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Regenerative Agriculture: An Agronomic Perspective
(Sage Journals, 2021-03-02)Agriculture is in crisis. Soil health is collapsing. Biodiversity faces the sixth mass extinction. Crop yields are plateauing. Against this crisis narrative swells a clarion call for Regenerative Agriculture. But what is ... -
Policies and Politics Around Children’s Work in Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-03-11)This paper explores policy and legislation aimed at preventing, regulating, and abolishing harmful children’s work in Ghana, and the political debates and controversies surrounding these mechanisms. The paper critically ... -
Donor Action in Pakistan: A Comparative Case Study of CDIP and AAWAZ
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-03)This paper analyses findings from a study of the Consolidating Democracy in Pakistan (CDIP) and AAWAZ Voice and Accountability programmes, both funded by the UK government. The study is a contribution to the A4EA Research ... -
Researching the Politics of Illegal Activities
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-01)Researching illegal activities, while an object of increasing interest, generates a range of methodological challenges for political scientists. Rather than an exhaustive discussion, this article provides a simple framework ... -
Networking on Anti-Sexual Harassment Efforts across Egyptian Universities
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-03-09)This paper explores efforts across Egyptian universities to enhance responsiveness and accountability for addressing and mitigating sexual harassment on campus. Though not a new phenomenon, harassment in Egyptian universities ... -
Assessing Unpaid Care Work: A Participatory Toolkit
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-03-07)This is a participatory toolkit for understanding unpaid care work and its distribution within local communities and families. Together, these tools provide a way of ascertaining and capturing research participants’ ... -
Covid-19: A Stress Test for Trust?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-03-04)To tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, governments need citizens to trust messages on behaviour change, and to support more draconian steps like lockdowns. Yet, lack of trust in public authority and a prevalence of rumours ... -
Rethinking Disease Preparedness: Incertitude and the Politics of Knowledge
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-02-24)This paper argues for a rethinking of disease preparedness that puts incertitude and the politics of knowledge at the centre. Through examining the experiences of Ebola, Nipah, cholera and COVID-19 across multiple ... -
Breaking Out of the Policy Enclave Approach to Child Labour in sub-Saharan African Agriculture
(Sage Journals, 2021-02-17)This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and child labour on one hand, and their outsourced implementation through the social policy ... -
Disabled Children and Work: An Overview of a Neglected Topic with a Specific Focus on Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-25)This paper provides an overview of issues related to disabled children and work. This is a very unexplored topic and the literature is scant, so the paper first provides an overview of some key relevant background information ... -
Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-26)This report introduces findings from ten digital rights landscape country reports on Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Cameroon. They analyse how the openings and closings ... -
More and Better Work for All
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02)Work is relevant for incomes, productivity, and dignity. It is one of the most important business contributions for development, with businesses creating over 90 per cent of all jobs in low- and middle-income countries ... -
Strengthening Women’s Inclusion in Social Accountability Initiatives
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-18)In the last 20 years, social accountability initiatives have facilitated the inclusion and participation of marginalised groups in governance processes. This Policy Briefing focuses on how and what factors prove effective ... -
Exposing the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Bangladesh’s Leather Sector
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-16)As one of the country’s biggest employers and its second largest exporter, the leather sector is big business in Bangladesh. But it is also in crisis. A dramatic decrease in the global demand for leather since COVID-19 has ... -
Shaping Social Change with Music in Maputo, Mozambique
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-16)In Mozambique, development programmes have traditionally drawn on music as a means to promote social transformation by educating citizens on key social development issues. Shifting the focus from music as a teaching medium ... -
Women’s Political Participation and its Predictors in Northern and Southern Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-15)The United Nations Development Programme states that women’s political participation is a necessary ingredient for a peaceful and resilient society, yet large gender gaps obstinately persist in many countries around the ... -
The Empty Promise of Urbanisation: Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-11)Do big cities enable or hinder women’s electoral participation? What are the determinants of women’s participation in big cities and how are they different from those in rural areas? We use the Election Commission of ... -
Who Can We Count On? Authority, Empowerment and Accountability in Mozambique
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-02-02)In this paper, we explore the use of a governance diaries methodology to investigate poor households’ interactions with authority in fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings in Mozambique. The research questioned ... -
Marginalisation from Education in Conflict-Affected Contexts: Learning from Tanganyika and Ituri in the DR Congo
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-29)This Working Paper analyses how violent conflict can enhance or reduce pre-existing forms of marginalisation and second, how new forms of marginalisation emerge as a result of violent conflict. To do so, we focus on the ... -
Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition: A Literature Review and Proposed Conceptual Framework
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-28)This paper begins by locating the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition project (GODAN) in the context of wider debates in the open data movement by first reviewing the literature on open data and open data for ...
