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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 (ACHA) [14]
Brazil [65]
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 ...
CLEAR Bangladesh [23]
Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) [233]
Covid Collective [112]
Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa [14]
ESRC STEPS Centre [225]

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 [288]
Future Health Systems [92]
IDS Bulletin [2901]
IDS PhD Research [62]
Impact Initiative [778]

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 [465]
Journal Articles - External [424]

Journal articles written by IDS staff.
K4D [1138]

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 ...
K4DD [9]
Migrating out of Poverty [163]
Pakistan [79]
Pathways of Women's Empowerment [27]
Strengthening Evidence Based Policy [343]
Test items collection - do not use [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 [126]
Balancing unpaid work and paid work [20]

Explores the successes, challenges and lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment programmes and policies
BASIC Research [39]
Bellagio Initiative [31]
BRIDGE [11]
Child Labour [35]
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) [15]
Citizen Engagement Programme (CEP) [7]
Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management [18]
Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) [48]
Countering Backlash Programme [19]
Disability Inclusion – IDS Collection [74]
EMERGE [20]
Global Uncertainties: Security in an Africa of Networked, Multi-Level Governance [9]
Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP) Impact Project [14]
IDS Alumni Newsletter [21]
IDS eBooks [3]
IDS Research [1663]
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]
Living Off-Grid Infrastructure Collaboration (LOGIC) [1]
Making All Voices Count [134]
Mobilising Quality for Scaling Up Nutrition [5]
MUVA [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) [16]
Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP) [147]
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 [133]
Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems [7]

Recent Submissions

Early Findings from Evaluation of Systemic Action Research in Kangaba, Mali

Hicks, Jacqueline; Dioma, Alamoussa; Apgar, Marina; Keita, Fatoumata (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-24)

This paper presents early findings from evaluation research embedded in a community-driven peace-building project implemented in Mali. Called the ‘Vestibule of Peace’, the project uses Systemic Action Research (SAR) to ...
The Great Green Wall as a Social-Technical Imaginary

Pédarros, Élie; Allouche, Jeremy; Oma, Matiwos Bekele; Duboz, Priscilla; Diallo, Amadou Hamath; Kassa, Habtemariam; Laloi, Chloé; Müller-Mahn, Detlef; Soumahoro, Kando Amédée; Bi, Sylvestre Tchan; Yao, Cyprien Yao (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-23)

The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI), launched in 2007 by the African Union, is one of Africa’s most important green transformation projects. From a pan-African environmental movement to a ...
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Covid-19 Effects and Responses in Kampala’s Informal Sector: Promises for Social Justice and Resilient Livelihoods in the Face of Multiple Crises

Sseviiri, Hakimu; Mukwaya, Paul Isolo; Nuwahereza, Viola; Sebbanja, Junior Alves (African Cities Research Consortium, 2023-06)

Kampala continues to face multiple socioeconomic challenges arising from the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath. The pandemic has had far-reaching implications for urban informal workers and residents. They continue to ...
Is Transparency Enough? An Examination of the Effect of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) on Accountability, Corruption and Trust in Zambia

East, Sidonie (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04)

Extractive industry governance is a hot topic in both academic research and the public arena. The area that has been most heavily studied in the academic field is the resource curse, which documents the negative ...
Key Considerations: Child Engagement in the Context of Disease Outbreaks in Eastern and Southern Africa

Reilly, Elena; Serlemitsos, Elizabeth; Bilakwate, Julieth Sebba (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-17)

Effective child engagement strategies are essential to optimise the response to disease outbreaks and minimise their impact while ensuring children's protection, well-being and resilience. When children understand disease ...
Power, Trust, and Pre-Cooked Programmes: The Accountability of ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Social Assistance in Somalia

Seferis, Louisa; Adan, Guhad; Carter, Becky; Hassan, Kamila; Harvey, Paul (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-17)

Social assistance in Somalia has become deeply embedded in the country’s political economy and struggles with systemic diversion and corruption, which negatively affects how programmes on accountability of aid function in ...
Towards a Comparative Understanding of Community-Led and Collaborative Responses to Covid-19 in Mogadishu

Ernstson, Henrik; Sverdlik, Alice (African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-06)

Covid-19 has inflicted a major health toll while heightening socioeconomic inequalities, and its impacts are still reverberating across the global South. For low-income urban residents in the global South, measures intended ...
Digital IDs and Digital Payments – Opportunities and Challenges for Tax Administration

Santoro, Fabrizio; Prichard, Wilson; Mascagni, Giulia (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04)

Tax administrations in Africa and, more broadly, low-income countries (LICs), are increasingly investing in advanced digital technologies, in an effort to build more effective, rules-based and efficient tax systems. ...
Taxing High Net Worth Individuals in Nigeria: Preliminary Insights and the Case of Borno State

Occhiali, Giovanni; Kangave, Jalia; Khan, Hamza Ahmed (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-12)

This paper gives preliminary insights into the challenges surrounding the taxation of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) in Nigeria – first in general terms, and then with a specific focus on Borno State. The need to ...
A Climate Treaty for the Global Taxation of Carbon

Falcão, Tatiana (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-12)

This paper aims to highlight the key policy considerations undertaken when drafting the articles that informed the text of the Multilateral Carbon Tax Treaty (MCTT). It is the product of the many comments received from the ...
Multilateral Carbon Tax Treaty (MCTT)

Falcão, Tatiana (2024-04-12)

These are the articles of the Multilateral Carbon Tax Treaty (MCTT), for discussion purposes. It is the product of the many comments received from the commentators invited to provide inputs to the MCTT. The MCTT comprises ...
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Key Considerations for Responding to Floods in South Sudan Through the Humanitarian-Peace-Development Nexus

Moro, Leben; Palmer, Jennifer; Hrynick, Tabitha (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-12)

In common with many other African countries, the Republic of South Sudan is increasingly experiencing devastating floods linked to climate change.1,2 The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and El Niño regulate the climate of ...
Towards a Comparative Understanding of Community-Led and Collaborative Responses to Covid-19 in Kampala

Sverdlik, Alice; Ernstson, Henrik; Mukwaya, Paul (African Cities Research Consortium, 2022-06)

Covid-19 has inflicted a major health toll while heightening socioeconomic inequalities, and its impacts are still reverberating across the global South. For low-income urban residents in the global South, measures intended ...
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Illicit Drug Cultivation

Lucas, Brian (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04)

This rapid evidence review explores how climate change can create incentives for participating in illicit drug production by disrupting agricultural and natural-resource-based livelihoods and exacerbating social, economic, ...