Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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COVID-19 Lockdown and its Impact on Citizens of Gampaha District, Sri Lanka
(LIRNEasia, 2021-07-15)This study looked to understand the experiences of 35 individuals during a lockdown in the Gampaha district. The last mile service delivery experiences – particularly in the areas of access to goods, education, cash and ... -
The Social Economic Impacts of Covid-19 in Informal Urban Settlements
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-09-27)The social economic impacts of the Covid-19 crisis in informal urban settlements are widely discussed in the literature, as are the risk factors for particular social and economic groups in these areas. However, government ... -
Evidence Review of Covid-19 and Women’s Informal Employment: A Call to Support the Most Vulnerable First in the Economic Recovery
(Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2021-05)More than a year has elapsed since COVID-19 plunged the world into uncertainty. Month after month, cascades of reports continue to expose the pandemic’s devastating and widespread impact on women’s livelihoods. Women ... -
Digital Technologies for Education During the COVID-19 Crisis in the Global South
(LIRNEasia, 2021-03-11)Education was hard hit due to the COVID-19 crisis. A year into the crisis, some educators, students and caregivers are still grappling to find ways to provide continuity in education while minimising COVID-19 outbreaks. ... -
There is no Recovery Without Informal Workers Covid Recovery and Post-Covid Reforms: Demands of Informal Worker Organizations
(WIEGO, 2021)The COVID-19 crisis has focused attention on informal workers around the world. There is growing recognition that the pandemic and associated government restrictions have had a disproportionately negative impact on ... -
Hacia una mirada interseccional en el manejo de la crisis. Análisis del impacto de la pandemia en jóvenes afrodescendientes del Pacífico Colombiano
(Colabora.Lat, 2021-06-23)Este policy paper evidencia cómo se han pronunciado las vulnerabilidades para la población afrocolombiana en el contexto de pandemia, caracterizado además por un recrudecimiento de la violencia. Frente a esta situación, ... -
Situación de los mercados de abastos durante la emergencia sanitaria por COVID-19
(Defensoría del Pueblo, 2021-03-31)Los mercados de abastos cumplen un rol fundamental en el suministro de alimentos y otros productos de primera necesidad. De acuerdo con ello, su adecuado funcionamiento bajo el cumplimiento de medidas sanitarias, aún más ... -
Rwanda’s Post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery: The Role of E-Commerce
(IPAR-Rwanda, 2021-07)In common with other sub-Saharan African countries, the Rwandan economy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Government of Rwanda is rightly focusing on ensuring a rapid economic recovery. One policy area of ... -
Surveillance Law in Africa: a Review of Six Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10)This review provides the first comparative analysis of African legal surveillance frameworks. The study identifies nine core principles derived from existing guidelines as an analytical framework to identify opportunities ... -
Co-Financing Community-Driven Development Through Informal Taxation: Experimental Evidence from South-Central Somalia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10)Community-driven development (CDD) has long been embraced by international development partners as a means of delivering public goods and strengthening social capital and cohesion, particularly in fragile contexts. ... -
Gender and Food Security: Gender-Just Food and Nutrition Security
(Institute of Development Studies, 2014)This report forms part of a BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Food Security, which also includes an In Brief. It is the result of a collaborative programme involving a diverse range of practitioners, researchers, ... -
Transformative, Participatory Approaches to Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Livelihoods in India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2011-10-31)In Bheerapani, a small, remote village in the Nainital district in the central Himalayas, the Community Awareness Centre (CAC) promotes environmentally sustainable livelihoods through processes such as forest protection ... -
Understanding Intersecting Vulnerabilities Experienced by Religious Minorities Living in Poverty in the Shadows of Covid-19
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10)The purpose of this study, conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic between November 2020 and March 2021 in India and Nigeria, is to explore the direct and indirect effects of Covid-19 on religiously marginalised groups ... -
The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Compliance Shifts and Funding for Recovery in Rwanda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10)While much knowledge is being generated on the impact of the pandemic, we still know very little on its implications on taxation in low-income countries. Yet, tax is crucial to fund crisis response and recovery, in ... -
Impactos de la pandemia en los entornos alimentarios: Síntesis y siguientes pasos
(RIMISP, 2021-09)Miguel Albacete, investigador y autor de este Análisis de Coyuntura nos presenta en esta investigación como los cambios en los entornos alimentarios, producto de la erosión del poder adquisitivo, constituyen una vía de ... -
Infografía Brechas territoriales de género en prácticas alimentarias durante la pandemia del Covid-19
(RIMISP, 2021)La pandemia ha provocado cambios dramáticos en las prácticas y seguridad alimentaria. Pero estos cambios se distribuyen de manera desigual entre hogares y territorios. -
Brechas territoriales de género en prácticas alimentarias durante la pandemia del Covid-19
(RIMISP, 2021-08)La pandemia del COVID-19 ha provocado cambios dramáticos en las prácticas e inseguridad alimentaria de los hogares (FAO y CEPAL, 2020). Estos cambios se distribuyen de manera desigual en todos los lugares o entre diferentes ... -
Financial Inclusion in a Refugee Response
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-18)The growing scope, frequency, and complexity of forced displacement, both inside and outside of countries, has pushed donors and other development groups to rethink their approaches to humanitarian crises, particularly on ... -
Approaches to Youth Violence in Jordan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-13)Youth violence, particularly targeting the state as well as engagement in violent extremism, has been a persistent feature in Jordan over the past decade. There are numerous factors driving this: economic, political and ... -
Humanitarian Evidence Summary No.19
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10-13)This is the 19th monthly Humanitarian Evidence Summary (HUMES) to signpost FCDO and other UK government departments to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action to inform and support their response. ...
