First Arabic language cohort of social science and humanitarian fellows announced
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) – a partnership between the Institute of Development Studies, Anthrologica,...
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The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) – a partnership between the Institute of Development Studies, Anthrologica,...
Published by: International Centre for Tax and Development
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
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
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.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme aims to understand the dynamics that...
Published by: IDS
African countries are currently considering provisions in the AfCFTA and at the WTO to liberalise digital trade. As they face mounting...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
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 study – that when we talk about the informal sector, we know what we are talking about.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
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 reinforce one another in ways exacerbated by the international border.
Inclusive participatory research can be designed to work respectfully and effectively with people with disabilities with a wide range of...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
El Niño can be viewed as a multi-hazard event, and considerations for information needs cut across different populations and risks,...