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CEDSS Second Order Solutions
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)These maps provide a detailed illustration of second order solutions (SOS) in the ‘Community Embedded Decision Support System’ (CEDSS) pilot conducted in Bhopal, India, as part of the Capacity Building for Smart Data and ... -
Embedding Community Voice into Smart City Spatial Planning
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)Public participation in spatial planning is a vital means to successful policymaking and can be enhanced by combining geospatial methods with participatory learning and action. Based on a pilot study in Bhopal, India ... -
Community Embedded Decision Support Systems: Learning Report from the Smart Data for Inclusive Cities Bhopal Pilot
(2022-Feb)This document presents learning from the pilot to provide Community Embedded Decision Support Systems (CEDSS) delivered by the EU-funded Smart Data for Inclusive Cities. The pilot was conducted through a partnership of ... -
A Technical Guide on Tier-One Urban Network for Emergency Response
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-09)The objective of this guide is to identify the most useful road network in a specific location to ensure main services can move around in case of emergencies. This guide could be used in slums or other areas, regardless ... -
Keeping Cities in Motion: an Introduction to the Labours of Repair and Maintenance in South Asia
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2021-01-25)As the cities in South Asia transform into global or “world-class” cities, the lives of those who construct, repair, and maintain these cities are changing. In this collection of articles on repair and maintenance in South ... -
Land, Governance and the Gendered Politics of Displacement in Urban Pakistan
(Karachi Urban Lab, 2021-05-13)In millennial Karachi, holding on to land and homes and accessing public space for labor, has become a vital struggle. Land displacement is an increasing, and sometimes constant, source of anxiety for the urban poor and ... -
Exploring the Intersection of Sanitation, Hygiene, Water, and Health in Pastoralist Communities in Northern Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-31)This paper explores access to water, sanitation, and health in pastoral communities in northern Tanzania. It argues that the concept of gender, used on its own, is not enough to understand the complexities of sanitation, ... -
The Social Life of Mangroves: Neoliberal Development and Mangrove Conservation in the Changing Landscape of Kutch
(Sage Journals, 2021-10-29)This article explores the convergence of neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in marginal environments, which are becoming the new resource frontiers. We focus on Kutch, a border district in western India and ... -
Evolving Social and Political Dialogue through Participatory Video Processes
(SAGE, 2021-06-28)Spaces for social and political dialogue within communities and across social levels in inequitable contexts generally do not incorporate difference across community, or enable the most marginalized people to participate ... -
The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India
(Routledge, 2021-12-23)This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national and local levels. Climate ... -
Decentralised Cooperation and Local Government: Addressing Contemporary Global Challenges
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02)At the start of the last decade, United Cities and Local Governments’ (UCLG) policy paper on Decentralised Cooperation and Local Government laid out a clear rationale for decentralised cooperation and set out recommendations ... -
Politics and Practices of Inclusion: Intersectional Participatory Action Research
(Oxford University Press, 2020-01-13)A politics of exclusion is gaining ground in the global North and South, actively excluding and delegitimizing certain groups. At the same time, in global policy discourse, such as the sustainable development goals, there ... -
Accessible Sanitation in the Workplace – Important Considerations for Disability-Inclusive Employment in Nigeria and Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-27)This paper explores the relationship between accessible sanitation and disability-inclusive employment in Bangladesh and Nigeria. Both countries have sanitation and hygiene challenges as well as disability-inclusive ... -
Holding No-one Back: The Nutrition Equity Framework in Theory and Practice
(Elsevier, 2022-03)Equity remains poorly conceptualised in current nutrition frameworks and policy approaches. We draw on existing literatures to present a novel Nutrition Equity Framework (NEF) that can be used to identify priorities for ... -
Comprehensive Social Protection Programming: What is the Potential for Improving Sanitation Outcomes?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-27)Millions of people around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities, undermining progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 that calls for adequate and equitable sanitation for all. Efforts to ... -
Navigating the Necessary Risks and Emergent Ethics of using Visual Methods with Marginalised People
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020-06-05)The global call to ‘leave-no-one behind’ cannot be achieved without tacking the intractable social issues faced by the most excluded people. There is increasing interest in using visual methodologies for participatory ... -
How Digitally Restructured Value Chains Are Reshaping Labor Futures for Women in the Global South
(IT for Change, 2021)The digitalization of production and digital restructuring of global value chains (GVCs), compounded with development effects of proposed global digital trade rules, are going to have important implications for economic ... -
Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-use Agreement
(Wiley Blackwell, 2022-01-14)Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering ... -
Housing Microfinance and Housing Financialisation in a Global Perspective
(Routledge, 2021-11-28)The application of microfinance to the provision, improvement or adaptation of housing—‘housing microfinance’—is an increasingly significant area of practice and research interest. Housing microfinance has proliferated, ... -
Introduction: Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis
(Routledge, 2021-12-07)Welcome to Gender & Development’s special double issue on Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis. This double issue was produced during a global pandemic that has triggered a deep economic crisis and an ...