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Neglected Second and Third Generation Challenges of Urban Sanitation: A Review of the Marginality and Exclusion Dimensions of Safely Managed Sanitation
(Public Library of Science UK (PLOS), 2024-06-14)Sanitation is fundamental for health and wellbeing yet cities, especially in the global South, face challenges in providing safely managed sanitation systems. Global and national sanitation campaigns tend to focus on the ... -
Tax Earmarking and Political Participation: Theory and Evidence from Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06)Earmarking taxes for specific expenditure categories is thought to be a crucial factor in the development of the early modern European fiscal states and remains a widespread yet fiscally rigid and often inefficient policy ... -
“My Business Challenges are Far Worse Right Now, I Will go for Covid-19 Vaccine Later”: Post-pandemic Lessons from the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout in Informal Settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Nairobi
(2024-04)This paper focuses on the immediate post-pandemic period (2021–23) to discuss how the Covid vaccination rollout offers insights into the pandemic’s longer-term socioeconomic, health and political consequences for marginalised ... -
CLARISSA Cash Plus Social Protection Intervention: An Evaluation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-21)This paper presents the results of the multi-method evaluation of the CLARISSA Cash Plus pilot, which was an innovative social protection scheme for tackling social ills, including the worst forms of child labour. A universal ... -
Children Discontinue Studies Due to Homelessness and Negligence, or Fall into Substance Abuse
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-21)The CLARISSA Nepal Action Research Group discussed in this report is located in a UNESCO world heritage site, in one of the Durbar Squares in Kathmandu Valley. The location was selected as a cluster for CLARISSA processes ...