IDS Research: Recent submissions
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Decentralised Access to Electricity Through Mini-Grids in Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-09-06)Renewable, decentralised mini-grids are a promising technology for electrifying remote communities in sub-Saharan Africa. However, most mini-grids struggle not only to obtain a profit, but also to recover costs. This Policy ... -
Evaluating Capacity-Strengthening Impact: A Funder Perspective
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-08-25)The Think Tank Initiative (TTI) was a large-scale, ten-year, multi-donor-funded programme of institutional research capacity strengthening for thinktanks in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It offered flexible, long-term ... -
What is Environmental Degradation, What Are Its Causes, and How to Respond?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-08-22)This short paper explores the question: what is environmental degradation and what are its causes? It seems an obvious question, but it is not. The paper explores definitions of environmental degradation (and restoration), ... -
Protests and Accountability in Nigeria’s Energy Sector
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-08-17)Since 2016, Nigerians have experienced a stable fuel supply even if prices have continued to rise. This supply stability came to a sudden halt in January 2022, bringing back memories of long queues and harsh living conditions ... -
Contextualising Healing Justice as a Feminist Organising Framework in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-08-16)Healing justice is a political organising framework that aims to address the systemic causes of injustice experienced by marginalised peoples due to the harmful impacts of oppressive histories, intergenerational trauma, ... -
Gender in Child and Youth Rights
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-07-19)The fifth Rejuvenate dialogue was held on 19th July 2022. Five panellists working across contexts and themes joined the Rejuvenate team on a discussion on gender in child and youth rights. We asked speakers and participants ... -
Living Through a Pandemic: Competing Covid-19 Narratives in Rural Zimbabwe
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-08-09)Through a real time analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic across rural Zimbabwe, this Working Paper explores the competing narratives that framed responses and their politics. Based on 20 moments of reflection over two years, ... -
AMR Policy Dialogue: Driving Innovative Solutions for Antimicrobial Discovery
(2022-06)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global strategic priority and sits within the UK Government’s National Risk Register. By 2050, AMR is predicted to cause 10 million deaths, more than cancer. In 2019 alone, there were ... -
Between State and Market – What Role for Strategic Chinese Financing Vehicles in Developing New Antimicrobials?
(2022-06)COVID-19 has refocused global attention on infectious diseases, and the role of the state in research and development (R&D) to solve societal problems – such as the under-supply of new antimicrobials. These have characteristics ... -
Engaging China in Global Efforts to Develop New Antimicrobials
(2022-05)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasingly important global health threat, but the pipeline of new antimicrobials under development is inadequate. Developing new antimicrobials is risky, with little financial reward, ... -
Digital Poverty in the UK
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-08-04)As every aspect of life – from job seeking to health care – moves online, digital connectivity is a daily necessity, not a luxury. Against the backdrop of the UK’s worst cost of living crisis in 40 years, discussions about ... -
Supporting Small Food Businesses to Build Resilience During Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-08-01)Small food businesses are vital to delivering affordable, nutritious food to low-income communities. Yet food systems are under threat from multiple stressors. During the Covid-19 pandemic, government support was directed ... -
Key Issues in Digitalisation and Governance: Policy Note
(SDC Governance Network, 2021-06)Digitalisation is perhaps the most important strategic challenge facing governance in the decade ahead. There are valuable opportunities that digitalisation provides to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16 and ... -
Key Issues in Digitalisation and Governance
(SDC Governance Network, 2022-03)Digitalisation is perhaps the most important strategic challenge that governance will face over the coming decade. The process is delivering digital dividends as well as new exclusions and injustices, with the rapid but ... -
Stories of Change in Nutrition from Africa and Asia: an Introduction to a Special Series in Food Security
(Springer Link, 2021-03-06)Malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a massive global challenge, and the past decade has seen a growing political attention to addressing malnutrition in different contexts. What has been largely missing so far, ... -
How Climate Change Interacts with Inequity to Affect Nutrition
(Wiley Periodicals LLC, 2020-12-08)Climate change poses a growing threat to the achievement of optimal nutritional status, both directly through affecting food production and indirectly through altering social and economic influences in people's lives. These ... -
The Current Landscape of Research on World Health Assembly Targets in West Africa: Two interdependent Review Outputs
(IFPRI, 2021-04)The WHA 2025 nutrition targets have been used to track countries’ nutritional situations, measure progress in reducing malnutrition, and guide decision making. With a little more than five years remaining to attain the WHA ... -
Child Rights: Through Covid and into Recovery - New and Changing Norms
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-12)The dialogue was divided into four sessions. First, a youth speaker, Subekshya Budha Magar, shared her experience of working as a co-researcher during the COVID-19 pandemic. After her presentation, the dialogue participants ... -
Assessing the Readiness of Small Cities in Ghana to Tackle Overweight and Obesity
(Springer Link, 2022-01-01)The rapid rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and the associated health problems, is an emerging challenge in Ghana, and for women in particular. This study contributes to the understanding of this emerging ... -
Stories of Change in Nutrition in Burkina Faso 1992–2018: a Micro-level Perspective
(Springer Link, 2022-03-22)Looking back at what has effectively improved nutrition may inform policy makers on how to accelerate progress to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. As under-five stunting declined substantially in Burkina Faso, we ...
