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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 ... -
Taxing Mobile Money in Kenya: Impact on Financial Inclusion
(2024-05)Financial inclusion – where individuals and businesses have access to useful and affordable financial products and services that meet their needs, delivered in a responsible and sustainable way – is a critical component ... -
Accountability and Citizen–State Relations in Bangladesh: Findings from the CLEAR Programme
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-12)This report synthesises findings on accountability and citizen–state relations in Bangladesh from the Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR). To do this, it refers to five projects from ... -
Unsuccessful Implementation of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines in Low-Income Countries: The Case of Ethiopia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-05)Transfer pricing refers to the technique of ascertaining the value or price of business transactions between related parties for tax purposes. The price of business transactions between related business entities (for ... -
Does Collecting Taxes Erode the Accountability of Informal Leaders? Evidence from the DRC
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06)Delegating tax collection to informal leaders could raise tax revenue but runs the risk of undermining the local accountability of those leaders. We investigate this trade-off by exploiting whether city chiefs in the ... -
The Need for an ‘Association’ to Improve Night Entertainment Business Management Practices to Reduce Worst Forms of Child Labour
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-11)In late 2020, CLARISSA undertook scoping studies and literature reviews into supply chain/human chain/urban neighbourhood dynamics in Kathmandu, and their impact on worst forms of child labour (WFCL). To address the evidence ... -
Family Lack of Awareness and Conflict Leads to Abuse and Exploitation at the Workplace
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-17)The Adult Entertainment Sector (AES) is a relatively new and growing sector in Kathmandu, developing rapidly after international aid and trade relations led to the growth of a consumer economy and the development of a ... -
Children Re-enter the Worst Forms of Child Labour Despite Participating in Training and Skills-Oriented Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-11)Report of the CLARISSA Nepal Action Research Group 4. As the first step of systemic action research, the CLARISSA programme in Nepal collected 400 life stories of children and young people engaged in the worst forms of ... -
A Day in the Life of a Working Child in Kathmandu, Nepal: A Synthesis of 20 Stories about Children’s Days
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-11)This synthesis paper summarises patterns in the lived experience of 20 children in Kathmandu who went about a typical day in their lives. Combining use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, a survey children ... -
Child Marriage
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-11)The Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme uses Action Research (AR) to understand the dynamics which drive the worst forms of child labour (WFCL), and to generate ... -
Children Discontinue Studies Due to Family Spending on Alcohol and Addictions
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-11)Report of the CLARISSA Nepal Action Research Group 1. This group worked on the theme, ‘Children forced to discontinue their studies as a result of poor economic conditions resulting from family spending on alcohol and other ... -
My Environment, My Work
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-11)The Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme uses Action Research (AR) to understand the dynamics which drive the worst forms of child labour (WFCL), and to generate ... -
Roundtable Report: Discussion on mpox in DRC and Social Science Considerations for Operational Response
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-10)On 28 May 2024, the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) organised a roundtable discussion on the mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) outbreak which has been spreading in the Democratic Republic of the ... -
A Day in the Life of a Working Child in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Synthesis of 25 Stories about Children’s Days
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-06-11)This synthesis paper summarises patterns in the lived experience of 25 children in Hazaribagh, Dhaka who went about a typical day in their lives. Combining use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, a survey children ... -
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Enhancing Taxpayer Registration with Inter-Institutional Data Sharing – Evidence from Uganda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024)Comprehensive population data is often lacking in many developing countries, especially in Africa. This is a critical challenge for tax administrations, who are already grappling with a substantial hidden informal economy. ...