The latest episode of the SRHM Podcast dives deep into critical global issues, and the CRANK gets a special mention! If you're passionate about gender equality, child marriage, and driving change, this is an episode you don't want to miss. In the latest episode they discuss key issues related to child marriage research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including: • The stalled progress on child marriage in the region • Gaps in research, especially around disability and child marriage • The need for more community-based and practitioner-friendly research approaches • Collaborative efforts to create locally-responsive evidence for policy debates 🎧Tune in: https://lnkd.in/dX6jEi5k
New Podcast Episode! 🎙 This week we are back with a new and insightful discussion, where we speak to the authors of a recently published paper in the SRHM journal - 'Setting research priorities for prevention and response to child marriage in communities in the Arab region: findings from a multi-stage Delphi study involving practitioners across the region' (https://lnkd.in/dkYS7gKP), that explores research priorities across the Arab region to inform effective and accelerated child marriage prevention and response programming within the region. We hear from: - Janna Metzler, co-founder and Executive Director of AGEN-C Project, a new non-profit dedicated to improving population health through community-driven solutions and former Associate Director of Research at the Women's Refugee Commission in New York; - Aisha Hutchinson, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at the School of Education, Communication & Society at King’s College London; - Katrina Kiss, a postgraduate researcher at the School of School of Education, Communication & Society at King’s College London. The authors talk about the rationale behind their study, the pros and cons of the unique research methodology presented in the paper, and specific findings that stood out to them. We hope you enjoy this episode: https://lnkd.in/dX6jEi5k Regional Action Forum to end Child Marriage in MENA/Arab States