Impact Initiative - Impact Initiative (SC): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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. -
Tackling Extreme Poverty Through Psychological Support in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2018-12)An initiative in Bangladesh, led by the international non-governmental organisation BRAC, to provide material and psychological support to the poorest individuals and households has proved to be a sustainable and lasting ... -
Recipes For Impact: Feed, Thinking, Nourish, Change, Edition 1 (Archived)
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2018-11)This edition has now been replaced by Edition 2. See the link under "More details" below. This booklet profiles a selection of research funded by the ESRC-DFID Strategic Partnership and the impact they have achieved. ... -
ESRC-DFID Power of Partnership: Research to Alleviate Poverty
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2018-11)This booklet provides an overview of poverty alleviation research encompassing 172 projects focused in 77 countries, and globally, which have been enabled by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the ... -
ESRC-DFID Research Evidence on Achieving Health for All by 2030
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2018-09)There is a growing body of evidence that health contributes to individual wellbeing, household stability, and national development. This booklet provides an overview of research evidence on health for all encompassing 30 ... -
The Role of Teachers in Peace-Building in Rwanda and South Africa
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, 2018-09)In 1994, both Rwanda and South Africa emerged from a long and protracted history of colonisation, conflict, genocide, and apartheid which left lasting scars on their education systems. Both countries have undertaken ... -
Mother Tongue Education Improves Literacy in Uganda
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, 2018-09)Children whose first language is not the language of instruction in school are more likely to drop out or fail in early grades. Research from the Universities of Illinois and their Ugandan partners Mango Tree Educational ... -
ESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice: Quality Teaching
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, 2018-07)This collection of ESRC-DFID-funded research explores the process of teaching and the factors that make good quality teaching. Drawing on evidence across three continents, this collection highlights: innovative teacher ... -
Helping to Make Safe Abortion a Reality In Zambia
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2018-06)Zambia has one of the most liberal abortion laws in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in spite of this, unsafe abortion continues to contribute to high rates of maternal mortality. Stigma, poverty, conscientious objectors, and ... -
Engaging Communities in Rebuilding Post-Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2018-06)Communities are slowly being rebuilt after Super Typhoon Yolanda (also known as Typhoon Haiyan) struck the Visayas Islands in the Philippines in November 2013. The vulnerable, most affected communities face ongoing challenges ... -
Introduction to Multimedia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)This is the Introduction to multimedia for IDS Bulletin 49.2, 'Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage'. -
Accountability and Generating Evidence for Global Health: Misoprostol in Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in Nepal. Compounded by the remote terrain, endemic poverty, and a lack of access to health facilities, the use of misoprostol has advantages ... -
Key Considerations for Accountability and Gender in Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)This article poses questions, challenges, and dilemmas for health system researchers striving to better understand how gender shapes accountability mechanisms, by critically examining the relationship between accountability ... -
Reducing Health Inequalities in Brazil’s Universal Health-Care System: Accountability Politics in São Paulo
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)Brazil relies on the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a public health-care system used by nearly 65 per cent of the population. This article analyses the role played by accountability mechanisms in expanding access to primary ... -
Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)In July 2017, IDS hosted a workshop on ‘Unpicking Power and Politics for Transformative Change: Towards Accountability for Health Equity’, with the aim of generating dialogue and mutual learning among activists, researchers, ...
