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Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship: The Role of Mentoring
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-05-22)The risks and rewards associated with mentoring young people for entrepreneurship are attracting growing attention among policymakers, development organisations and scholars. This article examines entrepreneurship mentoring ... -
Programme-Induced Entrepreneurship and Young People’s Aspirations
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-05-22)This article unpacks the experiences of 52 young men and women from relatively poor households who received a grant of US$125 from a research project to start a business. Only 26 per cent aspired to be entrepreneurs while ... -
Glossary: Africa’s Youth Employment Challenge: New Perspectives
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-05-22)This is the glossary to IDS Bulletin 48.3, 'Africa’s Youth Employment Challenge: New Perspectives'. -
Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)What are the smaller stories hidden within the larger trends on governance in Africa, and to what extent has decentralisation affected change in these areas? What are the factors that keep local government reforms from ... -
Notes on Contributors: Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)This is the notes on contributors for IDS Bulletin 48.2, 'Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa' -
Foreword: Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)This is the foreword for IDS Bulletin 48.2, 'Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa'. -
Introduction: Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)Decentralisation is a major policy item across many emerging African democracies. However, repeated waves of local government reforms have had little impact on the region’s continuing problems with governance, and the ... -
Democratic Decentralisation, Clientelism and Local Taxation in Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)It is generally assumed by advocates of democratic decentralisation that maximising locally-raised revenue sources will help to enhance accountability through a closer and more legitimate relationship betweenthe local ... -
Is Election a Disadvantage? Nigerian Local Councils and Security Provision
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)Deepening democracy through local elections is a major aim of decentralisation. But do elections always work to strengthen the relationship between local politicians and citizens, or can they set elected officials up for ... -
Formal and Informal Actors in Addis Ababa’s Solid Waste Management System
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)Decentralisation reforms in Ethiopia aimed to empower both formal and informal actors involved in different socioeconomic development efforts. However, an investigation of solid waste management in Addis Ababa shows that ... -
Staff Quality and Service Delivery: Evaluating Two Ghanaian District Assemblies
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)This study examines the nature of staff quality and the extent to which it can explain variations in service delivery outcomes using two selected District Assemblies in Ghana. Staff quality is measured by the interaction ... -
Improving Access to Maternal Health Care through Devolution in Western Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)Devolution was greeted with great anticipation in Kenya as a means of bringing services closer to the people. However, since the implementation of the recent devolution reforms, criticism has mounted, with evidence of ... -
Local Governments and Primary Education in Uganda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)Decentralisation was one of the major reforms in the 1990s in Uganda, geared towards improving democratic governance and service delivery. However, districts have had variable performance, especially in providing primary ... -
Glossary: Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-03-22)This is the glossary to IDS Bulletin 48.2, 'Interrogating Decentralisation in Africa'. -
Sex Education in the Digital Era
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-02-08)Exploring sex and sexual relationships is an important part of adolescence, and therefore sex education should have a central role in adolescent emotional development as well as dealing with crucial public-health issues. Good ... -
Sex Education in the Digital Era - Notes on Contributors
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-02-08)This is the notes on contributors section of IDS Bulletin 48.1, 'Sex Education in the Digital Era'. -
Introduction: Sex Education in the Digital Era
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-02-08)Young people all over the world are keen to learn about sex and relationships but are not finding the information they seek in their immediate environment. The internet provides them with a welcome alternative. In response ... -
Enabling Online Safe Spaces: A Case Study of Love Matters Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-02-08)For sexual health organisations, establishing a safe space to talk about sensitive topics is an important prerequisite for information exchange and open dialogue. With the popularity of social media and mobile phones, these ... -
New Digital Ways of Delivering Sex Education: A Practice Perspective
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-02-08)This article explores new, under-researched genres of sex education for adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa resulting from access to the internet through mobile phones. It examines the history of developing online health ... -
#ByeTaboo: Expanding Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Education*
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-02-08)This article examines the design and implementation of the sexual and reproductive health online platform #ChauTabú (#ByeTaboo) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from a practice perspective. Based on my experiences, I discuss ...
