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The Impact Initiative for international development research aims to increase the uptake and impact of research from two research programmes jointly funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO): the Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research and the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme.
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Education [103]
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Gender [86]
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Governance [137]
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Health [272]
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Livelihoods [118]
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Security [49]
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Urban/Rural [176]
Recent Submissions
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Human Security of Urban Migrant Populations Affected by Length of Residence and Environmental Hazards
(SAGE Publishing, 2020-12)It is widely suggested that migration is a key mechanism linking climate change to violent conflict, particularly through migration increasing the risks of conflict in urban destinations. Yet climate change also creates ... -
Reconceptualizando el desarrollo profesional docente en Honduras
(University of California, Berkeley and New York University, 2021-01)Mejorar la calidad de la educación es un desafío persistente en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Los estudiantes de la región tienen un rendimiento sistemáticamente inferior en las evaluaciones académicas internacionales; ... -
Celebrating the Impact of the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Programme
(Institute of Development Studies and the Impact Initiative, 2021-03)A focus on how to achieve impact is often a key aspect of policy-relevant social science research in international development settings. Done well, planning for impact from the outset of the project is based upon informed ... -
Improving Adult Literacy in Niger Through Mobile Calls to Teachers
(IDS and the Impact Initiative, 2021-02)In Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, 85 per cent of adults are unable to read or write, even in local languages. Adult education programmes can be a route to improving adult literacy rates, but non-governmental ... -
Recipes for Impact: Feed, Thinking, Nourish, Change, Edition 2
(Institute of Development Studies and the Impact Initiative, 2021-02)This booklet profiles a selection of research funded by the ESRC-FCDO Strategic Partnership and the impact they have achieved. While these stories only show a snapshot of the research, they all highlight the multiple, ... -
Connecting with Home, Keeping in Touch: Physical and Virtual Mobility Across Stretched Families in sub-Saharan Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. ... -
Managing Political Space: Authority, Marginalised People's Agency and Governance in West Bengal
(Liverpool University Press, 2018)This paper investigates governance reform which aims to ‘move the state’ closer to people, arguing that greater attention needs to be paid to two questions: how does political decentralisation affect the ways in which ... -
Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity
(IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, 2018)Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects ... -
Work-Family Conflict and Work Exit in Later Career Stage.
(Oxford University Press, 2020)This study investigated relationships between work–family conflict and routes of later-life work exit. -
Health Equity in England: the Marmot Review 10 Years on
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2020)Ten years after the landmark review on health inequalities in England, coauthor Michael Marmot says the situation has become worse. The Marmot Review laid out how public expenditureon policies, through the life course, ... -
Mental Health and Detention: an Unhappy Co-occurrence
(Elsevier, 2020)In Alice Springs, Australia, the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory looms over the town—with good reason. The incarceration rate of Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory is 2800 per 100 000, 14 times that ... -
To What Extent can the Activities of the South Australian Health in All Policies Initiative be Linked to Population Health Outcomes Using a Program Theory-Based Evaluation
(BMC, 2019)This paper reports on a five-year study using a theory-based program logic evaluation, and supportingsurvey and interview data to examine the extent to which the activites of the South Australian Health in All Policiesinitiative ... -
Social Determinants and Non-communicable Diseases: Time for Integrated Action
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019)A whole systems approach that integrates action on the social determinants of health is essential to reduce the burden of non-communicable disease, argue Michael Marmot and Ruth Bell. -
Multi-cohort Study Identifies Social Determinants of Systemic Inflammation Over the Life Course
(SpringerNature, 2019)Chronic inflammation has been proposed as having a prominent role in the construction ofsocial inequalities in health. Disentangling the effects of early life and adulthood social dis-advantage on inflammation is key in ... -
Education and Mortality in Three Eastern European Populations: Findings from the PrivMort Retrospective Cohort Study
(Oxford University Press, 2019)The aim of the study is 2-fold. Firstly, it attempts to investigate the potential impact of major political and economic changes on inequalities in all-cause mortality among men and women with different levels of education ... -
Poverty and Reductions in Fitness Levels in Children and Adolescents in Upper Middle-income Countries
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine, 2019)ncreasingly it is recognised that what happens in childhood has a significant impact on health in adulthood. As we and others have shown—social, emotional, cognitive and physical development in childhood and adolescence ... -
Winners Take All
(Elsevier, 2019)“It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one's allowed to speak about water…We can talk for a very long time about all these stupid philanthropy schemes…we’ve got to be talking about taxes…Taxes, taxes, taxes. ... -
Association of Thirty-year Alcohol Consumption Typologies and Fatty Liver: Findings from a Large Population Cohort Study
(Elsevier, 2019)We report the association between 30-year drinking typologies and risk of fatty liver disease. People with sustained heavy drinking during midlife had greater risk of fatty liver than stable moderate drinkers at early old ... -
Italian Atlas of Mortality Inequalities by Education Level
(Inferenze scarl, Milano, 2019)Objectives: To evaluate the geographical and socioeconomic differences in mortality and in life expectancy in Italy; to evaluate the propor-tion of mortality in the population attributable to a medium-low education ... -
A Health Crisis is a Social Crisis
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019)Falling life expectancy and rising inequality are twin indicators of a society in trouble.
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