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On the Margins of Aid Orthodoxy: the Brazil-Mozambique Collaboration to Produce Essential Medicines in Africa
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2014-09-25)On the back of its recent economic development and domestic success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Brazil is helping the Government of Mozambique to set up a pharmaceutical factory as part of its South-South cooperation ... -
Cultures of Politics, Spaces of Power: Contextualizing Brazilian Experiences of Participation
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-07-02)Brazilian democratic innovation is gathering considerable international attention, spawning a growing interest in replicating the institutional designs of its participatory governance institutions in countries with very ... -
Urban Social Assistance: Evidence, Challenges and the Way Forward, with Application to Ghana
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020-11-26)Motivation: Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance in urban areas. Those programmes that exist, moreover, are often extensions or ... -
Graduation After 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving But Still Not Thriving
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020-06-17)Motivation: Many social protection programmes aspire to graduate poor people out of poverty. While some successfully ensure food security and survival for the poorest, few have moved large numbers of people sustainably out ... -
COVID-19 Challenges and WASH in Informal Settlements: Integrated Action Supported by the Sustainable Development Goals
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-12-01)The spread and impacts of COVID-19 have exposed multiple and cascading vulnerabilities, which particularly affect urban informal settlements. In light of such threats, it is vital to understand how interventions in the ... -
COVID-19: What is Not Being Addressed
(Sage Publishing, 2020-10-13)As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases nears 27 million, there is a rush to answer (what next) and a rush to act (to solve the immediate problems of COVID-19). This paper discusses, with a specific focus on urban areas ... -
Unsettling the Apocalypse: Uncertainty in Spirituality and Religion
(Routledge, 2020)Current crises that link nature with human agency are increasingly described as ‘apocalyptic’, and people faced with uncertain futures continue to express their doubts, fears and hopes in spiritual terms. Religious language ... -
Intertwining the Politics of Uncertainty, Mobility and Immobility
(Routledge, 2020)This chapter explores how politics of uncertainty shape mobilities and immobilities. Recognising that institutions of different types are central in producing and resisting uncertainty, the chapter unpicks how formal and ... -
Post-Pandemic Transformations: How and Why COVID-19 Requires us to Rethink Development
(Elsevier, 2020-02)COVID-19 is proving to be the long awaited ‘big one’: a pandemic capable of bringing societies and economies to their knees. There is an urgent need to examine how COVID-19 – as a health and development crisis - unfolded ... -
A Narrative Analysis of the Political Economy Shaping Policy on Child Nutrition in India
(Wiley, 2017-03-06)This article examines two narratives on the subject of child undernutrition in India espoused by competing sides of the policy elite. It argues that undertaking narrative policy analysis in a structured fashion helps to ... -
Participatory Action Research on Alcoholism and Bonded Labor in Times of Prohibition in India
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2020-09-08)The research presented in this article examines whether participatory action research methods can transform violent, stigmatising approaches to alcohol consumption in marginalised communities into community-owned, ... -
Where Is Equity in Integrated Approaches for Water Resources Management?
(Oxford University Press, 2020)The challenges of integrated approaches and equity in water resources management have been well researched. However, a clear division exists between scholars working on equity and those working on integration, and there ... -
A Relational View of Pastoral (Im)Mobilities
(White Horse Press, 2020-10)Pitched against the apparently more civilised and modern ‘settled’, pastoralists have historically been penalised for the seemingly primitive and outdated practice of mobility. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in western ... -
COVID-19 and Pastoralism: Reflections from Three Continents
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-10-21)Focusing on pastoralism, this article reflects on five diverse cases across Africa, Asia and Europe and asks: how have COVID-19 disease control measures affected mobility and production practices, marketing opportunities, ... -
Reclaiming Comprehensive Public Health
(BMJ, 2020-09-08)Over the past 6 months, we have witnessed diversity in the spread and severity of the COVID-19 and in the nature and timing of responses to it in different countries and contexts. Acute emergencies often mobilise a short ... -
‘The Data is Gold, and we are the Gold-diggers’: Whiteness, Race and Contemporary Academic Research in Eastern DRC
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)The boom of the humanitarian and development industry in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the demand for qualitative and quantitative research that has accompanied it have created a novel political economy ... -
Local Response in Health Emergencies: Key Considerations for Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Informal Urban Settlements
(Sage Journals, 2020-05-05)This paper highlights the major challenges and considerations for addressing COVID-19 in informal settlements. It discusses what is known about vulnerabilities and how to support local protective action. There is ... -
Chronic Conditions and COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements: a Protracted Emergency
(Informa UK Limited, 2020-09-10)COVID-19 has forced a reckoning about how we live, and in particular how exposure to disease risks are unevenly distributed. This contribution explores connections between the COVID- 19pandemic, chronic disease and ... -
Psychological Resilience, Fragility and the Health Workforce: Lessons on Pandemic Preparedness from Liberia and Sierra Leone
(2020-08-14)COVID-19 presents a time to redefine vulnerability; however, in discussions of vulnerability, the health workforce, particularly in regard to their psychosocial well-being, is often forgotten. Healthcare workers (HCWs) ... -
Pastoralists and Peasants: Perspectives on Agrarian Change
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-09-27)For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual framings, there are many commonalities. ...