IDS Research: Recent submissions
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High Reliability Knowledge Networks: Responding to Animal Diseases in a Pastoral Area of Northern Kenya
(Routledge, 2022-01-10)How can reliability be generated and sustained in the face of uncertainty? This question is explored by examining knowledge networks among pastoralists and others in northern Kenya, emerging in response to a highly variable ... -
Bioleft: A Collaborative, Open Source Seed Breeding Initiative for Sustainable Agriculture
(Routledge, 2022-12)This chapter provides a chronological and thematic account of the work carried out in Argentina, reflecting on the lessons these experiences bring to sustainability transformations and some of the concepts covered in the ... -
Renewable Energy Procurement in Ethiopia: Overcoming Obstacles in Procurement from Independent Power Producers
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-12-16)Developing countries are increasingly using auctions for the procurement of utility-scale renewable electricity, due to the potential for attracting private investment. However, auction design and implementation can face ... -
Building Back Better: Sustainable Development Diplomacy in the Pandemic Era
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-12-16)This report critically examines the nature of the distinction between traditional inter-state diplomacy and sustainable development diplomacy. It then sets out the institutional changes which are necessary for the achievement ... -
Agents, Coercive Learning, and Social Protection Policy Diffusion in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-12-13)This paper makes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of social policy diffusion, drawing on the case of social protection in Africa, and Zambia in particular. We examine a range of tactics ... -
Effective Engagement and Involvement with Community Stakeholders in the Co-production of Global Health Research
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2021-02-16)Involving a broad range of individual and collective perspectives in global health research outside of academic research is gaining increasing recognition as a mechanism for achieving a greater impact. This activity goes ... -
Power Analysis in Health Policy and Systems Research: a Guide to Research Conceptualisation
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2021-11-05)Power is a growing area of study for researchers and practitioners working in the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR). Theoretical development and empirical research on power are crucial for providing deeper, ... -
Sustainable Development, Human Dignity and Choice: Lessons from the ENRICH Programme, Bangladesh
(Springer, Cham, 2021)This book analyses the design, management, efficacy and outcomes of the ENRICH programme being implemented in Bangladesh by Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) at the behest of its Chairman Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad. The ... -
The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling
(Routledge, 2021-12-22)The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends. Divided into six parts and spanning ... -
Informal Workers and the State: The Politics of Connection and Disconnection During a Global Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-12-02)In low- and middle-income countries, informal workers are particularly vulnerable to the health and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and often neglected by policy responses. At the same time, the crisis is rapidly ... -
Esta es mi tierra Conflicto armado y propiedad rural en Urabá, Colombia
(LibreriadelaU.com, 2021)Esta tierra es mi tierra busca proveer una nueva leo- tura del conflicto armado en Urabá (Colombia), enfatizando en cómo los distintos periodos de disputa territorial afectaron las estructuras de propiedad rural desde ... -
Governing Procurement of Renewable Electricity Amid Power Sector Reforms
(Oxford Policy Management, 2021-11)Renewable energy procurement (REP) is gaining increasing importance globally as a policy instrument in driving energy diversification and sustainable development agendas, yet little is known about the institutional dynamics ... -
Expanding Social Protection Coverage with Humanitarian Aid: Lessons on Targeting and Transfer Values from Ethiopia
(2021-10)While social protection programs have multiplied over the last two decades across sub-Saharan Africa, these co-exist alongside humanitarian assistance in many places, calling for better integration of assistance delivered ... -
Responding and Reflecting on Child Rights
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11)The series of Rejuvenate dialogues are intended to foster debate across a community of practice working on child and youth rights. Our first dialogue examined the principles that can help support child and youth-centred ... -
Chinese-Funded Electricity Generation in Sub-Saharan Africa and Implications for Public Debt and Transition to Renewable Energy
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-10)While China has been increasingly contributing to the recent growth in electricity generation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the effects of China-funded investment on host countries’ debt burden and transition to renewable ... -
Development Policy and Impact Evaluation: Learning and Accountability in Private Sector Development
(Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2021-09-07)There is broad recognition of the challenges in evaluating policy and programmes on their contribution to sustainable development. Impact evaluations of PSD programmes are carried out at the behest of a particular configuration ... -
Addressing Malnutrition: The Importance of Political Economy Analysis of Power
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2020-12-16)The exercise of power is central to understanding global health and its policy and governance processes, including how food systems operate and shape population nutrition. However, the issue of power in food systems has ... -
The Basic Determinants of Malnutrition: Resources, Structures, Ideas and Power
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2020-12-26)The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) framework on the “causes of malnutrition and death” famously sets out factors at immediate, underlying and basic levels which shape outcomes for child nutrition. These include ... -
Energy Protests and Citizen Voice
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10-29)Recent years have seen energy protests erupt in many countries around the world. Globally, countries are wrestling with the need to achieve a just transition away from fossil fuels while at the same time ensuring access ... -
Equity and Expertise in the UN Food Systems Summit
(BMJ, 2021-07-05)The UN Food Systems Summit is expected to launch bold new actions, solutions and strategies to deliver progress on all 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), each of which requires a transformation in the way the world ...
