Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Introduction: Identifying the Qualities of Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development – A New Analytical Framework
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)This article sets out a framework for analysing research–policy partnerships for societal change in international development settings. It defines types of change associated with engaging research evidence with policy and ... -
Rethinking Research Impact through Principles for Fair and Equitable Partnerships
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)With renewed investment of the UK’s official development assistance (ODA) commitment into research, there is a need to rethink traditional understandings of ‘research impact’. In this article, we argue that impact in ... -
Pathways to Impact: Insights from Research Partnerships in Uganda and India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)This article sets out a perspective from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) on the challenges of achieving research uptake. Two country case studies are presented from India and Uganda, ... -
Exploring Partnerships between Academia and Disabled Persons’ Organisations: Lessons Learned from Collaborative Research in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)In this article, we discuss how our academic research on disability and international development in five African countries has benefited hugely from active collaboration with advocates, practitioners, and policymakers, ... -
Layered and Linking Research Partnerships: Learning from YOUR World Research in Ethiopia and Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)This article draws on learning from the YOUR World Research project in Ethiopia and Nepal, which uses the socioecological Change‑scape framework to understand how participants in research need to be understood within a ... -
Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)The Ethiopian government continuously calls for policy-relevant research. However, this admission of policy challenges and attempts to fill the gap cannot ignore the political economy and power dynamics in Ethiopia. This ... -
Regional Research–Policy Partnerships for Health Equity and Inclusive Development: Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges from a Southern African Perspective
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)This article critically reflects on the experience and lessons from a health-focused social policy research project (PRARI) involving a partnership spanning multiple countries across southern Africa and Europe. It asks ... -
How Did Research Partnerships Contribute to Bangladesh’s Progress in Improving Lives?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)The last few decades have seen tremendous progress in improving the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. In almost all sectors of development, Bangladesh has done enviously well. One of the important change ... -
Glossary: Exploring Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-06-05)This is the glossary of IDS Bulletin 50.1, 'Exploring Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development'. -
Research on Children with Disabilities Influences Education Policy in Pakistan
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, 2019-05)Children who face multiple disadvantages including those related to disability are among those least likely to be learning. Using large-scale household data together with qualitative data from classrooms in rural Pakistan, ... -
Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom” on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-14)his article examines the effects of one year of exposure to “Learning to Read in a Healing Classroom” (LRHC) on the reading and math skills of second- to fourth-grade children in the low-income and conflict-affected ... -
Promoting Children's Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries: Testing Change Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016)
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02)Improving children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries is critically important for breaking the intergenerational transmission of violence and poverty. Yet there is currently a stunning lack of rigorous ... -
Communities Improve Water Management in Burkina Faso
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2019-03)Explores how setting up 'Innovation Platforms' in Burkina Faso around two small water reservoirs meant that diverse members of rural communities, agricultural agents, and NGOs could reconcile differences and manage their ... -
Marginalised Youth Informing Policy and Practice in Ethiopia and Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2019-02)Explores how marginalised youth in Ethiopia and Nepal can get their voices heard in policy and practice. In contexts of environmental fragility and political change, ministries and governmental organisations have worked ... -
ESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice: Urban Community Resilience
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2019-03)Whilst cities have the potential to be great drivers of improvements in human wellbeing, impoverishment is an unrelenting feature of urban life. This collection of ESRC-DFID-funded research explores urban community resilience ... -
ESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice: Women, Work and Social Protection
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2019-03)This collection of ESRC-DFID-funded research explores the need for a holistic approach to social protection moving beyond a framing of poverty alleviation as primarily being about access to the traditional labour market ... -
Supporting Children with Disabilities in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: Promoting Inclusive Practice within Community-Based Childcare Centres in Malawi through a Bioecological Systems Perspective
(Springer Netherlands, 2018)Given the narrow scope and conceptualisation of inclusion for young children with disabilities in research within low- and middle income countries (LMICs) contexts, we draw on a bioecological systems perspective to propose ... -
The Capacity of Community-based Participatory Research in Relation to Disability and the SDGs
(Disability and the Global South, 2017)This paper has highlighted an alignment between the aims of the 2030 Agenda and the nature of disability-focused CBPR. It has also demonstrated CBPR in practice in the global South and raised tensions and dilemmas that ... -
ESRC-DFID Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, 2019-01)This booklet provides an overview of education research encompassing 30 projects focused in 24 countries which have been enabled by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International ... -
The Climate Change-Modern Slavery Nexus in Cambodia
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2018-12)Focuses on Cambodian brick kilns to examine how a high vulnerability to climate change can facilitate trafficking into new industries and greater susceptibility to modern slavery.