Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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Who Drives Climate-relevant Policy Implementation in China?
(IDS, 2015-05)Climate change is emerging as one of the biggest challenges confronting the sustainability of our planet, affecting the development prospects of both developed and developing countries. There is a global effort to find ... -
Rising Powers in International Capital Movement
(IDS, 2015-05)Module outline for the Rising Powers in International Capital Movement module, taught by Alexander Bulatov as part of a Teaching and Learning Visiting Fellowship under the IDS Rising Powers in International Development ... -
PDS ‘To Go’? ‘Portability’ of Rights through Real-time Monitoring: the Centralised Online Real-time Electronic PDS in Chhattisgarh, India
(IDS, 2015-04)Information and communications technology (ICT)-based reforms are increasingly being used to improve the delivery of public services. These reforms have taken the form of crowd-sourcing information (election monitoring), ... -
Who Drives Climate-relevant Policies in Brazil?
(IDS, 2015-04)In this report, the central question of our research is who drives/obstructs climate-relevant policies in Brazil, paying special attention to renewable energy policies, climate policies and politics. We aim to identify the ... -
Sexuality, Poverty and Politics in Rwanda
(IDS, 2015-04)Recent legislative developments in Africa have focused international attention on the legal status of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the continent. Attempts by various African governments to revise ... -
Tangled Ties: Al-Shabaab and Political Volatility in Kenya
(IDS, 2015-04)In recent years, a spate of attacks has destabilised a swathe of Kenya’s peripheral counties as well as bringing terror to its capital, Nairobi. As violent insecurity spreads, it has fomented fear and stoked ethnic and ... -
BOOSHTEE! Survival and Resilience in Ethiopia
(IDS, 2015-04)Although homosexuality is illegal in Ethiopia, same-sex behaviour is not prosecuted because the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia views homosexuality as a low law enforcement priority. While this ... -
National Development Banks in the BRICS: Lessons for the Post-2015 Development Finance Framework
(IDS, 2015-04)In 2015, the framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be agreed. As described in the outcome document of the United Nations Rio+20 conference, The Future We Want, the mobilisation and effective use ... -
Straws-in-the-wind, Hoops and Smoking Guns: What can Process Tracing Offer to Impact Evaluation?
(IDS, 2015-04)This CDI Practice Paper by Melanie Punton and Katharina Welle explains the methodological and theoretical foundations of process tracing, and discusses its potential application in international development impact evaluations. ... -
China’s Development Finance: Ambition, Impact and Transparency
(IDS, 2015-04)In a context of lagging reform in the Bretton Woods institutions, China has brought the debate on its role as a rising power in global economic governance onto the front pages, notably with the divided response of ‘the ... -
Political Economy of Climate-relevant Policies: the Case of Renewable Energy in South Africa
(IDS/University of Cape Town, 2015-04)Integrated energy (electricity generation) policy is by no means a settled issue in the post-apartheid era in South Africa. The policy framework is predicated on the need for new and additional energy generation capacity. ... -
Promoting Biofortified Crops for Nutrition: Lessons from Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) in Tanzania
(IDS, 2015-04)This case study examines the outcomes of interventions in Tanzania that have promoted the production and consumption of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) – a biofortified crop – with the objective of reducing vitamin A ... -
Unpaid Care Work Programme: Uganda Country Progress Report (2012–2014)
(IDS, 2015-03)Uganda is one of three focus countries within the Unpaid Care Work (UCW) programme of the Accountable Grant. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is partnering with ActionAid International (AAI) to help each of the ... -
Improving the Practice of Value for Money Assessment
(IDS, 2015-03)This CDI Practice Paper* by Julian Barr and Angela Christie brings together recent work at Itad to examine the origins of the concept of value for money (VFM) in the performance audit of public expenditure and its increasing ... -
Tax Experiments in Developing Countries: A Critical Review and Reflections on Feasibility
(IDS, 2015-03)This CDI Practice Paper by Giulia Mascagni provides a critical assessment of the literature on tax experiments to date. It examines the main conceptual, methodological and data-related challenges, and provides practical ... -
The Future of Knowledge Sharing in a Digital Age: Exploring Impacts and Policy Implications for Development
(IDS, 2015-03)We live in a Digital Age that gives us instant access to information at greater and greater volumes. The rapid growth of digital content and tools is already changing how we create, consume and distribute knowledge. Even ... -
Where Next for Social Protection?
(IDS, 2015-03)The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda in the past ten to 15 years raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another ... -
What Explains the Allocation of Aid and Private Investment for Electrification?
(IDS, 2015-03)This paper aims to inform policy looking to step up investment in the electricity sector of developing countries and align it to other development goals such as universal access to energy or sustainability. Three questions ... -
Improving Quality: Current Evidence on What Affects the Quality of Commissioned Evaluations
(IDS, 2015-03)With the increase in resources that organisations are dedicating to evaluation the issue of evaluation quality has risen up the agenda and a growing number of commissioners are now looking at how to ensure the studies ... -
Is China’s Role in African Fragile States Exploitative or Developmental?
(IDS, 2015-03)China’s increasing engagement in Africa has generated heated debates over the extent to which its activities are exploitative or developmental. There is particular concern over China’s impact on governance in fragile ...