Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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Brazil’s International Development Cooperation at a Crossroads
(IDS, 2021-12)The IDS Rising Powers in International Development programme has launched a series of studies of key issues and debates on international development cooperation in BRICS countries, working with leading specialists from ... -
The Shifting Roles of Men in Collective Action on SGBV in Kenya: Report of a Movement and Influence Mapping Workshop, Nairobi, 3–5 July 2013
(IDS, 2014-03)Over a decade and a half on from the landmark declarations of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (UN 1994) and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (UN 1995), there is now a growing ... -
A Critical Analysis of Public Policies on Education and LGBT Rights in Brazil
(IDS, 2014-03)This audit analyses key aspects of public policies in education and sexuality in Brazil, which have been designed as part of the wider programme Brazil Without Homophobia (BWH – Programa Brasil sem Homofobia), launched in ... -
E-health and M-health in Bangladesh: Opportunities and Challenges
(IDS, 2014-03)There is growing enthusiasm amongst analysts of global health for the possibilities opened up by the rapid spread of mobile phone coverage. This includes substantially increasing access to health-related information and ... -
The BRICS and the International Development System: Challenge and Convergence?
(IDS, 2014-03)The sustained growth of rising powers, including the grouping known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is reshaping global governance arrangements. Annual BRICS summits and inter-ministerial ... -
The BRICS and the International Development System: Challenge and Convergence?
(IDS, 2014-03)The ‘BRICs’ acronym, in its most common usage, derives from a report to investors by Goldman Sachs’ analyst Jim O’Neill, signalling the new dynamic that four large countries; Brazil, Russia, India and China, were bringing ... -
Settling After the Revolts? Egypt’s Political Settlements and Violent Transition
(IDS, 2014-03)The uprisings in the Arab region generated much hope among significant proportions of the population that a rupture with the status quo would herald a new era marked by bread, freedom and social justice/human dignity, the ... -
Promoting Greater Cooperation Between Russia and OECD Donors
(IDS, 2014-03)Russia is unique amongst the BRICS group for being a ‘re-emerging’ donor. The USSR was one of the largest donor countries in the world. After a relatively brief period as a net aid recipient during the 1990s, Russia has ... -
Who Shapes Climate Action in India? Insights from the Wind and Solar Energy Sectors
(IDS, 2014-03)The years since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed in 1992 have been marked by rising concern about the climate problem, given that emissions have continued to rise and atmospheric concentrations ... -
Literature Review on Sexuality and Poverty
(IDS, 2014)This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for International Development ... -
Unpaid Care Work Programme: Nepal Progress Report (2012–13)
(IDS, 2014)This report covers the progress of the programme in Nepal over the first year and a half of the four-year programme. For a programme aimed at influencing national policy, it is critical to understand the political economy ... -
Sexuality and Poverty Synthesis Report
(IDS, 2014)This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving socioeconomic policy and ... -
Is Nutrition Losing Out in African Agricultural Policies? Evidence from Nigeria
(IDS, 2014)Agricultural policies in many African countries focus on industrialising food value chains and substituting domestic products for imported ones. Yet experience in Nigeria shows that, by focusing on staple crops and ... -
The Role of Business in Providing Nutrient-Rich Foods for the Poor: A Case Study in Tanzania
(IDS, 2014)This case study of a Tanzanian food processing business analyses the potential of mid-sized businesses to contribute to tackling undernutrition. Particularly among young children and pregnant mothers, undernutrition has ... -
Monitoring and Evaluation Report: Year 2
(2014-02-10)This report relates to the second year of the Institute of Development Studies’ (IDS) Accountable Grant (AG), a complex four-year grant, involving seven Outputs (six key policy themes and one policy response and evaluation ... -
Connecting Unpaid Care Work and Childhood Development for Gains in Women and Children’s rights
(IDS, 2014)Women’s rights and children’s rights directly influence each other, yet there have been few successes at tackling the agendas collaboratively thus limiting the quality of policy and practice in both areas. Integrating ... -
How does the Global Power Shift Affect the Low Carbon Transformation?
(IDS, 2014)Two transformations are likely to dominate the first half of the twenty-first century. One is the shift in economic power from the West (North America and Western Europe) to the East (China and the East Asian production ... -
Sexuality and the Law: Case Studies from Cambodia, Egypt, Nepal and South Africa
(IDS, 2014)This paper provides a synthesis of five case studies on the relationship between sexuality and law. These case studies were undertaken as part of the Sexuality, Poverty and Law theme of the DFID-funded Accountable Grant ... -
Non-Profit Food Distribution: Working with Businesses to Reduce Undernutrition in Nigeria
(IDS, 2014)In Nigeria, undernutrition is causing vast social and economic damage. To address this, poor people must have better access to a diet rich in essential nutrients. Markets are a key source of food for a growing proportion ... -
Reclaiming the Streets for Women’s Dignity: Effective Initiatives in the Struggle against Gender-Based Violence in between Egypt’s Two Revolutions
(IDS, 2014)This paper is about the struggle to combat gender-based violence in public space in Egypt through the sustained collective action of vigilante groups who organically formed to respond to the increasing encroachment on women ...