Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Partisan Citizenship and its Discontents: Precarious Possession and Political Agency on Harare City's Expanding Margins
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of access to urban land, housing and security as ‘gift’, conditional on demonstrations of party loyalty. This article discusses ... -
Diversidades e convergências nos indicadores de saúde no Brasil e em Moçambique
(CEBRAP, 2019)O artigo apresenta um panorama da trajetória recente das desigualdades em saúde nos dois países. Partindo da sistematização de dados produzidos pelos órgãos oficiais, de estatística e saúde, mostra como evoluíram os ... -
Accountability from the Grassroots: Children's Foundational Reading and Arithmetic in Sitapur District, Uttar Predesh
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, 2020)The project 'Accountability from the Grassroots' aims to investigate if Pratham’s community-based interventions could be more effective at raising learning outcomes when they work in both schools and communities. As part ... -
From Assessment to Action: Lessons from the Development of Theories of Change with the People's Action for Learning Network
(Global Education Review, 2020)In recent years, much attention has been given to extremely poor levels of learning outcomesin low-and lower-middle income countries. Citizen-led assessments have played a vital role in highlighting this “learning crisis.” ... -
Assessment for Action: An Organic, Free-Range Approach to Raising Learning for All
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, 2018)The aim of this synthesis report is to identify commonalities that can help to characterise the PAL Network’s work as a whole. More specifically, it presents: (1) The role that the PAL Network’s assessments provide in both ... -
Experience and Lessons of Learning Intervention Programmes Across the PAL Network Members
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, 2018)The People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network is one of the leading South-South collaborations in education, working to improve learning outcomes in 14 countries across South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. This ... -
Chapter 9: Gender, Poverty and Educational Equality
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)A chapter on gender, poverty and educational equality from 'The SAGE Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education'. The handbook examines policy and practice from around the world with respect to broadly conceived ... -
Global Campaigns for Girls' and Women's Education, 2000-2017: Insights from Transnational Social Movement Theory
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of global campaigns on girls’ and women’s education, including major global policy initiatives such as the MDGs and the SDGs. While scholars have critically analysed the ... -
Achieving Gender Equality in and Through Education: A Knowledge And Innovation Exchange (KIX) Discussion Paper
(Global Partnership for Education, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to describe the current landscape in gender equality in education and spark discussion and debate around potential areas for KIX investment. The paper is part of a series of discussion papers, ... -
The Many Meanings of Quality Education: Politics of Targets and Indicators in SDG 4
(Durham University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)The formulation of the SDG education targets was more inclusive than the processes linked with the MDGs. Key constituencies making representations through the Open Working Group and other consultative processes succeeded ... -
An Other Self? Education, Foreignness, Reflexive Comparison and Capability as Connection
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)The article is an attempt to explore through the lens of my identification as a foreigner, a number of different themes around work in comparative education, particularly aspects of the question of method, and some reflections ... -
Accountability and Trust: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
(Springer, 2019)Trust and accountability are often positioned as opposites, the argument being that accountability is based on distrust and correction of identified deficiencies. Yet, trust is also important in order for accountability ... -
Outsourcing Education: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
(American Economic Association, 2020)In 2016, the Liberian government delegated management of 93 randomly selected public schools to private providers. Providers received US$50 per pupil, on top of US$50 per pupil annual expenditure in control schools. After ... -
IRC Healing Classrooms Remedial Tutoring Programming Improves Nigerien and Nigerian Children's Learning. 3EA: Education in Emergencies, Evidence for Action
(International Rescue Committee (IRC), 2018)With support from Dubai Cares during the school year 2016-2017, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) delivered Learning in a Healing Classroom remedial tutoring programming to support local and internally displaced ... -
Resilience Policymaking in Nepal: Giving Voice to Communities. Workshop Report
(University of Sheffield, 2019)Working in three rural villages in Nepal, this research project examined communities’ perceptions of disaster risksand their views on their ability to mitigate those risksand cope with ... -
Using Ethnography and 'Real Lteracies' to Develop a Curriculum for English Literacy Teaching for Young Deaf Adults in India
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)This paper reports on an international collaborative project working with deaf learners of English literacy (19–28 years old) in five locations in India: Indore; Vadadora; Comibatore; Pattambi; and Thrissur. Indian Sign ... -
Environmental Associated Emotional Distress and the Dangers of Climate Change for Pastoralist Mental Health
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa are among the most vulnerable populations to climate change yet little is known about how environmental change shapes their wellbeing and mental health. This paper presents a formative ... -
A Framework for Targeting Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions in Pastoralist Populations in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
(Elsevier GmbH, 2019)Globally, many populations face structural and environmental barriers to access safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Among these populations are many of the 200 million pastoralists whose livelihood patterns ... -
Emotional Wellbeing as a Proxy Indicator for Water Security Among Pastoralists in Afar, Ethiopia
(WEDC, 2018)Recent thinking proposesa more holistic approach to measuring household water security. In addition to conventional service-level based indicators, assessments should account for broader social, political and culturalstructures ... -
Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Urban Crime: An Insight from Nigeria
(Springer, 2020)Research demonstrates that crime is concentrated. This finding is so consistent that David Weisburd refers to this as the “law of crime concentration at place”. However, most research on crime concentration has been conducted ...