K4D: Recent submissions
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Policies and Practices that Link Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and Protection from Sexual Exploitation (PSEA)
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-09-21)This report show that largely protection from sexual exploitation (PSEA) is incorporated into accountability for affected population (AAP) policy and practice. In 2014 the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) merged two ... -
Armed Groups and Mining
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-09-07)The relationship between armed groups and mining is complex. Reports of armed interference in mining are provided by the United Nations (UN) Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and reported in the ... -
Global Evidence on the Prevalence and Impact of Online Gender-based Violence (OGBV)
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10-08)This rapid review updates a previous report (Fraser and Martineau-Searle, 2018) with evidence from 2018 onwards. It finds an evidence base on online gender-based violence (OGBV) covering a wider range of countries than the ... -
Alternative Systems for Managing Financial Transactions in Humanitarian Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-04-13)Restrictions on the banking sector are having a growing adverse impact on the flow of funds to humanitarian agencies and assisting communities affected by humanitarian crises has also become much more difficult and ... -
Digital Service Taxes and Their Application
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-15)Many developing economies have seen a rise in e-commerce activity within their borders, and a decline in income from traditional industries as a result of COVID-19, meaning the digital economy offers a potentially unexploited ... -
Lessons Learned from Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Programmes that Operate in Fragile or Conflict Affected Settings
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10-09)This rapid review synthesises the literature on how community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programmes could be adapted in settings of conflict and fragility. It identifies multiple factors affecting the ... -
The Drivers of Acute Food Insecurity and the Risk of Famine
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-09)This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and knowledge institution sources on the drivers of acute food insecurity and famines with a focus on key FCDO-partner countries. This review builds further ... -
K4D’s Work on Conflict, Violence, and Peace (2016-2021)
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-17)Conflict, violence, and peace has been the focus of many evidence requests and much of the learning activity of K4D, in line with FCDO’s and formerly DFID’s development commitments to fragile and conflict affected contexts ... -
Drivers of Compliance with International Human Rights Treaties
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-25)Are international human rights treaties associated with better rights performance? The appetite for a conclusive answer has driven a number of large scale quantitative studies that have broadly shown little or no effect, ... -
Effectiveness of Sustainable Marine Economy Interventions
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-07-29)Large development intervention programmes termed ‘marine economy’ or ‘blue economy’ are in their early stages and do not yet have results on effectiveness. Reports on the effectiveness of activities which could be considered ... -
Humanitarian Evidence Summary No.20
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-08)This is the 20th monthly Humanitarian Evidence Summary (HUMES) to signpost FCDO and other UK government departments to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action to inform and support their response. ... -
Armed Group Transition from Rebel to Government
(2021-10-18)Governments and political parties with an armed history are not unusual, yet how these groups function during and after the transition from conflict has largely been ignored by the existing literature. Many former armed ... -
Financial Inclusion in a Refugee Response
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-18)The growing scope, frequency, and complexity of forced displacement, both inside and outside of countries, has pushed donors and other development groups to rethink their approaches to humanitarian crises, particularly on ... -
Approaches to Youth Violence in Jordan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-13)Youth violence, particularly targeting the state as well as engagement in violent extremism, has been a persistent feature in Jordan over the past decade. There are numerous factors driving this: economic, political and ... -
Humanitarian Evidence Summary No.19
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10-13)This is the 19th monthly Humanitarian Evidence Summary (HUMES) to signpost FCDO and other UK government departments to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action to inform and support their response. ... -
Lessons Learnt from Humanitarian Negotiations with the Taliban, 1996-2001
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-09-17)This rapid literature review finds that humanitarian actors responded in a variety of ways to Taliban actions limiting principled aid in the country during the period of their rule (1996-2001). The report is focused on the ... -
Humanitarian Evidence Summary No.18
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-09-14)This is the 18th monthly Humanitarian Evidence Summary (HUMES) to signpost FCDO and other UK government departments to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action to inform and support their response. ... -
Evidence on the Advantages of Low Carbon Growth in Jordan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-06)There has been a considerable amount of research generally into the benefits associated with low carbon development, showing that it can be synergistic with development priorities – such as job creation, improved public ... -
Water Security and Climate Change
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-07-19)Attention is coalescing around water and climate change, and the agendas for water security and climate action are converging. There is growing appreciation of water as a crosscutting mechanism for improving the effectiveness ... -
Feminist Foreign Policy: Contributions and lessons
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-11)A relatively small number of countries have an explicit “Feminist Foreign Policy” (FFP). Those most often cited are Sweden, Canada, France, Mexico, and Spain. In theory, an FFP moves beyond gender mainstreaming in foreign ...
