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The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Research Repository is an active repository of digital publications by IDS members and research partners. The Repository consists of a number of curated communities and collections.

The Institute of Development Studies is a global research and learning organisation for equitable and sustainable change. We work with governments, philanthropic foundations, academic institutions and civil society organisations to transform approaches to progressive social, political and economic change. Our world-class research, learning and teaching brings an understanding of people's lived experiences to policy and practice that can respond to unprecedented environmental, social, political, economic and technological disruptions globally. Find out more about IDS at www.ids.ac.uk

Sub-communities within this community

Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture [6]
Brazil [1]
Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (DRC) [346]

The Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (Citizenship DRC) has worked with universities, research institutes and nongovernmental organisations in more than 25 countries to explore ...
Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa [14]
ESRC STEPS Centre [203]

The ESRC STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement centre uniting development studies with science and technology studies
Future Agricultures Consortium [126]
Future Health Systems [92]
IDS Bulletin [2769]
IDS PhD Research [62]
Impact Initiative [383]

The Impact Initiative for international development research aims to increase the uptake and impact of research from two research programmes jointly funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and ...
International Centre for Tax and Development [285]
Journal Articles - External [189]

Journal articles written by IDS staff.
K4D [822]

K4D supports learning and the use of evidence to improve the impact of development policy and programmes. The programme is designed to assist the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and other partners to ...
Migrating out of Poverty [163]
ORIE [0]
Pathways of Women's Empowerment [27]
Strengthening Evidence Based Policy [344]
Test Collection [0]
The African Universities' Research Approaches (AURA) programme [171]

AURA, a two-year programme, funded by UK AID, was implemented from November 2014 to September 2016.
The Governance of Service Delivery [13]

Collections in this community

Action for Empowerment and Accountability Programme [76]
Balancing unpaid work and paid work [20]

Explores the successes, challenges and lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment programmes and policies
Bellagio Initiative [31]
BRIDGE [5]
Child Labour [12]
Citizen Engagement Programme (CEP) [7]
Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management [18]
Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) [6]
Disability Inclusion – IDS Collection [51]
EMERGE [20]
Global Challenges [0]
Global Uncertainties: Security in an Africa of Networked, Multi-Level Governance [9]
Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP) Impact Project [14]
Human Wellbeing and Development [1]
IDS Alumni Newsletter [21]
IDS Research [1336]
Independent evaluation on Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Kenya [2]
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) [98]
Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility [30]
Making All Voices Count [134]
Mobilising Quality for Scaling Up Nutrition [5]
Nutrition Research in Northern Nigeria [29]
Participation in Economic Advancement Collection [25]
Policy Alternatives for Livestock Development in Mongolia [19]
Poverty, Politics, and Participatory Methodologies in SDC [17]
Social Protection and Food Security and Nutrition (Irish Aid and IDS Programme Partnership) [11]
Social Science in Humanitarian Action [83]
Test Collection Mapper [2]
The Dudley Seers Archive [56]

This collection contains published and unpublished writings of development economist Dudley Seers, Professorial Fellow and Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex 1967–72.
The Lawrence Haddad IDS Collection [5]
The Reginald H. Green Archive [399]

This collection contains the published and unpublished writings of development economist Reginald H. Green, whose work on African economic issues spans four decades.
The Robert Chambers Archive [415]

A complete bibliography of Robert Chambers spanning four decades of research on participatory development.
The Sanitation Learning Hub [89]
Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems [7]

Recent Submissions

Humanitarian Action

Slim, Hugo (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11)

The purpose of humanitarian action is to support people affected by armed conflicts and disasters by helping them to save their lives, alleviate their suffering, maintain their dignity, assist their recovery and increase ...
Celebrating the Raising Learning Outcomes Programme

The Impact Initiative (Institute of Development Studies and the Impact Initiative, 2020-11)

This booklet profiles a selection of the research and impact funded by the ESRC-FCDO Strategic Partnership through the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme. This collection of resources highlights ...
Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary No.26

Herbert, Siân (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-27)

This fortnightly Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary aims to signpost the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and other UK government departments to the latest evidence and opinions on ...
SSHAP In-Focus: COVID-19, Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Recovery in India

Pickard, Justin; Srivastava, Shilpi; Bhatt, Mihir R.; Mehta, Lyla (SSHAP, 2020-11-30)

This paper addresses COVID-19 in India, looking at how the interplay of inequality, vulnerability, and the pandemic has compounded uncertainties for poor and marginalised groups, leading to insecurity, stigma and a severe ...
The Bottom Billion in Africa: Poverty Trends and Forecasts

Haider, Huma (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-20)

This rapid literature review explores poverty trends and forecasts in Africa, incorporating new forecasting stemming from the impacts of COVID-19. It draws in large part on a few rigorous studies published in very recent ...
Water Infrastructure in Fragile- and Conflict-Affected States

Bolton, Laura (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-11)

This rapid review examines evidence on the key vulnerabilities in the water infrastructure system in urban and peri-urban areas in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). It also focuses on the practical measures, ...
Working in Partnership with Multiple Stakeholders on Global Policy Processes: Disability and Inclusive Education

Singal, Nidhi (REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, 2020-11)

Given that policies, programmes, and research focusing on disability in relation to other forms of disadvantage has never been higher on the agenda, it is an opportune moment to identify how new evidence being generated ...
Violence and Discrimination against Women of Religious Minority Backgrounds in Pakistan

Tadros, Mariz (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11)

The theme of this special collection of papers, the lived experiences of women who belong to religious minorities, has been a blind spot both in international development policy engagement and in much of the international ...
Modern Slavery Prevention and Responses in Myanmar: An Evidence Map

Yunus, Raudah Mohd; Oosterhoff, Pauline; Jensen, Charity; Pocock, Nicola; Somerwell, Francis (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-24)

This Emerging Evidence Report describes the availability of evidence on modern slavery interventions in Myanmar presented in the programme's interactive Evidence Map. This report on Myanmar uses the same methodology and ...
Climate Change Risks and Opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa

Cooper, Rachel (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-25)

This rapid review examines evidence on the climate change risks and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa, including for mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Climate change is likely to compound existing ...
Brazil Test 1

Anon, Anon (IDS, 2006-09)

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COVID-19 Health Evidence Summary No.103

Millington, Kerry; Reddin, Samantha (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-23)

This weekly COVID-19 health evidence summary (HES) is based on 3.5 hours of desk-based research. The summary is not intended to be a comprehensive summary of available evidence on COVID-19 but aims to make original documents ...
Donor Support for Climate Change Initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa

Cooper, Rachel (IDS, 2020-11-18)

This report synthesises evidence on the key donors in the climate change space in the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on ODA eligible countries, including bilateral as well as multilateral finance, and single ...
Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination

Hrynick, Tabitha; Schmidt-Sane, Megan; Ripoll, Santiago (SSHAP, 2020-11-20)

COVID-19 vaccine has been framed as the ultimate solution needed to end the pandemic. A substantial number of vaccine candidates are in development, and several are undergoing clinical trials, with the first promising ...
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa and South Asia: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Health in Tanzania: Quantitative Endline Report

Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hidrobo, Melissa; Palloni, Giordano; Tambet, Heleene (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-10-14)

The quantitative evaluation was designed as a cRCT, with two stages of randomisation: a village level randomisation where villages are assigned to a treatment group or to a control group, and a household-level randomisation ...
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa and South Asia: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Agriculture in Ghana: Quantitative Endline Report

Billings, Lucy; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hidrobo, Melissa; Palloni, Giordano; Tambet, Heleene (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-10-15)

To estimate the causal impact of the VFC product, we implemented a randomised encouragement design. The encouragement design does not restrict access to the VFC service (as with a control group in a randomised control ...
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and health in Tanzania: Cost-Effectiveness Endline Report

Batchelor, Simon; Barnett, Nigel; Clements, Anna; Jones, Tom (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-03-27)

The quantitative evaluation was designed as a cluster randomised controlled trial, with two stages of randomisation: a village-level randomisation where villages were assigned to a treatment group or to a control group, ...
The Bottom Billion in Africa: Group and Sector-Based Inequalities

Haider, Huma (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-13)

This report synthesises evidence on the bottom billions of Africa and groups with largest inequalities. It focussed on the groups that are most likely to be left behind in the following thematic sectors: Nutrition, climate ...
Social Policies and Continental Commitments to Reducing Poverty and Inequality in Africa

Enfield, Sue (Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11)

This report synthesises evidence on Africa’s social policies/ continental commitments towards reducing poverty and inequality, including progress that the continent has made towards SDG targets and the effectiveness of ...
Navigating Civic Spaces in Pakistan

Khan, Ayesha; Jawed, Asiya; Qidwai, Komal (Collective for Social Science Research, 2020-09)

This background paper is a review of changing civic spaces in Pakistan during the brief period from July 2018, when national elections brought a new government to power, until the first lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic ...