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Written by: Paul Chadwick, Savannah Simons, Triona Pender About the Paris Peace Forum In November 2021 the partnership between ActionAid Ireland and the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change was recognised as a project of excellence by the Paris Peace Forum. Triona Pender, Head of Programmes, ActionAid Ireland and Dr. Paul Chadwick, Deputy Director, Centre for.....

Dr. Paul Chadwick and Triona Pender describe an academic-NGO partnership to apply behavioural science frameworks to reducing gender-based violence in Kenya, Nepal and Ethiopia Violence against women and girls is a global problem with one in three women experiencing violence relating to their gender during their lifetime (WHO, 2013). Women in low- and middle-income countries.....

Over the past 18 months, Covid has taught us, more than ever before, the importance of public sector services. We lit candles, clapped and paid tribute to frontline workers, the nurses and doctors who bore the brunt of the pandemic. Yet, across the globe, blunt and ineffective public sector wage cuts are damaging the very.....