Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

“ Women are more encouraged to apply ”: The disconnect between the gender equality agenda and young women’s employment practices in urban Sierra Leone

In recent decades, increasing female labor market participation has emerged as a key political priority both nationally and internationally. However, existing studies reveal that its increase alone is insufficient to tackle deeply rooted gender-based inequalities, as a substantia...

Using the lives saved tool as a decision-making tool for multisectoral nutrition strategic planning for 2020–2024: experience from Burkina Faso

Abstract In the fight against malnutrition, Burkina Faso has developed a Multisectoral Nutrition Strategic Plan (MNSP). This study was conducted to assess the plan’s potential impact on reducing mortality and chronic malnutrition among children under five, using mathematical mode...

Efficiency in German Development Cooperation. Meta-evaluation and Evaluation Synthesis

Public development finance should be economical. In development cooperation, the success of interventions is assessed largely using the instrument of evaluation. This meta-evaluation and evaluation synthesis assess the quality of project evaluations carried out by the Deutsche Ge...

Agrohydrological analysis of waterlogging impacts and mitigation in Ethiopia

Abstract Waterlogging is a major yet understudied constraint to cropland productivity. Here, we apply an agrohydrological modeling framework to assess the climatology of waterlogging (1981–2010), its yield impacts on major grain crops, and the potential for mitigation across Ethi...