IDS Research: Recent submissions
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Intra-household Dynamics, Social Cohesion and Women’s Empowerment: the Effects of a Graduation 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 ... -
Brief: Exploring Critical Issues in the Ethical Involvement of Children with Disabilities in Evidence Generation and Use
(UNICEF Office Of Research – Innocenti, 2020-07)This research brief details the main ethical challenges and corresponding mitigation strategies identified in the literature with regard to the ethical involvement of children with disabilities in evidence generation ... -
A Review of the Evidence: Sexuality Education for Young People in Digital Spaces
(UNESCO, 2020)This desk review examines the available evidence on the extent to which digital content can influence knowledge, attitudes and practices of adolescents and young people (aged 10–24 years), and looks at the potential for ... -
Switched On: An Exhibition on Digital Sexuality Education Providers
(UNESCO, 2020)This series of posters featured as part of an exhibition at ‘Switched On: Sexuality Education in the Digital Space’, a symposium held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 19 - 21 February, 2020. The posters are snapshots of digital ... -
Systemic Action Research with Spinning Mill Workers in Tamil Nadu (2017–18)
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07)This report describes the processes, activities and outcomes of 12 Action Research Groups which were set up to generate community led action against bonded labour in the spinning mills of Tamil Nadu, India. Action Research ... -
The Emerging Lessons on Urban Vulnerability and Safety from Covid-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-20)This discussion paper sets forth the lessons on urban vulnerability and safety, relevant to the security sector, emerging from coronavirus (Covid-19) and its related socioeconomic impacts on urban societies in low- and ... -
Bangladesh Initiative to Enhance Nutrition Security and Governance (BIeNGS): Baseline Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06-10)The Bangladesh Initiative to Enhance Nutrition Security and Governance (BIeNGS) project is funded by the European Commission and is a collaboration between World Vision UK (WVUK), World Vision Bangladesh (WVB), World Vision ... -
Towards Transformative Climate Justice: Key Challenges and Future Directions for Research
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-03)From forest fires in Australia and California to record floods in Jakarta and the UK, it is clear that no area of the world is immune from the effects of climate change. Many countries and cities have woken up to this fact ... -
Towards Ethical Good Practice in Cash Transfer Trials and their Evaluation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-07-02)Although cash transfers are now widely used within development and social policy, there is still limited discussion over how (and indeed whether) cash transfer trials and research on them can respect ethical standards. ... -
The Future of International Development Cooperation: Case Studies of Sri Lanka and Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-05-05)This report critically examines the modalities of development cooperation and experiences of China and United Kingdom‘s (UK) engagements in Kenya and Sri Lanka. Given the increasing importance of China and the UK in ... -
Working Across the ‘Nexus’ of Equality, Sustainability, Inclusivity and Security: Existing Lessons, Future Directions
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06)This report examines integrated policy approaches for sustainable development, focusing on key lessons and recommendations that would support the implementation of integrated policymaking, with particular reference to ... -
Lessons on Integrated Policy Approaches for Ireland’s A Better World Policy
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06)A Better World – Ireland’s ambitious new international development policy – emphasises that an integrated approach is required to meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This IDS Policy Briefing reviews evidence ... -
The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa’s Pastoral Drylands
(James Currey, 2020)The rush for land and resources has featured prominently in recent studies of sub-Saharan Africa. Often happening alongside regional projects to upgrade and expand infrastructure, this urgency to unlock untapped economic ... -
Evaluating CLARISSA: Innovation Driven by a Participatory Learning Agenda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06-25)Children end up in child labour as a result of many, often unknown or hidden, interactions between multiple actors and multiple factors within households, communities, and labour systems, leading to unpredictable outcomes ... -
Addressing Informal Labour Intermediaries in the Context of Child Labour: Evidence Review Across Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06-23)This Emerging Evidence Report gathers and analyses evidence on informal labour intermediaries (ILIs) involved in facilitating the worst forms of child labour in three countries – Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar. More ... -
Conservation as a Social Contract in a Violent Frontier: The Case of (Anti-) Poaching in Garamba National Park, Eastern DR Congo
(Elsevier, 2020-04)Protected areas located in areas of violent conflict are often conceived as spaces where the state has lost its control and parks are ‘dissolved’, to the point where poaching and violent extraction of resources run free. ... -
Contemporary Research Must Stop Relying on Racial Inequalities
(London School of Economics, 2020-01-30)With international collaboration common to international research, race frequently structures the professional hierarchies of projects. But are there problems with researchers believing they are ‘doing things differently’? ... -
Children's work in African agriculture: Time for a rethink
(Outlook on Agrigulture, 2020-06-10)This article outlines a tension that plays itself out in rural areas throughout Africa. On the one hand, it is recognized that children throughout the world engage in economic activity, and this is particularly so in rural ... -
Social Norms and Supply Chains: A Focus on Child Labour and Waste Recycling in Hlaing Tharyar, Yangon, Myanmar
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06-16)This Emerging Evidence Report examines the social norms, and the material and institutional factors that influence the employment of children in various forms of hazardous work in Hlaing Tharyar township, Yangon, Myanmar. ... -
Nationalism, Legitimacy and Hegemony in Transboundary Water Interactions
(Water Alternatives, 2020)This article examines how discourses of water nationalism are used to justify and legitimise a state’s water policy both domestically and internationally and how that discourse constitutes a battleground of ideas and power ...