IDS Research: Recent submissions
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Gender Equality and Building Back Better
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-30)The Covid-19 pandemic has affected men and women differently, exacerbating existing gender inequalities across a range of areas including health, education and livelihoods. Globally, women and girls are also experiencing ... -
Social Protection and Building Back Better
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-30)The Covid-19 pandemic has meant sweeping changes for economies and societies, with the most devastating consequences for individuals and groups with pre-existing vulnerabilities. These impacts are likely to be compounded ... -
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa: Final Tanzania Mixed Methods Evaluation Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-15)This final mixed methods report forms part of the external impact evaluation of mNutrition in Tanzania. The evaluation was conducted by a consortium of researchers from Gamos, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and ... -
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Tchnology-based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa: Final Ghana Mixed Methods Evaluation Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-15)This final mixed methods report forms part of the external impact evaluation of mNutrition in Ghana. The evaluation was conducted by a consortium of researchers from Gamos, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and ... -
Why do Companies Fortify? Drivers of Compliance with Edible Oil Fortification in Bangladesh
(Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), 2020-08-01)This study responds to earlier findings of suboptimal compliance with mandatory fortification of edible oil in Bangladesh. We aim to explain the root causes of poor compliance and to provide recommendations to strengthen ... -
Covid-19: Key Considerations for a Public Health Response
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-08)The Covid-19 pandemic is more than a health crisis. Its long-term economic and societal effects may well outweigh its initial public health impact. It is therefore essential that responses are socially sensitive and attuned ... -
Private Sector Development in Countries Progressing to Peace and Prosperity
(High-Quality Technical Assistance for Results (HEART), 2018-09-01)This report focuses on the specific challenges and opportunities of states that are making two challenging concurrent transitions, away from both extreme poverty and from conflict. First, they are ‘countries where the ... -
Innovation for Inclusive Structural Change. A Framework and Research Agenda
(University of Sussex, 2018-01-04)The paper proposes the foundations of an analytical framework to map different innovation pathways and explain how innovation leads to inclusive structural change in low-income countries. Innovation pathways depend on how ... -
Market Systems Approaches and ‘Leaving No One Behind’
(The BEAM Exchange, 2017-06-01)Substantial progress has been achieved internationally on reducing poverty since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals over 15 years ago. Despite these achievements, inequality is growing and extreme poverty remains ... -
State-Business Relations and Development: Toward a More Complete Research Agenda
(Routledge, 2019-10-18)Business and Development Studies: Issues and Perspectives provides a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge theoretical and empirical contributions to the emerging field of business and development studies. Compared ... -
IDS Annual Review 2020
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-07)Our research, learning and teaching continues to transform the knowledge, action and leadership needed for more equitable and sustainable development globally. It has been an extraordinary year of challenge and change. As ... -
Water Governance Challenges in Rural South Africa: Exploring Institutional Coordination in Drought Management
(2020-05-16)Droughts have severe direct impacts on the livelihoods of rural populations. Thus, the management of water for communal agriculture and water supply should be well coordinated to enhance drought resilience. Notwithstanding ... -
Nutrition Programming in Urban Settings
(The Health & Education Advice & Resource Team (HEART), 2014-12-12)More than half of the world’s 7 billion people now live in urban areas (UNICEF 2012). As the world's population is becoming increasingly urbanised, new challenges are arising. The rural-urban gap in nutrition has narrowed ... -
Health Architecture: Current and Future
(The Health & Education Advice & Resource Team (HEART), 2014-08-18)Since the World Health Organization (WHO) was established over 60 years ago, it has been at the centre of global health governance. HoLIGOC 2008 The WHO’s political legitimacy exists because its membership encompasses all ... -
Ebola Regional Lesson Learning
(The Health & Education Advice & Resource Team (HEART), 2014-12-19)The Ebola outbreak currently affecting West Africa is the most serious trans-national medical emergency in modern times. It has the potential to become a global health crisis. Many of the countries affected already have ... -
Ideas from IDS: Graduate Papers from 2018/19
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-28)This is the third edition of Ideas from IDS, our publication featuring student essays, now from the 2018/19 academic year. This is the first time this publication has a thematic focus: food. Food is a prominent development ... -
Integrating Humanitarian Response with Social Protection Systems: Limits and Opportunities
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-08-27)The separation between provision of short-term humanitarian assistance and long-term development programmes – such as social protection – often creates inefficiencies, wastes resources and means support fails to reach those ... -
The Future of Work: Findings of Research Commissioned by the Oxfam ‘Empower Youth for Work’ Program
(Oxfam Novib, 2020-07)Empower Youth for Work (EYW) is a five-year program (2016-2021) run by Oxfam, funded by the IKEA Foundation. The program focuses on enabling young people, especially young women, in climate change affected rural areas of ... -
An Overview of the Literature on Economic and Financial Factors Influencing Population Access to Vector Control Interventions: Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets, Indoor Residual Spraying and Supplementary Interventions
(2018)The Global Technical Strategy for malaria 2016-2030 includes malaria control and elimination targets for 2030 and interim milestones for 2020 and 2025. The nearest GTS milestone includes a reduction in malaria case incidence ... -
Implementing Coaching and Support in Graduation Programmes: a case study of the Terintambwe programme in Burundi
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-07)Graduation model programmes represent a relatively new but well-established type of anti-poverty programming. First designed and implemented in Bangladesh, they are now operational in more than 40 countries across the globe ...
