Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Pairing Social Innovation and Resilience to Achieve Trans-formative Change
(University of Johannesburg, 2021-12)This paper is a reflection on broadening understandings of innovation, using preliminary data on individual and collective repertoires of resilient practices in the context of multiple crises across Côte d’Ivoire. It ... -
Addressing Political Exclusion of Ethnic Minorities, IDP’s, and Refugees in the Eastern Neighbourhood
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-24)The quality of political inclusion of ethnic minorities1 in the Eastern Neighbourhood remains a significant challenge, despite institutions in place to promote the rights of national minorities and various programming ... -
Humanitarian Access Issues Linked to Peace Processes: Advantages, Disadvantages and Examples
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-04-14)Political mediators and humanitarian negotiators both seek to stabilise a conflict situation. However, the goal of political mediators is to build a political consensus to address the causes of the conflict, while the goal ... -
Lessons on Implementing IDP Protection Law and Policy
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-04-06)This rapid literature review finds that lessons on the development and implementation of law and policy to protect and support internally displaced persons (IDPs) focus on the importance of political will and capacity to ... -
Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary No.26
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-05)This is the 26th 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. ... -
Synthesis of Work by the Covid Collective
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03)Overview: This report looked across Covid Collective outputs and grouped findings into three sections. Section 2) Pandemic response; Section 3) Increased marginalisation; and Section 4) Emergent outcomes. Section 4 describes ... -
China’s Humanitarian Assistance Activities in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-04)Chinese humanitarian aid in Africa in 2020 and 2021 was overwhelmingly dominated by the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which included providing medical supplies and medical teams in 2020, and consisted almost entirely ... -
Sustaining Existing Social Protection Programmes During Crises: What Do We Know? How Can We Know More?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-05-11)Research on social assistance in crisis situations has focused predominantly on how social assistance can flex in response to rapid-onset emergencies such as floods or hurricanes and to slower-onset shocks such as drought. ... -
Seeing the Combined Effects of Aid Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-05-10)Multiple aid agencies often try to support change in the same places, at the same time, and with similar actors. Surprisingly, their interactions and combined effects are rarely explored. This Policy Briefing describes ... -
Effects of Commercialisation on Seasonal Hunger: Evidence from Smallholder Resettlement Areas, Mazowe District, Zimbabwe
(APRA. Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-05-01)Agricultural transformation towards intensive commercial production is a key facet of current development strategies pursued by African governments, aimed at improving welfare outcomes of farm households. However, in ... -
Approaches to Implementing National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)This report aims to identify a selection of programmes and projects undertaken by countries under their respective National Action Plans. It focuses on discrete, large-scale initiatives that specifically target aspects of ... -
Choice of Tillage Technologies and Impact on Paddy Yield and Food Security in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
(International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2022-04-30)This paper analyses choice of alternative tillage technology options and their impact on paddy yield and food security in Kilombero valley of Morogoro Region, Tanzania. The results show that the choice of any tillage ... -
Reducing Criminal Violence Through Public Sector-led Multisectoral Approaches
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10-15)The last decades have seen increased consensus for the need to understand and address violence through a public health approach, and a preventative approach, as embodied by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16. This ... -
Metrics and Indicators to Assess Adaptation
(The Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-08)The field of climate change adaptation metrics is complex and fast-changing. Given the highly contextual nature of adaptation and the array of applied definitions of adaptation and “success”, there is no single global set ... -
Livestock, Crop Commercialization and Poverty Reduction in Crop-Livestock Farming Systems in Singida Region, Tanzania
(International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2022-04-30)Livestock is an important component of crop-livestock farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper examined the effect of livestock on crop commercialization and poverty reduction among smallholder farmers in ... -
Technical Aspects of e-Waste Management
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-01)Population growth, increasing prosperity and changing consumer habits globally are increasing demand for consumer electronics. Further to this, rapid changes in technology, falling prices, increased affordability and ... -
Evidence on the Effectiveness of Covid-19 International Travel Measures
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-14)Evidence on the effectiveness of travel measures to prevent or slow the spread of Covid-19 and guidance on how and when to apply these measures is limited and the results are mixed. Given the social and economic disruptions ... -
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) in Bangladesh: Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-05-06)The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated and drawn fresh attention to long-standing systemic weaknesses in health and economic systems. The virus – and the public health response – has wrought significant disruption on sexual ... -
The Impact of COVID-19 among the Most Vulnerable Groups in the Rohingya Community in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2022)BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), BRAC University, in partnership with Centre for Peace and Justce (CPJ), BRAC University, and with the financial support from the Internatonal Development Research ... -
The Impact of COVID-19 Among the Most Vulnerable Groups in the Host Community in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2022)BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), BRAC University, in partnership with Centre for Peace and Justce (CPJ), BRAC University, and with the financial support from the Internatonal Development Research Centre ...
