Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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Tracking Research and Policy Conversations in Online Spaces
(IDS, 2015-03)The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is engaged in a major four-year programme entitled Strengthening Evidence-based Policy, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Central to this programme ... -
Does War Empower Women? Evidence from Timor Leste
(IDS, 2015-03)Conflicts may change the material conditions and the incentives individuals face through death, displacement and other consequences of violence. Being a victim of a war can also profoundly change individual beliefs, values ... -
Emerging Powers and International Development
(2015-03)Module outline and PowerPoint presentations for the Emerging Powers and International Development module, taught by Xiuli Xu as part of a Teaching and Learning Visiting Fellowship under the IDS Rising Powers in International ... -
FDI from the BRICS
(2015-03)Module outline and PowerPoint presentations for the FDI from the BRICS module, taught by Yuriy K. Zaytsev as part of a Teaching and Learning Visiting Fellowship under the IDS Rising Powers in International Development ... -
How Filipino LBTs Cope with Economic Disadvantage
(IDS, 2015-02)After decades as the so-called ‘sick man of Asia’, the Philippines has adopted the export-driven model of economic development followed by wealthier Asian countries (Makabenta 2014) and has begun to address the pervasive ... -
When the Hen Crows: Obstacles that Prevent Indigenous Women from Influencing Health-care Policies – A Case Study of Shillong, Meghalaya, India
(IDS, 2015-02)Meghalaya is a landlocked and largely agrarian state in northeast India with an approximate population of three million. Various government surveys report that roughly half the state lives below the poverty line. Most ... -
Do Government Transfers Reduce Conflict?
(IDS, 2015-02)How can we mitigate civil unrest before it results in the breakdown of social order? Not all forms of civil unrest escalate into violence, but why do some deteriorate and others do not? Social conflicts have been solved ... -
Better Nutrition for the Poor through Informal Markets
(IDS, 2015-02)In the fight against undernutrition, policymakers are seeking to use markets to increase access to nutrient-rich foods. Yet ensuring food reaches those most affected by undernutrition requires shaping the markets and ... -
Turning the Tide: The Role of Collective Action for Addressing Structural and Gender-based Violence in South Africa
(IDS, 2015-02)The case study discussed in this Evidence Report explores the value and limitations of collective action in challenging the community, political, social and economic institutions that reinforce harmful masculinities and ... -
Local Engagement in Ebola Outbreaks and Beyond in Sierra Leone
(IDS, 2015-02)Containment strategies for Ebola rupture fundamental features of social, political and religious life. Control efforts that involve local people and appreciate their perspectives, social structures and institutions are ... -
The Pathology of Inequality: Gender and Ebola in West Africa
(IDS, 2015-02)The international response to Ebola has been decried for being ‘too slow, too little, too late’. As well as racing to respond, we need to consider what has happened over the past decades to leave exposed fault lines that ... -
Urbanisation, the Peri-urban Growth and Zoonotic Disease
(IDS, 2015-02)Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling ... -
Ebola and Extractive Industry
(IDS, 2015-02)The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The most important sector is mining as these three countries share a rich iron ore ... -
Ebola, Politics and Ecology: Beyond the ‘Outbreak Narrative’
(IDS, 2015-02)The origin of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been traced to the likely confluence of a virus, a bat, a two-year-old child and an underequipped rural health centre. Understanding how these factors may have combined ... -
Return of the Rebel: Legacies of War and Reconstruction in West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic
(IDS, 2015-02)The spread of Ebola in West Africa centres on a region with a shared recent history of transnational civil war and internationally led post-conflict reconstruction efforts. This legacy of conflict and shortcomings in the ... -
Strengthening Health Systems for Resilience
(IDS, 2015-02)In countries with high levels of poverty or instability and with poor health system management and governance, people are highly vulnerable to shocks associated with ill health, including major epidemics. An effective ... -
Global Governance and the Limits of Health Security
(IDS, 2015-02)The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed the limits of the current approach to the global governance of infectious diseases, which mixes public health and security interests. International efforts to strengthen ‘health ... -
Ebola and Lessons for Development
(IDS, 2015-02)As the Ebola crisis continues to unfold across West Africa and the international community belatedly responds, broader questions arise beyond the immediate challenges on the ground. These fundamentally challenge our ... -
Sustainable Development Goals Must Consider Security, Justice and Inequality to Achieve Social Justice
(IDS, 2015-02)Security and social justice have a crucial role to play in the newly proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goals, which aim to establish a safe, sustainable and just society for all, require a truly ... -
Addressing and Mitigating Violence: Uptake Strategy, Year Three Update
(IDS, 2015-02)The overarching purpose of the Addressing and Mitigating Violence (AMV) theme is to generate useful analysis to tackle policy dilemmas relating to ‘newer’ forms of violence and organised crime. Across the contexts where ...
