Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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Beyond Borders: The End of the Mano River War(s)?
(IDS, 2016-04)The Mano River sub-region, which includes Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire, has experienced decades of violent upheavals and political instability. This notably includes civil wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone ... -
China as a Development Actor in Southeast Asia
(IDS, 2016-04)This Evidence Report identifies and explains the central factors driving China’s policies towards Southeast Asia. It examines China’s foreign relations through the perspective of foreign policy. In this context, as the ... -
Addressing and Mitigating Violence: Uptake Strategy, Year Four Update
(IDS, 2016-04)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. Such a focus is becoming ... -
Assessing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’: A Process-Tracing Study of the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI)
(IDS, 2016-04)In recent years, the global literature on reducing hunger and malnutrition has come to view progress as much an outcome of a political process as of (nutrition) technical interventions. Political commitment is now seen ... -
Report of a High-level Roundtable on Rising Powers and Global Development, and Launch of the Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development
(IDS, 2016-03)This high-level roundtable meeting, held on 22 April 2015, was co-hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, the Development Research Center of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, and the China ... -
Black Sands, Green Plans and Conflict: Structural Adjustment, Sectoral Reforms and the Mining–Conservation–Conflict Nexus in Southern Madagascar
(IDS, 2016-03)This report is a policy analysis of international investments in Madagascar’s natural resources at the thematic intersection of extractive development, land reform, environmental preservation and conflict. After introducing ... -
Therapeutic Activism: Men of Hope Refugee Association Uganda Breaking the Silence over Male Rape in Conflict-related Sexual Violence
(IDS, 2016-03)Men’s experiences as victims of sexual and gender-based violence remain little recognised in research, policy or practice. Mainstream narratives generally continue to depict men as perpetrators of violence and women as ... -
Building Evaluability Assessments into Institutional Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Frameworks
(IDS, 2016-03)This CDI Practice Paper by Richard Longhurst, Peter Wichmand and Burt Perrin discusses how evaluability assessments (EAs) can support the choice of evaluation approaches for determining impact, drawing on recent experiences ... -
Real-time Monitoring in Disease Outbreaks: Strengths, Weaknesses and Future Potential
(IDS, 2016-03)This Evidence Report analyses the potential contribution of epidemic real-time monitoring (ERTM) initiatives to enhancing and augmenting disease surveillance systems in developing countries. It gathers and synthesises ... -
Who Drives Climate-relevant Policies in the Rising Powers?
(IDS, 2016-03)The future of human life on our planet is influenced increasingly by what goes on in the rising powers. This report presents a political economy analysis of their policies, comparing China, India, Brazil and South Africa. ... -
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: What Can It Learn From, and Perhaps Teach To, the Multilateral Development Banks?
(IDS, 2016-03)A striking phenomenon of recent global economic change is the emergence of new development actors, with alternative development experiences and development financing capacity. These actors are now creating collective ... -
Business and its Role in Improving Nutrition: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for Ghana. Case Studies and Key Messages from the Workshop
(IDS, 2016-03)This Evidence Report presents the findings from a workshop held by the Institute of Development Studies in partnership with the Ghana School of Public Health held in Accra on 11 and 12 November. The workshop convened ... -
A Real-time Web Application for Tracking Twitter Exchanges about Research
(IDS, 2016-02)Understanding how people engage with research is an increasingly important issue, and not just for researchers. Funders, the media, politicians and ultimately the wider public are increasingly concerned about value for ... -
Using Participatory Statistics to Examine the Impact of Interventions to Eradicate Slavery: Lessons from the Field
(IDS, 2016-02)This CDI Practice Paper by Pauline Oosterhoff, Sowmyaa Bharadwaj, Danny Burns, Aruna Mohan Raj, Rituu B. Nanda and Pradeep Narayanan reflects on the use of participatory statistics to assess the impact of interventions to ... -
Bridging the Gap: Synthesising Evidence from Secondary Quantitative and Primary Qualitative Data
(IDS, 2016-02)There is widespread recognition that mixed-methods approaches are a ‘platinum standard’ in research and evaluation and that the expanding availability of secondary quantitative data creates unprecedented opportunities for ... -
Questioning Three Fundamental Assumptions in Financial Inclusion
(IDS, 2016-02)Financial inclusion has rapidly ascended global development policy agendas. Between 2 billion and 2.5 billion adults worldwide do not use formal financial services (World Bank 2015: v), which a multifaceted coalition of ... -
Rethinking Approaches to Peace-Building and Political Settlements in an Increasingly Urbanised World
(IDS, 2016-02)Violence in cities significantly compromises development and can have detrimental consequences for peace-building and political settlements in both conflict and non-conflict settings. A majority of the world’s most fragile ... -
Cities, Violence and Order: the Challenges and Complex Taxonomy of Security Provision in Cities of Tomorrow
(IDS, 2016-02)How will security in cities be understood in the future? For whom will it be provided? What are the ways by which urban security provision will be governed? And, what impact will violence and order in cities have on the ... -
Business and its Role in Improving Nutrition: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for Nigeria. Case Studies and Key Messages from the Workshop
(IDS, 2016-02)This workshop report presents the findings from a workshop held by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in partnership with the Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network in Abuja, Nigeria, 14 October 2015. The workshop ... -
Civil Society from the BRICS: Emerging Roles in the New International Development Landscape
(IDS, 2016-02)There is a burgeoning literature on the (re)emergence of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – as significant actors in international development. To date, however, most attention has focused ...