Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Resilience in the Time of a Pandemic: Developing Public Policies for Ollas Comunes in Peru
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)Summary: The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has created economic, social, and food security crises in many countries throughout the world. Faced with growing hunger in Peru, and the government’s delayed and inadequate ... -
Resiliencia en tiempos de pandemia: generando políticas públicas para las ollas comunes en Perú
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)La pandemia del coronavirus (Covid-19) ha generado crisis en los ámbitos económico, social y de seguridad alimentaria en muchos países del mundo. Ante el aumento del hambre en el Perú, y la reacción tardía e incompleta del ... -
(Re-)Thinking a Collaborative Research Model After Covid-19: Introducing Colabora.Lat
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)Summary: Colabora.Lat is a project that examines the promise and the utility of collaboration for crafting better public policy in response to dynamic, complex problems such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Ultimately, in addition ... -
(Re)pensar un modelo de investigación colaborativa después del Covid-19: presentación de Colabora.Lat
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)Colabora.Lat es un proyecto que examina la promesa y la utilidad de la colaboración para elaborar mejores políticas públicas en respuesta a problemas dinámicos y complejos como la pandemia de Covid-19. En última instancia, ... -
Glossary
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-16)Summary: This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 54.2: Knowledge in Times of Crisis: Transforming Research-to-Policy Approaches. -
Meeting the Challenges of Multiple Crises: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-18)In July 2023, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) hosted a series of online learning events which explored and showcased learning and impact from the Covid-19 ... -
The Place of Religious Inequalities Within International Development and Humanitarian Response Frameworks: Lessons from Iraq
(Elsevier, 2023)Within the international development and humanitarian arenas no one disagrees with the language and aspirations of inclusion, protection, rights and equality. Yet, most development framings – policy and operational – have ... -
Breastfeeding and Infant Care as ‘Sexed’ Care Work: Reconsideration of the Three Rs to Enable Women’s Rights, Economic Empowerment, Nutrition and Health
(2023-10-11)Women’s lifelong health and nutrition status is intricately related to their reproductive history, including the number and spacing of their pregnancies and births, and for how long and how intensively they breastfeed their ... -
REBUILD: COVID-19 Pandemic and Women in the Informal Economy in Kenya, Uganda and India
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2023)Globally, two billion people are engaged in informal work, of whom a disproportionate number - 66 percent of workers - are women. Women, facing gender discrimination in the formal job market, unequal responsibility ... -
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Making Unpaid WASH Work Visible
(Sanitation Learning Hub, 2023-10)Target 5.4 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) involves the recognition and valuing of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). Much UCDW is related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and daily workloads ... -
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Pastoralist Researchers on the Uganda/Kenya Border
(2023-10)This document is a history of events affecting peace and security month by month between October 2022 and May 2023 on the Ugandan-Kenya border, and a diary of community research. The learning presented is the property of ... -
Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression
(Zed Books, 2023-03-23)Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are entitled to in law: ... -
Rethinking Policies for Pastoralists – Governing the Rangelands
(CSIRO, 2023-08-14)Policies and governance arrangements are relevant in shaping livelihoods in the pastoral regions of the world. Institutions and rules that enable access to land, markets and investment for pastoralists and those that ... -
Mapping the Supply of Surveillance Technologies to Africa: Case Studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-09-25)African governments are spending over 1US$bn per year on digital surveillance technologies which are being used without adequate legal protections in ways that regularly violate citizens’ fundamental human rights. This ... -
Effective Governance Responses to Crises: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-09-21)In times of crisis, decision-making becomes paramount, yet it is often influenced by two distinct behavioural patterns: analysis paralysis and risk aversion. Drawing a parallel between the studies presented in this brief, ... -
Key Issues Affecting the Inclusion of Alt Text in Scholarly PDF Publications
(Brill, 2023-09-08)Alternative (alt) text descriptions for images in digital publications provide comparable information for people who cannot effectively see the visuals. They are relied upon by people who are blind or who have a moderate ... -
The Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 on Business Enterprises in Uganda: Evidence from Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2022-11-26)The effect of COVID-19 on MSMEs is enormous across the different episodes of COVID-19 analyzed. Some enterprises in the MSME space experienced permanent business closure because of COVID-19 and related restrictions. Direct ... -
The Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 On Business Enterprises in Uganda: Evidence From Micro, Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: Abridged Report
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2022-06-23)This policy briefing note is part of a broader study designed to provide country-specific evidence for Uganda on the immediate, medium- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and related mitigation measures and ... -
The Knowledge Politics of Genome Editing in Africa
(University of California Press, 2023-09-15)How is the promise of crop genome editing viewed by scientists working with or aspiring to work with the technology, by development experts seeking to mold public perceptions and policy attitudes toward genome editing, and ... -
Mobile Money Taxation and Informal Workers: Evidence from Ghana’s E-Levy
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-09)In recent years, more and more governments in lower income countries have been introducing taxes on mobile money transfers as a means to raise revenue. These are often explicitly promoted as a way of taxing informal ...