Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Insights from Qualitative Inclusive, Participatory Fieldwork with Learners with Deafblindness and Women with Disabilities in Bangladesh: Phase Two
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06)This paper describes and discusses a piece of inclusive and participatory fieldwork undertaken in January 2023, that followed on from and complemented an earlier piece of research in the same sites in Bangladesh in 2022. ... -
Pathways to Equitable Food Systems
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-26)Globally, our food systems are highly inequitable. In a world with enough food, hunger is becoming normalised for large numbers of people, while diets are worsening and obesity is rising. Racialised minorities are ... -
Key Considerations: Humanitarian Response to the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake in Syria
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-26)On 6 February 2023, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale brought destruction to southern Türkiye and northern Syria. The official death toll exceeded 50,000, with more than 7,000 fatalities occurring ... -
Adolescents with Disabilities and Caregivers Experience of COVID-19 in Rural Nepal
(Frontiers, 2023-06-09)COVID-19 caused severe disruption to the lives of adolescents. UNICEF estimates that school closures affected more than 1.6 billion learners, with those in low- and middle-income countries having the least access to remote ... -
Fostering Gender Diversity and Inclusiveness in Street Vendor Associations in India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-20)This project, led by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), focuses on the effects of the socioeconomic crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic on informal women workers in India, particularly street vendors ... -
Healthy Diets Depend on Equity and Justice: Understanding the Context in Brazil, South Africa, the UK, and Vietnam
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-19)The purpose of this paper is to outline a new intellectual and research agenda for future work taken forward by the Food Equity Centre on the theme of Healthy Diets. We outline our initial conceptual approach and summarise ... -
Business Licencing Reform and Gender Equality: Evidence from Indonesia
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-06-14)Business environment reform targets inadequate business regulations, intending to remove constraints to business investment, enabling growth and job creation, and creating opportunities for international business to ... -
Learning from Entrepreneurship Programming for Women’s Economic Empowerment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-14)MUVA is a social incubator dedicated to developing innovative approaches to the economic empowerment of women in Mozambique. This paper documents experiences from two MUVA projects supporting women’s economic empowerment ... -
Backlash in Action? Or Inaction? Stalled Implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-14)The Bangladesh government adopted the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act in 2010. While the formulation and enactment of the Act was an achievement for the government and the coalition that championed it ... -
Mpox in Nigeria – Lessons from Diverse Experiences
(Centre for Future Natures, 2022)In 2022, the virus mpox was declared a public health emergency of international concern. From October 2022 to February 2023, a research team from the UK and Nigeria studied the recent story of mpox in Nigeria, and what it ... -
Photo Story: Views of Mpox in Nigeria
(Centre for Future Natures, 2023-05)Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) was first ‘discovered’ in 1958, though it’s only in the past year that it’s gained significant international public attention. The disease can have very visible symptoms, with painful ... -
Learning from ODF Districts in Mozambique
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-05-31)With 30 per cent of Mozambique’s rural population still practicing open defecation (JMP 2021), the country urgently needs to accelerate results if it is to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6.2. After over a decade of ... -
Adaptation of the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Protocol During the COVID-19 Response
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06)Before COVID-19, Mozambique’s Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) protocol, introduced in 2008 and referenced in the Strategy of Rural Sanitation 2021-2030, broadly aligned with the original approach proposed by Kar and ... -
Learning from ODF Districts in Mozambique
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06)Mozambique has committed to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation by 2030. Much progress is still needed, ... -
The Resurgence of National Development Planning and the Challenge of Alignment
(ODI, 2023-06)Recent years have witnessed a resurgence in the number of developing countries producing national development plans. This has led to an interest in how governments seek to implement their plans by aligning government ... -
Seeing Conflict at the Margins
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)Large-scale resource developments can create ruptures at the margins that intensify long-standing struggles around livelihoods, public authority, and environmental justice, and in some cases can spark new tensions and ... -
Uncertainty in the Drylands: Rethinking In/formal Insurance from Pastoral East Africa
(Sage Journals, 2023-05-26)Amidst climatic and economic volatility, agricultural development and climate adaptation policies have increasingly turned to weather microinsurance to manage uncertainties, particularly in dryland pastoral and agricultural ... -
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development
(Practical Action Publishing, 2023-05-31)This book explores the connection between pastoralism, uncertainty, and development. It makes the case that recognizing how pastoralists make productive use of variability and embrace uncertainty ... -
When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for Recasting Policy and Management in the Anthropocene
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-06)Many readers recognise and understand that complex is about as simple as it gets for major policy and management. This guide is for those unwilling in the Anthropocene to shrink back into the older platitudes about ‘keep ...
