IDS Research: Recent submissions
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Les arts dans le dialogue et la communication sur l’environnement en Afrique de l’Ouest et de l’Est
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08-08)Les premières publications sur la délibération environnementale partaient du principe que les pairs débattaient rationnellement des preuves pour parvenir à des conclusions logiques. Cependant, des travaux plus récents ... -
Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Sahel: Niger, Mauritania, and Senegal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07-26)In the face of shocks that are recurrent, predictable, interrelated, and multi-annual, governments and the international community are increasingly looking to the potential of shock-responsive and adaptive social protection ... -
Executive Summary: Knowledge Translation in the Global South: Bridging Different Ways of Knowing for Equitable Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07-17)This Executive Summary summarises findings from the longer Synthesis Report produced as part of the Knowledge Translation (KT) in the Global South research project. The project explores the KT strategies, practices and ... -
Knowledge Translation in the Global South: Bridging Different Ways of Knowing for Equitable Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07-17)This study explores knowledge translation (KT) in the global South and provides recommendations for funders to support more effective structures and strategies for the use of research for equitable development. The project ... -
Knowledge Translation in the Global South: An Exploratory Mapping of the Literature
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07-17)This paper maps the literature that focuses on knowledge translation (KT) in the global South. It was commissioned as part of the KT in the Global South research project, supported by Canada’s International Development ... -
Horticulture in Kenya: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-29)The horticulture sector is fundamental to Kenya’s economy and its citizens’ livelihoods. However, global connectivity and high perishability make the sector vulnerable to shocks. The Covid-19 pandemic and related policy ... -
Pathways to Equitable Food Systems
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-26)Globally, our food systems are highly inequitable. In a world with enough food, hunger is becoming normalised for large numbers of people, while diets are worsening and obesity is rising. Racialised minorities are ... -
Healthy Diets Depend on Equity and Justice: Understanding the Context in Brazil, South Africa, the UK, and Vietnam
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-19)The purpose of this paper is to outline a new intellectual and research agenda for future work taken forward by the Food Equity Centre on the theme of Healthy Diets. We outline our initial conceptual approach and summarise ... -
Backlash in Action? Or Inaction? Stalled Implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-14)The Bangladesh government adopted the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act in 2010. While the formulation and enactment of the Act was an achievement for the government and the coalition that championed it ... -
The Resurgence of National Development Planning and the Challenge of Alignment
(ODI, 2023-06)Recent years have witnessed a resurgence in the number of developing countries producing national development plans. This has led to an interest in how governments seek to implement their plans by aligning government ... -
Seeing Conflict at the Margins
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)Large-scale resource developments can create ruptures at the margins that intensify long-standing struggles around livelihoods, public authority, and environmental justice, and in some cases can spark new tensions and ... -
Uncertainty in the Drylands: Rethinking In/formal Insurance from Pastoral East Africa
(Sage Journals, 2023-05-26)Amidst climatic and economic volatility, agricultural development and climate adaptation policies have increasingly turned to weather microinsurance to manage uncertainties, particularly in dryland pastoral and agricultural ... -
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development
(Practical Action Publishing, 2023-05-31)This book explores the connection between pastoralism, uncertainty, and development. It makes the case that recognizing how pastoralists make productive use of variability and embrace uncertainty ... -
When Complex is as Simple as it Gets: Guide for Recasting Policy and Management in the Anthropocene
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-06)Many readers recognise and understand that complex is about as simple as it gets for major policy and management. This guide is for those unwilling in the Anthropocene to shrink back into the older platitudes about ‘keep ... -
Towards Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-01)The Covid-19 pandemic has re-emphasised the need to ensure equitable access to safe, effective and affordable health services. The very rapid shift to the use of smartphone apps and telephone consultations (telemedicine) ... -
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas: Transforming Development from Control to Care
(Berghahn, 2023-06-01)Pastoralists must continuously confront uncertainties, responding to high levels of variability and volatility where the future is unknown. Yet mainstream modernising development in pastoral areas aims to create stability ... -
Perceiving Bad Apples Versus Rotten Trees: Evidence From the Exposure of Politician Misbehavior in Colombia
(Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE, 2022-10)This paper studies the effects of disclosing information about politician misbehavior on trust in public institutions. I use news bulletins from the main anti-corruption agency in Colombia announcing disciplinary prosecutions ... -
Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context
(2023-05)This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and ... -
Conflict-Sensitive Social Protection: Sudan Country Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-12-01)This is one of three country case studies (the others being of Kenya and Somalia) that explore the interaction between social protection and conflict in the Horn of Africa. It summarises the principal elements of social ... -
Conflict-Sensitive Social Protection: Somalia Country Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-05-23)This is one of three country case studies (the others being of Kenya and Sudan) that explore the interaction between social protection and conflict in the Horn of Africa. In a context of weak central political authority ...
