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Women’s Economic Empowerment and Political Accountability in Mali
(IDS, 2020-04-17)This working paper focuses on the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and forms of political engagement and accountability. It draws from the findings of a larger report, commissioned by Oxfam America, to ... -
How Do Donor-led Empowerment and Accountability Activities Take Scale into Account? Evidence from DFID Programmes in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence
(IDS, 2020-04-03)Development donors invest significantly in governance reform, including in contexts characterised by conflict and fragility. However, there is relatively little comparative study of their change strategies, and little ... -
Development Finance Institutions and the Coronavirus Crisis
(Overseas Development Institute, 2020-03-30)Key messages: Development finance institutions (DFIs) are mandated by their shareholders to provide finance to the private sector (usually at commercial terms, but subsidised implicitly), crowd in private sector finance ... -
Supporting Adaptive Management: Monitoring and Evaluation Tools and Approaches
(ODI, 2019-12)This working paper introduces a set of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools and approaches, discussing their potential usefulness in supporting adaptive management in development and humanitarian programmes. It emphasises ... -
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Policy and Programme Design, Coordination and Implementation in Ethiopia
(IDS, 2020-03-31)Multi-sectoral nutrition governance has been hailed as an effective mechanism to reduce undernutrition. Ethiopia has adopted the approach and has been implementing nutrition programmes with some success, but undernutrition ... -
Impact Evaluation of Fastenopfer’s Solidarity Group Approaches in Madagascar and Senegal
(Institute of Development Studies: Fastenopfer, 2019-04-01)Solidarity groups (SGs) use savings and lending as an entry point for creating a safety net and promoting community-led empowerment processes. In 2018, a team from the Institute of Development Studies evaluated the impacts ... -
Accelerating Disability Inclusive Formal Employment in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda: What are the Vital Ingredients?
(IDS, 2020-03-31)Globally, disabled people are disproportionately excluded from the workforce. For the general population, it is recognised that having a job is closely linked to better health, wellbeing, self-esteem and to social inclusion. ... -
Democratising Economic Power: The Potential for Meaningful Participation in Economic Governance and Decision-Making
(IDS, 2020-03-30)Participation is the act of people engaging in decisions that impact their lives. It has been widely promoted in social, political and civic spheres. However, the question of participation in economic governance is ... -
The Role of Graduation Programming in Promoting Early Childhood Development: an Overview of the Evidence
(Journal of the British Academy, 2020-03-25)It is widely understood that poverty undermines early childhood development (ECD). In turn, poor ECD reinforces intergenerational transmission of poverty. Comprehensive economic strengthening and social protection programmes, ... -
Shifts in Innovation Power to Brazil and India
(IDS, 2012-02)Analysts tend to explain the shift in innovation power by concentrating on factors within the rising powers, such as their investment in high-level education, their low labour cost, their big and expanding internal markets ... -
Who Drives Economic Reform in Vietnam’s Provinces?
(IDS, 2012-06)The authors compare two provinces in the North and two in the South, observing how different alignments of interest influence the reform process. The research shows that in those provinces which are making most progress ... -
PEACH - Methodology
(IDS, 2012-11-28)The purpose of this note to make some practical suggestions for carrying out the project Political Economy Analysis of Climate Change Policies – the PEACH project. The central question of the project is who drives/obstructs ... -
Manual for Value Chain Research on Homeworkers in the Garment Industry
(IDS, 2001-11)In developed and developing countries, grassroots organisations are trying to improve thelivelihoods of informal producers. Such organisations have been concerned in particular with thehome-based workers who ... -
How Do World Bank Projects Commit to Citizen Engagement?
(IDS, 2020-03-19)The World Bank provides one of the world’s largest sources of international development funding, in 2019 committing US$62.3bn in loans, grants, equity investments, and guarantees to governments and private businesses. The ... -
The Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Khartoum
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)This Briefing Note is intended for readers interested in understanding how Khartoum, with its complex political and land-related challenges, can move towards more inclusive development, and more accessible and affordable ... -
The Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)This Briefing Note is for those interested in supporting more inclusive urbanisation processes in cities where populations are growing rapidly but poverty remains prevalent, and in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza in particular. ... -
The Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Khartoum
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)Cities are largely self-organising systems and can play a pivotal role in a country’s economy. Unfortunately, neither conventional markets nor urban plans are very well suited to guiding what goes where in a city ... -
Investigating the Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Khartoum
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)Many countries in Africa have low average incomes and high urbanisation and urban population growth rates. This combination, which has been experienced at some time in all parts of the world, can make life particularly ... -
Examining the Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Khartoum
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Khartoum are vastly different East African cities demographically, physically, socially, and in matters of governance. That said, both Dar es Salaam and Khartoum are the primate cities of their ... -
Qualitative Feedback from Community Participants, NGOs and External Stakeholders on Freedom Fund Interventions to Reduce the Prevalence of Bonded Labour in Northern India
(IDS, 2020-02-01)This report was produced by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) and Praxis, for the Freedom Fund. It is an output of the programme ‘Planning, learning, monitoring and evaluation activities for the Northern India ...