Strengthening Evidence Based Policy - Policy Anticipation, Response and Evaluation: Recent submissions
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Questioning Three Fundamental Assumptions in Financial Inclusion
(IDS, 2016-02)Financial inclusion has rapidly ascended global development policy agendas. Between 2 billion and 2.5 billion adults worldwide do not use formal financial services (World Bank 2015: v), which a multifaceted coalition of ... -
Rethinking Approaches to Peace-Building and Political Settlements in an Increasingly Urbanised World
(IDS, 2016-02)Violence in cities significantly compromises development and can have detrimental consequences for peace-building and political settlements in both conflict and non-conflict settings. A majority of the world’s most fragile ... -
Cities, Violence and Order: the Challenges and Complex Taxonomy of Security Provision in Cities of Tomorrow
(IDS, 2016-02)How will security in cities be understood in the future? For whom will it be provided? What are the ways by which urban security provision will be governed? And, what impact will violence and order in cities have on the ... -
Foresight and International Development: Conference Report
(IDS, 2016-02)This report presents a summary of a one-day conference on ‘Foresight and International Development’ held at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on 15 October 2015. As part of the IDS Accountable Grant work on ... -
Balancing Inclusiveness, Rigour and Feasibility: Insights from Participatory Impact Evaluations in Ghana and Vietnam
(IDS, 2016-02)This paper by Adinda Van Hemelrijck and Irene Guijt explores how impact evaluation can live up to standards broader than statistical rigour in ways that address challenges of complexity and enable stakeholders to engage ... -
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Valuable Approach to Add to the Evaluator’s ‘Toolbox’? Lessons from Recent Applications
(IDS, 2016-01)A heightened focus on demonstrating development results has increased the stakes for evaluating impact (Stern 2015), while the more complex objectives and designs of international aid programmes make it ever more challenging ... -
Annotated Bibliography – Evaluating Impact Investing
(IDS, 2016-01)The Centre for Development Impact (CDI) contributes to learning and innovation in the field of impact evaluation, through the use of appropriate, mixed method, and robust evaluation designs. It is a joint initiative between ... -
Ensuring Developing Countries Benefit from Big Data
(IDS, 2015-12)Big data is already creating a big impact. Some herald it as the new ‘data revolution’, others worry it is a tool for manipulation, while many in development cite it as key to successfully implementing the Sustainable ... -
Big Data and International Development: Impacts, Scenarios and Policy Options
(IDS, 2015-12)Many people are excited about data, particularly when those data are big. Big data, we are told, will be the fuel that drives the next industrial revolution, radically reshaping economic structures, employment patterns and ... -
The Future of Social Protection – Where Next?
(IDS, 2015-12)Social protection is one of the success stories of development policy in the early twenty-first century, leading to questions about its future direction. Evidence suggests that social protection is likely to experience ... -
The Political Economy of Low-Carbon Investment: the Role of Coalitions and Alignments of Interest in the Green Transformation in China
(IDS, 2015-11)The primary motivation behind this research is the need to accelerate the supply of renewable energy because of the important role that it plays in mitigating climate change and in fostering sustainable development. Understanding ... -
Monitoring and Evaluation Report: Year 3
(IDS, 2015-10)This is a brief report on the developments and use of the monitoring and evaluation system within the Institute of Development Studies’ Accountable Grant (AG). In its third consecutive year, the AG operates under an ... -
Sexuality, Poverty and the Law: A Case Study Approach for Exploring Avenues of Change
(IDS, 2015-09)There is increasing pressure in international development to demonstrate that aid spending has an impact. This includes spending on policy research. While there is much debate about appropriate methods and evidence for ... -
Accelerating Sustainability: Why Political Economy Matters
(IDS, 2015-09)Accelerating sustainability is a challenge that defines our era and is a central theme of Institute of Development Studies research. This paper brings together what we can learn from development studies and from sustainability ... -
Edible Insects and the Future of Food: A Foresight Scenario Exercise on Entomophagy and Global Food Security
(IDS, 2015-09)This document reports on the findings of a small project in which we used the tools of Foresight to think about the potential of edible insects to contribute to global food security in a future global food system. Foresight ... -
Mutual Learning for Change: An Assessment of the SIA Programme of the Rising Powers Programme
(IDS, 2015-09)The Senior International Associates (SIA) programme is part of the Rising Powers in International Development programme at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), under which senior policy actors in the BRICS countries ... -
Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy: Outputs November 2012 – March 2014
(IDS, 2014-09)Knowledge and evidence are important elements of all policy processes. While the availability of more or higher quality evidence does not guarantee better policy processes, it is difficult to imagine how development policy ... -
Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy: Outputs April 2014 – March 2015
(IDS, 2015-08)In much writing about development, policy and practice are portrayed as if they are joined at the hip. Policy shapes practice, while learning from practice informs policy processes. In this portrayal, practice is usually ... -
Background Report: Right or Wrong? What Values Inform Modern Impact Evaluation?
(IDS, 2015-06)This background report supported an event hosted in January 2015 by the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – a joint initiative between the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Itad and the University of East Anglia ... -
Event Report: Right or Wrong? What Values Inform Modern Impact Evaluation?
(IDS, 2015-06)This workshop was supported by the Institute of Development Studies’ (IDS’) Department for International Development (DFID) Accountable Grant, with a view to start a dialogue around the use and application of ethics in ...