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Secession and Social Polarization: Evidence from Catalonia
(UNU-WIDER, 2021-01)Does secessionism lead to social polarization? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less ... -
Value Chain Governance: Entrance Points for Interventions to Address Children’s Harmful Work in Agriculture
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-21)This paper presents different types of governance mechanisms that can be present in a specific value chain and explores how these can be used or need to be modified in view of intentions to reduce children’s harmful work. ... -
Supporting Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan: Lessons for Donors
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-05)In a context where democratic culture and civil society space are under threat, rights-based organisations face increased restrictions on their activities, and donors are finding it harder to engage with them. However, ... -
BRiCE Project DRC and Niger: Baseline Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-18)This Report presents the descriptive statistics and preliminary analysis carried out following the first phase of quantitative and qualitative data collection of the Building Resilience in Conflict through Education (BRiCE) ... -
Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe
(Springer Link, 2020-12-07)Zimbabwe’s land reform from 2000 radically transformed the agrarian structure, and with this small towns in rural areas. This article explores three such towns—Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa—examining changes in population, ... -
Tanzania Final Mixed Methods Evaluation Report Summary
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-17)This brief provides a summary of the Tanzania final mixed methods evaluation report which presents the final findings from the mNutrition evaluation structured around the evaluation questions. It draws on evidence from ... -
Ghana Final Mixed Methods Evaluation Report Summary
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-17)This brief provides a summary of the findings in the Ghana final mixed methods evaluation report which presents the final findings from the mNutrition evaluation structured around the evaluation questions. It draws on ... -
Policy Pollination: A Brief History of Social Protection’s Brief History in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-15)The relatively recent emergence and sustained rise of social protection as a policy agenda in Africa can be understood as either a nationally owned or ‘donor-driven’ process. While elements of both can be seen in different ... -
Children’s Harmful Work in Ghana’s Lake Volta Fisheries: Research Needed to Move Beyond Discourses of Child Trafficking
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-14)Children work throughout the Lake Volta fisheries value chain. It is commonly assumed most have been trafficked. Research and advocacy has focused on dangers to young boys harvesting fish, and poverty as a driver, precluding ... -
Learning from a Living Archive: Rejuvenating Child and Youth Rights and Participation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-14)This paper reflects the findings of the first phase of the REJUVENATE project, which set out to understand and map approaches to integrating children, youth, and community participation in child rights initiatives. We did ... -
Book Review: ‘Can we know better? Reflections for development by Robert Chambers’
(Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2020)In “Can we know better?” Robert Chambers reflects on a half-century of experience that combines many years working in front-line development programs, with a distinguished academic career. He presents a passionate, but ... -
COVID-19 Challenges and WASH in Informal Settlements: Integrated Action Supported by the Sustainable Development Goals
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-12-01)The spread and impacts of COVID-19 have exposed multiple and cascading vulnerabilities, which particularly affect urban informal settlements. In light of such threats, it is vital to understand how interventions in the ... -
COVID-19: What is Not Being Addressed
(Sage Publishing, 2020-10-13)As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases nears 27 million, there is a rush to answer (what next) and a rush to act (to solve the immediate problems of COVID-19). This paper discusses, with a specific focus on urban areas ... -
Unsettling the Apocalypse: Uncertainty in Spirituality and Religion
(Routledge, 2020)Current crises that link nature with human agency are increasingly described as ‘apocalyptic’, and people faced with uncertain futures continue to express their doubts, fears and hopes in spiritual terms. Religious language ... -
Intertwining the Politics of Uncertainty, Mobility and Immobility
(Routledge, 2020)This chapter explores how politics of uncertainty shape mobilities and immobilities. Recognising that institutions of different types are central in producing and resisting uncertainty, the chapter unpicks how formal and ... -
Disease Outbreaks: Navigating Uncertainties in Preparedness and Response
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)In recent years, fears about infectious diseases with pandemic potential have led to global initiatives to predict, prepare and respond to outbreaks. Practices that are focused on prediction and control centre on turning ... -
Uncertainty in Modelling Climate Change
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)There is significant uncertainty in establishing the incidence, scale and pattern of change resulting from climatic events and environmental hazards. Scientific and policy attention has concentrated on how to manage – and ... -
Uncertainty and the Politics of Transformation
(Routledge, 2020)This introductory chapter asks why the idea of uncertainty is so important to politics today. To explore this, the chapter reviews the diverse contributions to the book on themes ranging from finance and banking to insurance ... -
Modern Slavery Prevention and Responses in Myanmar: An Evidence Map
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-24)This Emerging Evidence Report describes the availability of evidence on modern slavery interventions in Myanmar presented in the programme's interactive Evidence Map. This report on Myanmar uses the same methodology and ... -
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa and South Asia: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Health in Tanzania: Quantitative Endline Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-10-14)The quantitative evaluation was designed as a cRCT, with two stages of randomisation: a village level randomisation where villages are assigned to a treatment group or to a control group, and a household-level randomisation ...
