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Interventions in LICs and LMICs to Improve Air Quality and/or Mitigate its Impacts
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-03-23)This rapid literature review summarises evidence on air quality interventions in LICs and LMICs to improve air quality and/or mitigate its impacts. The review found limited evidence derived from such countries and instead ... -
Prevalence of Health Impacts Related to Exposure to Poor Air Quality Among Children in Low and Lower Middle-Income Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-03-16)This rapid review provides an assessment of the contemporary health impacts arising from household and ambient air pollution exposure in low income (LIC) and lower middle-income countries (LMICs), with a specific focus ... -
Bail Conditions in the Criminal Justice Systems in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-07)This rapid literature review finds evidence of varied bail conditions in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. The African Charter, which all the states have ratified, supports the right to bail, as do other international ... -
Programmes to Develop and Grow Value Chains: Evidence from Egypt and Other Developing Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-04)Changes in business relationships resulting from interventions and programming of Value Chain Development are likely to produce significant benefits both for participants in a specific value chain – as well as for the ... -
Organised Crime in Healthcare Systems
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06-18)Crime and malpractice within healthcare systems take many forms, from front line corruption such as demanding cash payment for appointments or consultations, through to large scale misuse or misappropriation of funds in ... -
Barriers to Preventing Deforestation and Degradation of Indonesia’s Tropical Rainforests and Peatlands
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-13)Indonesia has undertaken a range of measures to address the country’s high rates of deforestation and land degradation, but significant barriers remain to meeting the targets set out by these measures and by international ... -
Risk of Capital Flight Due to a Better Understanding of Climate Change
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-01-17)The physical risks of climate change, including both gradual global warming and an increase in extreme weather events are likely to cause increasing financial and economic losses. This helpdesk report examines the evidence ... -
The Costs of Climate Change Adaptation in Middle-income Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-07)While potential costs and tracked spending on adaptation to climate change in middle-income countries (MICs) are difficult to measure, there is wide agreement that current spending on adaption is highly inadequate. This ... -
National and Local Factors in Just Transitions for Low- and Middle-income Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-25)Transitions away from fossil fuels and other carbon-intensive industries involve a range of dynamic social, political, economic, and environmental factors at international, national, regional and local levels. Many national ... -
Barriers to Family Planning in Iraq and KRI
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-28)This rapid review examines evidence on the barriers to access to family planning (FP) across Iraq (including Kurdistan Region of Iraq/ KRI). It focuses on the reported social and cultural barriers, as well as logistical ... -
Water Finance and Nature-based solutions
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-21)This rapid review synthesises evidence on the innovations for water finance that could be applied to mainstream and expand Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in developing countries. This review also highlights some obstacles, ... -
Addressing Societal Divisions in Post-conflict City Settings
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-17)Cities are often theorised as having great potential to transcend societal divides and foster coexistence, with diverse populations mixing in everyday life. The post-war city may, however, be contested by ethno-nationalist ... -
Narratives, Ethnicity and Post-conflict Divisions in Mostar
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-31)Often described and nostalgically remembered as one of the most ‘mixed’ cities of the former-Yugoslavia, Mostar became an ethnically ‘divided city’ as a result of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war - formally partitioned in order ... -
Evidence on Resilience Approaches in Fragile and Conflict-affected States and Protracted Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-17)This rapid literature review explores lessons on resilience programming in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) and protracted crises. Lessons on the feasibility of programming shows that: programming needs to be ... -
Frameworks for Mutual Accountability and Enhanced Policy Dialogue
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-03)This rapid review synthesises evidence on frameworks for mutual accountability and enhanced policy dialogue processes between donors and recipient governments by exploring the processes, products and governance mechanisms ... -
Key Drivers of Modern Slavery
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-16)This rapid literature review provides evidence on key drivers of modern slavery. It draws on a mixture of academic and grey literature from multinational and bilateral institutions as well as non-government organisations ... -
Lessons Learned from the Outcomes and Delivery of Girls’ Clubs in Educational Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-07)This helpdesk provides a rapid review of the evidence on the outcomes and delivery of girls’ clubs in educational programmes. The review found some evidence of girls’ clubs specific programmes in school settings having ... -
Enablers and Barriers to the Successful Delivery of Accelerated Learning Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-07)This review identified enablers and barriers to the successful delivery of accelerated learning programmes and complementary education. The policy environment is identified as being an overarching factor that can behave ... -
Effects of political economy on development in Cote d’Ivoire
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-06)Cote d’Ivoire presents a paradoxical picture on development: it ranks as a lower-middle income country and has had strong economic growth, yet it ranks low by human development – lower than countries with similar levels ... -
Conflict Analysis of North Eastern Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07)This Emerging Issues report highlights research and emerging evidence to policy-makers to help inform policies that are more resilient to the future. It provides comprehensive conflict analysis of North Eastern Kenya by ...
