Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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China’s Engagement in International Development Cooperation: The State of the Debate
(IDS, 2015-02)This research aims to investigate the recent evolution of China’s discourse on development and aid. More precisely, how do China’s policymakers and influential scholars understand and debate China’s role in the field of ... -
Knowledge Sharing and Development in a Digital Age
(IDS, 2015-02)Digital technologies are reaching ever further into remote parts of the world, changing how people access, use, and create information and knowledge. These changes may improve people’s lives by making information ... -
Rising Powers in International Development: Learning Events 2014
(IDS, 2015-02)This report provides an overview of the objectives of and discussions held at three learning events held by the IDS Rising Powers in International Development programme in 2014. -
Scenarios of Waste and Resource Management: for Cities in India and Elsewhere
(IDS, 2015-02)Rising prosperity around the globe – welcome and overdue in many respects – has certain undesirable consequences. It leads to an increase in the demand for raw materials, putting pressure on our limited natural resources. ... -
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Information and Communications Technologies: A Policy Review and Case Study from South Africa
(IDS, 2015-02)This report explores the intersection between sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and technological means of enhancing health. South Africa has a high teenage pregnancy rate. Almost a third of its girl teenagers report ... -
Managing the Emerging Waste Crisis in Developing Countries’ Large Cities
(IDS, 2015-02)Rising prosperity around the globe is both welcome and, in many countries, long overdue. However, it brings with it a number of undesirable consequences, such as an increased demand for raw materials, which puts pressure ... -
Coming Together to End Gender Violence: Report of Deliberative Engagements with Stakeholders on the Issue of Collective Action to Address Sexual and Gender-based Violence, and the Role of Men and Boys, October 2014, Cape Town, South Africa
(IDS, 2015-02)Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) – physical, psychological, sexual, economic, socio-cultural – is a conspicuous and widespread violation of human rights. In South Africa, this violence pervades the political, economic ... -
Development Banks from the BRICS
(IDS, 2015-02)The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South ... -
Engaging Men and Boys to End Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Sierra Leone: A Stakeholder Mapping Report, June 2014
(IDS, 2015-02)Increasingly, engaging with men and boys has emerged as a vital strategy adopted by non-governmental organisations, national governments, women’s organisations, and international agencies for ending sexual and gender-based ... -
Same-Sex Sexualities, Gender Variance, Economy and Livelihood in Nepal: Exclusions, Subjectivity and Development
(IDS, 2015-02)This case study explores the relationship between socioeconomic opportunity and exclusion in relation to minority gender and sexualities in Nepal. The study, a component of a wider programme on Sexuality, Poverty and Law ... -
Civil Unrest and Government Transfers in India
(IDS, 2015-02)This paper investigates empirically the role of government expenditure on social services in mitigating and preventing civil unrest (riots) in India. The empirical analysis makes use of a unique longitudinal dataset compiled ... -
MASVAW Movement Mapping Report: Movement Mapping and Critical Reflection with Activists of the Men’s Action to Stop Violence Against Women (MASVAW) Campaign, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, August 2014
(IDS, 2015-02)Engaging men and boys in addressing gender-based violence has grown in attention over the past 20 years. However, the emerging field predominantly focuses on the issues as a problem of individuals, neglecting the role of ... -
Livelihood, Exclusion and Opportunity: Socioeconomic Welfare among Gender and Sexuality Non-normative People in India
(IDS, 2015-01)In 2014, its 67th year as a sovereign country with a population of 1.21 billion (Government of India 2011a), India is the second most populous country in the world, the most populous democracy and has the longest written ... -
Realising the Potential of Civil Society-led South-South Development Cooperation
(IDS, 2015-01)Civil Society Organisations from the BRICS countries and Mexico are leading a huge range of South-South Development Cooperation (SSDC) initiatives. New research shows how these initiatives are promoting social accountability, ... -
Balancing Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work to Achieve Women’s Economic Empowerment
(IDS, 2015-01)It is widely known that women’s economic empowerment can lead to economic growth. However, it is important to understand women’s economic empowerment as not simply about labour force participation, but also about the ... -
High-Level Roundtable on Political Settlements: Goodenough College, London, 15 October 2014
(IDS, 2015-01)This roundtable was held at Goodenough College, London, on 15 October 2014. Its purpose was to engage high-level policymakers and academics on the relevance of the political settlement lens for the comparative study of ... -
The Political Economy of Low-carbon Investments: Insights from the Wind and Solar Power Sectors in India
(IDS, 2015-01)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. U ... -
Gender-Equitable Public Investment: How Time-Use Surveys Can Help
(IDS, 2014-12)Macroeconomic policy often fails to recognise the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work on women, and as a result reinforces both gender and income inequalities. By providing detailed information on how this burden ... -
Policy Audit: Sexuality and Disability in Policies Affecting Chinese People with Disabilities
(IDS, 2014-12)This policy audit examines the cultural, political and economic spheres in China from the perspective of people with disabilities. Through a series of case studies we argue that the heteronormative assumptions that underpin ... -
Mitigating 'Non-Conflict' Violence by Creating Peaceful Political Settlements
(IDS, 2014-12)Understanding and addressing ‘non-conflict’ violence is a key challenge for development. Different types of ‘non-conflict’ violence, such as homicide, massacres, armed robbery and gender-based violence, which occur outside ...