Institute of Development Studies Research Repository
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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
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Brazil [63]
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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 ... -
Covid Collective [2]
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ESRC STEPS Centre [205]
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 -
IDS Bulletin [2769]
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IDS PhD Research [62]
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Impact Initiative [820]
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 ... -
Journal Articles - External [202]
Journal articles written by IDS staff. -
K4D [877]
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]
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ORIE [0]
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Pakistan [0]
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Test Collection [0]
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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.
Collections in this community
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Balancing unpaid work and paid work [20]
Explores the successes, challenges and lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment programmes and policies -
Bellagio Initiative [31]
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BRIDGE [5]
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Child Labour [13]
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EMERGE [20]
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IDS Research [1367]
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Making All Voices Count [134]
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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 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.
Recent Submissions
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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Kenya – Round 1 Report
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-10-01)Kenya confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on 12 March 2020. Since then, the government has been providing daily updates on the number of new COVID-19 infections, recoveries and deaths in the country, as well as implementing ... -
Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana -Round 1 Report
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-10-01)Given the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, this study seeks to estimate its likely impact on food systems and livelihoods in south-western Ghana. Our sample consisted of 110 female and male respondents ... -
Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Nigeria – Round 1 Report
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-10-01)This report presents an early assessment of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural commercialisation, food and nutrition security, labour and employment, and poverty and well-being in rural Nigeria. Data was ... -
Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Fogera Plain, Ethiopia – Round 1 Report
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-10-01)This report presents an early assessment of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural commercialisation, food and nutrition security, labour and employment, and poverty and well-being in rural Ethiopia. Data was ... -
Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary No.30
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-26)This fortnightly Covid-19 (C19), 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 ... -
Review of National Social Protection Strategies
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-03)This helpdesk report reviews ten national social protection strategies (published between 2011-2019) in order to map their content, scope, development processes and measures of success. Each strategy was strongly shaped ... -
Covid-19: A Stress Test for Trust?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-03-04)To tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, governments need citizens to trust messages on behaviour change, and to support more draconian steps like lockdowns. Yet, lack of trust in public authority and a prevalence of rumours ... -
Rethinking Disease Preparedness: Incertitude and the Politics of Knowledge
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-02-24)This paper argues for a rethinking of disease preparedness that puts incertitude and the politics of knowledge at the centre. Through examining the experiences of Ebola, Nipah, cholera and COVID-19 across multiple ... -
Social Inclusion and Immunisation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-03)The current COVID-19 epidemic is both a health and societal issue; therefore, groups historically excluded and marginalised in terms of healthcare will suffer if COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments are to be delivered ... -
COVID-19 Health Evidence Summary No.114
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-03-01)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 ... -
The Political Economy of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Mvurwi Area Zimbabwe, 1984–2018
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-02-01)An analysis of the variations in land use and land cover over the past four decades in the Mvurwi area, Mazowe district, Zimbabwe illustrates how socio-economic dynamics and natural factors combine to shape environmental ... -
Breaking Out of the Policy Enclave Approach to Child Labour in sub-Saharan African Agriculture
(Sage Journals, 2021-02-17)This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and child labour on one hand, and their outsourced implementation through the social policy ... -
WASH in Schools for Student Return During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-11)The literature on WASH and school re-opening during the COVID-19 pandemic is dominated by guidelines with little in the way of recent evidence or lessons learned. Analysis of data from school re-openings at the end of 2020 ... -
Disabled Children and Work: An Overview of a Neglected Topic with a Specific Focus on Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-25)This paper provides an overview of issues related to disabled children and work. This is a very unexplored topic and the literature is scant, so the paper first provides an overview of some key relevant background information ... -
Improving Adult Literacy in Niger Through Mobile Calls to Teachers
(IDS and the Impact Initiative, 2021-02)In Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, 85 per cent of adults are unable to read or write, even in local languages. Adult education programmes can be a route to improving adult literacy rates, but non-governmental ... -
Recipes for Impact: Feed, Thinking, Nourish, Change, Edition 2
(Institute of Development Studies and the Impact Initiative, 2021-02)This booklet profiles a selection of research funded by the ESRC-FCDO Strategic Partnership and the impact they have achieved. While these stories only show a snapshot of the research, they all highlight the multiple, ... -
Connecting with Home, Keeping in Touch: Physical and Virtual Mobility Across Stretched Families in sub-Saharan Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. ... -
Managing Political Space: Authority, Marginalised People's Agency and Governance in West Bengal
(Liverpool University Press, 2018)This paper investigates governance reform which aims to ‘move the state’ closer to people, arguing that greater attention needs to be paid to two questions: how does political decentralisation affect the ways in which ... -
Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity
(IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, 2018)Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects ... -
Health Equity in England: the Marmot Review 10 Years on
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2020)Ten years after the landmark review on health inequalities in England, coauthor Michael Marmot says the situation has become worse. The Marmot Review laid out how public expenditureon policies, through the life course, ...
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