7 February 2019
Social Science in Epidemics: Ebola Virus Disease Lessons Learned
This report is the second instalment of the ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, commissioned by the USAID Office of U.S. Foreign...
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7 February 2019
This report is the second instalment of the ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, commissioned by the USAID Office of U.S. Foreign...
7 February 2019
The drought in the Horn of Africa and the protracted conflict has created a humanitarian emergency that has led to a declaration of...
10 August 2018
Published by: UNICEF
This brief summarises key considerations about the context of North Kivu province in relation to the outbreak of Ebola in the DRC,...
Our health and nutrition work brings new understanding and action on health tackling epidemics, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic...
18 May 2018
This brief summarises key socio-cultural issues related to the introduction of vaccine (rVSV‐ZEBOV) to the DRC in relation to the...
22 June 2017
1 April 2017
Now more than ever, evidence overwhelmingly concludes that our food systems are not currently working to nourish our populations, ecosystems, economies, or social connections. Agroecological approaches have been shown as having potential to address many of these problems in the mainstream food system, particularly when combined with concepts of food sovereignty, which localise control, and place
1 January 2017
In the current social system which tends to marginalise small scale producers, frame the interests of consumers as antithetical to those of producers, and force producers to compete against one another, there are questions about the extent to which strategies and alliances identified by agroecological farmers would be sufficiently transformative (or ‘radical’ according to Holt-Giménez and Shattuck
1 January 2017
Published by: IDS
International development actors increasingly focus on youth employment as a key development challenge.
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action: A Communication for Development Platform aims to establish networks of social scientists with regional and subject expertise to rapidly provide insight, analysis and advice, tailored to demand and in accessible forms, to better design and implement the social and communication dimensions of emergency responses.