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    • Measurement and Mirage: The Informal Sector Revisited 

      Gallien, Max (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01-29)
      Recent years have seen an increasing availability and usage of measurements of informal sectors as the basis of scholarship and policy advice on the causes and consequences of informality. This has created an impression ...
    • Dispositions Towards the Living Wage Proposition: Baseline Report of the Rainforest Alliance Living Wage Strategy Evaluation 

      Ton, Giel; Thorpe, Jodie; Glover, Dominic; Hicks, Jacqueline; Moraes Coelho, Ana; Rivera, Tatiana; Edwin, Donni; Odame, Hannington; de Mello Pinto, Samuel; Luna, Samir; Blanco, Maria; Gonzalez, Carolina; Kangai, Elsie (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-26)
      This paper reflects on the changes induced by modifications in the Rainforest Alliance certification system that require wage transparency from plantation owners, a comparison with the local living wage benchmark, and a ...
    • Integrated Knowledge Translation for Non-Communicable Diseases: Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa 

      Jessani, Nasreen S.; Delobelle, Peter; Balugaba, Bonny Enock; Mpando, Talitha Louisa; Ayele, Firaol Mesfin; Ntawuyirushintege, Seleman; Rohwer, Anke (Ubiquity Press, 2023-12-08)
      Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) is a key strategy for contextualising, tailoring, and communicating research for policy and practice. In this viewpoint, we provide examples of how partners from five countries in ...
    • Community Solutions to Insecurity Along the Uganda–Kenya Border 

      Karamoja–Turkana Community Research Team (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12-19)
      In the Karamoja and Turkana border regions of Uganda and Kenya, there is widespread violence including armed robbery, rape, and human rights abuses, yet community complaints about failures of governance remain largely ...
    • Equity in Food Systems Livelihoods: A Review of Conceptualisations, Approaches, and Actions 

      Ebata, Ayako; Bellwood-Howard, Imogen; Battersby, Jane (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12-14)
      Food systems employ billions of people across the world, many of whom are socially and economically marginalised. The livelihoods within the food systems these people rely on tend to be precarious and low in economic return, ...
    • Big Data for Development Studies? An Innovative Methodology 

      Lakshman, Rajith Weligamage Don; te Lintelo, Dolf; Ford, Hart; Chattat, Elissa; Senanayake, Madhubhashi (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-31)
      This paper makes a foundational methodological contribution to the analysis of big data for development studies. Big data has revolutionised the natural and applied sciences (and commerce). However, its use within development ...
    • Trust and Compliance with Covid-19 Measures among Nigerian Households 

      Oladapo, Oyewole; Atela, Martin; Bakibinga, Pauline; Agbalajobi, Damilola (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-30)
      This paper probes the relationship between sources of Covid-19 information and adherence to preventive measures in Nigeria, a context characterised by fake news, hate speech, and other forms of disinformation. While this ...
    • Ending Extreme Poverty Amidst Fragility, Conflict, and Violence 

      Diwakar, Vidya (Data and Evidence to End Extreme Poverty Research Programme/Oxford Policy Management, 2023-07)
      Fragile contexts experience a range of political, security, environmental, social, economic and human capital constraints, and are typically characterised by limited government authority, legitimacy, and capacity (OECD, ...
    • Investments in Childcare for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific 

      Deepta, Chopra (International Labour Organization and Asian Development Bank, 2023)
      This is a study on the public provision of childcare across 48 economies in Asia and the Pacific through the lens of accessibility, affordability, quality, and decent work for childcare workers. Based on its findings, the ...
    • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Pastoralist Researchers on the Uganda/Kenya Border 

      Karamoja Community Research (2023-10)
      This document is a history of events affecting peace and security month by month between October 2022 and May 2023 on the Ugandan-Kenya border, and a diary of community research. The learning presented is the property of ...
    • Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression 

      Roberts, Tony; Bosch, Tanja; Ojebode, Ayobami; Ojebuyi, Babatunde Raphael; Oladapo, Oyewole; Oosterom, Marjoke; Brhane, Atnaf; Ayalew, Yohannes Eneyew; Anthonio, Felicia; Ajaja, Sandra; Phiri, Sam; Abraham, Kiss; Elias, Mavis; Nyabola, Nanjala (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 

      Roberts, Tony; Gitahi, Judy; Allam, Patrick; Oboh, Lawrence; Oladapo, Oyewole; Appiah-Adjei, Gifty; Galal, Amira; Kainja, Jimmy; Phiri, Sam; Abraham, Kiss; Klovig Skelton, Sebastian; Sheombar, Anand (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 

      El Halabi, Elias (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 

      Newell, Peter; Price, Roz; Daley, Freddie (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 

      Lewin, Tessa; Cannon, Mariah; Johnson, Vicky; Philip, Raisa Anna; Raghavan, Priya (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 (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 

      Johnson, Ellen; Thow, Anne Marie; Nisbett, Nicholas (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 

      Marin, Anabel (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 

      Niang, Aminata; Sountoura, Lansine; Bukari, Kaderi; Bellwood-Howard, Imogen; Taylor, Peter (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 

      Bellwood-Howard, Imogen; Taylor, Peter; Niang, Aminata (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 ...