IDS Research: Recent submissions
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Women’s Agency and Humanitarian Protection in North and South Kivu, DRC
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-25)This Working Paper analyses the role and practices of women’s groups in relation to women’s protection in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Contrasting qualitative materials ... -
'Queering' Development: Exploring the Links Between Same-sex Sexualities, Gender, and Development
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2010-07-02)This article argues that gender and development policy and practice would be enhanced by embracing the challenges to conventional definitions of sex and gender that 'queer theory' poses. The author draws on insights from ... -
Not So Strange Bedfellows: Sexuality and International Development
(SpringerLink, 2006-03-26)Susie Jolly in conversation with three activists whose work relates to sexuality, Henry Armas (GRUPAL, The Working Group for Participation, Peru), Pinar Ilkkaracan (Women for Women's Human Rights, Turkey), Veronica Magar ... -
BRiCE Project DRC and Niger: Endline Report Teacher Wellbeing and Teaching Quality in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-08)This report presents the final results of the Building Resilience in Crisis through Education (BRiCE) research project, which is led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de ... -
The COVID-19 YPAR Project: Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to Explore the Context of Ethnic Minority Youth Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States and United Kingdom
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10)Despite progress in COVID-19 vaccination rates overall in the US and UK, vaccine inequity persists as young people from minoritised and/or deprived communities are often less likely to be vaccinated. COVID-19 ‘vaccine ... -
Implementing Innovation Policies: Capabilities of National Development Banks for Innovation Financing
(Inter-American Development Bank, 2022-07)This comparative note describes common and distinct practices on capabilities to support the innovation activities of seven national development banks (NDB): BNDES (Brazil), CORFO (Chile), China Development Bank, CDB ... -
Is Development Work Still So Straight? Heteronormativity in the Development Sector Over a Decade On
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2022-09-03)Eleven years ago, Susie Jolly published an article in this journal detailing the ways that international development work was heteronormative, assuming heterosexual gender stereotyped household models and framing sexuality ... -
The Quest for Scalable Business Models for Mini-Grids in Africa: Implementing the Keymaker Model in Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10-27)Achieving universal electrification in sub-Saharan Africa requires creative solutions. Renewable mini-grids are a promising technology to electrify remote communities with a substantial productive demand, mainly from ... -
Achieving Disability Inclusive Employment – Are the Current Approaches Deep Enough?
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022-07-29)Diverse approaches to promoting disability inclusive employment aim to transform workplaces into truly inclusive environments, usually with intervention strategies targeting two main groups: employers and jobseekers with ... -
Mainstreaming Disability Inclusive Employment in International Development
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022-07-05)People with disabilities are under-represented in the global workforce, and this problem is often particularly acute in the ‘global south’. This special issue seeks to provide new perspectives on why this is the case and ... -
Fintech and Tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: Taxation Versus Financial Inclusion
(Taylor & Francis Group, 24-08-24)The rise of digital financial services has attracted growing attention from governments in Sub-Saharan Africa seeking to raise tax revenue. In the context of global concerns around how governments can tax the digital economy ... -
The Art and Craft of Bricolage in Evaluation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10-14)This CDI Practice Paper by Tom Aston and Marina Apgar makes the case for ‘bricolage’ in complexity-aware and qualitative evaluation methods. It provides a framework based on a review of 33 methods to support evaluators ... -
Theories of Change for WFP Afghanistan’s Contribution to the Triple Nexus: Policy Note
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10-11)The World Food Programme (WFP) has been a key humanitarian force in Afghanistan since 1963 and remains the largest agency in the Humanitarian Response Plan for Afghanistan. Whilst its focus has primarily been its humanitarian ... -
Theories of Change for WFP Afghanistan’s Contribution to the Triple Nexus: Final Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10-11)Prior to the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the World Food Programme (WFP) Afghanistan had been working to see how its strategic outcomes in the 2018–23 Country Strategic Plan (CSP) were aligned with viable peace and ... -
Stories of Change in Nutrition: Lessons from a New Generation of Studies from Africa, Asia and Europe
(Springer Nature, 2022-09-19)How does nutrition improve? We need to understand better what drives both positive and negative change in different contexts, and what more can be done to reduce malnutrition. Since 2015, the Stories of Change in Nutrition ... -
What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10-26)How can we make religious equality a reality for those on the margins of society and politics? This book is about the individual and collective struggles of the religiously marginalised to be recognised and their inequalities, ... -
Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure
(Zed Books, 2013-06-13)This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women. Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ... -
IDS Annual Review 2021–22
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-09-20)It has been a year marked by conflict, climate change, and Covid-19 – intersecting crises that intensify and entrench longer-term vulnerabilities. As we highlight in the IDS 2021–22 Annual Review, these uncertain times ... -
SDG 3 – Historical Perspectives on Health and Well-Being as International Policy Goals
(Oxford University Press, 2022-02)This chapter discusses the historical context of SDG 3, the goal of health and well-being for all. Its 13 targets are wide-ranging, spanning curative and preventive medicine, physical and mental health, infectious and ... -
‘I'm Not that Kind of Doctor’: On Being In-Between in a Global Health Intervention
(Berghahn Books, 2019-03-01)Within multi-disciplinary global health interventions, anthropologists find themselves navigating complex relationships of power. In this article, I offer a critical reflection on this negotiated terrain, drawing on my ...
