Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Women’s Agency and Humanitarian Protection in North and South Kivu, DRC
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-25)This Working Paper analyses the role and practices of women’s groups in relation to women’s protection in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Contrasting qualitative materials ... -
A Multicriteria Analysis of Groundwater Development Pathways in Three River Basins in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Elsevier, 2022)Reliance on groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing and expected to rise as surface water resource variability increases under climate change. Major questions remain about how groundwater will be used, and who informs ... -
Key Considerations for RCCE in the 2022 Ebola Outbreak Response in Greater Kampala, Uganda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-24)On 20 September 2022, an outbreak of the Sudan strain of Ebola Virus Disease – SVD – was announced as the first laboratory-confirmed patient was identified in a village in Mubende District in central Uganda. Uganda’s ... -
Collective Action to Support Family Farming in Colombia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-11)The Covid-19 pandemic has hit small- scale farmers, particularly women, very hard in Latin America. RIMISP – Latin American Center for Rural Development – has been conducting participatory research to mitigate the impact ... -
The Enigma of the Central–Local Government Relationship and its Impact on Property Tax Administration in Developing Countries: The Ghanaian Perspective
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-21)Property tax administration is the bedrock for effective revenue mobilisation, development, and good local governance for local governments. Yet administering property taxation continues to be a major problem, especially ... -
Disease X and Africa: How a Scientific Metaphor Entered Popular Imaginaries of the Online Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-28)In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the addition of Disease X, a hypothetical infectious threat, to its blueprint list of priority diseases. In the construction of discourse that circulated following ... -
'Queering' Development: Exploring the Links Between Same-sex Sexualities, Gender, and Development
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2010-07-02)This article argues that gender and development policy and practice would be enhanced by embracing the challenges to conventional definitions of sex and gender that 'queer theory' poses. The author draws on insights from ... -
Not So Strange Bedfellows: Sexuality and International Development
(SpringerLink, 2006-03-26)Susie Jolly in conversation with three activists whose work relates to sexuality, Henry Armas (GRUPAL, The Working Group for Participation, Peru), Pinar Ilkkaracan (Women for Women's Human Rights, Turkey), Veronica Magar ... -
Epidemics and the Military: Responding to COVID-19 in Uganda
(Elsevier, 2022-10-29)The UN Security Council’s response to Ebola in 2014 legitimised militarised responses. It also influenced re- sponses to COVID-19 in some African countries. Yet, little is known about the day-to-day impacts for ... -
Lessons Learned by the K4D Helpdesk Service: Delivering Evidence Synthesis for Policy and Practice
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-21)This paper is a reflection on experience and lessons learned over the six years of the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme (2016–2022). It reviews what the programme has learned about delivering ... -
Lessons Learned from K4D Learning Journeys: A Practical Approach for Supporting Learning in Development Organisations
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-21)The Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme, which started in 2016, came to an end in September 2022. This K4D working paper reflects on the learning processes and approaches facilitated by this ... -
BASIC Research in Country Focus: Ethiopia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11)This note summarises the work that Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research is carrying out in Ethiopia, as of November 2022. BASIC Research is a FCDO funded programme examining why, how and when to use social protection ... -
Determinants of Farmer’s Decision to Transit to Medium/larger Farm Through Expansion of Land Area Under Commercial Tree Crop Plantation in Nigeria
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-10-08)Decision-making is central to farm management. This study assesses key factors influencing land allocation decisions of households with respects to tree crop cultivation in Nigeria. The study uses primary data collected ... -
Mainstreaming Climate Risks into Rural Sanitation Programming in Lao PDR
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-10)Despite climate change being a major concern for the sanitation sector, rural sanitation remains neglected in the wider discussions of climate impacts on WASH services. Also, the voices of vulnerable individuals, households, ... -
The Political Economy of South Africa’s Carbon Tax
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-10)The subject of carbon pricing is rising up the global policy agenda, as countries take action in the aftermath of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of the Parties 26 summit in November ... -
Growth or Goods: Examining Tax Morale Among Property Owners in Lagos
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10-11)What motivates property owners to pay taxes in places where state enforcement is weak? Using an online experiment among property owners in Lagos, Nigeria, we evaluate the extent to which different appeals increase respondents’ ... -
BRiCE Project DRC and Niger: Endline Report Teacher Wellbeing and Teaching Quality in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-08)This report presents the final results of the Building Resilience in Crisis through Education (BRiCE) research project, which is led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de ... -
Global Developments in Trade-Based Money Laundering
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-08)This rapid research review provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the scale and dynamics of trade-based money laundering (TBML) and key challenges and opportunities in relation to TBML, both globally and ... -
The COVID-19 YPAR Project: Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to Explore the Context of Ethnic Minority Youth Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States and United Kingdom
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10)Despite progress in COVID-19 vaccination rates overall in the US and UK, vaccine inequity persists as young people from minoritised and/or deprived communities are often less likely to be vaccinated. COVID-19 ‘vaccine ... -
Rehabilitating Heritage After ISIS: Economic, Sociocultural, and Historical Considerations in the Case Studies of Al-Nouri Mosque, Al-Hadba Minaret, and Lalish Temple
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-04)This paper explores three case studies of the Al-Nouri Mosque, Al-Hadba Minaret, and Lalish Temple in the aftermath of the ISIS war of 2014–17 and the occupation of Nineveh governorate. It analyses the role of these sites ...
