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External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa and South Asia: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Agriculture in Ghana: Quantitative Endline Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-10-15)To estimate the causal impact of the VFC product, we implemented a randomised encouragement design. The encouragement design does not restrict access to the VFC service (as with a control group in a randomised control ... -
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and health in Tanzania: Cost-Effectiveness Endline Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-03-27)The quantitative evaluation was designed as a cluster randomised controlled trial, with two stages of randomisation: a village-level randomisation where villages were assigned to a treatment group or to a control group, ... -
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Agriculture in Ghana: Cost-Effectiveness Endline Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-05-29)The aim of the impact evaluation is to assess the impact, cost-effectiveness, and commercial viability of two services within the broader portfolio of the GSMA mNutrition programme. The evaluation is being conducted by a ... -
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Agriculture in Ghana: Business Modelling Endline Report
(2020-01-16)The VFC journey was not linear, so the financial model was used to provide commentary on the sustainability of different phases of the business model. The model was based on cost data provided by Vodafone to GSMA supplemented ... -
Theorising ‘Harm’ in Relation to Children’s Work
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-17)A central and implicit issue that shapes the present political and institutional consensus surrounding child labour is the notion of harm. Although efforts to address children’s work rest firmly on assumptions about what ... -
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Health In Tanzania: Business Modelling Endline Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-03-27)mNutrition is a global initiative supported by FCDO, managed by GSMA, and implemented by in-country MNOs and third party providers to use mobile technology, that sought to improve the health and nutritional status of ... -
Post-Pandemic Transformations: How and Why COVID-19 Requires us to Rethink Development
(Elsevier, 2020-02)COVID-19 is proving to be the long awaited ‘big one’: a pandemic capable of bringing societies and economies to their knees. There is an urgent need to examine how COVID-19 – as a health and development crisis - unfolded ... -
A Narrative Analysis of the Political Economy Shaping Policy on Child Nutrition in India
(Wiley, 2017-03-06)This article examines two narratives on the subject of child undernutrition in India espoused by competing sides of the policy elite. It argues that undertaking narrative policy analysis in a structured fashion helps to ... -
Beyond Informal Social Protection – Personal Networks of Economic Support in Namibia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-12)This paper poses a different lens on informal social protection (ISP). ISP is generally understood as practices of livelihood support among individuals. While studies have explored the social dynamics of such, they rarely ... -
Where Is Equity in Integrated Approaches for Water Resources Management?
(Oxford University Press, 2020)The challenges of integrated approaches and equity in water resources management have been well researched. However, a clear division exists between scholars working on equity and those working on integration, and there ... -
A Relational View of Pastoral (Im)Mobilities
(White Horse Press, 2020-10)Pitched against the apparently more civilised and modern ‘settled’, pastoralists have historically been penalised for the seemingly primitive and outdated practice of mobility. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in western ... -
COVID-19 and Pastoralism: Reflections from Three Continents
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-10-21)Focusing on pastoralism, this article reflects on five diverse cases across Africa, Asia and Europe and asks: how have COVID-19 disease control measures affected mobility and production practices, marketing opportunities, ... -
Reclaiming Comprehensive Public Health
(BMJ, 2020-09-08)Over the past 6 months, we have witnessed diversity in the spread and severity of the COVID-19 and in the nature and timing of responses to it in different countries and contexts. Acute emergencies often mobilise a short ... -
COVID-19 and the African Energy Sector: Energy Insight
(Oxford Policy Management, 2020-09)As elsewhere in the world, COVID-19 continues to ravage Africa, causing thousands of deaths and an unprecedented health crisis that is damaging to every aspect of the social and economic lives of millions of people. The ... -
Children’s Engagement with Exploitative Work in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-06)Despite decades of interventions aiming to reduce child labour, children’s engagement with exploitative work remains widespread, particularly in South Asia. Emerging evidence about cash transfer programmes point towards ... -
Understanding Children’s Harmful Work: A Review of the Methodological Landscape
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-06)Children’s engagement with work has been widely researched using a wide variety of methods. However, the extent to which such methods and their combination provides insight into forms of children’s harmful work (CHW) is ... -
Forms, Prevalence and Drivers of Children’s Work and Children’s Harmful Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-06)This paper synthesises the available literature on the forms, prevalence and drivers of children’s work, and evidence of harm associated with children’s work in shallot production on the Keta Peninsula, Ghana. What emerges ... -
‘The Data is Gold, and we are the Gold-diggers’: Whiteness, Race and Contemporary Academic Research in Eastern DRC
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)The boom of the humanitarian and development industry in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the demand for qualitative and quantitative research that has accompanied it have created a novel political economy ... -
Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-11-02)This study examines Mozambican popular music to investigate three questions: Are notions of empowerment and accountability present in popular music in Mozambique? If so, what can these existing notions of empowerment and ... -
Designing for Impact: South-South Trade and Investment
(International Trade Centre, 2020-10-27)As countries across the world grapple with the effects of COVID-19 and look towards ‘post-pandemic’ transformations, and as we enter the final decade of the UN Global Goals, fresh thinking and action in trade, investment ...