meeting, held in Cape Town in January 2020. This included sessions on research methods, research mentoring, communication skills, and policy engagement and influencing. 23 ECRs from DAC and other countries participated in the workshop. The majority of these were female (15); eight males also participated in the workshop.

This workshop emphasised the importance of networking and established and launched a community of practice on the Basecamp online platform, where all researchers are connected and can discuss common issues affecting them and their work with their peers.

Career development and sustainability are also important to the Hub's understanding of 'equitable partnerships' and ECRs were therefore engaged in discussions regarding mentorship and explored future opportunities to identify mentors and mentees using the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) mentorship platform.

Policy engagement is obviously crucial to achieving research impact, as well as to ensuring that early career researchers are able to establish fulfilling and sustainable careers. The session on policy engagement was therefore designed to build confidence and skills in this area. Participants considered the wide range of activities involved in policy engagement and wrote and presented short elevator pitches for policy makers. The workshop was accompanied by a handout, 'An introduction to policy engagement' which contained advice on how to get started, links to further resources, and case-studies of Hub staff and researchers involved in policy engagement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.acceleratehub.org/resources
 
Description Capacity sharing webinar - Global Early Adolescent Study and toolkit dissemination 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Early career researchers were also offered the opportunity to attend a series of free online webinars by the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) and toolkit dissemination. Six ECRs attended the GEAS webinars that commenced on August 1, 2020. The webinars aimed to train researchers in use of existing toolkits for working with adolescents sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Capacity sharing webinar on mentorship of early career researchers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Eight (8) researchers from the GCRF Adolescent hub attended the webinar entitled 'An entrepreneurial approach to science, research and innovation management. This webinar was organised by the African Population and Health Research Center, and facilitated by a speaker invited from a hub partner, the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) on May 20, 2020, via Zoom. The webinar aimed to sensitive the early career researchers regarding various approaches to establishing a scientific career, through an entrepreneurial lens. As a result, researchers signed up for subsequent webinars on the topic of mentorship in research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Capacity sharing webinar on mentorship of early career researchers - sustaining effective research collaborations 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Nine Early-career Researchers attended the webinar titled 'how to create and sustain effective research collaborations.' The webinar was facilitated by a GCRF Hub partner, the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and organised by the African Population and Health Research Center via Zoom. This webinar aimed at enabling early career researchers to form sustainable research collaborations that ensure they advance their careers in research for and with adolescents.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Capacity sharing webinar on policy engagement by early career researchers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Eight (8) researchers from the GCRF Adolescent hub attended the first webinar organised by the APHRC in partnership with the policy engagement team at the accelerate hub. The webinar focused on two main areas of policy engagement, namely; a discussion based on a simulated scenario previously shared via Basecamp on 'UNDP Youth Hackathon'. The second topic focused on 'Policy engagement in a COVID19 world'. Both webinars took place on May 15, 2020, via Zoom.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Capacity sharing workshop and inception meeting for Early Career Researchers on the UKRI GCRF Accelerate hub 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 23 early career researchers attended a one-day inception meeting and capacity sharing workshop as part of the annual hub meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. The one day workshop themed 'Building a Community of Practice for Early Career Researchers' aimed at introducing them to fellow researchers with whom they can communicate, interact, share and exchange knowledge. Some of the topics for capacity sharing included: Accelerator Methodologies, Mentorship, and Applying for funding, Career Opportunities, and Policy Engagement. All Early Career Researchers (ECRs) were enrolled in Basecamp, which is an online platform that enables the capacity sharing team to support a community of practice. ECRs used a basecamp online sharing platform to engage with other researchers and the capacity sharing team on matters related to adolescent research and development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Caregiving in Europe, Africa and the Middle East 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Dr Isang Awah participated in a panel 'Caregiving in Europe, Africa and the Middle East' at the World Carers Conversation Webinar. The panel discussion was attended by 371 policy makers, parenting advocates, government officials, academics and industry representatives and focused on global caregiving practices and gaps and the impact of COVID-19 on caregiving.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Cash transfer support for 400 families of adolescents impacted by HIV and AIDS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Catch up on calls with FCDO and UNICEF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Sharing preliminary evidence on age-sensitive social protection in Zimbabwe and Malawi. Research led by two early-career researchers - William Rudgard and Silingasiwe Dzumbunu. There was interest in advising the research to support evidence-uptake into country and regional levels.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Catch up with Senior Advisor to WHO 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The Accelerate Hub organised a half-day event to : 1) Share the latest evidence on age-sensitive interventions for adolescent wellbeing; 2) share research and advocacy achievements led by early-career researchers; 3) get feedback from David Ross on supporting more impact
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Centre for Social Science Research Seminar on the PLH-SUPER Study hosted by the GCRF Accelerate Hub, University of Cape Town, 12 November 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Catherine Ward (Co-PI) delivered a presentation on the Parenting for Lifelong Health Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research (PLH-SUPER) study (WP5). The meeting was well-attended by NGO partners, postgraduate students and researchers. The presentation provided the audience with background on the study and created a space for rich discussion on parenting programme scale-up. Several new connections with non-profits interested in PLH and PLH-SUPER were made at this seminar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Children: the Hidden Pandemic Report 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A comprehensive policy publication entailing the burden of orphanhood on global, regional, and national levels - with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The paper includes innovative models to estimate orphanhood and recommendations on pre-emptive responses. This brief was circulated to high-level policymakers and influential actors, including (but not limited to) the White House, three African presidential offices, and the Vatican. The paper has also been cited by over 2000 news outlets globally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://spi.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/spi/documents/media/updated_global_estimates_of_covid_1...
 
Description Co-design workshops with PLH Digital user group 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A series of online user engagement workshops were held with target users from 9 DAC countries across Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Liberia, Burkino Faso, Malawi and DRC) to inform the design of the PLH Digital App. User feedback on initial app components and design was fed back to the development team, meaning that the app development happened in an informed manner that included the views of target users in DAC countries as part of the early design and conceptualisation process. These engagements with users created interest in the app amongst the caregivers and parents that participated: "It's something that as a parent, I would want to download and use" - Co-design workshop participant
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Co-leading Youth Advisory Group Workshop with University of Bedfordshire 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Co-organised a workshop to facilitate knowledge exchange on youth participation methods. The Accelerate Hub shared an innovative qualitative approach to engage young people in fragile contexts, emphasizing key lessons from the Teen Advisory Groups in South Africa, Kenya, and Sierra Leone
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Conference abstract presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Researchers from Work Package 0 presented the innovative research methods for identifying development accelerators to the Social Protection and Action Research Knowledge Sharing research network leading to important academic dissemination.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Continued health seeking behaviour of adolescent mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Convening the Global Reference Group for Children Affected by COVID-19 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact As co-directors of the reference group, the Accelerate Hub regularly brought together leading specialists from USAID, World Bank, CDC, WHO, and Maestral to generate live evidence on COVID-19 associated orphanhood. This multi-agency group supported: 1) Innovative statistical models to estimate COVID-19 orphanhood globally; 2) Guidance for age-sensitive national plans that integrate the needs of orphans and vulnerable children; 3) Country-level support to the governments of South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Kenya
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Course lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 1 July: Dr. Elona Toska lectured Adolescent and Youth Health Policy course at UCT, presenting to 35 implementers, policy makers from South Africa and Zimbabwe
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Cross-sectoral Learning in Implementation Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Dr. Yulia Shenderovich presented as a part of a panel discussion, sharing experiences on implementation research, and drawing on the SUPER study, to discuss the transferability of implementation research methods, competencies and capacity building across sectors, to 68 participants, primarily UNICEF staff from around the world.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.unicef-irc.org/events/cross-sectoral-learning-in-implementation-research.html
 
Description Data collection with adolescents in the time of COVID-19 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Accelerate Hub webinar series
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Debates between the South Africa Presidency and Treasury on the budget allocation for South Africa's Social Relief of Distress grant (SRD) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Based on the proposals, economic models and recommendations, the government implemented one of the world's most successful programmes of welfare relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing cash grants to 18 million destitute and unemployed people, paid via mobile phones to minimise health risks. During the pandemic, independent evaluations demonstrate the programme kept 5.5 million people from going hungry. Since 2020, the team's ongoing advice has led to the introduction of a new cash grant for 10.5 million unemployed people, the first such basic jobseekers' allowance on the African continent. By March 2023, 10.5 million recipients will have received a total of £4.5 billion in payments through the programme and 4.5 million have accessed online training services
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020,2021,2022,2023
URL https://mbrg.bsg.ox.ac.uk/policy-partnerships
 
Description Developing a parenting app for low resource settings: Early learnings 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation titled Developing a parenting app for low resource settings: Early learnings, was presented by DAC researcher at the Accelerating Achievement for Adolescents Hub annual meeting. The presentation focused on sharing early findings of the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Digital Health Week: Taboo Breaker Symposium: "Optimizing Sexual and Reproductive health for our adolescents and young people" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Digital Health Week: Taboo Breaker Symposium co-hosted by Taboo Breaker Association in Cape Town. Professor Elona Toska presented to an audience of researchers and digital health colleagues. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Dissemination and Scale-up of a Suite of Evidence-based Parenting Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to online conference, Global Implementation Conference 2021, promoting research at DECIPHer
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://gic.globalimplementation.org/
 
Description Early-career lecturships on adolescent wellbeing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Four Accelerate Hub Early career researchers (from UK, Zimbabwe, and Sudan) invited to lecture post-graduate courses in Social Policy in Oxford University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Eliminating Harmful Practices Against Children: Lessons Learnt from Research and Policy Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting /discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Engagement focused website on methodologies 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Open Science Framework "Development Accelerator Methods" website was established as a public facing platform that enables researchers both within the hub and the broader academic community to access materials on statistical methodologies related to identifying development accelerators. The current focus is on i) longitudinal data analysis, and ii) modelling multiple exposures and outcomes. The link for the website is: https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
 
Description Engagement with "United for Global Mental Health" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Shared evidence on accelerator interventions to improve mental health for adolescents and young people. Evidence detailed low-cost combinations and provisions. United for Global Mental Health is a global advocacy network that can use this evidence to support their global influencing activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Engagement with PEAK URBAN researchers on policy engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In July 2020, the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub policy engagement team had a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing meeting with the PEAK urban group at the University of Oxford. PEAK Urban is another UKRI GCRF funded project that looks at environmental protection across lower- and middle- income countries - they are also particularly focused on policy engagement. While PEAK Urban is well known for in-country government engagements, they wanted to strengthen their relationship with the United Nations and third sector civil society groups. After a series of engagement meetings, the Hub's influencing strategy influenced and supported the design of PEAK Urban's approach to policy engagement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Engagement with Sudanese Minister of Energy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Led by Sudanese early career researchers, a new policy engagement project was launched in Sudan titled Lights, Laws and Livelihoods. The project aims to highlight the multidimensional impacts of electricity access across health, gender equality, violence, education and employment. In Jan 2021, the team had a conversation with the Minister of Energy, who then supported the project with a lot of enthusiasm. A follow-up appointment was booked with the Minister to further understand the ministry's operational priorities, policy-designing process and points of collaboration with other Sudanese ministries.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Engagement with leading philanthropies on child protection 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Presentation of latest evidence on parenting and digital intervention to philanthropies for child protection, including Wellspring Foundation and Tolkein Trust. Audience included members of the Tolkien family.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Engagement with the 2nd Pediatric and Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative for Africa (PAHLCA) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The 2nd Pediatric and Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative for Africa (PATA) invited two Hub researchers to present findings on adolescent wellbeing and resilient referral systems across Eastern and Southern Africa. The collaborative presented a number of national ministries of health across the region.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Engagement with the UNDP Edisson Alliance 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Building on UNDP's track record of integrating and influencing government services, the Edisson Alliance is looking to build an evidence base on effective interventions to recommend to government and has asked the Hub to contribute to their user-friendly evidence bank to make it more accessible to policymakers and civil societies working on adolescent and child policies and provisions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Eswatini Pact: Stakeholder workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact We had a Partner Engagement workshop on August 13, where we explored robust ways to support data cleaning and preparation for data analysis (for pre- and post-test data).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Eswatini: Country-level advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact High-level advocacy to advance social protection and education for orphans and vulnerable children. Series of meetings with PEPFAR, UNICEF, and USAID offices in Eswatini to increase commitments into childhood support following the COVID-19 pandemic. Interest from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to increase the inclusion of children in national recovery plans.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description European Experimental Economic Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Empowering Girls: A Randomized Trial on mHealth 'Safe Spaces' During COVID-19 - Evidence dissemination at the European Experimental Economic Conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.esabologna2022.com/uploads/1/4/0/2/140281238/29_aug_programma_esa.pdf
 
Description Evaluating the global dissemination of two evidence-based parenting interventions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to online conference, Evidence and Implementation Summit 2021, promoting research at DECIPHer
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.eisummit.org/full-program
 
Description Evidence & programming brief on ALHIV in partnership with UNICEF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Adolescents have the lowest rates of retention in HIV care and ART adherence when compared to other age groups. It is essential for programmers to better understand the adolescent HIV care pathways in sub-Saharan Africa, where public HIV services have been decentralised throughout the region. This evidence and programming brief is the first in a new series focusing on programming for adolescents living with HIV. It provides a summary of evidence from a systematic review of adolescent care pathways in low- and middle-income countries, a longitudinal community-traced cohort of ART-initiated adolescents in South Africa, and qualitative interviews with HIV care providers. The brief additionally highlights key considerations for strengthening programming and services for adolescents living with HIV.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.unicef.org/esa/reports/new-evidence-and-programming
 
Description Evidence briefs on orphans for Kenya, Eswatini, and South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Three policy briefs detailing the impact of orphanhood on children in Kenya, Eswatini, and South Africa, written at the request of country offices. Recommendations emphasise the importance of advancing school, healthcare, and family-based care support for orphans and vulnerable children - including setting up new child protection systems or scaling up existing national plans to include children. Briefs are published (and fully accessible) on the official Oxford University website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/the-global-reference-group-on-children-affected-by-covid-19#collapse3701031
 
Description Evidence sharing with Plan International Deutschland 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Accelerate Hub was invited by Plan International Deutschland to share evidence on combined packages for children and adolescents to the Joint Forces Alliance - a working group dedicated to safeguarding adolescents and children. This presentation detailed opportunities to combine INSPIRE provisions for people living in extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Evidence sharing with Plan International Global Hub, UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Accelerate Hub set up a meeting with Plan International to share evidence on gender transformation, especially interventions that improve the lives of adolescent girls and young women. As a follow-up, we were invited by the Head of Profession Policy and Advocacy in Plan International's Gender Transformative Policy and Practice (GTPP) to present evidence on violence against children and improving girls' access to education.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Expert meeting to review the preliminary findings and discuss the main messages of the Global status report on preventing violence against children, 19-20 Nov 2019, organised by World Health Organisation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Lucie Cluver delivered a presentation on 'How violence prevention can accelerate SDG achievement for children and adolescents. The seminar explored how approaches from the INSPIRE technical package of interventions to prevent violence against children and adolescents can accelerate the achievement of several SDG targets for children and
adolescents.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Field Visit to Young1ove in Botswana 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact The research visited two research sites where a partner/collaborator was engaging in interventions targets at school going children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.young1ove.org/programs
 
Description Finding adolescent voice: COVD-19 remote data collection 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Formal working group on methodologies 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The group of 6 researchers was established to inform research methodologies that would be used in work package 2 . The group meets regularly and works to discuss progress on applying statistical methodologies to two key areas of research for the hub i) longitudinal data analysis, and ii) modelling multiple exposures and outcomes. The group are currently working on i) mixed effects probit regression, and ii) multivariate probit regression, for the respective areas of research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description GCRF GROW and HUBS cohort workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Professor Lucie Cluver delivered a presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Girls Not Brides - Child Marriage Research to Action Network Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Webinar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Global Fund: workshop on HIV & Adolescents 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Workshop "Bring Your Own Data" at the HIV & Adolescents workshop focusing on the Global Fund's Stratgy to end inequality. Evidence on gender-transformative HIV interventions shared with the Global Fund HQ and country teams. Following the workshop, Accelerate Hub invited to support new guidance note on AGYW prevention (UNAIDS & Global Prevention Coalition)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Global Nutrition "Brown Bag Lunch" Talk - WFP's Contribution to Advancing the Global AIDS Response 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub invited to present in a brown bag session titled "WFP's Contribution to Advancing the Global AIDS response: evidence-building, partnerships, and policy support lessons from the regional bureaus in Africa". Accelerate Hub director, Lucie Cluver, presented the latest evidence on Social Protection to prevent HIV in adolescents. Co-presenters included UNAIDS focal point in WFP and regional HIV Advisors
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Global Schools Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Evidence dissemination at the Global Schools Forum bringing practitioners and researchers together.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Global What Works summit 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 17 October: Global what works summit 2019 on PLH (Sinovuyo) Teen findings and the design of SUPER study. Yulie
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Grand Round ViiV Healthcare - HIV and mental health programming for pregnant and parenting adolescents living with and affected by HIV 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Guest lecture at LSHTM-WHO course on Global Health 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation on challenges and opportunities to integrate adolescent wellbeing into development agendas. Co-presented with senior WHO officials David Ross and Valentina Balatag - both leading on the WHO's adolescent portfolio.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description HIV & Adolescence 2022: "My strength is to be strong, not to drop out of school": Supporting adolescent mothers return to school" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact International Workshop on HIV & Adolescence 2022, Cape Town - presentation by ECR Janina Jochim, giving evidence on HEY BABY Research Study. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate publicity, influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description HIV & Adolescence 2022: "Preventing and responding to vulnerabilities: Insights from a longitudinal study with adolescent mothers in the Eastern Cape" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact International Workshop on HIV & Adolescence 2022, Cape Town - presentation by ECR Lulama Sidloyi, giving evidence on HEY BABY Research Study. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate publicity, influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description HIV & Women 2022 conference "Adolescent Mothers Affected by HIV in South Africa: An Exploration of Risk and Protective Factors for Maternal Mental Health" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A poster presentation by Early Career Researcher on HEY BABY research data. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate publicity, influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description HIV & Women 2022 conference: "Exploring maternal mental health and child cognitive development among adolescent mothers and their children affected by HIV in South Africa" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A poster presentation given by Early Career Researcher Kathryn Steventon Roberts on HEY BABY research data. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description HIV and Women workshop (online) "Understanding the effects of repeat motherhood among young women living with HIV and their children" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A presentation given by Early Career Researcher Katharina Haag on HEY BABY research data. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description HIV-sensitive social protection presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 16 October: HIV-sensitive social protection to ±30 World Food Programme regional and HQ colleagues from the nutrition and social protection teams
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Health practices of adolescent boys and young men living with HIV in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presentation for The INTEREST Conference for HIV in Africa. Virtual. 27 November 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Helping Adolescents Thrive - Intervention consultation meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A presentation on Zifune was done at the Helping Adolescents Thrive, Intervention consultation meeting. The presentation was delivered in order to provide attendees an example of an adolescent intervention that was co-developed by adolescents from the target population. The presentation was partially deliver by adolescents from the advisory board who worked in collaboration with the research team in creating the intervention. In addition, the purpose of the intervention was also to provide an overview of what intervention components should be considered for an adolescent intervention.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description How harmful cultural practices affect children's rights, health, wellbeing -Experts 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A news article to disseminate the policy brief on promoting adolescent outcomes in Nigeria.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-harmful-cultural-practices-affect-childrens-rights-health-wellbeing-...
 
Description Hub Inception Meeting, January 2019, Cape Town, South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was the Hub's Inception meeting, including all partners, researchers, study leads, work leads, management staff and representatives from policy makers. During this 3-day meeting there were sessions around research strategy, study work plans, Hub policies and processes, next steps in the award and other Hub-wide issues. It was also the first opportunity for all Hub partners to meet face to face, network among them, since the application stage. Partners left the meeting with a sense of a "Hub team" and a clearer idea of what this undertaking really means and what their responsibilities are.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.acceleratehub.org/article/hub-kicks-off-with-a-week-of-inception-meetings
 
Description Hub presents at Cheltenham Science Festival 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof. Lorraine Sherr presented on Zero Hunger to an audience of 500 participants at this year's Cheltenham Science Festival. The UKRI supported this year's Festival as the focus was the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Festival organisers were impressive in developing the festival into a digital event at speed, making it more accessible as a free event with a global reach.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/news/2020/10/festcast-the-un-sustainable-development-goals-with-...
 
Description Hub presents at Coalition for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof. Lucie Cluver presented preliminary analyses from the HEY BABY study at a webinar on adolescent mothers affected by HIV hosted by the Coalition for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS, alongside the Hub's research partners from UNICEF, World Health Organization, and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The analyses was conducted by Accelerate Hub ECRs Dr Wylene Saal, Jason Anquandah, Camille Wittesaele, Kathryn Roberts, Siyanai Zhou and Nontokozo Langwenya.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://childrenandhiv.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CoalitonMay27WebinarSlides-2.pdf
 
Description I had to always think positive - resilience measures adopted by young people to navigate COVID-19 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Poster presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description IAS CIPHER: "Parenting experiences & perspectives: adolescent boys & young men living with HIV" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation given by Early Career Researcher Lesley Gittings (Mzantsi Wakho and TAG research data) at the IAS CIPHER - Men matter: Male involvement in parenting and nurturing of children affected by HIV - Benefits and barriers. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description ICASA 2019 Oral presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation of preliminary HEY BABY baseline data analysis focusing on adolescent mother living with HIV and their child who are HIV exposed. In collaboration with International AIDS Society. Audience: ~90 people, conference attendees (policy makers, practitioners). Location: Kigali, Rwanda.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description INSPIRE Implementation Working Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Lucie Cluver delivered a presentation: Reinvesting the INSPIRE Implementation Working Group and Community of Practice
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Impacts of the syndemic of HIV and early motherhood on adolescent girls and young women in South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Internal meeting on policy engagement synergies with Hub research 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A discussion and presentation about integrating policy engagement into research across the UKRI GCRF Accelerate. This was coordinated by Hub manager Sally Medley in order to identify synergies across work packages - including how the policy engagement team can support early career researchers. A provisional strategy was formulated throughout the discussion on methods to decentralize engagements across the Hub and strengthen in-country policy and advocacy efforts. Individual follow-ups with each workpackage lead will consolidate the strategy throughout Q2 of 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Internal team collaboration webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A research collaboration was established with the Accelerate Hub's Adolescent Engagement, Acceptability, Adolescent narrative teams to develop a mixed-methods approach to evaluating adolescent accelerators. This will enrichen quantitative findings on accelerators by unpacking causal pathways, characterizing factors not measured in quantitative surveys, and understanding how proposed interventions may land with adolescents.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description International AIDS Conference: poster presentation: "Research as resistance: Struggle songs in community-based research with South African HIV-affected adolescent advisors" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact International AIDS Conference, 2022, Montreal Canada. Poster presentation by ECR Lesley Gittings. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate interest, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description International Meeting on HIV-sensitive Social Protection Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact On 14 February 2019, Prof. Lucie Cluver presented initial SDG findings from the Lancet CAH paper
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Interview for podcast - Relate your Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This episodes merges the worlds of research and community intervention with Catherine Ward, a researcher and Professor from University of Cape Town in the Department of Psychology. She shares her research journey and interest in parenting as well as violence prevention in South Africa.

This episode focuses on the Parenting for Lifelong Health programmes for Young Children which is a package of open access, non-commercialised parenting programmes to prevent violence in low-resource settings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://iono.fm/e/946173
 
Description Knowledge exchange with UNDP Regional Office in Bangkok 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The UNDP Regional Office in Bangkok is responsible for oversight of all UNDP offices in South East Asia. In 2019, they launched Youth CoLab, a platform for youth entrepreneurship that facilitates their engagement with employers and policymakers from the public and private sector. They had a meeting with the Accelerate Hub to share experiences and findings on 'what works' when it comes to engaging youth. The Bangkok office also advised the Hub on routes to engaging with industry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Knowledge sharing with Latin American research groups 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact A peer-to-peer learning discussion with academics in Uruguay and Chile about the accelerator approach to development. This was led by Dr Olga Sanchez de Ribera, an established academic funded by the government of Chile. Dr Ribera reported interest in adapting the accelerator approach to look at violence prevention interventions across Latin America
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Leading Minds Conference presentation, UNICEF, Florence, November 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Lucie Cluver presented at high-level UNICEF-WHO meeting on accelerators. Lucie gave an Espresso presentation (short presentation) on mental health care for families and communities in South Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Lecture to Y20 Youth Delegates - representing youth in the UN's G20 - on the Accelerator approach 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact In July 2020, the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub team collaborated with the Misk Foundation for the Y20 delegate training and development. The Y20 program is a yearly training series that equips 20 to 40 young people with the knowledge and skills they need to represent youth interests in the UN's Annual G20 forum. In 2020, the Accelerator concept was included in their syllabus as an introductory module. The session was jointly delivered by the Hub's policy engagement officer and one of the co-directors of the program.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://onthinktanks.org/initiatives/ott-consulting/ott-consulting-projects/y20-delegate-training-an...
 
Description Lesotho: Country-level advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Series of dissemination activities to support evidence-based HIV responses for adolescent girls and young women , including the integration of gender-based violence prevention in national and sub-national policies and advocacy plans. The activities focus on the national social protection policy and the economic and livelihood strengthening programming. In-country consultations included government, UNICEF, and youth-led civil society groups in Lesotho.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Letter to the Editor featured on the Union Homepage 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact Mzantsi Wakho Early Career Researchers (WP2) Siyanai Zhou and Dr Quintin van Staden co-wrote a letter to the editor on the reprioritization of resources from TB testing, treatment and care in the International Journal of TB and Lung Disease.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theunion.org/news/resource-reprioritisation-amid-competing-health-risks-for-tb-and-covid-19
 
Description Lost in remote connection: Adaptive and human-centred remote training during a pandemic. Reflections from a large-scale research study. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Poster presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Malawi: Country-level advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact High-level engagement with key stakeholders to leverage commitments to support orphans and vulnerable children, including meetings with the Malawian President, PEPFAR, and UNICEF offices
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Malawi: Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis Country-Level Advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact o Engagement with high-level national stakeholders, including His Excellency, the President of Malawi, US Ambassador, MOH, National AIDS Council, National Registration Bureau, Malawi COVID-19 Response, Ministry of Gender, Child Development and Social Welfare, CDC, USAID, UNICEF, Forgotten Voices Malawi, Malawi Without Orphans, Council of Churches of Malawi, Association of Evangelicals of Malawi.
o Commitments were made to revise the death certificate to improve the identification of orphaned children.
o The World Bank Malawi was influenced to consider applying for the World Bank's HQ Rapid Social Response Fund
o UNICEF Malawi leadership is revising their next 5-year plan, and now in response to our data and this visit, they will propose extending this to include orphaned children living with a surviving parent or caregiver.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Media articles highlighting workseeker signalling study - Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator (WP4) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact An opinion piece was written in South Africa's Daily Maverick, Africa Portal, and BizCommunity, and City Press highlighting the Harambee Accelerator study and why signalling matters.
• https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-05-15-why-signals-can-matter-as-much-as-skills-in-youth-employment/
• https://www.africaportal.org/features/its-not-just-about-skills-its-about-employability/ .
• https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/626/193037.html
• https://city-press.news24.com/Business/why-young-people-cannot-find-work-but-businesses-struggle-to-hire-20190607
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-05-15-why-signals-can-matter-as-much-as-skills-in-y...
 
Description Media collaboration with the Continent and Democracy for Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Four Accelerate Hub early-career female researchers were invited to contribute to The Continent magazine, which focuses on political and social change across Africa. The researchers will be writing about their latest research in Nigeria, Sudan, South Africa and Lesotho on issues ranging from gender-based violence prevention to adolescent learners policies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Media interview: Breakthrough on HIV adolescence: Prof. Mark Orkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Lead statistician, Professor Mark Orkin, delivered a media interview on behalf of research team at SABC News, Johannesburg, South Africa. This news broadcast has a national reach to an estimated 38,000 public audience. Prof Orkin presented new evidence that could help governments have better policies and programmes to support adolescents living with HIV and achieve the UN's sustainable development goals. During the interview Prof Orkin shared findings of three development accelerators (parental support, financial support and being in safe schools where there is no bullying) that could support these adolescent to achieve the SDGs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeXfH7MFs30
 
Description Meeting with "The Conversation Africa" on Evidence-based blogs 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Partnership with the Conversation Africa to support high-impact blogs led by early-career researchers in the Accelerate Hub network. So far, two articles are under way focused on Health and Wellbeing in Ethiopia, and Gender-transformative school interventions in South Africa
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Meeting with Global Fund, CCM and the National AIDS Council in Zambia, July 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Clarified the objectives of the GCRF and linkage between HIV prevention, Treatment and Global Fund Zambia Programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with ILO in Zambia - July 23, 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Clarified the objectives of the GCRF and linkage between the United Nations Partnership for Rights of People with Disability (UNPRPD) received inputs on items include in the research protocol to capture the needs of adolescents with disability
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with National Social Assistance Unit in Kenya - Adolescent Outcomes From Cash & Aspirational Video (WP4) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A meeting was held with Kenya Social Assistance Unit (SAU) to discuss first phase of trial and potential design for next phase. It included 6 members of the Social Assistance Unit including John Gachigi, Head of Social Assistance Unit. SAU is within the national structure of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and is the implementation arm of the National Safety Net Programme (NSNP). There are 4 cash transfer programmes within NSNP.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with Siaya Ministry of Education official Kenya - Adolescent Outcomes From Cash & Aspirational Video (WP4) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Had a meeting and gave short presentation to an official with the Siaya Ministry of Education about the research design of the next phase of research trial. Met with an official from the County Director of Education's (CDE) office. The CDE is in charge of the education in the county and operates within the County (not National) structure in Kenya.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with Social Protection Secretariat in Kenya - Adolescent Outcomes From Cash & Aspirational Video (WP4) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A meeting and presentation was held with the Kenya Social Protection Secretariat office to discuss first phase of trial and potential design for nex tphase. the meeting included 5 members of the Social Protection Secretariat office including Madame Jacynter Omondi. The Secretariat's Office is within the national structure of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and is the strategic arm of the National Safety Net Programme (NSNP).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with WHO Senior Advisors on Healthy Schools 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The UKRI GCRF's Accelerate Hub's policy engagement team was invited to a meeting with the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research to talk about the WHO's guidelines for health programs in schools. The meeting was led by Dr Anshu Banerjee, a Senior Advisor for the department responsible for inter-agency collaboration including the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank research teams. The Hub presented the accelerator approach as a means of improving beyond just health in schools, but rather a way to improve multiple development outcomes in low-income countries. Following their request, a summary of the Hub's findings on health and education was then sent to Dr Banerjee's team after the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Meeting with partners at the Zambian Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, July 24, 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Clarified the objectives of the GCRF and explained the linkages between the UNPRPD and the research and the overall on cash transfers of the ministry of community development and social welfare
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with the British High Commissioner to South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Kate Orkin held a meeting with the British High Commissioner to South Africa and a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The discussions included latest policy developments, with a particular COVID focus, and resulted in improved information on the local context feeding through to British foreign policy in South Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting: Global status report on preventing violence against children expert 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A meeting held in Geneva - organised by the World Health Organization (WHO), attended by Professor Lucie Cluver, to discuss the main messages of the Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Methodological training of Accelerate Hub Work Package 0 Early Career Researchers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The purpose of attending these trainings was to develop understanding of key quantitative methods for accelerator analyses. The courses include: University College London Longitudinal Data Analysis in-person taught course, Cambridge SEM in R in-person taught course, and the Statistical Horizons on demand course "Longitudinal Data Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Methodologies for i) longitudinal data analysis, and ii) modelling multiple exposures and outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The group of 6 researchers was established to inform research methodologies that would be used in work package 2. The group includes 3 senior and 3 early career researchers from the Universities of Cape Town (South Africa), Oxford (UK), and Witwatersrand (South Africa) (50:50 gender balance). The group meets regularly and works to discuss progress on applying statistical methodologies to two key areas of research for the hub i) longitudinal data analysis, and ii) modelling multiple exposures and outcomes. The group are currently working on i) mixed effects probit regression, and ii) multivariate probit regression, for the respective areas of research. The long term goal is to integrate the methods for these two areas of research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019,2020
 
Description Monthly Newsletters 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The COVID-19 Playful Parenting team's collaboration has brought together global agencies, governments, universities, NGOs, and community organisations to provide evidence-informed playful parenting resources to an unprecedented number of people in just a few months of intense work since the COVID-19 pandemic started. These monthly newsletters are designed to communicate regularly with our partners, funders and other interested parties, and inform them of the progress of our projects across the world, as we continue to work tirelessly to create innovative approaches, respond to partner requests, and learn how the parenting resources impact the lives of children and families.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.covid19parenting.com/newsletters
 
Description Monthly methodological review in the Accelerate Hub news bulletin 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The monthly methodological review was established as an Accelerate Hub wide platform that updates researchers on recent methodological publications and resources that may serve them in their analyses of development accelerators. The newsletter aims to ensure highest quality research methods are used by Hub Researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Mpumalanga Province government 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Principal Investigator is engaging regularly with the Mpumalanga Province government, specifically the Deputy Director for the Office on the Rights of the Child and the Director General for governance and criminal justice. At this stage, this engagement informs them of progress in ongoing data collection and problems with service delivery, particularly around services for victims of violence
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Mzantsi Wakho researcher network on i) longitudinal data analysis, and ii) modelling multiple exposures and outcomes, September 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The purpose of the webinar session was to update the Mzantsi Wakho researcher network on methods being used for longitudinal data analysis, and study of multiple health and wellbeing outcomes. The session was attended by 15 researchers from across different social sciences: public health, and development studies, and methodological disciplines: quantitative science and qualitative science. Researchers from both University of Cape Town and University of Oxford attended. The session sparked questions relating to the specifics of the methods used, and increased awareness in the researcher network of the methods presented. It also helped to strengthen the network between researchers at both University of Cape Town and University of Oxford that are involved in the Mzantsi Wakho study.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Narrative Interventions Working Group (WP3) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents (Accelerate) Hub has created a work group with members from multiple disciplines, with interconnecting interests in narrative and its social and cultural impacts. The group was brought together with the intention of exploring concrete ways in which story-telling can help to roll out and even accelerate interventions for adolescents in African contexts. This project hopes to explain how we can practically integrate story-telling into social and economic intervention by answering the key questions: To what extent do you think storytelling can be an intervention for adolescents in African contexts? Do we see this as a standalone intervention or part of a package of interventions? Or possibly both?

Part I: Exploring Narrative Interventions
Provided below are the work group's definitions of story-telling and intervention below:
Storytelling: Accelerate Hub defines story-telling broadly as narrative approaches, structures, patterns and techniques. More narrowly, story-telling is the process by which an individual gives an account of their personal experience orally or through writing. Through storytelling, that individual uses a personal narrative to "identify important life themes and ascribe meaning and coherence to past and present life events" (Gladding and Drake Wallace 2010:18).
Intervention: Accelerate Hub defines intervention as what governments can do to improve outcomes for adolescents in African contexts. For the Hub, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a guideline for the outcomes they would want to achieve through interventions. Interventions can be policies, programmes, or intensive interventions. Some examples are: policies around youth employment, programmes such as cash

Storytelling helps young people release emotions, convey knowledge and make meaning (Kalitzkus 2009, Gladding and Drake Wallace 2010, Pennebaker and Seagal 1999, McLean et al 2016, Miller 1994). Interventions are designed to create opportunities for positive outcomes in people's lives. Designing an appropriate narrative/storytelling intervention geared to improving the lives of adolescents in African contexts is one of the main outcomes this project hopes to achieve. Understanding that from a young age, processes of constructing our narrative identities or our "internalized, evolving and integrative story of the self" begin, many studies have addressed the period of adolescence and its importance in our life stories (McAdams 2008:242). Ultimately, these stories that begin to form internally, influence how we see ourselves and the world outside of ourselves (Boehmer et al 2021 unpublished, Hull and Katz 2006:47). The crafting of one's identity, the development of a sense of self and self-determination is particularly important for those who have faced the "constraints of specific social, cultural, and historical contexts": African youth fall into this category (Hull and Katz 2006:47). With the history of repression on the African continent, by sharing one's story, adolescents in Africa can achieve "narrative empowerment" and counter longstanding stereotypes about Africa and its people (Hua 2013:37, Wainaina 2005). Steve Bantu Biko conceptualized 'Black Consciousness' as a deliberate way in which black people can embrace their own stories and never "regard themselves as appendages to white society" (1978:51). Storytelling can be a significant counterhegemonic tool for African adolescents that ignites their Black Consciousness and narrative empowerment allowing them to see themselves as the main characters in their own lives. This suggests that interventions tapping those feelings of centredness and empowerment will be better interventions. As acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2009) reminds us, stories have power, and it matters who gets to tell them. Exploring how storytelling improves the lives of young people, Boehmer et al (2021:5) describe these powers as including the power to resist certain stories and the power to reshape one's own story.
Bearing in mind the power behind storytelling and the potential for it to positively influence an adolescent's sense of self, our work group wants to look at designing an intervention that could lead to positive outcomes in other spheres of their lives as well. Can the interventions that already exist incorporate a storytelling element-extra time for storytelling; social workers trained as storytellers and -listeners-that would help to accelerate those interventions? We are looking to lean in and learn from similar projects created to improving lives through cultural and arts-based interventions, focussing especially on how they are structured, their possible limitations, and their outcomes.
A) Examples of Story-telling Interventions:
Most of Africa's population is young, so we are interested in designing an intervention that is particularly invested and interested in these young people's lives, stories and how they negotiate meaning. Narrative has many powers and opens doors to many possibilities for young people. Through Mariner Warner and Valentina Castagna's 'Stories in Transit' project in Italy with young refugees we learn that narrative can help "build a place of belonging for those without a nation" (2018:142). With the help of creative professionals, this project engaged refugees aged 15-18 in storytelling activities like plays, storytelling games, childhood stories and poems all exploring whether narrative expression could provide a shelter to individuals who had recently lost their homes. In an ongoing social media project on Instagram, poet Upile Chisala has created an 'Aunty Agony' space called 'Shenanigans' where young people share their own stories and confessions and to which Chisala responds with memes and advice (2021). Chisala uses humour on her platform to give advice to young people on topics ranging from depression to dating to family issues. Both the 'Stories in Transit' and Chisala's project showcase how storytelling can be used in times of deprivation and distress as a means of comforting and connecting people to their pasts, themselves and to each other. Below are examples of studies that focused on interventions which have taken similar approaches and their outcomes:

1. Understanding the Experience and Manifestation of Depression in Adolescents Living with HIV in Harare, Zimbabwe (Willis et al 2018)
Background
A study exploring the experience and manifestation of depression in adolescents living with HIV in Zimbabwe.

Methods
Body mapping exercise with 21 HIV positive 15-19 year olds diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Painted maps of their bodies to express somatic and emotional experiences in qualitative interviews.

Results
Participants attributed their experiences of depression to relationships and interactions with important people in their lives, feeling different from others, unimportant and isolated, feelings of ambiguity about the future. Supportive factors were also relational, including the importance of supportive relatives and peers, clinic staff and psychosocial support programmes.

Limitations

The sample size was small and it may therefore not be possible to make generalizations about the larger population of adolescents living with HIV and depression.

Conclusions
An understanding of HIV positive adolescents' own narratives around depression can inform the development and integration of appropriate mental health interventions within HIV care and treatment programmes. Study findings suggest that family and peer-led interventions are potentially useful in the prevention and management of depression in adolescents living with HIV.

2. Storytelling, drama and play in psychosocial interventions for communities affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa-developing pathways to locally sustainable care (McCLaren 2010)

Background
An innovative strategy by Clowns Without Borders South Africa (CWBSA) to address the psychosocial needs of orphans, vulnerable children, guardians and community caregivers affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis in Southern Africa. Strategy incorporates drama Incorporating drama, storytelling, song, circus arts, and mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Methods
Performances, art-based residencies, local capacity building and ongoing monitoring and evaluation. The foundation of this methodology rests on local cultural mediums of storytelling, song and African drama, while integrating innovative techniques such as mindfulness-based stress reduction, play therapy and symbolic play.

Results
Observed the positive impact of the programme, children and caregivers were connected in nurturing relationships. Guardians rediscovered the benefits of empathic care in their families. And children are once again allowed to be children - to play, to laugh and to be loved.

Limitations
Challenges in balancing innovation with standardisation, staff turnover and funding.

Conclusions
This cycle of research-implementation-reflection was essential in formulating an intervention methodology that could respond to the needs of our beneficiaries. By incorporating existing research publications, partner and beneficiary feedback, and internal evaluations, we developed a more accurate picture of the situation for families affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa and how our interventions might have a positive impact.

3. Digital Storytelling as a Narrative Health Promotion Process: Evaluation of a Pilot Study (DiFulvio et al 2016)

Background
This study looks at outcomes associated with engaging in the digital storytelling (DST) process for vulnerable Puerto Rican youth.

Methods
A total of 30 Puerto Rican Latina participants between the ages of 15 to 21. Three 4-day DST workshops. Workshop 1: 10 women neither pregnant nor parenting. Workshop 2: 4 pregnant or parenting youth & 6 non-parenting or non-parenting youth; and Workshop 3: 10 pregnant or parenting youth. 29 of the participants completed their own individual 1 to 3-minute digital story.

Results

Self-reported data on several scales (self-esteem, social support, empowerment, and sexual attitudes and behaviours) were collected and analysed. Participants showed an increase in positive social interactions from baseline to 3-month post workshop. Participants also demonstrated increases in optimism and control over the future immediately after the workshop.

Limitations
Small sample size.

Conclusions
Participants expressed positive feelings associated with telling their own story in a group setting and in particular, having the opportunity to describe their own experiences and having their voices heard. This finding may be an especially important finding for marginalized populations who are adversely impacted by racist, sexist, and classist media and messaging. The process encouraged participants to feel connected to others and less socially isolated in their experiences.

Part II: ____ Working Group's Proposed Narrative Intervention

The work group will embark on visualizing the structure of our storytelling intervention. This will range from considering the methodology we adopt, to thinking about the background to the location and other specifics. The examples in the previous section offered insights into the shortcomings and the effective parts of some storytelling interventions. The studies included the use of video games, plays, social media, films, creative writing groups, performances, and body mapping exercises to enact change in the lives of adolescents. As a work group bound together by our interests in storytelling, we have the unique opportunity to delve into the odd or the mundane and argue for methods in which storytelling can be practically translated into an intervention with the potential to promote desired health, social or other kinds of outcomes for adolescents in the African context.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Narrative and adolescent development (WP3) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Narrative and Adolescence workshop took place in Cape Town, 1 - 3 March 2020, as the second in a series of four planned workshops under Work Package 3 (WP3) of the UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub. Narrative and Adolescence was held at Community House in Salt River, a location of profound historical relevance in the South African history of labour movements and unions. As organisers we chose this site to honour the history of the anti-apartheid movement and South Africans' ongoing process of seeking self-determination and what Steve Biko characterised as achieving an 'envisioned', inwardly consolidated self (I Write What I Like, 1978). Workshop participants were drawn from various locations from across Africa, Europe and North America. Broadly, they comprised Hub members, academics, writers, performers, poets and researchers from a wide variety of fields as well as activists and organizations working with adolescents and youth. Nineteen of the more than 50 participants were young people representing different youth groups and programmes, in particular, Lesedi Arts Collective, Ubuntu Fashion Trends and Ikamva Youth.

The workshop focused on how adolescents across the African continent use storytelling, performance and a range of narrative forms and patterns to understand their worlds and their place in it. Across the three days, participants were invited to think through different kinds of adolescent stories and ways of storytelling. The aim was to discover more about these stories and narrative procedures, especially what they tell us about: (i) how the well-being of adolescents can be supported; (ii) how can adolescents exercise agency through story-telling and other kinds of creative practice; (iii) how institutions, structures and social interventions might clash with individual adolescents' stories; (iv) how institutions, structures and social interventions could help to shape these stories in empowering ways. Asking these questions about storytelling and adolescence required approaches that bridged disciplines, bringing in perspectives from psychiatry to literary studies, public health to geography and economics to medical humanities and philosophy. It also meant listening attentively to the experiences and work of storytellers, performers, and especially adolescent storytellers themselves.

Day One of the workshop, entitled 'Me and my stories', was dedicated to working with adolescents and youth groups. Those in attendance, apart from the core Work Package 3 team, included the invited youth groups as well as adolescents and facilitators from Interfer and Clowns Without Borders. After the welcome and introductions, Interfer provided the kick-start activity to help break the ice and draw our participants, especially the young people, into the workshop. The introductions were done bilingually, in Xhosa and English, with translations alternating between the two. Afrikaans was also used by some participants and groups. We were then split into groups where we used drawing and colouring to try to give expression to some formative life narratives (growing up, getting older). Continuing with colouring pencils and flipcharts, participants then broached the subject of stereotypes and answered the key question: what are some of the stereotypical ideas that circulate about young people? This was followed by a sharing session in which the young people spoke to their illustrations and drawings. They outlined some of the limiting ideas and analogies often uncritically foisted upon them. The adolescents also talked about how they would like to be seen by others. Suggestions on how this could be done included the idea that more attention should be paid to the complexity and variety of the contexts they inhabit. Their contexts should not be used as a frame to view them in ways that deny the adolescents' individuality.



Day Two of the workshop welcomed other Hub members as well as academics, researchers, activists and representatives of the youth groups who participated on the first day.

The first session, 'Empowerment Through Story', looked at how stories and performances articulate our experiences and empower us. Presentations were made by Jess Auerbach, Lesley Gittings and Musa Kika. Jess highlighted the emergence of 'digital natives', a concept that has emerged to describe the generations who have grown up with the internet. In many African countries, there is increasing engagement with the internet among young people and yet limited access to it. Lesley highlighted that most young men are reticent to share their stories but song can be used to express the vulnerability and challenges they experience. Musa shared a story of a child charged for malicious damage to property to highlight the abuse adolescents endure whilst in forced child-marriages. The story showed how child protection and civil society work can be done. Through understanding adolescents' motivations and the narratives through which those motivations are expressed, it becomes easier to advocate for policy reform. Many adolescents, however, do not have sufficient access to information with the rural-urban divide affecting rural girls more since this is where there is the least mobile infrastructure and connectivity.

In the second session, 'Narrative is different', presenters drawn from diverse professions explained how they utilised storytelling in their approaches to working with adolescents. The discussants for this session were Isang Awah, Clowns Without Borders, Lisa Julie, Isaac Ndlovu and Elona Toska. Drawing on texts and case studies that had been circulated to participants, the workshop looked at: (i) the role of narrative in shaping how African adolescents understand themselves and their place in the world; and (ii) how narrative interactions involving African adolescents can help us understand the adolescent and their actions. It became clear that narratives are different for the same interventions across global divides. For example, a common narrative on cash transfers and social grants is that they are framed as charity. Against this, some Latin American countries tried shifting from the narrative of charity to one of cash transfer as a right. As this shows, different stories have different humanizing or dehumanizing, empowering or disempowering implications.

'Narrative is different' also discussed how we frame basic needs versus emotional needs in interventions, and the important question of how we treat and approach other people's children. Isang highlighted a connection explored in a Nigerian writing competition between what children read, and how and what they write. She observed that most children involved in the competition did not see themselves as worthy of being written about. Their stories featured foreign places and characters. Lisa indicated that in her work in tertiary level education, students always looked at texts in ways informed by their social context. For example, they often approached the literary canon with discomfort, uncertain about it as a source of guiding stories. thinking about adolescence in linear terms, as 'just a stage' between childhood and adulthood, similar to how life, according to the Russian writer Nabokov, is seen as a 'piece of light between two eternal darknesses'. Elona and Clowns Without Borders discussed how parents and caregivers with adolescent children often end up treating other adolescents (in the community/research/work) similar to how they treat their own children, that is, in a 'homogenising' way. However, sharing stories provides helpful ways through which the different perspectives of parents, caregivers and teenagers can be voiced.

Several key points emerged from the discussion that followed. First, it emerged that writing could be seen as a form of thinking, or a practice of thought. Second, writing is always involved in its social context, just as writers too are involved. Therefore, writers' stories matter to the extent that the writers are seen to matter. Third, there was a crisis of imagination in stories being told and consumed across Africa in that very few stories are being framed within an African context. Most teenagers narrated their stories of hope based on the idea of going abroad into diaspora as the measure of success. There was general regret and concern about the dearth of writing and stories for teenagers on the continent. Important questions that remained were: who owns the stories of young people? How do we properly treat young people's stories? How do we preserve the integrity of those stories, including when they are passed on? It is frustrating that story-telling exercises are often presented with an agenda. The Hub might usefully be aware of this. The discussion reiterated the important point that interventions including narrative-based interventions be context-specific and applicable to local needs. We need to keep noticing how the stories young people share - not only the broad patterns but also the nuances - speak to their experiences.

Day Three continued to deepen our understanding of narrative and story-telling in relation to adolescence. In the first session, 'Collective stories: narrative and intervention', participants explored how stories work in practice. They probed how narratives evolve as activists and practitioners bring other people into their work and spaces. The panellists Ubah Farah, Kingwa Kamencu, Noella Moshi, Boniface Mwangi, Sikelela Kwatsha, Clyde Muller and Yanga Totyi offered snapshots of their personal stories. Ubah shared her story of being a mixed-race migrant in Europe, and the sense of in-betweenness this raised. How do we talk about violence with young refugees who have gone through so much trial and tribulation? What are the stories and images that capture this experience? There are multiple intersecting reasons for young people to seek to leave Africa. People 'leave in the afternoon', rahl, a verb in Somali with negative connotations.

Participants then explored in broader terms how stories influence the ways in which young people understand and relate to the world and establish themselves in it. We saw that this involved tackling important and difficult questions: How can better understandings of narratives improve interventions involving adolescents? How do stories impact on policy set-up and design? These discussions will form part of an ongoing process of interrogating work across the Hub and will be developed in a series of short papers including on Adolescent engagement and activities, on BC thought, and on self-empowerment. These papers will draw together and expand upon findings from our discussions, as outlined above, including on how BC ideas and the related stories we tell about ourselves can help us exercise agency in our lives, and on how story-telling approaches and techniques can improve our research on adolescence. An audio file of key quotations will also be available. LINK. A further suggestion that arose from workshop participants was that adolescent representation should ideally be increased, not to say doubled, in Hub research activities going forward. Through Work Package 3, the Hub can adopt an emancipatory pedagogy whereby the added objective of helping to improve the material conditions of adolescents through self-belief and -empowerment is prioritised.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Navigating Lockdowns: Proximal-resilience measures adopted by young people to navigate COVID-19 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Navigating hard conversations at work 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description New phone learning programme trialled in Botswana successful 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact A news article on the success of the new phone learning programme trialled in Botswana.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-01/new-phone-learning-program-encourages-african/13997968
 
Description News Coverage - How can we establish a pro-youth and entrepreneurship strategy for South Africa? Biz Community 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A news article on the importance of communicating credible information in the labour market that gives employers comfort in offering a job to youth with little or no prior experience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/626/193037.html
 
Description News Coverage - It's not just about skills, it's about employability - Africa Portal 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A news article on the importance of communicating credible information in the labour market that gives employers comfort in offering a job to youth with little or no prior experience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.africaportal.org/features/its-not-just-about-skills-its-about-employability/
 
Description News Coverage - Why 'signals' can matter as much as skills in youth employment - Daily Marverick 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A news article on the importance of communicating credible information in the labour market that gives employers comfort in offering a job to youth with little or no prior experience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-05-15-why-signals-can-matter-as-much-as-skills-in-y...
 
Description News Coverage - Why young people cannot find work but businesses struggle to hire - City Press 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A news article on the importance of communicating credible information in the labour market that gives employers comfort in offering a job to youth with little or no prior experience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.news24.com/citypress/Business/why-young-people-cannot-find-work-but-businesses-struggle-...
 
Description Newton/GCRF Gender Campaign - "Women in Science" video featuring Professor Lucie Cluver 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Newton/GCRF Gender Campaign - "Women in Science" video featuring Professor Lucie Cluver
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.newton-gcrf.org/impact/gender-equality/
 
Description Nothing about us, without us! Lessons learnt from adolescent advisory groups with young people living with and closely affected by HIV 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Poster presentation for the virtual International AIDS Conference to share research findings with academic, programmatic and policy audiences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Nothing about us, without us! Participatory and art-based approaches to knowledge co-creation with adolescent advisors 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact to be added
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Oak foundation presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 21 October: Presented Accelerate Hub to 8 members of Oak Foundation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Online conference: International Symposium on Health Development of Vulnerable Populations 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Online group discussions with Nigerian parents on app use 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact 5 online discussion groups were held with a total of 20 Nigerian parents (both male and female). The groups focused on the use and acceptability of apps amongst Nigerian parents, sharing information on what users might look for in an app, and sparked interest in the parenting app being developed as part of the PLH Digital project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Organisation of 'Narrative and Adolescence' workshop, 1-3 March 2020, Cape Town, South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This workshop involved groups of adolescents from East Cape Town and the Cape Town Flats. The focus of the workshop was on narrative - how adolescents in African contexts use story-telling, performance and narrative -to understand their worlds and their place in it. The workshop explored the stories adolescents tell others about themselves; the stories they tell themselves, their 'internal narrative', which helps them to make sense of the world and their interactions with it; and, the stories that are told about adolescents, such as by researchers, and which shape the interactions adolescents have with others. The workshop will take a multi-disciplinary approach, bringing in perspectives from psychiatry to literary studies, public health to geography and economics to medical humanities and philosophy. Participants were extremely receptive to the workshop approaches, very open to engaging and sharing about their lives, and keen to continue to engage and work with the researchers in future. A particular theme to emerge is the Black Consciousness Movement, which will be future explored. The development of a working paper is in progress.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Organisation of meeting/event for Accelerate Hub Advisory Board and Hub Partners 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Event organised by ParentApp research team at University of Cape Town.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Ox Social Sciences Division Article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 22 July: Lucie Cluver- Accelerating Achievement: profile piece on LC to promote research success stories in Ox Social Sciences Division and for potential extended reach (Radio 4's Life Scientific programme)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Oxford Social Sciences Profile Article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 1 August: From social worker to international policy influencer (Oxford Social Sciences profile), profile on Prof. Lucie Cluver
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/article/from-social-worker-to-international-policy-influencer
 
Description Oxford University Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 4 July: Prof. Lucie Cluver chaired Session 1: Impact and challenge-led research at The Good, the Bad and the Project: Interdisciplinary Ethics in Development Research and Practice, University of Oxford
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description PATA - Paediatric-Adolescent Treatment Africa 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Accelerate Hub invited to present evidence on HIV and violence prevention, with emphasis on screen and support services to end gender-based violence for girls and young women
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.facebook.com/kabangwecreative/posts/6262693020472225/?comment_id=6262843487123845
 
Description PATA Summit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 18 October: PATA 2019 Summit, attended by ±200 teams from Cameroon, DRC, eSwatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description PLH Digital Stakeholders' Group First Annual Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Seventy-two project stakeholders attended the first annual meeting of the PLH Digital Stakeholders' Group on 25 January 2021. Attendees shared important considerations to guide the development, testing and scale-up of digital parenting interventions, which generated further discussions and interest in the PLH Digital tools and ongoing research. This is a formal reference group formed by the PLH Digital team, representing over 20 civil society organisations, academic institutions, donor and development aid agencies, government and other partners operating at national, regional and international level across both DAC and non-DAC countries. Representatives in the group include UNICEF, UNICEF Innocenti, UNICEF IOGT, UNODC, USAID, PEPFAR, World Bank Group, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, ECDAN, World Without Orphans, The Human Safety Net (Generali), LEGO Foundation, Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Catholic Relief Services, Oak Foundation, Together for Girls, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub, Clowns Without Borders South Africa, IDEMS International, African Maths Initiative, and others.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description PMNCH-Accelerate Hub Investment case for adolescent well-being 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Sharing evidence on accelerator interventions with the WHO Advocacy team to support an investment case into adolescent wellbeing. The investment case will highlight key country examples and will support high-level advocacy pushing for investments into the adolescent age group across low- and middle- income countries. Prof Chris Desmond, senior economist and co-director of the Hub, shared potential methods and tools to support a more impactful investment case.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Pact South Sudan - collaborative work with the USAID funded ACHIVE Project in South Sudan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Followed up discussion on collaborative work with the USAID funded ACHIVE Project in South Sudan to support social protection for adolescents living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Other areas of collaboration include sharing of training resources for case care workers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Pact Tanzania: Presentation of findings 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact We held a meeting in mid-January with Pact Tanzania team members to present an overview of the findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Pakistan Business Council's Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business (CERB) - employers' support of positive parenting during COVID-19 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Invited to contribute interview-style piece to their Bulletin addressing the following questions:
What is the Parenting for Lifelong Health initiative and why was it created?
What can employers do to support working parents in a COVID-19 context?
How can parents engage with their children during the pandemic in a way that is appropriate for children's development while allowing busy parents to keep working?
What resources do you have available to support parents, children and employers during this difficult time?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description ParentApp Pan-African User Testing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Repeated engagement with parents and caregivers and their adolescents aged 10 - 17 years, from nine different African countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Burkina Faso, DRC, Malawi, South Africa and Trinidad & Tobago, contributed towards the development and refinement of the ParentApp for Teens Beta App. Eighteen caregivers and six adolescents provided feedback on their experiences of using the app through interviews and repeated surveys. Although effectiveness was not a primary aim of the engagement, several caregivers indicated that they perceived that their participation had helped to enforce positive parenting skills.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Parenting for Lifelong Health Digital: ParentApp (presentation to the UNICEF Parenting Working Group) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation by Professor Lucie Cluver on 26 October 2020 to introduce the PLH Digital App project to the UNICEF Parenting Working Group and generate interest and support for digital parenting interventions. The presentation generated questions and discussion on ways of engaging with parentings, the benefits and limitations of digital/app technologies and the growing use of apps in regions. It resulted in intention for further engagement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Parenting in the times of COVID-19: Moving to digital 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Dr Jamie Lachman to: International Adolescent Health Online Conference-4th Biennial National Conference on Adolescent Health in Moldova
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Parenting in the times of COVID-19: Moving to digital 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Dr Jamie Lachman to: Stronger Together Summit - Global Pandemics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Parenting in the times of COVID-19: Moving to digital 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Dr Jamie Lachman to: The Shadow Pandemic; Violence Against Children in Europe in times of COVID-19 (Parenting session)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Parenting under Pressure: Health and well-being among adolescent and young mothers before and during a pandemic 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Participation in Stimulus Workshop II - International Review 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Several members of the research team, led by Kate Orkin, participated in a workshop organised by the Programme Expert at the Private Office of the President, South Africa. The workshop covered international evidence on economic stimuli: Kate Orkin presented latest research findings on cash transfers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Participatory research approaches: adolescent engagement (ACT!) reading group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Reading group around participatory research methods
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Partnership with youth-led advocacy group HerVoice 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Supporting youth-led advocacy for age-sensitive HIV responses and SRHR. The Accelerate Hub coordinated a series of meetings with youth advocates to support their efforts with evidence on HIV prevention in adolescent girls and young women. This included influencing evidence-based recommendations and advocacy plans, and also acknowledging young people's priorities across Hub research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Phil Green: "Advancing the Care and Protection of Children in Adversity in the Time of COVID-19: World Without Orphans Engages National Faith-Based Networks and Organizations to Implement Evidence-Based Action Globally." 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Phil Green, of World Without Orphans, will deliver this presentation at the Symposium "Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse", hosted by The Human Flourishing Program, at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, April 2021.

Presentation to be delivered within live-streamed panel discussion session: Profiles and Perspectives on Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/Symposium-On-Child-Abuse
 
Description Phil Green: Interviewed by USAID's Advancing Protection and Care for Children in Adversity 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The task of disseminating COVID-19 Parenting Tips to the broader international community required the assistance of a strong, community-based network. World Without Orphans (WWO), a global collaborative of faith-based organizations and faith community networks took a leading role in that effort.

In March 2020. as the virus was escalating around the world, Phil Green, one of WWO's leaders, was enrout e from the UK to the United States to discuss the group's strategy for taking on the pandemic. He arrived in Atlanta just as the travel ban took hold. Getting a flight back home was a little challenging, but Phil's time in the U.S. was well spent. There, he was tapped to serve as the organization's COVID-19 Crisis Response and Recovery Coordinator and asked to spearhead the effort to translate and disseminate the COVID-19 Parenting Tips throughout WWO's global network. In our interview, Phil candidly discussed the challenges inherent in accomplishing that task as well as the remarkable impact the program has had to date.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.childreninadversity.gov/news-information/in-the-press-events/news---full-view/interview-...
 
Description Planning a UNDP 'Youth engagement in Agriculture' project across Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The UNDP Regional Service Center for Africa (RSCA) is planning a project that will extend across 12 African countries. The project aims to encourage youth involvement in 'smart' agriculture; which is predicted to improve the efficiency of peri-urban agriculture using digital technologies and reduce food waste. It is intended to engage around 5000 young people across the continent. Accelerate Hub has provided support in planning by co-writing the project proposal, providing evidence on how this could improve employment, and suggesting a range of methodologies to engage with young people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019,2020
 
Description Planning research with UNICEF ESARO: identifying an effective package of support for adolescent mothers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Through their PCA, Oxford University was invited to present to UNICEF ESARO on their accelerators analysis regarding optimal supportive and protective provisions for adolescent mothers. Oxford invited members of the adolescent participation and engagement research team (also known as "TAG team") to present on our recent design incubators research with Eastern Cape Teen Advisory Group (TAG), which took place from July-August 2022. The design incubators aimed to inform the implementation of National Department of Education's new policy on "Prevention and Management of Learner Pregnancy in Schools". From our team, the presenter was Hlokoma Mangqalaza, PDRF.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://gcrfhuboxf.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/sites/HUBCentralFilestore/Shared%20Documents/TAG/7.%20TAG%20...
 
Description Podcast 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact It was a podcast to flag upcoming RCT results from a trail to improve education in low income countries during COVID school closures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/podcast-under-the-hood-young-1ove
 
Description Policy Brief Launch: Social protection, food security and nutrition: Critical enablers for reducing HIV-related vulnerabilities amongst adolescents and young people 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Collaborative policy brief bringing together Accelerate Hub researchers, the WFP regional bureaus in South Africa and Kenya, and the WFP Headquarters in Italy. The policy brief focuses on age- and gender-sensitive social protection for adolescents in Eastern and Southern Africa, detailing implications for WFP programming and success stories of high-impact interventions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.wfp.org/publications/social-protection-food-security-and-nutrition-critical-enablers-red...
 
Description Policy Dialogues with multiple South African government departments 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation of evidence-based accelerators to South Africa's National Planning Commission and cross-government consultation on accelerators. Accelerate Hub invited to contribute to national plans to support adolescent and youth constituencies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Policy Engagement with the Central Equatoria State Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact -Discussed the scope and funding for the Accelerate hub in Juba;
-Obtained key policy documents such as the South Sudan child Act, 2008 to guide design and implementation of the study;
-Participated in protection technical working group meetings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Policy level engagement with the Ministry of Health - South Sudan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact -Provided overview and shared understanding on the scope of work and GCRF funding;
-Sought guidance on MoH priority interventions for adolescents including access to key policy documents ( Sexual and reproductive health strategy);
-Obtained guidance on ERB requirements, submission documents and timelines;
-Secured acceptance of the Director General for Sexual and Reproductive health from the MoH as co-investigator in the study;
-Participated in health education and HIV technical working group meetings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Policy meeting - UNICEF HQ (Sept 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting on HEY BABY to UNICEF Adolescent participation team in New York.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Policy meeting - World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva - Nov 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meeting: Global status report on preventing violence against children expert
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Poster Presentation AIDS 2022: "Recent HIV acquisition and age-disparate relationships predict rapid repeated pregnancies among adolescent mothers in a large South African cohort" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Presentation by Associate Professor, Co-Principal Investigator Elona Toska, giving evidence from the HEY BABY Research Study at AIDS 2022. Funders, and fellow researchers were potentially influenced through this activity. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expected to generate interest and lead to invitations to other events and requests for more information.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Poster Presentation AIDS 2022: "South African adolescents living with HIV talk priorities! Longitudinal analysis of priorities of adolescent advisors living with HIV prior-to and during the COVID-19 pandemic." 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Poster presentation by Early Career Researcher Jane Kelly, giving evidence from HEY BABY Research study at AIDS 2022. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect requests for more invitation and invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://aids2022.org/about/conference-theme-and-objectives/
 
Description Poster Presentation: "Repeat-motherhood among adolescents living with HIV in South Africa" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A poster presentation by Early Career Researcher Kathryn Steventon Roberts giving evidence from HEY BABY research. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expected to influence researchers and practitioners, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Poster Presentation: AIDS 2022: "The cognitive development of children born to adolescent mothers - does child HIV status matter?" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A poster presentation at AIDS 2022 by Early Career Researcher Kathryn Steventon Roberts giving evidence on HEY BABY research data. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Poster Presentation: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs and Intentions: Among HIV-affected adolescents and young people in South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presented by Lesley Gittings to South Africa Health Review
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Poster Presentation: IAS COVID-19: Prevention Conference: "You cannot be that nurse you used to be": Reflections of Healthcare Workers providing Services to Adolescents and Youth Living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster Presentation: IAS COVID-19: Prevention Conference: "You cannot be that nurse you used to be": Reflections of Healthcare Workers providing Services to Adolescents and Youth Living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Poster Presentation: The cognitive development of children born to adolescent mothers living with HIV in South Africa according to child HIV status 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact International workshop on HIV & Pediatrics 2022, Montreal Canada: A poster presentation by Early Career Researcher Kathryn Steventon Roberts giving evidence on HEY BABY research data. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to influence practitioners, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Poster Presentations, AIDS 2022: "Does HIV compound maternal mental health challenges among adolescent mothers in South Africa?" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A poster presentation by Early Career Researcher Kathryn Steventon Roberts. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate interest and publicity, influence policy practice, and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Poster presentation, AIDS 2022: Exploring the feasibility of peer-delivered mental health support for young mothers living with HIV in four sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from peer supporters and their mentors" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Poster presentation given by ECR Christina Laurenzi at AIDS, 2022, related to Screen & Support activities. Policymakers and individuals in integrated health care spaces potentially influenced through this activity. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate publicity, influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation (October, 2019) in Cape Town, South Africa for GCRF Hub colleagues and NGO partners 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Presentation "Development Accelerators - A Game-changer for Africa's Adolescents"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation (online) - FROM STOP TO GO Evidence and strategies to support and deliver services to adolescent and young mothers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Using data available from baseline data collection, Dr Elona Toska presented evidence and strategies to a large regional audience of frontline healthcare providers. This equipped frontline healthcare providers with evidence to support delivery of services to adolescent and young mothers. This opportunity allowed the research team to maximise impact of research findings by building capacity amongst healthcare providers from 24 countries in South, East, West and Central Africa. The event was attended by nearly 400 attendees.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Presentation (online) - Johnson & Johnson (Sept 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Online presentation sharing results from mixed methods quantitative and participatory research activities on use and experience of injectables among adolescent girl and boys.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation - 2gether 4SRHR project (Feb 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Elona Toska and Nontokozo Langwenya presented to representatives of five country teams implementing 2gether 4SRHR project (SIDA funded, implemented by UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS & WHO). Presentation title: Opportunities in HIV & SRHR Programming for the Second Decade of Life in East and Southern Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Presentation - Parenting for Lifelong Health: Programme Optimisation and Scale-Up 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) and the Centre for Evaluation host a lecture series addressing methods and innovation in primary studies.

The presentation will focus on two current research projects aimed at increasing our knowledge on the implementation and scale-up of parenting programmes and other family-based interventions in low- and middle-income countries. First, we will present how the RISE study (www.rise-plh-eu) is applying the Multiphase Optimisation Strategy framework (MOST) to optimise PLH for Young Children for scalability by identifying the most effective and cost-effective components related to programme implementation in North Macedonia, Moldova, and Romania. Second, we will discuss how the Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research (SUPER) study is examining the implementation and scale-up of PLH programmes in over 20 countries around the world for more than 400,000 beneficiaries. We will describe the research question and methods we plan to use to explore programme use in routine service delivery. We will also describe how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted these studies and the delivery of PLH programmes, and how we have adapted the content for global dissemination in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, CDC, USAID, and other partners reaching 32 million families in over 173 countries.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://lshtm.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6dd27166-48fc-4cba-b58b-abea00eb824a
 
Description Presentation - Social Innovation Seminar ERCEA/REA (Jan 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Organised jointly by the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) and the Research Executive Agency (REA), the seminar was an occasion to demonstrate the different ways research can engage with social innovation and how it translates into societal impact. The aim of the seminar was to showcase excellent research and enhance awareness about social innovation among researchers and policymakers. Professor Lucie Cluver presented work on developing the free child abuse prevention program, SAFE. The program has been translated into 18 languages and reached over 600,000 families in 22 countries across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Presentation - WFP Satellite Symposium at ICASA 2019 Conference; Kigali, Rwanda (Dec 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conference: ICASA (non-academic)
Dissemination: oral presentation
Title: HIV-Sensitive Social Protection: Harnessing SDGs for people living with HIV
Presented findings on impact of cash transfers and combination of cash + care provision on HIV risk and adherence outcomes for adolescent living with HIV.
In collaboration with World Food Programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation EPRI - UNAIDS, WFP, ILO - Broader Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa. Expanding access to education, livelihoods and employment for adolescent girls and young women. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Participation in a Panel discussion on advancing the HIV-sensitive social protection agenda of key stakeholders in Eastern and Southern Africa through capacity strengthening. Topics included impact of cash transfers, food security, motherhood, school enrolment, education, violence prevention dialogues. Principal aim of knowledge sharing, influencing decision.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation and discussion to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, on 12 Dec, Geneva 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Lucie Cluver was invited to speak to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board in Geneva about the UKRI's GCRF Accelerate Hub's recent findings. This was an opportunity to present the 'accelerator' concept in relation to HIV and adolescents and the very low rates of adherence to antiretroviral medication. The Hub's results show that simple social and economic solutions (cash transfers, safe schools and parenting support) can improve retention in HIV care for vulnerable adolescents, and that they also improve multiple other Sustainable Development Goals. This provides real opportunities to capitalise on the SDG agenda, and also to provide services to adolescents living with HIV that allow them to reach their wider goals.

The PCB is a high-level advisory group that advises the United Nations on policy and programming. It includes the UNAIDS representatives of 22 countries, UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP, UNESCO, ILO, WHO, World Bank, UNDP, UNHCR and UNODC, and meets at the World Health Organisation. Lucie spoke at the 'children and adolescents' thematic day on Thursday 12 December, which then makes clear plans for UNAIDS actions. Afterwards, she said: "We are really honoured that the Accelerate Hub was invited to speak at the UNAIDS Planning Coordination Board. We presented our new findings, showing that parenting support, cash transfers and safe schools can improve HIV care and also multiple SDGs for adolescents living with HIV. After our talk, the US Ambassador for the AIDS response, the Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS and DFID all highlighted that these findings are informing the design of their programmes to fight the AIDS epidemic."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/accelerator-interventions-at-unaids
 
Description Presentation and resource sharing with the Presidency of South Africa on "Options for social protection interventions for the unemployed" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation at AIDS Impact, London, UK - "Can we harness the Sustainable Development Goals to reach viral suppression for adolescents living with HIV?" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Can we harness the Sustainable Development Goals to reach viral suppression for adolescents living with HIV?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation at AIDS Impact, London, UK - "Mental wellbeing amongst caregivers of HIV-affected children in South Africa: predictors of positive mental health and its implications for child wellbeing" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation at Conference - Mental wellbeing amongst caregivers of HIV-affected children in South Africa: predictors of positive mental health and its implications for child wellbeing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.aidsimpact.com/
 
Description Presentation at AIDS Impact, London, UK - "Young leaders left behind: challenges and new solutions for adolescents living with HIV" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation: Young leaders left behind: challenges and new solutions for adolescents living with HIV
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation at Online Workshop to Reinstate the Africa Action Group to End Child Marriage 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation of findings from impact evaluation of the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia to researchers, policymakers, civil-society, and advocates. The presentation generated questions and interest in the topic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation at South African AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact South African AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa
Presentation - '"If you are found taking medicine, you will be called names and considered less of a man.": HIV-positive adolescent boys' engagement with HIV treatment and care during and following ulwaluko (traditional initiation/circumcision) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation at What Works Learning Summit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A presentation to What Works Global Summit attendees on how to improve learning outcomes during COVID.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBk0O_T5BpU
 
Description Presentation at a Coordination meeting hosted by the South Africa Department of Social Development 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof Lucie Cluver presented The role of social protection programmes in supporting educational outcomes during the DSD Coordination meeting on the 26th of January 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation at the 2022 International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) conference in Dubai 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Kusi-Mensah and Dr Tamambang Rita attended the 2022 annual International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) conference in Dubai. They presented the analysis findings of Prof. Olayinka Omigbodun's and Dr Kusi-Mensah's datasets. This was an opportunity to share the findings and recommendations from these studies with a global audience comprising professionals and policy influencers within the child health and social welfare realms. It is, therefore, expected that many of these professionals found the recommendations relevant for their subsequent programming and policy endeavours - mainly as they concern young people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation at the INSPIRE Implementation Working Group in Vienna, 27-29 January 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The INSPIRE Implementation Working Group is a small group of experts convened to help the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children support states to implement the seven strategies to end violence against children outlined in the INSPIRE booklet. The PLH programmes are mentioned as exemplars in the INSPIRE booklet, and Professor Catherine Ward was invited in that capacity. She presented the PLH-SUPER project to that group, and several attendees (Stephen Blight, UNICEF; Alex Butchart, WHO; and Sabine Rakotomalala, Global Partnership) agreed to serve on the study's advisory board.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Presentation by Dr Jamie Lachman at AUDA-NEPAD Calestous Juma Executive Dialogue 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Dr Jamie Lachman delivered a presentation: "COVID-19 digital parenting support to reduce violence and improve long-term economic outcomes: African evidence taken to the world"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Presentation by Janina Jochim at Oxford, Green Templeton College 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact presentation on Adolescent Motherhood & School Outcomes in South African Girls and Young Women .
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation by Janina Jochim at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation on "Teenage Mothers and Schooling - Going from "door-to-door" to collect primary data in South Africa"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation by Professor Lucie Cluver - Together to #ENDviolence: Evidence and solutions to eliminate to child sexual exploitation and abuse 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation by Professor Lucie Cluver - Together to #ENDviolence: Evidence and solutions to eliminate to child sexual exploitation and abuse
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation by Yulia Shenderovich at Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation on "Mental health and anti-retroviral adherence in a cohort of adolescents in South Africa: Analysis plan"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Presentation for Academics by Janina Jochim, in Cape Town, South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation HEY BABY - A mixed-methods study on resilience factors in adolescent mothers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa" - dissemination of doctoral research findings by Janina Jochim.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation in Johanesburg, South Africa (Oct, 2019) to PATA Teams (from Cameroon, DRC, eSwatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact presentation - Resilient Relationships for Adolescents & Young People Living with HIV. What can we do in clinics and communities? (18/10/19)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation of research findings at the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation of research findings to Ethiopia Ministry of Health 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to stakeholders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation of research findings to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact After initially presenting research findings from impact evaluation of the Health Extension Programme to the Young Lives team (who have tracked the programme), our team was further invited to present the evidence to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health including the Director of the Maternal, Child & Nutrition Directorate and the Senior Research Director. The Director of the Maternal, Child & Nutrition Directorate said she would share the findings with the Presidents Office.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation on COVID-19 Pandemic orphanhood to the American Academy of Paediatricians 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to the American Academy of Paediatricians to an audience of over 5,000 professionals to raise awareness about the impact of COVID-19 orphanhood.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation on Mzantsi Wakho & HEY BABY at 9th Southern African AIDS Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation on Mzantsi Wakho & HEY BABY at 9th Southern African AIDS Conference, held at the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD)_Durban, South Africa
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.saaids.co.za/
 
Description Presentation on PLH-SUPER at the Global What Works Summit in Mexico, 16 Oct 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Yulia Shenderovich presented on the PLH-SUPER study at the Global What Works Summit in Mexico. This summit brings together key decision makers in the area of social and health policy and programming. This presentation provided an opportunity for Dr Shenderovich to meet colleagues from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and discuss the project and potential collaboration. She was also approached by representative from the South African Department of Basic Education who had follow-up questions on the study. After the presentation, Dr Shenderovich was invited to present (together with Dr Jamie Lachman) at the CEDIL - Centre for Evaluation Lecture Series.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation on Pandemic-linked Orphanhood in South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation on grants and support available to COVID-19 orphaned children and adolescents in South Africa, especially what can be delivered by the Social Development department. Impact from the engagement resulted in the Minister of Social Development announcing top-up grants available to households who have integrated orphans and vulnerable children
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/caregivers-can-apply-for-top-up-grant-c4584cba-4705-4490-8d32-f...
 
Description Presentation on opportunities for digital delivery of parenting programmes at LEGO IDEA Conference. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Presentation delivered: An effective, open-source, offline-first parenting app for anyone, anywhere - moving to digital.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation to Accelerate Hub Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) meeting in New York 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation about the Accelerate Hub, accelerator concept, and early evidence from our proof of concept paper published in the Lancet, presented at the first face-to-face meeting of the Strategic Advisory Panel (STRATA) in New York by Hub Directors and Work Package Leads.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation to Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children by Lucie Cluver, 18 Sept 2019, New York City 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This presentation shared Accelerate findings on measures to prevent a range of violence outcomes for adolescents to the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, which is a major coalition of (mainly) UN agencies working to end violence. The GP is a significant Accelerate partner and we are now co-authoring a paper to share these findings with them, and will continue to work with them to embed the findings in their policy and practice, and those of other agencies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation to Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, New York City, September 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation to the African Journal of AIDS Research short course on writing for publication 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to the African Journal of AIDS Research short course on writing for publication
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation to the African Union - NEPAD team 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presenting the latest evidence on accelerators to ten members of the AUDA-NEPAD Innovations team, including the Team leader and members of the NEPAD's Executive committee. Agreement on new jointly hired activities for Accelerate Hub secondments, and shortlisted potential collaborations over 2022-23 (including joint blogs, webinars, and policy engagament)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to the Kenya Social Assistance Unit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation to the Kenya Social Assistance Unit team to demonstrate preliminary findings of the impact of hybrid behavioural support on youth empowerment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation to the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board to demonstrate preliminary findings of the impact of hybrid behavioural support on youth empowerment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Production of a written commentary by team of Parenting for Lifelong Health researchers and NGO implementers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Parenting for Lifelong Health Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research (PLH-SUPER) has submitted its first output for publication. This output takes the form of a commentary that outlines the motivation for the research on implementation of parenting and other violence prevention initiatives and for the PLH-SUPER study. The commentary involved the research team working with 16 of the PLH implementers and several research teams conducting studies on PLH to develop the text and get input before submission. This process provided an opportunity to engage more deeply with partners on the study, its methodology and next steps, and has strengthened relationships between partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Professor Lorraine Sherr: SKY News/US 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Panel discussion on the COVID crisis
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Providing Information about Job Seekers' Skills to Increase Employment Outcomes in South Africa - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A non-academic knowledge product for policymakers and implementers interested in using this intervention in their own programming.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/providing-information-about-job-seekers-skills-increase-...
 
Description Public facing website for statisical methodologies related to i) longitudinal data analysis, and (ii) modelling multiple exposures and outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Open Science Framework "Development Accelerator Methods" website was established as a public facing platform that enables researchers both within the hub and the broader academic community to access materials on statistical methodologies related to identifying development accelerators. The current focus is on i) longitudinal data analysis, and ii) modelling multiple exposures and outcomes. The link for the website is: https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
 
Description RIATT: "EVIDENCE ON MULTISECTORIAL ACCELERATORS FOR ADOLESCENT HIV AND SRH OUTCOMES" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation given by Principal Investigator, Lucie Cluver, giving evidence from Mzantsi Wakho study. Audience included Policy Makers and Regional Economic Communities at RIATT conference. RIATT is a network of organizations working together to influence global, regional and national policy formulation and implementation for children and their families. Through advocacy and knowledge management, RIATT works on care & support, and social protection priority areas to improve the care and support for children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Race awareness and research in Africa webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact On 6 May 2021, Work Package 3 held a Hub-wide webinar on Race Awareness and Research in Africa which was attended by 35 Hub members (staff and partners). The main highlight of the webinar was a presentation by renowned philosopher, Professor Achille Mbembe from the Wits Institute of Social & Economic Research (WISER). Prof Mbembe's presentation set the tone for a follow up discussion by Hub members on how racism affects or impact on us as researchers working in Africa. Prof Mbembe argued that racism is like a mutating virus that defies its own reliance upon unjust laws, institutions and structures. He also pointed out that for racism relies on the existence of the Other to thrive. He further argued that racism has now become algorithmic and computational with metadata being mined for forecasting, establishing patterns of behaviour and to discriminate. This presentation led to a robust discussion by Hub members on racism and how it affects our ongoing work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Refinitiv Black Employee Network and Bright Insights Global 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 19 September: Prof. Lucie Cluver participated in Refinitiv Black Employee Network and Bright Insights Global (B.I.G) think tank focused on sustainable business in sub-saharan Africa
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-sustainable-business-roundtable-convenes-africa-nyc-nash-carter/
 
Description Reflections of healthcare workers providing services to adolescents and youth living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Reflections on Healthcare Experiences 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Reflections on Healthcare Experiences 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Regular meetings with City of Cape Town; Scale up testing with the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Government employees within the City of Cape Town mayoral office attended a presentation on findings of Harambee study
Government employees within the City of Cape Town mayoral office attended a workshop about randomised control trials
Series of meetings held with implementation partner, Harambee Youth Accelerator, about scaling up testing intervention within Johannesburg office as well as potential scale in newly opened Rwanda office.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Regular meetings with the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The research team has at least three meetings per year with Harambee that serve multiple purposes. The most important purpose is to update Harambee about the progress and results of the research. Our presentation of preliminary results in 2019 influenced their decision to scale the intervention beyond the initial study participants. Other topics where future collaborations and understanding the priorities of policymakers in the youth unemployment space.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017,2018,2019,2020
 
Description Remote Participatory Research with Teen Advisory Groups 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact To share research findings with academic, programmatic and policy audiences
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Remote adolescent research and programming in low- and middle- income countries during COVID-19: barriers and facilitators. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PLACE HOLDER: Join Global Research Leaders in Examining Impacts & Trends in Qualitative Research
Although medical scientists have been warning for years that a pandemic was an inevitable, COVID-19 has turned our world upside down
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Remote participatory research with adolescents workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Accelerate Hub measurements workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Report posted on Nuffield Foundation website "Identifying psychosocial, family and service mechanisms to improve anti-retroviral adherence amongst adolescents living with HIV in Southern Africa" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Title of report "Identifying psychosocial, family and service mechanisms to improve anti-retroviral adherence amongst adolescents living with HIV in Southern Africa". This report summarises the study findings and impact of the Mzantsi Wakho research project implemented jointly by the Universities of Oxford and Cape Town.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Report presented to Manenburg People's Centre, Western Cape, South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Report of results of this study component was shared with Manenburg People's Centre (MPC)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Research Meeting with Mothers 2 Mothers South Africa to present findings around modelled cost-effectiveness of parenting support in Mpumalanga 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation of research findings from our analysis of the modelled cost-effectiveness of parenting programmes in South Africa to the NGO Mothers2Mothers who are implementing a parenting programme in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa funded by the USAID DREAMS Programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Research Meeting with Nicola Jones from ODI GAGE 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Research meeting with ODI GAGE 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation of research findings from impact evaluation of the Health Extension Programme to Director of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) team Nicola Jones. The meeting led to the opportunity to present findings to the Ethiopian Minsitries of Health and Ministries of Youth and Women.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Research meeting with UNICEF Ethiopia Research and Evaluation Committee 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Research meeting with UNICEF Ethiopia Research and Evaluation Committee 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation of research findings from impact evaluation of the Health Extension Programme to UNICEF Ethiopia Office - who had supported and advised the programme's uptake and were keen to hear about its impacts on child marraige and the wellbeing of adolescent girls. The meeting led to longer follow-up meeting with UNICEF Ethiopia Office.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Research meeting with UNICEF Ethiopia, Gender Programme 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Research meeting with UNICEF Ethiopia, Gender Programme 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation of findings from impact evaluation of the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia to researchers and decision makers in UNICEF's country office. The office is known for high-level influence across governmental institutes in Ethiopia. They were keen to hear more about the spillovers of the program on child protection.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Research meeting with UNICEF Office of Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of findings from impact evaluation of the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia and discussion around how they fit with findings from mixed-methods research conducted by UNICEF INNOCENTI. Innocenti audiences including UNICEF Gender-responsive and age-sensitive social protection Research Programme (GRASSP). The presentation generated questions and interest in the topic, with many reporting having new information on the wider impacts of the programme on adolescents and children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Rich data or inconvenient findings? Ethical and methodological challenges in research with adolescent boys and young men living with HIV 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Poster presentation for the Virtual INTEREST Conference for HIV in Africa to share research findings with academic, programmatic and policy audiences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description SABC news interview 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 16 March: Mark Orkin, Breakthrough on HIV adolescence
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeXfH7MFs30&feature=youtu.be
 
Description SABC: Dr Kate Orkin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Dr Kate Orkin gave analysis of the President's State of the Nation Address
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description SIDA Global Social Protection team 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Hub director was invited by senior social protection advisors at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to present evidence on cash plus interventions to an audience including the SIDA Social Protection team, country-level fund reciepients and partner governments. The presentation will particularly focus on opportunities for age-sensitive investments across Africa that support both economic strengthening and healthy livelihoods.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description SIDA/ EPRI Social Protection workshop with four African governments 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Early-career researcher, Mona Ibrahim, invited to participate in a government-focused working group on social protection. The workshop focused on the latest evidence of Social Protection, linkages build with the governments of Zimbabwe, Sudan, Rwanda and Mozambique to support policy uptake of evidence on Social Protection later in 2023. Mona will be immediately involved in the design and implementation of Sudan's new social protection strategy, and will further support the dissemination of Hub findings to Zimbabwe and Mozambique over 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description SRHR & wellbeing for adolescent mothers: New evidence from Southern Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description SRHR Symposium: "Multi-sectoral drivers and accelerators for adolescent SRHR and HIV programming" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Regional SRHR Symposium, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe hosted by UNFPA, 2gether 4SRHR - Professor Elona Toska presented to an audience of programmers, government officials, UN agencies, donors. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate publicity, influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description SVRI Forum 2022: "A parenting app to prevent child sexual abuse and family violence: early learnings and future directions" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Event hosted by Sexual Violence Research Initiative. Presentation by Lauren Baerecke ECR, giving early evidence on ParentApp for Teens. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate publicity, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description SVRI Forum 2022: "A parenting app to prevent child sexual abuse and family violence: early learnings and future directions" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation given by Early Career Researcher Lauren Baerecke, University of Cape Town, giving early evidence from ParentApp for Teens research study. Event hosted by Sexual Violence Research Initiative at the SVRI Forum 2022, Cancun, Mexico. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate publicity, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Safeguarding and intervention 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The workshop was held during the Annual Meeting and between 20 to 50 participants took part. This workshop was premised on the fact that most research is about collecting stories and documenting the lived experiences of participants. It was aimed at generating reflexive discussions with researchers and those working directly with adolescents on the relationship between safeguarding and storytelling. We sought to explore how we can ensure that the adolescents sharing their stories are safeguarded.

Some of the key questions asked in the workshop were:
• Whose voice is heard and how is it presented?
• How are these limiting stories?
• How do we address them?
• How do we ensure protection of adolescents through the 'hero' perception often created by researchers and practitioners?
• Are there stories that prevent this happening - stories of the person from outside as the 'hero'?
• How do power dynamics created by this perceived hero or saviour status impact on the way adolescents tell their story? How might these affect how participants/colleagues are perceived/perceive themselves?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Scaleup of Parenting Evaluation Research (SUPER) joint qualitative study analysis group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Programme partnr
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
 
Description Scaleup of Parenting Evaluation Research Validation meetings 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Programme implementing organisations and stakeholders from South Africa and Botswana were invited to validation meetings of the following studies:
• Parenting interventions in Botswana: what works?
• COVID-19 really impacted our work": responsive adaptation of services for families and staff experiences in 2020-21
• Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment of parenting interventions in South Africa
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
 
Description Seminar - Research in progress: SUPER study protocol 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The SUPER team presented the design of the SUPER study and the study protocol paper to a group of researchers based at the GCRF Hub, and Oxford and Cape Town Universities and received feedback on the study design. The event also allowed sharing insights about working with partner organisations and real-word data, which several early career researchers shared was helpful.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Seminar with the South African Presidential Employment Stimulus team 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Engagement with policymakers which has strengthened relationships with the South African presidency and central government agencies, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020,2021,2022,2023
 
Description Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact SVRI Forum is the largest global, abstract-driven research and advocacy conference on violence against women, violence against children, and other forms of violence driven by gender inequality. Early-career researcher, Nontokozo Langwenya, was invited to present Hub evidence on gender-based violence, and was later awarded a conference-wide prize for academic excellence
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.svriforum2022.org/conference-programme/
 
Description Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) online training course on measuring violence against children 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Measuring Violence Against Children: From Concept to Action.
A self-paced online course designed for Sexual Violence Research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://svri.thinkific.com/courses/take/measuring-violence-against-children
 
Description Sexual practices among adolescents and young people in Eastern Cape, South Africa: the association with HIV status and mode of infection 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact creating long relationships with stakeholders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Sharing evidence with AUDA-NEPAD 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Sharing the latest evidence on adolescent education and health with the African Union NEPAD Agency, with emphasis on digital innovation and layered provisions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Sharing policy briefs on adolescent health and HIV interventions with the Global Fund 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A series of policy briefs have been written and shared with Global Fund country offices to support programme planning. The briefs, based on Hub research papers, examine the barriers and opportunities to adolescent HIV treatment and retention in care. Alexandra Plowright of the Global Fund, who advises countries on appropriate services for young women and girls, commented: "Huge thanks for these policy briefs - they are excellent - really useful and in a great and useable format for the countries." Country teams will be able to use the briefs in developing funding proposals and they will also help the Global Fund review and assess the proposals against key evidence.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Skill certification for better job matches: evidence from South Africa - Global Dev 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A non-academic knowledge product for policymakers and implementers interested in using this intervention in their own programming.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://globaldev.blog/blog/skill-certification-better-job-matches-evidence-south-africa
 
Description Sky News panel discussion 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Prof Lorraine Sherr was interviewed on Sky News as part of a panel discussion on the COVID crisis on 21st February 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description South Africa Eastern/Western Cape: Stakeholders meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Validation meeting with stakeholders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description South Africa: Country-level advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Meetings with Senior Advisor to the President, South African Ambassadors, four Ministers, UNICEF, PEPFAR, USAID offices. Dept of Basic Education in South Africa invited the Accelerate Hub to speak at their Annual Coordination and national educator's conference in Jan 2023. UNICEF announced they will add Orphanhood and Caregiver Loss to COVID-19 national Technical Working Group's agenda for Risk Communication and Community Engagement. Leveraged interest from the World Bank South Africa office to apply for CASH + CARE project grant from World Bank HQ
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description South Sudan HIV and AIDS commission policy engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact -Discussed the scope of work and GCRF funding and obtained guidance on priority interventions for adolescents (social protection) including access to key policy documents.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description South Sudan Network of people Living with HIV and AIDS (partnership engagement) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact -Discussed the scope of work and GCRF funding;
-Ongoing discussions on collaborative work in HIV testing and treatment for adolescents (social protection).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description South Sudan Pact Jhpiego ACHIEVE project: Meeting with US-based researchers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of Study to Johns Hopkins University-based researchers interested in our work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Southern African Development Community (SADC) Engagement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Four Hub researchers were invited to present an update on the latest evidence on adolescent wellbeing in Eastern and Southern Africa in the annual SADC meeting. Led by the Ministry of Health in Uganda, the SADC group were intent on building an updated sexual and reproductive heath guidance for the Eastern and Southern African region. The event was hybrid (in-person/online) and participants were discussing Hub findings over the three-day meeting, including during break times.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Support in planning a UNDP 'Tobacco control' project in Southern Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Accelerate Hub supported the planning of a Tobacco control programme arranged by the Southern Africa UNDP country offices for . The programme focuses on policy change on governmental and parliamentarian levels across multiple countries in Southern Africa. Since most smokers start during using during their teenage years, the Hub advised on broad policies and services that focus particularly on preventing tobacco use in teenagers. The Hub suggestions were incorporated in the final proposal submitted from the UNDP country office.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Support to UNDP South Africa's new fund for SDG Acceleration 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact UNDP launched a new strategy to support funding into Accelerator interventions in Namibia and South Africa and extended a meeting to Accelerate Hub to advise on evidence-based accelerator interventions. Accelerate Hub further invited to support UNDP dialogues with the government of South Africa, especially emphasizing evidence on youth wellbeing and SRHR.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Support to the World Bank's Rapid Social Response Program 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact As a result of high-level advocacy led by th Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19, the World Bank announced a new Rapid Social Response Fund to support countries in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 and crisis on children an adolescents. Evidence from the Accelerate Hub on Cash + Care agenda will support government applications to this fund. The Fund aims to catalyze larger external financing and domestic budgetary resources through government to support Cash + Care policies and programmes
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Supporting Sudan's National Social Protection strategy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Accelerate Hub is a SIDA-funded cohort of policy advocactes, including Sudan country-office representatives from Plan International, the World Bank, and civil society groups, to adapt and support the launch of Sudan's first national social protection strategy. Hub evidence on social protection and the Sustainable Development Goals was shared with leading advisors in the Ministry of Social Affairs to support hollistic information systems that measure intervention impacts on the SDGs
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Symposium, July 2019 - Durban, South Africa - for audience of Higher Education, Practitioners, Students, Academics 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Sex, Sexuality and Education in South Africa: A symposium
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Talk with the Kenya Social Assistance Unit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Giulio Schinaia presented the research team's findings on the effects of cash transfers and goal setting for parents on adolescent schooling in Kenya. The presentation sparked further interest on the importance of low aspirations among the poor to social assistance programming.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Talk with the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Using results from the study on aspirations in Kenya, Kate Orkin gave a presentation on parents' aspirations and educational investment, with a particular focus on girls. The presentation sparked further debate on the importance of low aspirations among the poor to social assistance programming.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Tanzania FAIR Study: Presentation to conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Study researcher based with NIMR presented on our preliminary qualitative findings at the Muhimbili University of Health and Alliance Sciences 9th Annual Conference and Meeting of the Tanzania Violence Research Network (hosted by MUHAS, NIMR, and LSHTM).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Tanzania: country-level advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Engagement with UNICEF, USAID Tanzania and with Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASF) - which uses orphanhood as a key criteria for inclusion as a Fund beneficiary. Prime Minister of Tanzania announced ParentApp as national parenting response
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Teen Advisory Group (TAG) 2022 Camp & South Africa Department of Basic Education design incubators 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Teenage Advisory Group (TAG) Eastern Cape, South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Sixteen participants were recruited from existing studies: Hey Baby, a study on adolescent parents and Mzansi Wakho on medicine-taking among HIV positive adolescents. The group is made up of 10 girls and 6 boys, aged 17-21 years. The planning and conceptualisation of the activity was a joint effort between a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Public Health, Qualitative Researchers and experienced facilitators in adolescent engagement. Our first engagement, a weekend camp, focused on building a relationship and understanding participant views on research and participation. Similar to the Western Cape, participants were introduced to key participatory research principles and methods. Using embodied activities, writing and art-based methods, participants told us how they wanted to participate in research and topics of research which are important and relevant to their lives. The highlighted areas included health, employment, teenage pregnancy, which are at the fore of the Hub's work. The following activity was a one-day engagement five months later. The aim was to build on the foundation of rapport established at our initial meeting and to gain better understanding of the areas participants had highlighted in the previous session. We acknowledge that adolescents are experts in their own lives and can offer unique insights, views and experiences and possible suited solutions to the challenges they face. This activity was built on this foundation and we aimed to use participatory activities to gain a better understanding of these areas. Similar to all TAG activities, the day started with co-creating ground rules, setting expectations for the day and recapping on the previous session. Participants recapped on participatory research principles at the start of the day through smaller group discussions and giving feedback to the bigger group. After this activity, participants reflected individually on the six areas which were: teenage pregnancy, health & medicine-taking, bullying & peer pressure, substance abuse, blessers (age disparate and transactional relationships) and careers & unemployment. In a gallery setting, participants individually reflected on each of these areas using sticky notes as a starting point to write their reflections. Following this, participants chose 1) the area that resonated with them the most 2) to work in a group or individually 3) to tell us a story about the area, whether fictional or true, through a medium of their choosing. Some participants chose storytelling, song performance, drawing and drama. In their stories participants highlighted the underlying social and structural issues that led to some of these challenges. A participant-led discussion followed the performances where participants reflected on these challenges, brainstormed possible solutions and the collective responsibility they have towards each other as young people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Teenage Advisory Group (TAG) Kisumu, Kenya 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact To test the methods and tools developed with TAGs in South Africa, as part of an iterative process, we established a TAG in Kenya in February 2020. The objectives of this first engagement was to test the tools and concepts with a younger group of adolescents and to work with a local partner. We built a relationship with Centre for the Study of Adolescence (CSA), a local non-profit organisation which seeks to promote and improve the health and well-being of young people through innovative research, evidence-based programming, capacity building, policy development, and advocacy. Through CSA, participants from a rural background, had never been part of a research study, were recruited through their existing relationships with local schools. The group is made up of 8 boys and 8 girls, aged 10-15 years. The programme was co-developed with a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Public Health, qualitative researchers and colleagues at CSA who are experienced in program development and facilitators in adolescent engagement. CSA was particularly important in ensuring that the programme was suitable for the local context with regards to the norms and making sure that the language was appropriate and accessible to participants. Similar to the TAGs in South Africa, participants were introduced to participatory research principles and methods over a weekend camp. The aims of this activity were to build a relationship with the participants and local partner and to understand participant views on research. Participants used sticky notes in a gallery setting to share their thoughts on key participatory research concepts. Using embodied activities, writing and art-based activities, participants told us how they wanted to participate in research and also highlighted areas which are important and relevant to their lives and communities. Some of the highlighted areas included: School drop-out, lack of school fees, food insecurity, child labour, early pregnancy, lack of parental support, gender inequality, substance abuse and harassment. At the end of the camp, next steps were decided with the partner and participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Teenage Advisory Group (TAG) Western Cape, South Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Our Western Cape Teenage Advisory Group, made up of 11 girl and 9 boys, aged 15-27 years, has been a core research partner in the Hub for 10 years. In 2019, we engaged this group in a process of critically reflecting on meaningful youth engagement in research and meaningfully closing-out this engagement. To this end, a smaller cohort of this group was identified and recruited to engage with in more focused sessions. A group of experienced facilitators, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Public Health and qualitative researchers experienced in youth engagement conceptualised and co-created the engagement activities. In our initial activity, we co-created ground rules and participants were introduced to key participatory research principles and methods and in a democratic voting process, chose methods of engagement for a meaningful close-out process. The first engagement, a focus group discussion followed a few months later, where in participants reflected on what we had done well, what didn't do well in the past 10 years of engagement, and also highlighted topics of research which are relevant to their lives and communities, including mental health issues, substance abuse and career guidance. As part of the focus group discussion, participants were trained as facilitators and facilitated the focus group discussions. Most recently, over a weekend camp, participants co-created a theatre play and co-conceptualised a mural painting, reflecting on their experiences of being partners in research with adolescents. The play and mural reflect on the highlights of participation in TAG which included sharing your story with peers who have similar challenges and receiving support, boosted self-esteem and a space to explore oneself. Some of the challenges highlighted in the play include limited resources, limited understanding of the research process for some. The lessons learned from these engagements were implemented in establishing a TAG in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Economics Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Evidence dissemination at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Economics Conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description The International AIDS Conference 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Over fifteen Hub publications featured in the IAS 2022, most presented by early career researchers focusing on violence prevention, ART retention, and economic support to adolescents and children living with HIV. Accelerate Hub researchers were awarded three prizes for academic excellence and high-impact research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description The Philippines faces a convalescing education system 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact A news article on the success of the new phone learning programme ( ConnectED) trialled in Botswana and the plan to trail intervention in the Philippines.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://elpais.com/planeta-futuro/2022-12-14/filipinas-se-enfrenta-a-un-sistema-educativo-convalecie...
 
Description Towards preventing child maltreatment at scale - the PLH-SUPER study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to online conference, Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Virtual Biennial Meeting, promoting research at DECIPHer
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://srcd21biennial.vfairs.com/#topics-tab
 
Description UCT Centre for Social Science Research virtual seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The Centre for Social Science at the University of Cape Town hosted their first virtual lunchtime seminar in September. Dr Kufre Okop, a postdoctoral research fellow with Accelerate Hub, presented on "Implementing Citizen Science and participatory research to empower communities in responsive science for social cohesion". Prof Cathy Ward chaired the well-attended webinar which included a though-provoking Q&A at the end of the session. There will be three more webinars hosted this year.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description UCT News article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 14 March: New evidence that UN agencies' work is effective
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2019-03-14-new-evidence-that-un-agencies-work-is-effective
 
Description UCT news article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 20 March: Article published on Helping African adolescents achieve their potential
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.news.uct.ac.za/news/research-office/-article/2019-03-15-helping-african-adolescents-achi...
 
Description UCT- Umthombo magazine articles 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 1 July: Two 20 million research hubs; new evidence that the work of UN agencies is effective
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.paperturn-view.com/uctresearchoffice/umthombo-3?pid=NTM53953&p=35&v=1.1
 
Description UKRI Arts Humanities Research Council 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On 6 March 2019, Prof. Lucie Cluver presented on "Cash, care, confidence intervals, and cockroaches: science to serve the most vulnerable"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description UKRI GCRF Hubs and UNDP workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact In Feb 2020, the Accelerate Hub was invited to a workshop that brought together all the UKRI GCRF Hubs as well as the Accelerator (Innovation) Labs. Through the workshop, the Hubs and Labs shared their visions, noted where their goals align and brainstormed routes to engagement. On the last day of the workshop, an official MOU was signed between the UKRI and the Global UNDP team.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description UKRI web news 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 15 March: Combining services to improve the lives of vulnerable teenagers with HIV
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.ukri.org/news/combining-services-to-improve-the-lives-of-vulnerable-teenagers-with-hiv/
 
Description UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Panel 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Since March 2020, Orkin has worked with the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction Secretariat to co-author the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction in a chapter focused on messaging related to risk. In May, Dr Kate Orkin joined a specialist panel selected by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction to discuss how we respond to risk and how insights from behavioural economics can inform policy and media communications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taoX7I9UBNQ&ab_channel=UnitedNationsOfficeforDisasterRiskReduction
 
Description UN Women meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Sharing evidence on gender-transformative interventions to advance gender equality across sub-Saharan Africa. The director of UN Women was keen to support evidence-based advocacy to support the health, wellbeing, and education outcomes for adolescent girls and young women. She also raised various fellowships and conferences that can support early-career researchers to present their evidence to the wider organisation and civil society groups.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description UNAIDS - partnership engagement in South Sudan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact -Engaged and brief UNAIDS country team on the scope of work for the Accelerate hub and currently exploring additional funding for a potential scale up.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description UNAIDS 2021 High-level Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited to present at High-level UNAIDS meeting on "Strengthening national social protection systems to adequately include people living with, at-risk of, or affected by HIV to Fast-Track Ending AIDS". The event convened all major stakeholders driving HIV prevention, mitigation, and treatment; and Hub evidence was supporting regionalising HIV responses to sub-Saharan Africa. Attendees included the UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima and Her Excellency Sarah Zeid, the Princess of Jordan.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 1 September: UNAIDS Global AIDS update 2019, "COMMUNITIES AT THE CENTRE: DEFENDING RIGHTS, BREAKING BARRIERS, REACHING PEOPLE WITH HIV SERVICES" (Lancet CAH work on p169-170)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/2019-global-AIDS-update_en.pdf
 
Description UNAIDS report 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 1 July: Lancet CAH paper included in UNAIDS Midyear Global AIDS Report 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description UNAIDS-ILO-WFP Conference on Social Protection 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Four Hub researchers were invited to present in the WFP-ILO-UNAIDS conference on HIV-sensitive social protection. The meeting convened the leading agencies that currently lead the multi-agency task team on HIV-sensitive social protection to navigate the latest evidence on the matter. The meeting was immediately followed by a joint call for action, which the Hub was also invited to advise.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description UNDP Accelerator Lab partnership engagement in South Sudan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact -Meetings and discussion within the scope of work and funding for the Accelerate Hub;
-Ongoing discussions on possible areas of collaboration in financial services such as mobile money transfer through M-Gurush.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description UNDP HIV and Health Community of Practice Meeting, 22-29 October 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Mona Ibrahim, Accelerate Hub UNDP Research Officer, and Lucie Cluver, Accelerate Hub Director, attended this UNDP community of practice meeting in Istanbul from 22-29 October 2019. Lucie Cluver moderated a panel discussion on Strategies for reducing inequalities and advancing health equity on Tue 22 Oct. UNDP holds this meeting annually to set their priorities for the following year. The meeting was an opportunity to build relationships with UNDP colleagues, share Hub research plans and evidence, and identify entry points for collaboration that align with their yearly priorities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description UNDP Regional Bureau of Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In Jan 2020, the Accelerate Hub was invited to present an introduction about our research in the Regional Bureau of Africa (RBA). The meeting was broadcast (via Zoom) and all the UNDP offices in Africa were invited to join. The presentation started with a brief overview of the ongoing research, then went on to discuss its usefulness and its alignment with the RBA's mandate and yearly targets. Towards the end of the meeting the Hub facilitated an opened discussion about next steps and potential entry points for our findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description UNFPA - partnership engagement in South Sudan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact -Provided overview of the scope of work and funding for the Accelerate Hub;
-Ongoing discussions on possible areas of collaboration in GBV prevention and response including adolescent sexual and reproductive health ( Menstrual hygiene promotion).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description UNICEF Beyond Masks Report: Societal impacts of COVID-19 and accelerated solutions for children and adolescents 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Accelerate Hub is proud to have led on UNICEF Innocenti's new report - Beyond Masks: Societal impacts of COVID-19 and accelerated solutions for children and adolescents - which offers a comprehensive picture of the health, economic, and social impacts of the pandemic, and its implications for children and adolescents. The report examines evidence from the current crisis, examines past health crises such as HIV/AIDS, SARS and Ebola to provide insights into the current one, and proposes proven and promising solutions. Thank you to the Hub team for their involvement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/UNICEF-Beyond-Masks-Report-Societal-impacts-of-COVID-19....
 
Description UNICEF ESARO, Eswatini: "Accelerating gains in adolescent HIV: evidence from two South Africa Studies "latest evidence and practice for adolescent HIV and SRH programming" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Small event hosted by UNICEF ESARO, Eswatini with presentation given by Early Career Researcher Nontokozo Langwenya giving evidence from HEY BABY and Mzantsi Wakho research studies. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description UNICEF HIV Newsletter Issue 2: Special edition on ICASA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The ICASA satellite session titled: The Drive to Thrive: How are the children and adolescents HIV-exposed yet uninfected doing? was highlighted in the UNICEF HIV Newsletter Issue: Special edition on ICASA. Camille Wittesaele, presented on behalf of Dr Elona Toska and HEY BABY team on outcomes of HIV-exposed and uninfected children in the HEY BABY cohort data. This presentation shared preliminary analysis of HEY BABY baseline data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description UNICEF Sudan Social Policy and Health team meeting on health governance for children and adolescents 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Presentation of evidence on youth-led and youth-focused community-level interventions, with emphasis on Hub research generated in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. UNICEF was interested in collaborating on future research focused on community-level interventions for children and adolescents in Sudan.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description UNICEF webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 18 September: Accelerate Hub and HEY BABY present to UNICEF HQ and 30 country offices
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description UNICEF-ESARO webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 10 September: UNICEF-ESARO webinar: 14 attendees from across UNICEF ESAR country offices and slides and recording of the webinar will be shared to all 21 UNICEF Eastern-Southern Africa Region Country Offices. Marisa Casale (PhD) and Roxanna Haghighat (DPhil Candidate)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description USAID 4Children consortium project in Juba, South Sudan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Engaged with USAID 4Children project team in Juba and advocated for increased funding into positive parenting programs for adolescents (10-17) by using evidence generated from the PLH study showing program effectiveness in reducing violence against adolescents with improved communication with caregivers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Understanding Adolescence in African Contexts 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The Understanding Adolescence in African Contexts Workshop took place in Oxford, between the 31st October and the 2nd November 2019. The workshop, organized by researchers and staff from the Hub's Work-package 3 - the 'innovation' strand - involved around thirty participants, who gathered in Oxford from Africa, Europe and the United States. Around half were members of the Hub, and half were academics and researchers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds, not associated with the Hub itself but experts in various aspects of adolescence. The workshop was profoundly multi-disciplinary, convening conversations about how combined contextual and narrative understandings can work to support young people's well-being in various ways which required participants to transcend disciplines, bringing in perspectives from psychiatry to literary studies, and from public health to geography. Participants were extremely engaged in all sessions, and reported changes in their understanding of adolescence from their own discipline. Participants also found that the participatory methodologies to be interesting and useful, and report that they have since used similar approaches in their own work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Unicef Esaro Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact WEBINAR SERIES: EVIDENCE & SOLUTIONS FOR ADOLESCENTS IN EASTERN & SOUTHERN AFRICA. Presentation on "Adolescents, HIV and motherhood: Emerging findings from South Africa". The webinar assisted participants to utilise latest evidence and solutions to strengthen programming and services for adolescents living with HIV and adolescent mothers affected by HIV. The webinar focused on:
(1) Results from a literature review of what we know on adolescent mothers affected by HIV and their children.
(2) Preliminary analyses on experiences of adolescent mothers and their children from the Mzantsi Wakho & HEY BABY studies in South Africa.
(3) New evidence on adolescents living with HIV, adherence, sexual risk, and violence.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description United States: Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis Country-Level Advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact o The U.S. President's 2nd Global COVID-19 Summit, was influenced by The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis partnership and led to a growing recognition of the global COVID-19-associated orphanhood crisis. https://www.state.gov/second-global-covid-19-summit/
o The COVID Collaborative Commitment was influenced by The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis partnership and led to a growing recognition of the global COVID-19-associated orphanhood crisis. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/12/2nd-global-covid-19-summit-commitments/
o President Biden issued Executive Order to demonstrate commitment to supporting children affected by pandemic-linked orphanhood and vulnerability, which was influenced by The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis partnership. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/04/05/memorandum-on-addressing-the-long-term-effects-of-covid-19/
o The Early Childhood Development the Administration for Children & Families (ACF) Assistant Secretary January Contreras published a "Dear Colleague Letter" to provide information about federal resources available to support children, youth, and families who have experienced the loss of a parent or caregiver and encourage everyone to consider their role in supporting families and building community resilience. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/policy-guidance/addressing-impacts-parent-and-caregiver-loss-children
o Presentation to the American Academy of Paediatricians to an audience of over 5,000 professionals to raise awareness about the impact of COVID-19-linked orphanhood.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Voice of the Cape radio interview 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 18 March: Dr Elona Toska was interviewed on national radio
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description WHO Global Status Report findings update 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof. Lucie Cluver joined a team of panellists for a webinar on the findings of the Global Status Report in June 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description WHO Global Status Report talk on accelerators 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof. Lucie Cluver joined a team of panelists for the second webinar from the 'Launch of the Global status report on preventing violence against children 2020' on Friday, 26 June 2020. The aim of Part 2 was to give participants the opportunity to reflect on next steps to implement the report's recommendations. If you missed Part 1 of the launch, which took place on 18 June, you can access the recording here. The password for entry is: 8J&529!$
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240004191
 
Description WHO PMNCH Global Coordination Committee meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The Hub was invited to contribute to the Global Adolescents Forum organised by the WHO as senior advisors in the Global Coordination Committee. The committee also includes directorate representatives from UNFPA, UN Women, and UNICEF, as well as ex-presidents, senior policymakers, and influential actors focused on adolescent wellbeing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description WHO PMNCH Programme Action Committee 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The Hub was invited to contribute to the Global Adolescents Forum organised by the WHO as programme coordination actors to support the largest-ever adolescent-focused event parralel to the UNGA and G20 summits in 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description WHO PMNCH committee on Adolescent Wellbeing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The WHO subgroup Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) launched a steering committee and working group on adolescent wellbeing. The group aims to define, consolidate a strategy and advocate for adolescent wellbeing across the UN system. It brings together professionals, policymakers and team leaders from UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, Plan Canada and youth-led civil society groups. Hub researchers Dr Anne Khisa and Dr Mona Ibrahim have been invited to this group to represent the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub in this group. So far, Anne and Mona have been identifying and advocating for routes for evidence uptake into the WHO PMNCH working group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description WHO Social Determinants of Health Webinar No. 2 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Lucie Cluver delivered a presentation: "COVID-19, social determinants and violence"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description WHO Webinar - Professor Lucie Cluver: "Social Impact of Covid-19 through the Life Course" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact WHO Webinar - Professor Lucie Cluver: "Social Impact of Covid-19 through the Life Course" delivered to leaders and policy makers from health and social systems, education, labour and welfare
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2021/02/10/default-calendar/social-impact-of-covid-19-th...
 
Description WHO adolescent HIV service delivery working group (ASDWG) quarterly call - Professor Lucie Cluver: "Insights on scale and predictors of adherence" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact WHO adolescent HIV service delivery working group (ASDWG) quarterly call - Professor Lucie Cluver: "Insights on scale and predictors of adherence"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description WHO/UNICEF - TeleECHO - Adolescent mothers living with HIV & their children: Evidence on accelerating access to services and rights 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Event hosted by WHO/UNICEF - TeleECHO™ on Pediatric and Adolescent HIV treatment and care Safeguarding the future: giving priority to the needs of adolescent and young mothers living with HIV. Presentation given by Elona Toska on HEY BABY and Mzantsi Wakho research data. Immediate impact of the event was knowledge sharing, active dialogue, shared understanding. Longer term impact expect to generate publicity, influence policy practice, build on relationships with stakeholders and lead to invitations to other events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description WP4: Focus groups with past Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens participants 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Twenty-four dyads of caregivers and their teenagers (10-19) - all past participants of the in-person PLH for Teens parenting programme - participated in three focus group discussions in Hamburg, South Africa. They shared with us the way the in-person PLH programme impacted their lives, the proactive approach of sharing core ideas with their relatives and friends, and felt that a parenting app would be an effective means of delivering PLH on a broad scale. They shared their input on the modules of the programme that they thought would be most important to include the parenting app. They also showed keen interest in joining the co-development team.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description WP4: Presentation at GCRF Accelerate Hub Year One meeting, Cape Town, 28 January 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Members of our team presented on Parenting for Lifelong Health Digital during the GCRF Accelerate Hub Year One meeting. The meeting had an audience of about 80 people, all of whom keenly listened to the presentation and responded with questions and positive feedback.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Webinar "Striding forward for youth mental health" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The session was an event for public and practitioners working in or interested in youth mental health. Live attendance 15 people, the session was also recorded and published online (Youtube) for future listening.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA71tJB0IYg
 
Description Webinar - INSPIRE: SEVEN STRATEGIES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation by Professor Lucie Cluver: "INSPIRE: SEVEN STRATEGIES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN" to target audience of
policy-makers and legislators, planners and technical staff, practitioners and implementers, faith-based and traditional leaders, funders, advocates and any other interested stakeholders.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Webinar - Launch of Together to #ENDviolence Solutions Summit Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation delivered by Professor Lucie Cluver:
"All of this was reinforced by Professor Lucie Cluver from the Universities of Oxford and Cape Town, who explored whether or not implementing the INSPIRE Strategies was possible in this challenging - and constantly changing - COVID-19 context. Cluver spoke to whether the science is strong enough, whether it was scale-able to the problem, and whether the INSPIRE strategies are a strategic investment beyond violence prevention alone. The answer to each of those questions was a resounding yes. 'The evidence tells us we have the science, the scale, and the strategic investment,' Cluver said. 'The rest, I think, is up to us.'

Over 1,900 individuals registered for the launch of Together to #ENDviolence, a global campaign and Solutions Summit Series to catalyse the political and financial commitments needed to end violence against children for good.

The event gathered participants from 130 countries across the world. With over 20 inspiring speakers, a diverse set of presentations, discussions, and an array of multimedia, the event provided a launching pad for partners around the globe, marking the beginning of a multi-year effort in the Decade of Action.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://bit.ly/ENDviolence_launch
 
Description Webinar - Parenting for Lifelong Health Scale-Up of Parenting Evaluation Research Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The SUPER team presented the study design to a group of webinar attendees, including practitioners implementing Parenting for Lifelong Health, policy-makers involved in programme design and commissioning, and researchers. The discussion following the presentation added several dimensions to the research plans, such as an increased emphasis on including implementer perspectives in choosing the most important research questions. The presentation recording was requested by several attendees to be shared further, including by colleagues from the NGO Stepping Stones International in Botswana for sharing with their government collaborators.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Webinar Girls Not Brides - Child Marriage Research to Action Network Webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of findings from impact evaluation of the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia to researchers, policymakers, civil-society, and advocates for ending child marraige. The presentation led to us being invited to present at a later online workshop to reinstate the African Action Group to End Child Marriage.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Webinar on COVID19 parenting response 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Dr Jamie Lachman to: ARNEC Covid19 Parenting Webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Webinar on Study Protocol 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact PLH SUPER held a webinar led by the SUPER team on the study protocol. Attended by 52 people, including academics, implementing organisations and policymakers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Webinar with Young Lives - Child Research Practice Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of research findings from impact evaluation of the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia to researchers and policymakers that are specialized in child marriage. The findings were co-presented by two Hub researchers - Dr William Rudgard and (Phd Candidate) Silinganisiwe Dzumbunu. The meeting led to further engagement with the Young Lives Ethioipa team and UNICEF Ethiopia, supporting the maintenance and continuation of the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Webinar/media conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 15 March: Dr Elona Toska and Prof. Lucie Cluver participated in a media conference with 16 African reporters from Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe on the Lancet paper.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Webinar: Beyond The Third 90: Supporting Adolescents Living With HIV To Remain Engaged In Care As They Transition To Adulthood 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Marisa Casale (PhD) and Roxanna Haghighat (DPhil Candidate) presented webinar in collaboration with UNICEF-ESARO. Presented (1) systematic review of interventions to improve adolescent retention in care and (2) adolescent transition pathways.
Attended by 14 attendees from across UNICEF ESAR country offices and slides and recording of the webinar will be shared to all 21 UNICEF Eastern-Southern Africa Region Country Offices (Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Impact: some country offices highlighted that this is the first they have ever considered the complexity of transitions in adolescent HIV care and treatment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Webinar: Making adolescent-inclusion the heart of the COVID-19 response 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact On 4 February, as part of our COVID-19 webinar series, Accelerate Hub hosted 'Making adolescent-inclusion the heart of the COVID-19 response', which brought together over 200 attendees and generated significant media attention.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4JwIObYzoE&feature=youtu.be
 
Description What is participation anyways? Strategies for meaningful research with adolescents 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation to the World Food Programme East Africa Regional Office. Nairobi, Kenya
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description World Food Programme (WFP) HIV-Food Security Evidence Update 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact In February 2021, the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub arranged a formal meeting with the World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Offices in Southern Africa and Eastern Africa. The meeting launched a new partnership with WFP looking at the interlinkages across food security, HIV, social protection in adolescent girls and young women. Dr William Rudgard (ECR) started the presentation with an evidence update emphasizing the risk of HIV to adolescent mothers and their children - this was informed by a regression analysis of the HEY BABY dataset in South Africa.

The group then went on to discuss: A) potential accelerator combinations and social protection measures that could mitigate the risk of HIV in adolescent mothers B) existing WFP programs that are supporting adolescent mothers, and; C) evidence entry points for WFPs' policies, programming and evaluation strategy. The meeting concluded with some action points to further the partnership and a follow-up conversation was scheduled.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Year 1 Annual Accelerate Hub Annual Meeting Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Youth Engagement work stream team and 3 participants of the Western Cape Teenage Advisory Group (TAG) co-presented at the Annual Accelerate Hub Meeting held in January 2020. In the presentation, we reported on the youth engagement activities that had taken place in the previous year, under this award. Using participatory methods and the same activities we use at our TAG events, we shared the lessons we had learned, highlights and challenges we encountered.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Young Lives - Child Research Practice Forum Presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Young lives under pressure: Experiences of health, well-being, and service access among adolescents and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Zambia Policy Engagement Event - The Impact of Social Protection and Peer Support 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A one-day hybrid policy engagement event hosted by the National AIDS Council Zambia to disseminate the impact of social protection and peer support on adolescent wellbeing in Zambia and virtually (via Zoom). Participants included 50+ stakeholders from the Zambian Government, the University of Oxford, the University of Cape Town, the University of Zambia, USAID, PEPFAR, UNAIDS, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), Palm Associates, Elma Philanthropies, Global Fund, PATA, Youth Groups, Disability Groups, Kabangwe Creative Initiative Association (KCIA), and others
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Zambia: Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis Country-Level Advocacy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact o Convened meetings for multilaterals (UNICEF, World Bank), bilaterals (USAID, FCDO), MOH, MOE, Ministry of Community Development and Social Welfare (MCDSW), National Public Health Institute, the President's Health Advisor, Provincial Health Director, National NGOs, and National Faith-Based Alliances (Council of Churches of Zambia, Zambia Catholic Sisterhood, and Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia).
o Presentations to the Zambia Social Protection Corporation (headed by FCDO, including ILO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, Gov of Zambia, and Embassies of Ireland, Sweden, and Switzerland) and Ministry of Community Development and Social Welfare (MCDSW)
o Courtesy brief, engaging PEPFAR/Zambia USAID Social Protection Group, who inform incorporating pandemic orphanhood into their priorities.
o Engaged in Collaboration with Zambia Without Orphans Coordinator, National Inter-Faith Leadership, including General Secretaries of Council of Churches of Zambia, Catholic Sisterhood, Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia, ZINGO (Zambia Inter-faith NGO Alliance); Zambia Without Orphans share a readiness to raise awareness and increase evidence-based parenting support, psychosocial support, and spiritual support, for families affected by pandemic orphanhood, caregiver death, and vulnerability.
o The proposal for adding 'orphanhood' as a new eligibility criterion for Cash Transfers for 2023 is supported by Zambia Social Protected Corporation (headed by FCDO, including ILO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, Gov of Zambia, and Embassies of Ireland, Sweden, and Switzerland) and Ministry of Community Development and Social Welfare (MCDSW)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Zambia: Partner engagement/support workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact We organised and conducted a 2-day partner engagement/support workshop with the Pact Zambia team - on Monday, August 30 and Friday, Sept 3.
Day 1 workshop focused on orientation - PLH delivery and data collection
Day 2 workshop focused on data preparation, data cleaning/visualisation
The chief of Party and over 15 staff (including PLH Facilitators) from most regions were in attendance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Zifune presentation - Sexual Violence Research Initiative 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact A presentation of the Zifune study was delivered at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Conference 2019, which was help in Cape Town. The presentation included a overview of the both the research being conducted through the Zifune intervention programme, as well as content of the Zifune intervention.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description co-designing new research with The Gambia UNDP 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Set up a dialogue with the Gambia UNDP office to discuss research priorities for the upcoming year to support the co-design of new research to respond to national priorities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description mHealth CSSR working paper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact An mHealth working paper titled "mHealth entry points for HIV prevention and care among adolescents and young people in South Africa" with preliminary Mzantsi Wako data analyses is out. The paper is written by Eda He, Lucas Hertzog, Dr Elona Toska, Craig Carty and Prof Lucie Cluver.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/cssr/pub/wp/457
 
Description press conference to disseminate findings that promote adolescent outcomes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The team organised a press conference on June 16, 2022, to disseminate the policy brief. Present at the meeting were adolescents, school administrators, teachers, leaders of adolescent groups in religious organisations, child health professionals, child advocates, media houses (print and broadcast), and representatives of non-governmental. During the meeting, the organisations represented were encouraged to incorporate accelerators identified in upcoming adolescent interventions and serve as advocates of the policy brief in their circles of influence. We expect that the actual impact of these engagement activities on policy and programming for young people will be evident over time. The team will keep track of this impact through sustained interaction and follow-up engagement with the relevant authorities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://youtu.be/4yF96MZI13U
 
Description to Hub Early Career Researchers on how to conduct analyses with multiple exposures and outcomes (given by formal working group on methodologies), January 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The session was intended to introduce early career researchers to the concept of development accelerators, and how to evaluate their impact on adolescent health and wellbeing outcomes. The session highlighted the concept of a hierarchy of evidence, introduced two approaches for impact evaluation: randomised control trials, and observational data analysis. Key economic considerations in accelerator analysis were also presented. The session ended with a group discussion of the methodological needs of Hub early career researchers.

The session was presented by methodologists from across 3 different social science disciplines: public health, development Studies, and economics. They presented on topics ranging from rigorous research, observational data analysis, and randomised control trials. The audience also spanned several research fields. 2 presenters (senior researchers) were from South African Unversities: (University of Kwa Zulu Natal, and University of Witwatersrand), and 2, who were themselves Early Career Researchers, were from University of Oxford in the UK.

100+ Early Career Researchers and members of the broader GCRF Hub Community attended and the session was reported to be hugely useful for unpacking both the ways to evaluate accelerators and the steps required for each approach.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
 
Description to Work Package 2 hub researchers conducting analyses with multiple exposures and outcomes (given by formal working group on methodologies), January 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The purpose of the session was to consolidate understanding of the research methodology used to study the relationship between factors in adolescents' lives (e.g. food security) and multiple health and wellbeing outcomes related to the Sustainable Development Goals. The session was developed as a follow-up to a previous methods session delivered in October 2019. Additional areas that were not covered in the previous session included how to account for multiple hypothesis testing, and estimating predicted probabilities.

The 20 attendees were from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, UK, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Departments from 1 Nigerian Univeristy (University of Ibadan), 4 UK Universities (University College London (UCL), University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)), 1 Zambian University (University of Lusaka), and 2 South African Universities (University of Cape Town; University of Witwatersrand) were present. There was a 70:30 female:male gender ratio.

The presentation was developed and presented by 1 senior statistician from University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and 1 early career researcher from University of Oxford (UK). A motivating example used a recent analysis investigating the association between family factors and multiple types of child violence (sexual abuse, transactional sex, emotional abuse, physical abuse, youth lawbreaking and community violence victimisation).

The presentation helped researchers further understand how they will go about conducting accelerator analyses and strengthened links between methodologists and researchers. Specific questions that arose relating to planned analyses were discussed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b
 
Description to Work Package 2 hub researchers conducting analyses with multiple exposures and outcomes (given by formal working group on methodologies), October 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The purpose of the session was to introduce the research methodology used to study the relationship between factors in adolescents' lives (e.g. food security) and multiple health and wellbeing outcomes related to the Sustainable Development Goals. 11 senior and 7 early career researchers attended (67:33 attendance by female:male). Attendees were from Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, UK, and Zambia. Departments from 1 Nigerian Univeristy (University of Ibadan), 4 UK Universities (UCL, University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford, and LSHTM), 1 Zambian University (University of Lusaka), and 2 South African Universities (University of Cape Town; University of Witwatersrand). The presentation was developed and presented by 1 senior statistician from University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and 1 early career researcher from University of Oxford (UK). A motivating example used work published by the team in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health academic journal (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(19)30033-1/fulltext). The presentation helped researchers understand how they will go about conducting accelerator analyses and strengthened links between methodologists and researchers. Specific questions that arose relating to the datasets being used by researchers in work package 2 were discussed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://osf.io/n6jy7/?view_only=17f148085fde4b3fb645106c6c6e418b