Strengthening Evidence Based Policy: Recent submissions
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Multi-level Advocacy for Nutrition
(IDS, 2016-11)Over the past decade, nutrition has received strong global attention as a development problem. Concerted efforts by international donors, philanthropical foundations, national and international non-government organisations ... -
The Impact of Digital Technology on Environmental Sustainability and Resilience: An Evidence Review
(IDS, 2016-11)Striving for ‘environmental sustainability and resilience’ (ESR) is postulated as a crucial, universal and global challenge of the twenty-first century. Today, this challenge has to be addressed in a world that is dynamic ... -
The Contribution of Digital Technology to Citizenship, Accountability and Rights: An Evidence Review
(IDS, 2016-11)The use of digital technologies has risen dramatically in the past century, building excitement among governments and technology experts about applying technology to improve accountability, transparency and the effectiveness ... -
The Impact of Digital Technology on Economic Growth and Productivity, and its Implications for Employment and Equality: An Evidence Review
(IDS, 2016-11)As digital technology has begun to ‘eat the world’ it has also influenced the way that humans interact and transact with each other. Thus, it has inevitably had an effect on global, regional, national and local economies. ... -
Strengthening International Disaster Risk Reduction through Collaboration with China
(IDS, 2016-11)Natural disasters hit developing countries particularly hard. Worldwide, the incidence and intensity of such disasters remain substantial. There were 6,873 natural disasters worldwide between 1994 and 2013, with 1.35 million ... -
Violence and Violence Reduction Efforts in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Ivory Coast: Insights and Lessons towards Achieving SDG 16
(IDS, 2016-11)This report develops evidence-based insights into contextual dimensions of violence and practices on reducing violence, from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of governance. In presenting our analytic narrative ... -
Gender, Sexuality and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Meta-Analysis of Mechanisms of Exclusion and Avenues for Inclusive Development
(IDS, 2016-10)Through its work, the Institute of Development Studies Sexuality, Poverty and Law programme (SPLP) provides new evidence-based knowledge and policy options that support efforts to: (1) strengthen, through legal reform, the ... -
The UN at 70, and the UK. Development Cooperation, Humanitarian Action, and Peace and Security: Lessons from Experience and Policy Recommendations
(IDS, 2016-10)2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN, a good moment for reflection about the strengths, weaknesses and priorities for change needed in the world’s most all-embracing international organisation which had already existed ... -
Achieving Diverse Development Goals: How can Different Goals be Pursued Together?
(IDS, 2016-10)In 2015, the international community adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus development policy globally. The Goals range across diverse fields of public policy from industry, finance and agriculture to ... -
Integrating Sustainable Development: A Foresight Analysis of Interactions Among Competing Development Challenges
(IDS, 2016-10)This report documents an exercise undertaken by development scholars based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the University of Sussex (both in Brighton, UK) to explore the interactions among three key goals ... -
Building Mutual Learning between the Rising Powers
(IDS, 2016-08)This Evidence Report provides a summary account of the Mutual Learning research initiative at the Institute of Development Studies, carried out from 2012 to 2014 as part of the Rising Powers in International Development ... -
The Potential of M-health for Improved Data Use: Workshop Report
(IDS, 2016-07)The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in partnership with World Vision Indonesia, are exploring whether a recently implemented nutrition surveillance intervention, known as M-health, is being used to improve ... -
The Potential of M-health for Improved Data Use: Workshop Report
(IDS, 2016-07)The Institute of Development Studies, in partnership with World Vision Indonesia, are exploring whether a recently implemented nutrition surveillance intervention, known as M-health, is being used to improve community-based ... -
Mixed-Method Impact Evaluation of a Mobile Phone Application for Nutrition Monitoring in Indonesia
(IDS, 2016-07)Child malnutrition (includes both under- and overweight) remains a challenge. Routine growth monitoring is a common practice that aims to: detect children at risk of malnutrition; direct essential resources when children ... -
Inclusion, Ethics and Evaluation: Panel Discussion
(IDS, 2016-07)This panel discussion is supported by the Institute of Development Studies' Department for International Development Accountable Grant, with a view to continue a dialogue around the use and application of ethics in impact ... -
Transforming Care Dynamics: Lessons from Programme and Policy
(IDS, IDRC and Oxfam, 2016-06)The paper and its supporting appendix present evidence to support the four recommendations for transforming care presented in the position statement 'Addressing Unpaid Care for Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls'. ... -
Addressing Unpaid Care for Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls
(IDS, IDRC and Oxfam, 2016-06)This position statement outlines the value of unpaid care and puts forward recommendations for addressing this issue in the light of its marginalisation within economic policy. Key recommendations for transforming the care ... -
The Violent Politics of Informal Work, and How Young People Navigate Them: A Conceptual Framework
(IDS, 2016-06)This report explores the linkages between young people’s economic engagement and their social and political engagement in contexts of violence in Africa. The enquiry started from the assumption that, in the everyday lives ...