Publications

Mining Legitimacy: Governing the Politics of Resource-Based Green Industrial Policy

IDS Working Paper 623

Green transitions are not only technological but deeply political. They rely on resources – land, minerals, water – mostly located in low- and middle-income countries, where extraction is increasingly contested. Drawing on evidence from Argentina and Chile, this paper examines how...

Anabel Marín

Santiago Cunial

Building Trust and Engagement: Vital to Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

Community engagement is a crucial part of preparedness and response to health emergencies. It can enable more effective and equitable approaches by listening and responding to people’s needs, aspirations and priorities as much as communicating information to people and seeking to guide their...

Santiago Ripoll & 7 others

Community Engagement for Public Health in Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Community engagement, in public health practice, includes a wide range of activities to work with community members to promote well-being and achieve more equitable health outcomes. This kind of work was critical to pandemic preparedness and response during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cleveland has a...

Megan Schmidt-Sane & 2 others

Community Engagement for Public Health in Cleveland, Ohio, United States

This short report describes findings from the Cleveland, Ohio site of the ‘Community Engagement in Pandemic Preparedness (CEPP)’ project. The aim of this study was to yield practical and operationally relevant lessons from COVID-19 and ongoing work to improve community engagement (CE) and...

Megan Schmidt-Sane & 2 others

Strengthening Community and Community Engagement Infrastructure for Better Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness at the Local Level

This evidence brief draws on anthropological research in Ealing, a borough in Northwest London, to demonstrate how investing in community engagement infrastructure is fundamental to pandemic preparedness. While traditional preparedness often focuses on plans and protocols, the Ealing experience...

Tabitha Hrynick & 2 others

Fragmented Power, Access and Legitimacy: The Politics of Social Assistance in Yemen’s Conflict (2014–24)

BASIC Research Working Paper 38

This paper examines the politics and dynamics of social assistance in Yemen, where international humanitarian aid dominates support to conflict-affected populations.

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s Everyday Experiences of Climate Preparedness and Adaptation in Banaskantha, India

As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically...

Vinitha Bachina & 2 others

The Tax Era of Development: Taxing Smarter for Equity, Growth, and Resilience

Tax is not only the primary source of financing in lower-income countries, but also the lynchpin of development finance.

Max Gallien & 5 others

Public Support for Wealth and Progressive Taxes in Pakistan

This brief explores public support for wealth taxation and the factors that shape those attitudes in Pakistan.

Max Gallien & 2 others

Reframing the Accountability of Social Assistance in Crises: Emerging Evidence and Promising Practices

BASIC Research Working Paper 39

This review examines shifts and emerging trends in the accountability of social assistance during crises, based on findings from the previous 2022 review. It draws on primary research from the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme, including themes such as targeting, aid...

Práticas colaborativas melhoram a responsabilização e a governança

IDS Policy Briefing 221

Esta nota informativa analisa seis estudos de caso do programa POTENCIAR, implementado no setor da saúde em Moçambique. Destaca lições para os programas de governança e discute a forma como o POTENCIAR facilitou a partilha de conhecimentos, o planeamento participativo, a coordenação...

Ludovico Alcorta & 4 others

Vernacular Resilience and conflicting temporalities in Côte d’Ivoire: Between Resistance, Resignation, Débrouillardise and Hope

Building on critical scholarship on multiple resiliencies, this article takes temporalities seriously as the basis for its analysis. While disasters are usually described by resilience scholars as moments of temporal rupture, the article engages with different notions of temporalities with...

Jeremy Allouche