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Understanding Accountability in Practice: Obligations, Scrutiny, and Consequences
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022-12-30)Attempting to increase authorities' accountability for their actions has become a mainstay of development practice in recent decades. Yet commentators suggest that these efforts have reached an impasse, in part because of ... -
The Alternatives to Universal Tax Registration in Sri Lanka
(Verité Research, 2023-02)This note argues that the Sri Lankan government’s recent proposal to implement universal tax registration is neither a viable nor effective strategy to increase the country’s tax revenue. Instead, the note proposes ... -
Citizen Action for Accountability in Challenging Contexts: What Have we Learned?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2023-02-14)While much is known about how citizens mobilize and make claims for accountability in more democratic, stable, and peaceful settings, little is known about how accountability dynamics work in more challenging contexts—those ... -
How Might the National Revenue Authority of Sierra Leone Enhance Revenue Collection by Taxing High Net Worth Individuals?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-03)In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, increasing domestic revenue mobilisation has become even more of a priority for low-income countries. One of the commonly untapped sources of revenue across many of these countries ... -
Pandemic Preparedness for the Real World: Why We Must Invest in Equitable, Ethical and Effective Approaches to Help Prepare for the Next Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-03-08)The cost of the Covid-19 pandemic remains unknown. Lives directly lost to the disease continue to mount, while related health, livelihood and wellbeing impacts are still being felt, and the wider ramifications across ... -
Covid Collective: Social Science Research for Covid-19 Action
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)In early 2020, the world became aware of a new global threat. Covid-19 spread rapidly, upending the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. With support from the Research and Evidence Division of the UK’s Foreign, ... -
The Case of MUVA Assistentes: Beyond Income Generation to a New Approach for Women’s Empowerment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-03-02)This paper highlights the case of MUVA Assistentes, a public works programme (PWP) that provided training and mentoring to young vulnerable women (YVW) in urban Mozambique. Our paper draws out the main learnings from the ... -
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: Questioning the Idea of Acceleration Through the Conflicting Temporalities of Politics and Nature Among the Sahelian Populations
(Resilience Alliance, 2023-02)In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. Based on the notion of acceleration developed by Harmut Rosa and using the idea of conflicting temporalities in the ... -
COVID Policy and Urban Food Markets in Peru: Governance and Compliance
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-02-19)Urban food markets are essential channels of food distribution and spaces of social interaction where COVID-19 could be easily transmitted. The Peruvian government used budget incentives to motivate local governments to ... -
What Makes “Difficult” Settings Difficult? Contextual Challenges for Accountability
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022-10-22)It is increasingly common for international development actors to work in difficult and fragile settings, yet much of our understanding of accountability through social and political action comes from more stable settings. ... -
Mandating Digital Tax Tools as a Response to Covid: Evidence from Eswatini
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02)To reduce physical contact, Covid-19 forced many tax authorities to embrace digital technologies for filing and payment. Pandemic control aside, e-filing and e-payment hold great promise in facilitating taxpayer compliance, ... -
Employing the Policy Capacity Framework for Health System Strengthening
(Oxford University Press, 2023-01-25)The policy capacity framework offers relevant analytical ideas that can be mobilized for health system strengthening. However, the employment of this framework in the health field constitutes a relevant interdisciplinary ... -
Building Policy Capacity for Managing Rapid, Complex Change in China’s Health System
(Oxford University Press, 2022-01-30)The concept of policy capacity is often used to explain the success or failure of governments or countries in conceiving of, developing, and implementing policies, but is often poorly systematised. Wu et al provide a ... -
Ten Facts About Spending on Education in Egypt
(Arab Reform Initiative, 2021-11)غم أن تلك المادة ألزمت الدولة بإنفاق هذه النسبة عىل التعليم بدءا من العام 2016 - 2017 ،لم تلتزم الحكومة في واقع األمر بزيادة الموارد المخصصة إىل هذا القطاع بما يتوافق ومقصد مواد الدستور، التي تضع أيضا أولوية لالهتمام ... -
Resiliencia en tiempos de pandemia: el caso de las ollas comunes en Lima, Perú
(Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), 2022)La pandemia del coronavirus no solo ha significado una emergencia sanitaria, sino que también ha generado una crisis en los ámbitos económico, social y alimentario. En este contexto, las ollas comunes (OC) han jugado un ... -
Social Protection in Kenya: Disruptions and Opportunities for Women Working in the Informal Sector
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022-02)Social protection is central in accelerating the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals and affirming the principle of "leave no one behind" (Koehler, 2021). Global evidence shows that social protection mechanisms ... -
Supporting Inclusive Growth After Covid-19 In Rwanda
(Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR-Rwanda), 2022-04)The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on households and businesses in Rwanda has been significant. The impact on low-level income-earning Rwandans and the many small and micro-businesses have been of particular ... -
Crisis alimentaria en América Latina: algunos indicadores para entender su magnitud
(RIMISP, 2022-06)El Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 2, hambre cero, suponía una declaración de guerra al hambre con un objetivo claro: “De aquí a 2030, poner fin al hambre y asegurar el acceso a todas las personas […] a una ... -
Building More Inclusive, Equitable, and Resilient Societies: Towards the World Social Summit 2025
(Southern Voice, 2022-05)The proposed World Social Summit 2025 provides an opportunity for a renewed global social contract. The relevance of the Summit will depend on the extent to which the process to agree on its core agenda includes relevant ... -
Estado y perspectivas de la seguridad alimentaria y la agricultura familiar tras la pandemia en Colombia
(RIMISP, 2022-02)De acuerdo al último informe de WFP-FAO las principales amenazas sobre la seguridad alimentaria en Colombia, para los próximos meses, son la inestabilidad social y política, los efectos económicos dejados por la ...