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IDS News - July 2010

Widening the Exit Doors: Lessons from Fonkoze, CLM

Published: 30 Jul 2010 BRAC Bangladesh logo

Brac Development Institute has published a communication brief that discusses the evaluation results of Fonkoze's graduation programme, CLM.


Targeting non-conflict armed violence

Published: 29 Jul 2010 A demonstrator protests the visit of Mexican President Calderon to Cuidad Juarez. Image credit: Teun Voeten (Panos)

Non-conflict armed violence has a devastating effects both to individuals and their communities, setting back social and economic development. The policy briefing 'Horizon', from IDS Knowledge Services, looks at what can be done.


Sharing knowledge for low carbon development in South Asia

Published: 27 Jul 2010 A solar panel technician repairing valves on the roof of the Sai Prasadalaya, India

New South Asia Low Carbon Platform aims to disseminate and share information on low carbon energy systems and low carbon development strategies that reduce poverty and tackle climate change in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.


UN Women receives guarded welcome from gender activists

Published: 22 Jul 2010 Girls helping their mother dry and package herbs for sale at market, Zimbabwe. Photo: Panos / Giacomo Pirozzi.

The creation of a single powerful UN body to promote women's equality has been long awaited by members of the Pathways of Women's Empowerment research community.


IDS director joins prestigious global panel to tackle hunger and malnutrition

Published: 21 Jul 2010 Lawrence Haddad at IDS annual review, July 2010

Professor Lawrence Haddad has been appointed to the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts of the UN’s Committee on World Food Security.


IDS staff participate in one-stop-shop for learning at AIDS 2010

Published: 20 Jul 2010 Boy with painted HIV ribbon, Alfredo D'Amato/ Panos

Creative thinking is inspiring and informing AIDS policy makers, scientists and community members at an international conference in Vienna.


New research into product and export diversification in Brazil

Published: 16 Jul 2010 Bags of processed acai at Sambazon processing plant, Brazil / Gary Calton / Panos

IDS is leading research to close a knowledge gap about the process of product and export diversification in Brazil.


Income inequality declining in Latin America

Published: 15 Jul 2010 Micro-credit in Brazil-woman counting money
Francisca Iramaia Farias da Silva in her Casa das Frutas groceries shop counting money from community bank. Image credit: Eduardo Martino / Panos

For the first time in history, income inequality declined throughout Latin America. A new book, edited by IDS Board Member Professor Nora Lustig and chief economist Luis F. López-Calva takes an in-depth look at Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru to determine the primary impetus for this trend.


Reports Now available: The Social Impact of Crisis One Year On

Published: 9 Jul 2010 Crisis Watch is a global network of researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in monitoring the on-the-ground impacts of the financial crisis.

A year on from research into the impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises in five developing countries, researchers returned to eight of the ten original communities to study how the global downturn had played out over the last year.


Cross-country analysis on citizen engagement helps inform development policy making

Published: 9 Jul 2010 Participants at a conference for shack dwellers and government officials rally in Cape Town, South Africa in May 2006 (Photograph by Andy Bolnick)

Results from a global research project point to the benefits of citizen engagement, giving much-needed evidence to back bottom-up approaches to development projects – as well as advice on potential risks.


Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development

Published: 5 Jul 2010 Rice field showing biofortification - IFPR/Michael Rubinstein

A new book questions the ability of biofortification to solve micronutrient deficiency in the developing world – and reveals alternative lessons from the interdisciplinary scientific enquiry that biofortification represents.


The Big Question for Development, IDS Podcast July 2010

Published: 5 Jul 2010 Panel at IDS Event - Improving Coverage of International Development in the UK Media

IDS has recently surveyed a number of journalists, asking about their experience of reporting on international development. The same difficulty was raised repeatedly: how can the media project a balanced view of development?



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