IDS Research: Recent submissions
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Policies to Improve Migrant Workers’ Food Security in Vietnam
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-28)Migrant workers in Vietnam make up 7.3 per cent of the population. Despite rapid economic growth, they suffer from precarious working conditions and food insecurity, which Covid-19 control measures have exacerbated. Urgent ... -
Impact of Vietnam’s Covid-19 Response on Vulnerable Groups
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-24)Our research shows how Vietnam’s Covid-19 policy response has influenced Vietnamese migrant workers and counter-trafficking work, particularly in border areas. Vietnam is a major labour exporter and is in the top ten ... -
Martyrdom of the Cerrado: An Agri-Food Territory in Need of Justice
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-24)The Cerrado is a natural biome occupying 25 per cent of Brazil’s surface. Compared to the Amazon, it is relatively unknown to international audiences, yet it is currently the world’s largest agricultural frontier. Intensive ... -
The Impact of Myanmar’s Response to Covid-19 on the Most Vulnerable
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-22)The Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption globally. Measures to stop the spread of the virus have been necessary, but their knock-on effects have disproportionately affected the most vulnerable. This briefing ... -
Social Science Approaches to Infodemiology: Understanding the Social, Political, and Economic Context of Information
(Sage Journals, 2022-03-11)Embedded within the COVID-19 pandemic is the spread of a new pandemic of information – some accurate, some not – that can challenge the public health response. This has been termed an ‘infodemic’ and infodemic management ... -
Donor Action for Empowerment and Accountability in Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-16)Multiple development actors are interested in stimulating more inclusive fiscal governance. Efforts to generate greater budget transparency, citizen participation in resource allocation, and public oversight of government ... -
Youth Active Citizenship for Decent Jobs: A Handbook for Policy & Practice
(Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2022-03-15)This Handbook has been created for development partners and civil society actors that design and implement youth employment interventions, particularly in contexts marked by fragility and political-economic crises. Youth ... -
Inclusive Trade: Four Crucial Aspects
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-01)This Working Paper contributes to the conceptualisation of ‘inclusive trade’. The review adopts a deliberative approach while considering the direct and indirect distributive dimensions of trade. It draws attention to ... -
Renewable Energy Procurement by Private Suppliers in Ethiopia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-28)Auction-based renewable electricity procurement has the potential to attract private investment and lower prices, but its design and implementation can be challenging. Since 2018, Ethiopia has organised auctions to procure ... -
Extended Participatory Video Processes
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Do Autocracy and Fragility Connect?
(SDC Networks on Governance and Fragility, Conflict and Human Rights, 2021-05)The particular concern of this paper is how autocratic, non-accountable governance connects to other dimensions of fragility. On a daily basis, development practitioners navigate their way through the volatile and frequently ... -
Bringing WASH into the Water–Energy–Food Nexus in Humanitarian Settings
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-16)This paper examines the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus in a humanitarian context, with a specific focus on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). It highlights the complex and non-linear interactions that WASH has with other ... -
Do Autocracy and Fragility Connect?
(SDC Networks on Governance and Fragility, Conflict and Human Rights, 2021-09)Development practitioners navigate their way through the volatile and frequently violent contexts of the fragile states where they work. Often, they contend with obstructive and unaccountable authoritarian regimes. There ... -
Gender and Violence in Urban Pakistan
(Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, 2016)The experience of violence is pervasive in Pakistan; while residents of Rawalpindi-Islamabad face violence mostly from people they know, in Karachi, residents are more likely to experience violence from strangers i.e. ... -
Climate Change, Urban Futures, and the Gendering of Cities in South Asia
(Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2021)Comprised of the nation-states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, South Asia is home to an estimated 1.5 billion people. This region accommodates a large portion of the ... -
Future Agricultures: The Promise and Pitfalls of a (Re)turn to Nature
(SAGE, 2022-02-04)This paper introduces the Outlook on Agriculture Special Issue on biomimicry and nature-based solutions. It provides a selective overview that will help frame and situate the collection, with a particular focus on agriculture ... -
Meanings and Mechanisms of One Health Partnerships: Insights from a Critical Review of Literature on Cross-government Collaborations
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Complex health policy challenges such as antimicrobial resistance and other emerging infections are driven by activities in multiple sectors. Therefore, addressing these also requires joint efforts from multiple sectors ... -
Emergent Ethics in Participatory Video: Negotiating the Inherent Tensions as Group Processes Evolve
(Wiley, 2014-10-22)Community practitioner-researchers are enthusiastic about participatory video’s potential in opening space for new relational dynamics to evolve across difference. In reality, practice involves negotiation between the ... -
Increased Attention to Water is Key to Adaptation
(Springer Nature Ltd., 2022-02-03)There is growing awareness that water is central to climate change adaptation. Water is a top adaptation priority in 79% of the Nationally Determined Contributions . However, there are several challenges in ...
