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Lessons from Environmental Peacebuilding Programming
(IDS, 2019-08-09)This rapid literature review collates lessons from conflict resolution/peacebuilding programmes that include land, resource management, and/or environmental issues. Environmental peacebuilding includes a wide range of ... -
Agricultural Knowledge Networks in Northern Ghana
(Michigan State University, 2018)Farmers, researchers and extension officers in Northern Ghana encounter productivity problems, such as striga, acidity, hardpan and bochaa (a Dagbani word denoting low productivity). We undertook a mainly qualitative study ... -
Lessons from Road Safety Research and Policy Engagement in Pakistan, Nepal, Tanzania
(IDS, 2019-07)DFID invests in research on transport infrastructure to promote knowledge on cross-cutting issues, such as road safety, and to influence standards and practices across the sector. This rapid desk based study provides lessons ... -
Evidence of the Impact of Rural Road Investment on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development
(IDS, 2019-07)This report provides a rapid review of some of the recently published evidence of the impact of such investment. This rapid evidence based assessment builds on the more thorough systematic review conducted by Hine et al. ... -
How to Build Effective Partnerships as a Soft Power Tool?
(IDS, 2019-08-08)This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and knowledge institution sources on how partnerships can be effectively used as a soft power tool. Indeed, the review concludes that partnerships have ... -
Participatory Research, Planning and Evaluation Process in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar Hotspots Summary Results: Participatory Action Research
(IDS, 2019-08-13)IDS and Praxis supported eleven action research groups in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The groups identified their research enquiries based on a joint analysis of the life stories at the Collective Story Analysis workshop 13–16 ... -
Participatory Statistics to Measure Prevalence in Bonded Labour Hotspots in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: Findings of the Base- and EndLine Study
(IDS, 2019-08-13)This report documents the findings of the Institute of Development Studies’(IDS) and its partner, Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices’, programme of research, learning and evaluation of the Freedom Fund funded ... -
Participatory Research, Planning and Evaluation Process in Nepal Summary Results: Participatory Action Research
(IDS, 2019-08-13)This report was produced by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) and Action Aid Nepal. It is an output of the programme ‘Planning, learning, monitoring and evaluation activities for the South East Nepal Hotspot’. ... -
Participatory Statistics to Measure Prevalence in Bonded Labour Hotspots in Tamil Nadu: Findings of the Base- and Endline Study
(IDS, 2019-08-13)This report documents the findings of the Institute of Development Studies’ (IDS) and its partner, ‘Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices’, programme of research, learning and evaluation of the Freedom Fund funded ... -
Participatory Planning for Food Production at the City Scale: Experiences from a Stakeholder Dialogue Process in Tamale, Northern Ghana
(UCL Press, 2018-12)The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to ... -
West African Market Women Negotiating Productive and Reproductive Roles Through Time
(Tropical Agriculture Association, 2017)Contemporary agricultural policy in West Africa encourages commercialisation of agriculture. West African women, noted for their prominence in agricultural marketing, have responded throughout history to such changes. This ... -
Raising Awareness of Environmental Change in the Maldives
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2019-08)Island communities in the Maldives are experiencing environmental change on a daily basis due to coastal erosion, the accumulation of waste at sea and on beaches, and the rapid expansion of the built environment. Researchers ... -
Assessing the Relative Importance of Causal Factors
(IDS, 2019-08-14)While contribution analysis provides a basis for making causal claims and understanding how and why change occurs, it does not on its own estimate the relative importance, much less the size, of the causal factors at work. ... -
Evidence on the Indirect Contribution of Humanitarian Activities to Deradicalisation of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE); and the Risks in Linking such Objectives or Activities
(IDS, 2019-06-13)The retreat of Daesh in Iraq and Syria, and groups such as Boko Haram in Nigeria, has led to some interest regarding what indirect contribution humanitarian activities may have on ‘deradicalisation’ or CVE elements. There ... -
Crises in Variegated Capitalism, Co-produced, Hydro-Social Impacts
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2019-08-12)My PhD fieldwork on Dutch aid in the Mozambican waterscape took me from one crisis-ridden research context, the Netherlands, to another, Mozambique. This working paper asks how seemingly unrelated crises in both countries ... -
Young People and Land in Zimbabwe: Livelihood Challenges After Land Reform
(Routledge, 2019-08-08)This article explores the livelihood challenges and opportunities of young people following Zimbabwe’s land reform in 2000. The article explores the life courses of a cohort of men and women, all children of land reform ... -
Commissions of Inquiry in Plateau State, Nigeria
(IDS, 2019-08)Nigeria’s Plateau State has been the scene of inter-community violence since the 1990s, involving several clashes in the city of Jos that took many lives within a matter of days. Between 1997 and 2014 different Commissions ... -
Developing Subnational Scorecards for Nutrition Accountability in Tanzania
(IDS, 2019-08)Scorecards are an increasingly popular instrument aiming to advance accountability for nutrition. Often devised at national level, growing interest is now emerging in subnational application. This paper presents a protocol ... -
Unmet Needs and Opportunities for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the G5 Sahel Region
(IDS, 2019-07)This report provides an overview of potential opportunities and gaps in the G5 Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger) in relation to the impacts of climate change. The report focuses on four main ... -
Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South: The Politics of Domestic Violence Policy
(Routledge, 2019-03-04)The fact that women have achieved higher levels of political inclusion within low- and middle-income countries has generated much speculation about whether this is reaping broader benefits in tackling gender-based inequalities. ...
