Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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Towards Gender Equality with Care-sensitive Social Protection
(IDS, 2014)Unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls’ uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these essential provisions can ... -
Policy Audit: A heteronormativity audit of RMSA -a higher education programme in Indian schools
(Institute of Development Studies (ID), 2013-12)How do sexual and gender norms affect school education in India? How do schools construct these norms? Are state policies and programmes addressing the linkages between sexuality, gender and school education? These are ... -
Country Progress Report (2012-2013): Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies (ID), 2013-12)Nigeria is one of four focus countries within the unpaid care work programme of the Accountable Grant. IDS is partnering with ActionAid International (AAI) to help each of the four ActionAid countries to develop and ... -
Does China's Economic Rise Help or Hinder the Development of its Neighbours?
(Institute of Development Studies (ID), 2013-12)With its huge size, vast low-cost labour force, and deep industrial foundation, China has become a major producer of a wide range of manufactured goods that is now moving towards the acquisition of innovation capabilities. ... -
Making the Urban Poor Safer: Lessons from Nairobi and Maharashtra
(Institute of Development Studies (ID), 2013-12)Mumbai and Nairobi have acutely unequal urban development, with respectively 40 per cent and 60 per cent of their urban population living in slums. The most impoverished neighbourhoods are characterised by severe lack ... -
Promoting and Protecting Religious Diversity in the Middle East
(Institute of Development Studies (ID), 2013-12)The Arab world has been in the throes of a tumultuous reconfiguration of domestic and regional powers unprecedented since the aftermath of WWI when new countries were being carved out of old empires. Yet, in countries that ... -
The Implications of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 on Uganda's Legal System
(Institute of Development Studies (ID), 2013-11)Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 (AHB or the bill) was controversial right from the time of its inception. Its tabling in Uganda’s parliament in October 2009 was greatly welcomed by some religious leaders and sections ... -
The Economic Engagement Footprint of Rising Powers in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Aid Flows
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)Rising powers such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, the Gulf states or Turkey have entered the development arena through their expanding relationships with low-income countries (LICs). One region where this engagement ... -
The Health of Women and Girls in Urban Areas with a Focus on Kenya and South Africa: A Review
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)This thematic review focuses on a range of health challenges faced in particular by women and girls living in low-income urban settlements in expanding cities in Kenya and South Africa. The review has been compiled as ... -
'Marriage Above All Else': The Push for Heterosexual, Nuclear Families in the Making of South Africa's White Paper on Families
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)This report comments on the policymaking processes that led to the development of the White Paper on Families as it exists in its current iteration (November 2013). The report highlights the power dynamics that have led ... -
Learning Event on the Rising Powers for DFID Advisors, April-May 2012
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)The Learning Event brought together colleagues from DFID, IDS, and the BRICS, and aimed to facilitate the sharing and learning of experiences in international development and policy, from and amongst the BRICS, and to set ... -
Missing the Point: Violence Reduction and Policy Misadventures in Nairobi's Poor Neighbourhoods
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)Violence and crime are part of everyday life in many of Nairobi’s poor urban neighbourhoods. While wealthier enclaves of the city are heavily guarded by private security firms, violence and protection provided through ... -
Is it the Right Time for the International Community to Exit Sierra Leone?
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)A glance at key indicators – in terms of growth forecast and stable elections – will project Sierra Leone as a model for a successful post-conflict state. However, a detailed analysis of the country’s socioeconomic trends, ... -
Rising Powers in International Development: Building an Agenda for Collaboration
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-10)The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) launched the IDS BRICS Initiative in 2011, which aimed to examine the multi-faceted role of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – as actors in ... -
Multiple Pathways to Policy Impact: Testing an Uptake Theory with QCA
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-10)Policy impact is a complex process influenced by multiple factors. An intermediate step in this process is policy uptake, or the adoption of measures by policymakers that reflect research findings and recommendations. The ... -
‘External Stresses’ and Violence Mitigation in Fragile Contexts: Setting the Stage for Policy Analysis
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-10)Following on from the World Bank’s World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development, a debate has emerged about the role of so-called ‘external stresses’ in generating ‘new’ forms of violence and insecurity ... -
Advisory Council Seminar IV, 2 July 2013: IDS Rising Powers in International Development Advisory Council Discussion
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-10)This document presents a summary of a discussion held on 2 July 2013 between members of the Advisory Council of the IDS Rising Powers in International Development (RPID) programme and IDS RPID staff members. The discussion ... -
The BRICS Countries and the Changing Nature of the International Development Policy Landscape: IDS Rising Powers in International Development Advisory Council Discussion
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-10)This document presents a summary of a discussion held on 4 December, 2012, between six members of the Advisory Council of the IDS Rising Powers in International Development (RPID) programme (see list of participants in ... -
DFID-IDS Learning Event Report, December 2012: Understanding Health, Social Policy and Civil Society in the BRICS Countries
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-10)This document presents a summary of a series of meetings held at the DFID offices in London on 6 December 2012. The meetings, attended by DFID and IDS staff, constituted a learning event that aimed to communicate key IDS ... -
Evaluating Experimental Policymaking: Lessons from China's Rural Health Reforms
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-10)In recent years, much attention has been paid to the Chinese government’s experimental approach to developing policy, but few detailed evaluations of the effectiveness of the approach exist. The development of a rural ...