OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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PEACH - Methodology
(IDS, 2012-11-28)The purpose of this note to make some practical suggestions for carrying out the project Political Economy Analysis of Climate Change Policies – the PEACH project. The central question of the project is who drives/obstructs ... -
Manual for Value Chain Research on Homeworkers in the Garment Industry
(IDS, 2001-11)In developed and developing countries, grassroots organisations are trying to improve thelivelihoods of informal producers. Such organisations have been concerned in particular with thehome-based workers who ... -
How Do World Bank Projects Commit to Citizen Engagement?
(IDS, 2020-03-19)The World Bank provides one of the world’s largest sources of international development funding, in 2019 committing US$62.3bn in loans, grants, equity investments, and guarantees to governments and private businesses. The ... -
The Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Khartoum
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)This Briefing Note is intended for readers interested in understanding how Khartoum, with its complex political and land-related challenges, can move towards more inclusive development, and more accessible and affordable ... -
The Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)This Briefing Note is for those interested in supporting more inclusive urbanisation processes in cities where populations are growing rapidly but poverty remains prevalent, and in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza in particular. ... -
The Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Khartoum
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)Cities are largely self-organising systems and can play a pivotal role in a country’s economy. Unfortunately, neither conventional markets nor urban plans are very well suited to guiding what goes where in a city ... -
Investigating the Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Khartoum
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)Many countries in Africa have low average incomes and high urbanisation and urban population growth rates. This combination, which has been experienced at some time in all parts of the world, can make life particularly ... -
Examining the Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Khartoum
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and East African Research Fund (EARF), 2020-02)Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, and Khartoum are vastly different East African cities demographically, physically, socially, and in matters of governance. That said, both Dar es Salaam and Khartoum are the primate cities of their ... -
The Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
(IDS, 2020-02-21)Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is already highly dependent on food imports, making it also vulnerable to price shocks on the global markets and harvest failures in other world regions. This rapid review will ... -
On The Move: A Bibliography on Pastoralism Research, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex: 1970-2020
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-03-13)Research on pastoralism at IDS spans 50 years, since Jeremy Swift started his PhD on Tuareg pastoral livelihoods in northern Mali. This bibliography pulls together publications – including academic pieces alongside reports ... -
The Use of Fossil Fuels in the Middle East and North Africa
(IDS, 2020-02-21)This rapid literature review collates evidence from academic and grey literature on the use of fossil fuels in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). MENA, for much of its recent history, has been known for its energy ... -
The RSA Citizens’ Economic Council: Citizen Contributions to Policy Making Highlights
(IDS, 2020-03)The RSA’s Citizen Economic Council was a two-year programme (2016-2018) in which 59 citizens conducted their own enquiry into economic policy in the United Kingdom and worked and deliberated with policymakers to co-create ... -
ASMARE: Informal Waste Workers Engaging in Municipal Policy-Making
(IDS, 2020-03)ASMARE is an association of informal waste workers ( catadores ) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Founded in 1990, it was the first step of involving catadores as a part of the city’s waste collection scheme. With ASMARE, the ... -
BPDC: Costa Rica’s Worker-Owned Bank
(IDS, 2020-03)Banco Popular (Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal, BPDC) is a cooperative bank that is owned and managed by the workers of Costa Rica. Its diverse clients include workers, farmers, enterprises, and a variety of development ... -
Innovation Value Chains in East and Southern Africa and the Key Gaps
(IDS, 2020-02-10)This review synthesises evidence on key gaps in East and Southern Africa’s innovation value chain (concept to commercialisation), e.g. in health technology, sanitation, clean energy, agricultural technology or bio-innovation. ... -
Evidence of India’s Biotechnology Innovation Experience
(IDS, 2020-02-13)This rapid literature review has found that evidence on India’s experience and achievements in biotechnology is largely generated by government reports and state agency websites. A review of academic studies, government ... -
Qualitative Feedback from Community Participants, NGOs and External Stakeholders on Freedom Fund Interventions to Reduce the Prevalence of Bonded Labour in Northern India
(IDS, 2020-02-01)This report was produced by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) and Praxis, for the Freedom Fund. It is an output of the programme ‘Planning, learning, monitoring and evaluation activities for the Northern India ... -
Evaluation of the South-Eastern Nepal Hotspot to Reduce the Prevalence of Bonded Labour
(IDS, 2020-02-01)The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in partnership with ActionAid Nepal (AAN), has been carrying out a programme of research, learning, and evaluation in relation to the Freedom Fund’s ‘hotspot’ in South-Eastern ... -
Evaluation Report on the Results of the Interventions to Reduce the Prevalence of Bonded Labour in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
(IDS, 2020-02-01)Since 2014, the Freedom Fund has been working with local partner non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in North India to combat bonded labour and other forms of exploitation, focusing efforts on 700 villages across the ... -
Interventions to Promote Wellbeing of Refugees in High- and Middle Income Countries
(IDS, 2020-03-06)This review synthesises evidence on the evidence to support specific interventions promoting refugee wellbeing, including the role of social capital and networking in high- and middle-income countries. Although there is a ...
