K4D: Recent submissions
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COVID-19 Health Evidence Summary No.1
(IDS, 2020-03-09)This weekly COVID-19 Health Evidence Summary (HES) is to signpost DFID and other UK government departments to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on COVID-19 to inform and support their response. The first HES was ... -
Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration and Poverty Reduction
(IDS, 2020-03-18)Reconciling the twin goals of biodiversity conservation and restoration, and poverty reduction is difficult. A number of factors seem to influence effectiveness across intervention types including context, intervention ... -
Privatisation and Tax Reform – Lessons from Georgia and Poland
(IDS, 2020-02-29)A number of Eastern European countries have implemented tax and privatisation policies that have led to robust growth and improved economic governance. There is much less evidence of countries effectively dismantling or ... -
The Role of Communication Activity in Contributing to the Reduction of Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
(IDS, 2020-03-06)This rapid literature review concentrates on the role of communications activity (including communications campaigns and media relations in contributing to the reduction of corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. The review also ... -
The Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
(IDS, 2020-02-21)Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is already highly dependent on food imports, making it also vulnerable to price shocks on the global markets and harvest failures in other world regions. This rapid review will ... -
The Use of Fossil Fuels in the Middle East and North Africa
(IDS, 2020-02-21)This rapid literature review collates evidence from academic and grey literature on the use of fossil fuels in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). MENA, for much of its recent history, has been known for its energy ... -
Innovation Value Chains in East and Southern Africa and the Key Gaps
(IDS, 2020-02-10)This review synthesises evidence on key gaps in East and Southern Africa’s innovation value chain (concept to commercialisation), e.g. in health technology, sanitation, clean energy, agricultural technology or bio-innovation. ... -
Evidence of India’s Biotechnology Innovation Experience
(IDS, 2020-02-13)This rapid literature review has found that evidence on India’s experience and achievements in biotechnology is largely generated by government reports and state agency websites. A review of academic studies, government ... -
Interventions to Promote Wellbeing of Refugees in High- and Middle Income Countries
(IDS, 2020-03-06)This review synthesises evidence on the evidence to support specific interventions promoting refugee wellbeing, including the role of social capital and networking in high- and middle-income countries. Although there is a ... -
Lessons from Resource-Rich Developing Countries About Using Their Resource Revenues for Improved Public Service Delivery
(IDS, 2020-02-28)This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and knowledge institution sources on how resource-rich developing countries use their resource revenues for improved public service delivery. Such lessons ... -
Economic Interventions to Manage Popular Unrest
(IDS, 2020-02-19)This review synthesises evidence on the economic interventions or tools supported by international actors, including international financial institutions, that have delivered short-term stability to manage popular unrest ... -
Responding to Protest Movements: Latin America and Eastern Europe
(IDS, 2020-02-17)This report is one of a pair of research reports looking at how governments respond to protest movements. This report reviews broad trends internationally, drawing on illustrative examples from Latin America and Eastern ... -
Responding to Popular Protests in the MENA region
(IDS, 2020-02-20)This review looks at government responses to violent protests in a selection of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Focusing on the 2011 Arab Spring protests, it finds that the initial response of most ... -
Effects of Madagascar’s Political Economy on Development and Environment
(IDS, 2020-02-28)Since Madagascar’s independence in 1960, socio-political crises and their aftermaths have regularly wiped out, and even set back, the country’s macroeconomic growth and human development (Razafindrakoto, Roubaud, et al., ... -
International Actors' Support on Inclusive Peace Processes
(IDS, 2020-01-31)This rapid literature review collates evidence from academic and grey literature on support on inclusive peace processes. The review identified limited evidence based on robust evaluations, there is, however, a wide range ... -
Review of Funding and Management Structures of Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) and International Search and Rescue (ISAR) Teams
(IDS, 2020-02-10)When disasters exceed the capacity of the affected country to cope within its own resources, assistance from external source teams is required and typically requested (Bartolucci et al., 2019). Assistance can be Emergency ... -
Evidence and Lessons on Efforts to Mitigate the Secondary Impact of Past Disease Outbreaks and Associated Response and Control Measures
(IDS, 2020-02-14)This rapid literature review finds limited evidence and lessons on responses to the secondary effects of disease outbreaks. The secondary effects are explained in more detail in a companion paper (Rohwerder, 2020). They ... -
Secondary Impacts of Major Disease Outbreaks in Low- and Middle Income Countries
(IDS, 2020-02-21)Major infectious disease outbreaks in low-and middle-income countries can have serious long-lasting impacts that go beyond the direct impact of the disease, to include secondary social, economic, health and political ... -
The Economic Situation for Individuals and Communities in Syria
(IDS, 2020-01-31)This report records the literature that emerged through rapid search on the impact of the war economy on day-to-day life for Syrian citizens and the economic situation for individuals and communities. Academic literature ... -
Who Drives Green Transformations in High Emitting Developing Countries?
(IDS, 2020-01-27)This rapid review looks at some examples of countries that are beginning to pursue green growth (or at least in some sectors), highlighting the characteristics and challenges of these movements. The review focuses on how ...
