Publications

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

Reframing Socio–environmental Relations in Coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India

In this article, we explore how local livelihoods and socio–environmental relations can be reframed through co-productive knowledge practices and legal activism. We start by tracing the emergence of colonial declensionist views of environments in India as ‘productive’ and ‘normal’,...

Lyla Mehta & 5 others

Rapid evidence synthesis: Mpox community protection

SSHAP Evidence Synthesis

This note presents a rapid synthesis of evidence related to community protection in countries affected by the mpox clade 1b outbreak.

WFP’s Support to Strengthening the National Social Protection System in Zimbabwe

This case study explores the World Food Programme’s (WFP) role in supporting social protection in Zimbabwe over the last decade. It assesses how WFP has supported the building blocks of Zimbabwe’s national social protection system, focusing on non-contributory social assistance as the...

Roz Price & 2 others

Environmental Crisis and Sustainable Development in South America

South America has compelling reasons to address the climate and environmental crisis. First, the region is highly vulnerable to its impacts due to its economic reliance on natural resources and the susceptibility of its population. Addressing these vulnerabilities is crucial for the...

Anabel Marín

Meeting report: The impact of global aid funding cuts on people and programmes in South Sudan

SSHAP Roundtable Report

Low-income countries are reeling from the sudden and wide-ranging cuts to U.S. government foreign assistance, as well as from announcements that several European donor governments are also reducing their contributions. Among the worst affected is South Sudan, a country which is experiencing...

Leben Nelson Moro

Jennifer Palmer