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Our research and analysis on innovations in health services and systems – including work on identifying effective strategies to address the challenges of antimicrobial resistance – is accelerating progress towards achieving universal health coverage in Asia and Africa. Our work on nutrition spans the spectrum from dietary transition and globalisation of food systems, through to responding to the ways that marginalisation and inequity drive high child malnutrition rates. We bring vital social knowledge to aid effective preparedness and response on pandemics. We show how direct impacts on the spread of diseases such as Ebola can be achieved by bringing learning from research on social issues and contexts to the right people in the right organisations at the right time. Together with our global partners, we are generating and sharing new knowledge and evidence to identify the underlying causes of poor health and social inequalities, and the progressive policies and practices that can help bring about transformative change.
Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) is hosting a series of online events in July to share some of the exciting highlights from the six year research and innovation programme. It was funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)...
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This seminar will share insights from researchers and activists from the Global North and South who are working together in the Trans-Atlantic ‘Building Back Better from Below’ and ‘Panex-Youth’ action research projects to document innovative responses to...
The Adult Entertainment Sector is a relatively new and growing sector in Kathmandu, developing rapidly after international aid and trade relations led to the growth of a consumer economy and the development of a consumer culture.
Michael Lipton, the great development economist, died a little over a year ago. In the many tributes paid to him, his contributions to land debates were rather underplayed. Along with his 1977 book, Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias and World Development, his book, Land Reform in...
This blog is also available in English: Learning from past and present nutrition interventions
Desde 2021, una red de nutrición crítica ha convocado a diversos profesionales incluyendo antropólogos, historiadores, nutricionistas, dietistas, epidemiólogos y especialistas en salud pública...
Este blog está disponible en español: Aprendizaje de intervenciones nutricionales pasadas y presentes
Since 2021, a critical nutrition network has been bringing together diverse professionals including anthropologists, historians, nutritionists, dieticians, epidemiologists and public health...
Demands from social movements, community leaders and civil society organisations are rarely made in isolation, but rather as part of a broader agenda in a struggle for equitable citizenship. The grassroots social innovations that emerged in the context of the pandemic in marginalised communities...
Across São Paulo several grassroots social innovations emerged as response to the crises produced or aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to food distribution, which played a crucial role in reducing food insecurity in most communities, the intersectoral coordination of initiatives...
In times of global adversity social inequalities become even more evident, especially in urban peripheries. Across the city of São Paulo different civil society organisations, such as social movements, were busy helping and welcoming the most vulnerable during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Few topics attract as many myths and misconceptions as smuggling. As an activity that is more frequently encountered through tabloids and crime dramas than academic research, public perceptions are often dramatised and outdated. At the same time, how we think about smuggling influences how we...
The lack of integrated public policies and easy access to citizens is nothing new when it comes to the most vulnerable populations. This was visible in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic not only in its dramatic figures with the second highest number of deaths worldwide, but also in the locally...
The paper finds that the majority of informal sector operators of a 2,700 sample of informal enterprises in the Accra metropolitan area pay a range of taxes and fees, which together amount to a significant burden, especially for low earners.
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