Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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Developing More Effective Strategies for Sex Work, Law and Poverty
(IDS, 2015-09)The welfare of female sex workers in low-income countries has attracted significant attention in recent years. In line with human rights and development goals, advocacy focuses on decriminalisation of sex work, attaining ... -
China’s Emergence as a Global Recycling Hub – What Does it Mean for Circular Economy Approaches Elsewhere?
(IDS, 2015-09)This Evidence Report investigates how China’s rise as a global recycling hub affects other countries’ prospects for moving towards a circular economy. This question has received little, if any, attention in the burgeoning ... -
Towards Conflict-sensitive Regional Integration in East Africa
(IDS, 2015-09)Regional integration and development in East Africa have been portrayed as inextricably linked. Integration involving investment in trade and transport corridors to move goods, services and people between coast and ... -
Financing Universal Access to Electricity
(IDS, 2015-09)The recent emphasis on the provision of modern energy services as an important ingredient for development has improved finance availability for the goal of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL). However, existing financial ... -
Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do with It? International Symposium Workshop Report
(IDS, 2015-09)In March 2015, the Sexuality, Poverty and Law programme at the Institute of Development Studies brought together over 60 activists, lawyers, researchers and international advocates to critically assess the scope of law and ... -
Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy: Outputs November 2012 – March 2014
(IDS, 2014-09)Knowledge and evidence are important elements of all policy processes. While the availability of more or higher quality evidence does not guarantee better policy processes, it is difficult to imagine how development policy ... -
Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy: Outputs April 2014 – March 2015
(IDS, 2015-08)In much writing about development, policy and practice are portrayed as if they are joined at the hip. Policy shapes practice, while learning from practice informs policy processes. In this portrayal, practice is usually ... -
The New ‘MASVAW Men’: Strategies, Dynamics and Deepening Engagements. A Case Study of a Networked Approach to Challenging Patriarchy Across Institutions in Uttar Pradesh
(IDS, 2015-08)Uttar Pradesh is ranked second among Indian states in ‘crimes against women’, which includes rape, abduction, dowry-related deaths, mental and physical torture and sexual harassment (Government of Uttar Pradesh 2006: 130). ... -
High-Level Roundtable on Improving Lives and Reducing Violence through the Provision of Services
(IDS, 2015-08)This high-level roundtable explored the complex links between poverty, violence, insecurity and the provision of services, drawing on four case studies from within Nairobi, Kathmandu, Mumbai and India as a whole. Access ... -
Working with Business Towards Systemic Change in Markets
(IDS, 2015-08)Donors, governments, civil society and companies are making significant investments in creating or supporting new business models with the aim of contributing to international development goals. Despite isolated success ... -
Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice – a Training Curriculum
(IDS/ActionAid/Oxfam, 2015-06)People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways; such as small-scale trading in the local market or as casual labourers in commercial farms. Others are factory workers, miners, teachers, and ... -
Food, Markets and Nutrition: Maximising the Impacts of Private Sector Engagement in Tanzania. Case Studies and Key Messages from the Workshop
(IDS, 2015-07)This report summarises the findings of a workshop for representatives of the Tanzanian government, development partners, civil society and private sector organisations, hosted by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) ... -
Understanding Relationships between the Green Economy, Resource Financialization and Conflict
(IDS, 2015-07)A key aspect of the United Nations’ sustainable development approach centres on creating markets for financialized ‘natural capital’ products, particularly in resource-rich, lower-income countries. The appeal of this ... -
Unravelling Commitment? An Empirical Assessment of Political Commitment to Reduce Hunger and Undernutrition in Five High Burden Countries
(IDS, 2015-06)In recent years, the global hunger and nutrition community has increasingly come to view political commitment as an essential ingredient for pushing food and nutrition security higher up public policy agendas (Foresight ... -
Background Report: Right or Wrong? What Values Inform Modern Impact Evaluation?
(IDS, 2015-06)This background report supported an event hosted in January 2015 by the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – a joint initiative between the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Itad and the University of East Anglia ... -
Event Report: Right or Wrong? What Values Inform Modern Impact Evaluation?
(IDS, 2015-06)This workshop was supported by the Institute of Development Studies’ (IDS’) Department for International Development (DFID) Accountable Grant, with a view to start a dialogue around the use and application of ethics in ... -
Constitutional Reforms and Access to HIV Services for Women in Low-resource Settings in Nairobi, Kenya
(IDS, 2015-06)After more than two decades of agitation for a new constitution, the violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 presidential elections finally led to a reform movement to overhaul the way the country was governed. On 4 August ... -
Is Indian Development Cooperation Taking a New Direction Under Modi?
(IDS, 2015-06)Rising powers such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are taking independent stands and changing the discourse on development cooperation in international fora. India has played a key role in ... -
Can Targeted Transition Services for Young Offenders Foster Pro-Social Attitudes and Behaviours in Urban Settings? Evidence from the Evaluation of the Kherwadi Social Welfare Association’s Yuva Parivartan Programme
(IDS, 2015-05)In Maharashtra, state-sponsored programmes that support school dropouts and young offenders in finding employment and integrating into society are severely limited by a lack of resources and capacity. While several ... -
Pro-Poor Access to Green Electricity in Kenya
(IDS, 2015-05)Is Kenya on track to follow an electrification strategy that is green and pro-poor? What are the main challenges to following this path? The two questions guiding this study are particularly relevant in a country with ...