Publications

Key Themes and Considerations: Enabling Child Development in Ealing (ECDE) – Children’s Focus Groups

In July of 2023, one focus group was held with children in each of two local primary schools in Ealing borough. Each child participant had a younger sibling due to start school in September 2023. The focus groups took the form of the children working together to create an advice guide for...

Janine Shaw

Effective Social Protection in Conflict: Findings from Sudan

Working Paper

This paper explores the conflict sensitivity of social protection in Sudan in its various forms since the present war started in April 2023, from locally led mutual aid to the social assistance programming of international agencies.

River of Life

This fictional River of Life illustrates one family’s journey in the borough of Ealing. Based on research from the Enabling Early Child Development in Ealing (ECDE) project, it shows some common challenges faced by local families, but more importantly, how families felt support should be, in...

Mariah Cannon & 3 others

Indirect Rule: Armed Groups and Customary Chiefs in Eastern DRC

ICTD Working Paper 182

This paper leverages a novel panel dataset covering the histories of 306 chiefs and 256 episodes of village governance and taxation by armed groups in 106 villages in eastern DRC in order to analyse the relationship between the governance of armed groups and the power of rural chiefs

Social Protection Experiences of and Attitudes Towards New Urban Poor After Covid-19 in Bangladesh

IDS Working Paper 600

This paper provides insights into urban residents’ experiences of poverty and the support they received since the Covid-19 pandemic, and derives implications for social protection programming in urban Bangladesh.

Keetie Roelen & 10 others

Business Owners’ Perspectives on Running Khaja Ghars, Massage Parlours, Dance Bars, Hostess Bars, and Dohoris in Kathmandu, Nepal

CLARISSA Research and Evidence Paper 6

The Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme aims to understand the dynamics that are central to running a business in the informal economy of Nepal’s adult entertainment sector, and explore how and why the worst forms of child labour (WFCL)...

Learning from Lived Experience: Opportunities to Strengthen Early Child Development in Ealing

What happens in a child’s earliest years lays the foundations for their lifelong wellbeing. Supporting young children and families during this time is therefore critical for individuals, families, communities, and societies more broadly to thrive and flourish. This report shares research...

Tabitha Hrynick & 4 others

Fiscal Measures to Support Post-Pandemic Resilience

Research for Policy and Practice Report

Now that the dust has begun to settle on the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to reflect on and draw lessons from country experiences in pandemic response, in relation to fiscal management and reform. In order to apply these lessons, countries will require increased fiscal space to enable them to...

Are Trade Rules Undermining Taxation of the Digital Economy in Africa?

ICTD Working Paper 181

African countries are currently considering provisions in the AfCFTA and at the WTO to liberalise digital trade. As they face mounting fiscal pressures, it is imperative that they beware the implications of digital trade provisions for their ability to tax their digital economy. In this...

Karishma Banga

Alexander Beyleveld

Measurement and Mirage: The Informal Sector Revisited

IDS Working Paper 599

Recent years have seen an increasing availability and usage of measurements of informal sectors as the basis of scholarship and policy advice on the causes and consequences of informality. This has created an impression of a consensus around a clearly conceptualised and operationalised object of...

Max Gallien

Dispositions Towards the Living Wage Proposition: Baseline Report of the Rainforest Alliance Living Wage Strategy Evaluation

IDS Working Paper 598

This paper reflects on the changes induced by modifications in the Rainforest Alliance certification system that require wage transparency from plantation owners, a comparison with the local living wage benchmark, and a wage improvement plan. The paper synthesises the findings of four case...

Giel Ton & 12 others

Community Solutions to Insecurity Along the Uganda–Kenya Border

IDS Policy Briefing 214

In the Karamoja and Turkana border regions of Uganda and Kenya, there is widespread violence including armed robbery, rape, and human rights abuses, yet community complaints about failures of governance remain largely unaddressed. This Policy Briefing highlights how different insecurities...