Strengthening Evidence Based Policy - Policy Anticipation, Response and Evaluation: Recent submissions

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    • PDS ‘To Go’? ‘Portability’ of Rights through Real-time Monitoring: the Centralised Online Real-time Electronic PDS in Chhattisgarh, India 

      Joshi, A; Sinha, D; Patnaik, B; Raaj, V; Falcao, V; Matharu, S; Abbas, A (IDS, 2015-04)
      Information and communications technology (ICT)-based reforms are increasingly being used to improve the delivery of public services. These reforms have taken the form of crowd-sourcing information (election monitoring), ...

    • Straws-in-the-wind, Hoops and Smoking Guns: What can Process Tracing Offer to Impact Evaluation? 

      Punton, M; Welle, K (IDS, 2015-04)
      This CDI Practice Paper by Melanie Punton and Katharina Welle explains the methodological and theoretical foundations of process tracing, and discusses its potential application in international development impact evaluations. ...

    • Improving the Practice of Value for Money Assessment 

      Barr, J; Christie, A (IDS, 2015-03)
      This CDI Practice Paper* by Julian Barr and Angela Christie brings together recent work at Itad to examine the origins of the concept of value for money (VFM) in the performance audit of public expenditure and its increasing ...

    • Tax Experiments in Developing Countries: A Critical Review and Reflections on Feasibility 

      Mascagni, G (IDS, 2015-03)
      This CDI Practice Paper by Giulia Mascagni provides a critical assessment of the literature on tax experiments to date. It examines the main conceptual, methodological and data-related challenges, and provides practical ...

    • The Future of Knowledge Sharing in a Digital Age: Exploring Impacts and Policy Implications for Development 

      Gregson, J; Brownlee, J.M; Playforth, R; Bimbe, N (IDS, 2015-03)
      We live in a Digital Age that gives us instant access to information at greater and greater volumes. The rapid growth of digital content and tools is already changing how we create, consume and distribute knowledge. Even ...

    • Where Next for Social Protection? 

      Devereux, S; Roelen, Keetie; Ulrichs, M (IDS, 2015-03)
      The rapid ascendancy of social protection up the development policy agenda in the past ten to 15 years raises questions about whether its current prominence will be sustained, or whether it will turn out to be just another ...

    • Improving Quality: Current Evidence on What Affects the Quality of Commissioned Evaluations 

      Lloyd, R; Schatz, F (IDS, 2015-03)
      With the increase in resources that organisations are dedicating to evaluation the issue of evaluation quality has risen up the agenda and a growing number of commissioners are now looking at how to ensure the studies ...

    • Tracking Research and Policy Conversations in Online Spaces 

      Scott, A; Munslow, T (IDS, 2015-03)
      The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is engaged in a major four-year programme entitled Strengthening Evidence-based Policy, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Central to this programme ...

    • Local Engagement in Ebola Outbreaks and Beyond in Sierra Leone 

      Oosterhoff, Pauline; Wilkinson, Annie (IDS, 2015-02)
      Containment strategies for Ebola rupture fundamental features of social, political and religious life. Control efforts that involve local people and appreciate their perspectives, social structures and institutions are ...

    • The Pathology of Inequality: Gender and Ebola in West Africa 

      Diggins, J; Mills, Elizabeth (IDS, 2015-02)
      The international response to Ebola has been decried for being ‘too slow, too little, too late’. As well as racing to respond, we need to consider what has happened over the past decades to leave exposed fault lines that ...

    • Urbanisation, the Peri-urban Growth and Zoonotic Disease 

      Waldman, Linda (IDS, 2015-02)
      Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling ...

    • Ebola and Extractive Industry 

      Allouche, Jeremy (IDS, 2015-02)
      The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The most important sector is mining as these three countries share a rich iron ore ...

    • Ebola, Politics and Ecology: Beyond the ‘Outbreak Narrative’ 

      Huff, Amber; Winnebah, T (IDS, 2015-02)
      The origin of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been traced to the likely confluence of a virus, a bat, a two-year-old child and an underequipped rural health centre. Understanding how these factors may have combined ...

    • Return of the Rebel: Legacies of War and Reconstruction in West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic 

      Lind, J; Ndebe, J (IDS, 2015-02)
      The spread of Ebola in West Africa centres on a region with a shared recent history of transnational civil war and internationally led post-conflict reconstruction efforts. This legacy of conflict and shortcomings in the ...

    • Strengthening Health Systems for Resilience 

      Bloom, Gerald; MacGregor, Hayley; McKenzie, A; Sokpo, E (IDS, 2015-02)
      In countries with high levels of poverty or instability and with poor health system management and governance, people are highly vulnerable to shocks associated with ill health, including major epidemics. An effective ...

    • Global Governance and the Limits of Health Security 

      Elbe, S; Roemer-Mahler, A (IDS, 2015-02)
      The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed the limits of the current approach to the global governance of infectious diseases, which mixes public health and security interests. International efforts to strengthen ‘health ...

    • Ebola and Lessons for Development 

      Huff, Amber (IDS, 2015-02)
      As the Ebola crisis continues to unfold across West Africa and the international community belatedly responds, broader questions arise beyond the immediate challenges on the ground. These fundamentally challenge our ...

    • Knowledge Sharing and Development in a Digital Age 

      Bimbe, N; Brownlee, J; Gregson, J; Playforth, R (IDS, 2015-02)
      Digital technologies are reaching ever further into remote parts of the world, changing how people access, use, and create information and knowledge. These changes may improve people’s lives by making information ...

    • Scenarios of Waste and Resource Management: for Cities in India and Elsewhere 

      Chaturvedi, A; Vijayalakshmi, K; Nijhawan, S (IDS, 2015-02)
      Rising prosperity around the globe – welcome and overdue in many respects – has certain undesirable consequences. It leads to an increase in the demand for raw materials, putting pressure on our limited natural resources. ...

    • Managing the Emerging Waste Crisis in Developing Countries’ Large Cities 

      Wilson, E (IDS, 2015-02)
      Rising prosperity around the globe is both welcome and, in many countries, long overdue. However, it brings with it a number of undesirable consequences, such as an increased demand for raw materials, which puts pressure ...