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“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 ... -
How do Federal Bureaucrats Get Informed? An X-ray of the Sources of Evidence Used in Policy Work
(Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), 2024)The use of scientific knowledge to support policy has been a debated issue since the emergence of the field of policy analysis (Lerner and Lasswell, 1951; Weiss, 1979). More recently, the evidence-based policy approach ... -
People-driven Solutions: An Introduction to Facilitating Deep Participation for Systemic Change Through Systemic Action Research Programming
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-18)CLARISSA evidence builds upon an existing body of evidence (Burns, 2014; Howard et al., 2021) around deeply participatory processes, where children and adults are given significant decision-making power, and supported to ...