Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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Towards More Inclusive Strategies to Address Gender-Based Violence
(IDS, 2015-11)Sexual and gender-based violence is persistent and devastating, rooted deeply in the lives of men, women, boys and girls globally. Gendered violence does not exist in isolation, and is intertwined with other forms of ... -
Religion, Gender and Sexuality Workshop Report: 1–5 June 2015, Garden Court Hotel, Eastgate, Johannesburg
(IDS, 2015-11)Religious doctrine shapes and informs decision-making at the individual and collective levels, and sexuality and gender rights advocates must therefore work with faith-based organisations and religious activists to challenge ... -
Markets for Nutrient-rich Foods: Policy Synthesis from Three Country Studies
(IDS, 2015-11)This Evidence Report examines the potential for and limitations of promoting business and market-based approaches to reducing undernutrition through increasing the availability and accessibility of nutrient-rich foods for ... -
The Political Economy of Low-Carbon Investment: the Role of Coalitions and Alignments of Interest in the Green Transformation in China
(IDS, 2015-11)The primary motivation behind this research is the need to accelerate the supply of renewable energy because of the important role that it plays in mitigating climate change and in fostering sustainable development. Understanding ... -
Monitoring and Evaluation Report: Year 3
(IDS, 2015-10)This is a brief report on the developments and use of the monitoring and evaluation system within the Institute of Development Studies’ Accountable Grant (AG). In its third consecutive year, the AG operates under an ... -
Sexuality, Development and Non-conforming Desire in the Arab World: The Case of Lebanon and Egypt
(IDS, 2015-10)[W]e have a lot of problems here – torture, violations against street children, we are full of problems… To come in and talk about gays and lesbians, it is nice, but it’s not the major issue. It’s like I’m starving and you ... -
‘Who Cares’: Reflections on the International-level Advocacy Work of the Unpaid Care Work Programme (2012–2015)
(IDS, 2015-10)At the end of September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be launched. Building on the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were officially established in 2000, the SDGs will potentially have ... -
Businesses from the Rising Powers: Traditional or Progressive Development Partners for Africa?
(IDS, 2015-10)Expectations about the role of businesses as development actors have become almost unrecognisable from the ones summarised by Milton Friedman: ‘The only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits’ (Friedman ... -
Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy: Outputs from the Addressing and Mitigating Violence programme, May 2013 – October 2015
(Institute of Development Studies, 2015-10)Knowledge and evidence are important elements of all policy processes. While the availability of more or higher quality evidence does not guarantee better policy processes, it is difficult to imagine how development policy ... -
‘They Call Me Warrior’: The Legacy of Conflict and the Struggle to End Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Sierra Leone
(IDS, 2015-10)A relatively small country with just over 6 million people, Sierra Leone has been the focus of considerable public and policy attention because of the recent Ebola epidemic and, before that, the decade-long civil war. Given ... -
Do Businesses from the BRICS Contribute to Development in Africa?
(IDS, 2015-10)As businesses from emerging economies become more globalised, expectations are raised about their role as responsible corporate citizens and development actors when operating in low-income countries. While businesses ... -
‘Leave No One Behind’: Gender, Sexuality and the Sustainable Development Goals
(IDS, 2015-10)In an unprecedented move to eradicate disease, poverty and hunger, world leaders joined together in 2000 to sign into life the hotly contested but broadly agreed upon Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework. In 2015, ... -
Sexuality, Poverty and the Law: A Case Study Approach for Exploring Avenues of Change
(IDS, 2015-09)There is increasing pressure in international development to demonstrate that aid spending has an impact. This includes spending on policy research. While there is much debate about appropriate methods and evidence for ... -
Accelerating Sustainability: Why Political Economy Matters
(IDS, 2015-09)Accelerating sustainability is a challenge that defines our era and is a central theme of Institute of Development Studies research. This paper brings together what we can learn from development studies and from sustainability ... -
Whose Security? Building Inclusive and Secure Societies in an Unequal and Insecure World
(IDS, 2015-09)Development researchers, governance specialists, security and international relations analysts are cartographers of the modern world. Their job is to untangle the tangled, yet in doing so they all too often make flat all ... -
Inequality: Trends, Harms and New Agendas
(IDS, 2015-09)The notion that inequality matters has spread and gained currency over the last years. After decades of neglect, inequality is finally ‘in from the cold’ (Atkinson 1997), and firmly at the centre of research and policy ... -
The Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2014): Measuring the Political Commitment to Reduce Hunger and Undernutrition in Developing Countries
(IDS, 2015-09)This report presents the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) 2014. It seeks to: 1. Rank governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition; 2. Measure what governments achieve and ... -
Edible Insects and the Future of Food: A Foresight Scenario Exercise on Entomophagy and Global Food Security
(IDS, 2015-09)This document reports on the findings of a small project in which we used the tools of Foresight to think about the potential of edible insects to contribute to global food security in a future global food system. Foresight ... -
Green Development, Natural Resource Financialization and Emerging Conflict in Southern Africa with Examples from Implementation Contexts in Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa
(IDS, 2015-09)In recent years, widespread uncertainty around global economic and environmental futures has contributed to growing advocacy for a global ‘greening’ of the economy involving the coordinated establishment of pro-environment ... -
Mutual Learning for Change: An Assessment of the SIA Programme of the Rising Powers Programme
(IDS, 2015-09)The Senior International Associates (SIA) programme is part of the Rising Powers in International Development programme at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), under which senior policy actors in the BRICS countries ...