This year’s central theme, “Gender, Institutions, and Fragility,” explored the role of gender and institutional dynamics in shaping the formation, functioning, and consequences of fragility, insecurity, conflict, and emergency. The discussions highlighted gender as a critical lens for understanding the heterogeneity of these experiences and emphasized how gender intersects with other identities such as age, ability, displacement status, and ethnicity.
Janina Isabel shared insights from a randomized controlled trial evaluating a bicycle intervention designed to empower adolescent girls in Zambia. The study examines how improved mobility can influence education, safety, and well-being outcomes among young women in fragile contexts.
You can access the working paper here.