Podcast S06 Ep4: Ebola, how a people’s science helped end an epidemic
What lessons can we learn from using local knowledge in countries like Sierra Leone to combat past epidemics like the Ebola outbreak and...
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What lessons can we learn from using local knowledge in countries like Sierra Leone to combat past epidemics like the Ebola outbreak and...
24 June 2024
24 June 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper presents the results of the multi-method evaluation of the CLARISSA Cash Plus pilot, which was an innovative social protection scheme for tackling social ills, including the worst forms of child labour.
24 June 2024
21 June 2024
Published by: Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea)
The use of scientific knowledge to support policy has been a debated issue since the emergence of the field of policy analysis (Lerner and Lasswell, 1951; Weiss, 1979). More recently, the evidence-based policy approach (EBP) resumes and extends this debate by advocating for public decision-makers to use scientific evidence about “what works” to improve policy. On the one hand, EBP renews belief in the precepts of instrumental rationality and scientific neutrality as the foundation of policy decisions (Davies, Nutley and Smith, 2000). However, on the other hand, it catalyzes criticism from different analytical schools, such as the argumentative and post-structuralist ones, which provide the basis for different arguments about what would inform and provide the basis for policy. This chapter seeks to explore some of these arguments.
21 June 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The CLARISSA Nepal Action Research Group discussed in this report is located in a UNESCO world heritage site, in one of the Durbar Squares in Kathmandu Valley. The location was selected as a cluster for CLARISSA processes due to its density of street-connected children and child street vendors. These children are highly mobile, and the nature of the neighbourhood is diverse.
Join this T20 thinktank event on Fighting Hunger and Poverty in the UK and Internationally: Contributions to the G20 in the context of...
18 June 2024
Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) is hosting a series of online events in July to...