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Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression
(Zed Books, 2023-03-23)Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are entitled to in law: ... -
Mapping the Supply of Surveillance Technologies to Africa: Case Studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-09-25)African governments are spending over 1US$bn per year on digital surveillance technologies which are being used without adequate legal protections in ways that regularly violate citizens’ fundamental human rights. This ... -
Youth-led Preservation of Syriac Orthodox Heritage in Syria
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-09)This report explores the Sayfo genocide, also known as the Asyrian genocide, and a youth-led project that brought together the Syriac Orthodox community in Syria to remember and memorialise those who were killed in the ... -
Landscapes of (In)justice: Reflecting on Voices, Spaces, and Alliances for Just Transition
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-09-18)Just transitions seek to ameliorate the social and economic impacts of the global energy transitions that are essential to building an equitable low-carbon economy in the coming decades. Diverse groups of citizens need to ... -
Participation For, With, and By Girls: Evidencing Impact
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-09-14)This paper presents the findings of a review of publicly available, published evidence on the efficacy of development projects that self-identify as ‘girl-led’, both within academic literature and from established organisations ... -
IDS Annual Review 2022–23
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-09-05)Against the backdrop of another challenging year, where multiple intersecting crises are affecting a world still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic, our 2022–23 Annual Review highlights the progress we have made towards ... -
Opportunities to Strengthen Trade Policy for Food and Nutrition Security: an Analysis of Two Agricultural Trade Policy Decisions
(Springer, 2023-07-11)Food insecurity and the double burden of malnutrition have emerged as prevailing global health challenges of the twenty-first century. These have been influenced by trade policy decisions, particularly in relation to ... -
Bringing Democracy to Governance of Mining for a Just Energy Transition
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08-08)Societies are committed to moving from fossil to clean energies. Yet, this transition will not be possible if we do not change the way we extract minerals. Clean energy systems require massive amounts of them, but they ... -
Collaborative Art-Making for Deliberation in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08-08)Across West Africa and East Africa, policy actors and citizens have tended to discuss socio-environmental issues in ways that recognise emotional, subjective viewpoints, but can be antagonistic. Although deliberation ... -
Comment utiliser les arts collaboratifs au service du dialogue et de la communication
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08-07)Les artistes ont souvent utilisé des oeuvres d’art pour exprimer des émotions et ainsi susciter un dialogue public sur les défis contemporains. Dans le même temps, il a été suggéré que la création artistique collaborative ... -
Les arts dans le dialogue et la communication sur l’environnement en Afrique de l’Ouest et de l’Est
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08-08)Les premières publications sur la délibération environnementale partaient du principe que les pairs débattaient rationnellement des preuves pour parvenir à des conclusions logiques. Cependant, des travaux plus récents ... -
Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Sahel: Niger, Mauritania, and Senegal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07-26)In the face of shocks that are recurrent, predictable, interrelated, and multi-annual, governments and the international community are increasingly looking to the potential of shock-responsive and adaptive social protection ... -
Executive Summary: Knowledge Translation in the Global South: Bridging Different Ways of Knowing for Equitable Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07-17)This Executive Summary summarises findings from the longer Synthesis Report produced as part of the Knowledge Translation (KT) in the Global South research project. The project explores the KT strategies, practices and ... -
Knowledge Translation in the Global South: Bridging Different Ways of Knowing for Equitable Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07-17)This study explores knowledge translation (KT) in the global South and provides recommendations for funders to support more effective structures and strategies for the use of research for equitable development. The project ... -
Knowledge Translation in the Global South: An Exploratory Mapping of the Literature
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07-17)This paper maps the literature that focuses on knowledge translation (KT) in the global South. It was commissioned as part of the KT in the Global South research project, supported by Canada’s International Development ... -
Horticulture in Kenya: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-29)The horticulture sector is fundamental to Kenya’s economy and its citizens’ livelihoods. However, global connectivity and high perishability make the sector vulnerable to shocks. The Covid-19 pandemic and related policy ... -
Pathways to Equitable Food Systems
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-26)Globally, our food systems are highly inequitable. In a world with enough food, hunger is becoming normalised for large numbers of people, while diets are worsening and obesity is rising. Racialised minorities are ... -
Healthy Diets Depend on Equity and Justice: Understanding the Context in Brazil, South Africa, the UK, and Vietnam
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-19)The purpose of this paper is to outline a new intellectual and research agenda for future work taken forward by the Food Equity Centre on the theme of Healthy Diets. We outline our initial conceptual approach and summarise ... -
Backlash in Action? Or Inaction? Stalled Implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-14)The Bangladesh government adopted the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act in 2010. While the formulation and enactment of the Act was an achievement for the government and the coalition that championed it ... -
The Resurgence of National Development Planning and the Challenge of Alignment
(ODI, 2023-06)Recent years have witnessed a resurgence in the number of developing countries producing national development plans. This has led to an interest in how governments seek to implement their plans by aligning government ...
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