OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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Improving Adult Literacy in Niger Through Mobile Calls to Teachers
(IDS and the Impact Initiative, 2021-02)In Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, 85 per cent of adults are unable to read or write, even in local languages. Adult education programmes can be a route to improving adult literacy rates, but non-governmental ... -
Recipes for Impact: Feed, Thinking, Nourish, Change, Edition 2
(Institute of Development Studies and the Impact Initiative, 2021-02)This booklet profiles a selection of research funded by the ESRC-FCDO Strategic Partnership and the impact they have achieved. While these stories only show a snapshot of the research, they all highlight the multiple, ... -
Connecting with Home, Keeping in Touch: Physical and Virtual Mobility Across Stretched Families in sub-Saharan Africa
(2018)There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. ... -
Managing Political Space: Authority, Marginalised People's Agency and Governance in West Bengal
(2018)This paper investigates governance reform which aims to ‘move the state’ closer to people, arguing that greater attention needs to be paid to two questions: how does political decentralisation affect the ways in which ... -
Winners take all
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A health crisis is a social crisis.
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Everything and the kitchen sink
(2019)