Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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China’s Comprehensive Strategic and Cooperative Partnership with Africa
(IDS, 2016-02)Convened in South Africa in December 2015, the 6th Summit Meeting of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) culminated in the Johannesburg Action Plan under the theme ‘China–Africa Progressing Together: ... -
Addressing Market Constraints to Providing Nutrient-Rich Foods: An Exploration of Market Systems Approaches
(IDS, 2016-02)This Evidence Report asks how a market systems approach could be applied to improve poor households’ access to nutrient-dense foods. By ‘market systems approach’ we mean methods that identify and address underlying ... -
Improving Access to Health for Women and Girls in Low-income Urban Settlements
(IDS, 2016-02)The world is becoming increasingly urbanised. Over one third of urban dwellers now reside in low-income urban settlements, where living conditions are often inadequate and there exist multiple barriers to access to health ... -
Improving the Nutritional Quality of Food Markets through the Informal Sector: Lessons from Case Studies in Other Sectors
(IDS, 2016-02)Policymakers in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are seeking to work with food markets and food businesses as part of efforts to reduce undernutrition. These market-based approaches include national ... -
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development: Learning Events 2015
(IDS, 2016-02)This report provides an overview of the objectives of and discussions held at two learning events held by the IDS Rising Powers in International Development programme/Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development in 2015. -
A Prognosis and Diagnosis for China and the 2016 G20: The Politics of a New Global Economic Geography
(IDS, 2016-02)The early Chinese Communist regime depicted T’ao Ch’ien as a people’s poet, an ascetic recluse who embraced poverty and a peasant’s life. In fact, he rose as high as provincial governor, and his verses about labour, poverty ... -
Foresight and International Development: Conference Report
(IDS, 2016-02)This report presents a summary of a one-day conference on ‘Foresight and International Development’ held at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on 15 October 2015. As part of the IDS Accountable Grant work on ... -
Balancing Inclusiveness, Rigour and Feasibility: Insights from Participatory Impact Evaluations in Ghana and Vietnam
(IDS, 2016-02)This paper by Adinda Van Hemelrijck and Irene Guijt explores how impact evaluation can live up to standards broader than statistical rigour in ways that address challenges of complexity and enable stakeholders to engage ... -
Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What's Law Got to Do with It?
(IDS, 2016-02)The contributions to this Edited Collection reveal the complexity of the deceptively simple question posed by its title: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do With It? Many of those involved in this ... -
Transgender at Work: Livelihoods for Transgender People in Vietnam
(IDS, 2016-02)The laws in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam promote equality for all citizens and refer to ‘persons’ rather than ‘men’ or ‘women’. However, because of traditional gender norms, transgender people in Vietnam are facing ... -
The Role of Business in Driving and Shaping Renewable Energy Policies in China
(IDS, 2016-01)This report investigates the role of business actors in shaping China’s renewable energy policy process and governance. It finds that with the tremendous growth of renewable industry over the past two decades, a new ... -
Living on the Periphery: The Khawaja Siras of Pakistan
(IDS, 2016-01)Academic literature suggests that development is inherently heteronormative in its narratives, policies and practices: as a result, ‘heterosexuality is normalized, naturalized, and privileged in societies of the global ... -
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Valuable Approach to Add to the Evaluator’s ‘Toolbox’? Lessons from Recent Applications
(IDS, 2016-01)A heightened focus on demonstrating development results has increased the stakes for evaluating impact (Stern 2015), while the more complex objectives and designs of international aid programmes make it ever more challenging ... -
Redistributing Unpaid Care Work – Why Tax Matters for Women’s Rights
(IDS, 2016-01)Globally, women perform the great majority of unpaid care work. This unjust distribution of labour has profound impacts on women’s human rights and is both a product and a driver of gender inequality. Despite the obligations ... -
Annotated Bibliography – Evaluating Impact Investing
(IDS, 2016-01)The Centre for Development Impact (CDI) contributes to learning and innovation in the field of impact evaluation, through the use of appropriate, mixed method, and robust evaluation designs. It is a joint initiative between ... -
Engaging Men for Effective Activism against Sexual and Gender-based Violence
(IDS, 2016-01)Men are becoming ever more visible as integral partners in tackling sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), holding themselves, peers and power-holders accountable for maintaining harmful gender norms that perpetuate violence. ... -
Ensuring Developing Countries Benefit from Big Data
(IDS, 2015-12)Big data is already creating a big impact. Some herald it as the new ‘data revolution’, others worry it is a tool for manipulation, while many in development cite it as key to successfully implementing the Sustainable ... -
Big Data and International Development: Impacts, Scenarios and Policy Options
(IDS, 2015-12)Many people are excited about data, particularly when those data are big. Big data, we are told, will be the fuel that drives the next industrial revolution, radically reshaping economic structures, employment patterns and ... -
The Future of Social Protection – Where Next?
(IDS, 2015-12)Social protection is one of the success stories of development policy in the early twenty-first century, leading to questions about its future direction. Evidence suggests that social protection is likely to experience ... -
Building Alliances to Address Sexual and Gender-based Violence
(IDS, 2015-12)It is now widely accepted that effective strategies to end sexual and gender-based violence must engage with men and boys. In practice, however, the relationship between traditional women’s rights movements and organisations ...