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Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe
(Springer Link, 2020-12-07)Zimbabwe’s land reform from 2000 radically transformed the agrarian structure, and with this small towns in rural areas. This article explores three such towns—Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa—examining changes in population, ... -
Assessing Mental Health in a Context of Extreme Poverty: Validation of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in Rural Haiti
(PLOS ONE, 2020-12-14)A widening evidence base across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) points towards mutually reinforcing linkages between poverty and mental health problems. The use of validated and culturally relevant measures of ... -
On the Margins of Aid Orthodoxy: the Brazil-Mozambique Collaboration to Produce Essential Medicines in Africa
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2014-09-25)On the back of its recent economic development and domestic success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Brazil is helping the Government of Mozambique to set up a pharmaceutical factory as part of its South-South cooperation ... -
Cultures of Politics, Spaces of Power: Contextualizing Brazilian Experiences of Participation
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-07-02)Brazilian democratic innovation is gathering considerable international attention, spawning a growing interest in replicating the institutional designs of its participatory governance institutions in countries with very ... -
Urban Social Assistance: Evidence, Challenges and the Way Forward, with Application to Ghana
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020-11-26)Motivation: Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance in urban areas. Those programmes that exist, moreover, are often extensions or ... -
Graduation After 10 years of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Surviving But Still Not Thriving
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020-06-17)Motivation: Many social protection programmes aspire to graduate poor people out of poverty. While some successfully ensure food security and survival for the poorest, few have moved large numbers of people sustainably out ... -
Participatory Action Research on Alcoholism and Bonded Labor in Times of Prohibition in India
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2020-09-08)The research presented in this article examines whether participatory action research methods can transform violent, stigmatising approaches to alcohol consumption in marginalised communities into community-owned, ... -
An Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 Responses on MSMEs in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Commonwealth Countries in the Pacific
(Commonwealth Secretariat, 2020-09-21)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to severe economic disruption, with the informal sector in Pacific Commonwealth countries being particularly vulnerable. This report summarises current policy responses and ... -
The Double Logic of Internal Purges: New Evidence from Francoist Spain
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)States often engage in internal purges to eliminate political dissidents within their own ranks. However, partly because of the absence of reliable data, we know little about the logic and dynamics of these purges, ... -
COVID-19 as a Global Challenge: Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Future
(Elsevier, Ltd., 2020-07-20)COVID-19 is a global challenge that demands researchers, policy makers, and governments address multiple dimensions which go far beyond the implications of this pandemic for health ... -
Exploring Critical Issues in the Ethical Involvement of Children with Disabilities in Evidence Generation and Use
(UNICEF Office Of Research – Innocenti, 2020-07)This working paper explores the main ethical challenges, and corresponding mitigation strategies, in relation to involving children with disabilities in evidence generation. Children with disabilities are defined as ... -
Using Mobile-phone Technology to Change Behaviour: Lessons from mNutrition
(UNSCN, 2020-07)This article presents key lessons learned from a rigorous mixed-method evaluation of mNutrition, a global mobile phone-based advisory service that promotes behavioural change around key nutrition and farming practices to ... -
The Urban Land Nexus–Challenges and Opportunities of Regularising Informal Settlements: The Case Studies of Dar es Salaam and Mwanza in Tanzania
(University of Cape Town, 2020-05-19)Informal settlements in Tanzania accommodate more than 70% of the urban population. Owing to this, the Tanzanian government has undertaken several initiatives to address the growing size and number of informal settlements. ... -
Divergent Understandings of Agroecology in the Era of the African Green Revolution
(Sage Journals, 2020-06-12)Agroecology is increasingly recognized within mainstream development. Yet, this is controversial, due to disagreement over what it does and should mean. This article takes a ‘knowledge politics’ approach to show how different ... -
Food Politics and Development
(Elsevier, 2020-06-17)Food has become both a pivotal topic in development and a lens through which to integrate and address a range of contemporary global challenges. This review article addresses in particular the interrelationship between ... -
A Common Sense Approach to the Right to Food
(Oxford University Press, 2019-01-09)Despite growing activism around the right to food in the past decade, there has been little exploration of how people understand the right and its implications. This article analyses original research that explored how ... -
Process Tracing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’
(Springer Nature, 2019-11-14)In recent years, a range of new indices, benchmarking and scorecard tools—also known as ‘indicators’—have been developed to influence public policy and to pro- mote accountability. While subjected to important technical ... -
Tanzania's Story of Change in Nutrition: Political Commitment, Innovation and Shrinking Political Space
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-01-09)In the past 15 years, Tanzania has made considerable progress in the fight against child undernutrition. This paper analyses in what respects an enabling environment for nutrition action in Tanzania has emerged. It critically ... -
States of Power: Energy Imaginaries and Transnational Assemblages in Norway, Nepal and Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2020-09)Support to energy, particularly hydropower, has formed an important element of many donor programmes. How have such interventions shaped the emergence of particular energy imaginaries in the countries engaged with? ‘Energy ... -
Modelling the Global Economic Consequences of a Major African Swine Fever Outbreak in China
(Springer Nature, 2020-04-17)African swine fever is a deadly porcine disease that has spread into East Asia where it is having a detrimental effect on pork production. However, the implications of African swine fever on the global pork market are ...