Publications

Key considerations: Mpox response in urban informal settlements

SSHAP Briefing

The World Health Organization declared the second mpox public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in August 2024. Cases of mpox have been reported in both endemic and non-endemic countries in diverse settings in Central and East Africa. In urban areas, there is sustained...

Megan Schmidt-Sane

Annie Wilkinson

Key considerations: Introducing experimental vaccines during health emergencies

SSHAP Briefing

This brief provides an overview of the experimental stages of vaccine development during a disease outbreak and highlights key considerations at each stage from a social science perspective. This brief complements a recent SSHAP publication that synthesised social and behavioural science (SBS)...

Firm-Level Innovation and the Role of Political Capabilities: Evidence for the Pharmaceuticals Industry

IDS Working Paper 622

The global debate on balancing incentives for innovation in the pharmaceutical industry and facilitating competition for greater access to affordable medicines and vaccines has intensified in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Drug discovery and vaccine development are expensive processes...

Amrita Saha & 2 others

Collaborative Practice Pathways Improve Accountability and Governance

IDS Policy Briefing 220

This policy briefing looks at six case studies from the POTENCIAR programme, implemented in Mozambique’s health sector. It highlights lessons for governance programmes and discusses how POTENCIAR’s interventions facilitated knowledge-sharing, participatory planning, institutional...

Ludovico Alcorta & 4 others

Supporting the mpox response for people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression in contexts where their rights are restricted

SSHAP Briefing

People with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression (SOGIE) are a hard-to-reach population. This is because of restrictive legal frameworks, social exclusion, stigma and discrimination in service delivery. Because people with diverse SOGIE often avoid seeking...

Grass-roots Innovation for Justice in Urban Food Provisioning

IDS Working Paper 619

This paper draws on an international research collaboration to examine grass-roots innovations in food provisioning in five urban locations: Brighton & Hove, UK; Toronto, Canada; Montpellier, France; São Paulo, Brazil; and Cape Town, South Africa. It examines the innovative features of these...

Lídia Cabral & 7 others

Supporting Mutual Aid in Sudan: Conflict-Sensitive Approaches to Risk and Accountability

BASIC Research Working Paper 40

This study explores how mechanisms of social solidarity have been shaped by the war in Sudan, as well as by their interaction with external funders.

Becky Carter

Hassan-Alattar Satti

Key considerations: Mpox in the Busia-Malaba border region linking Uganda and Kenya

SSHAP Briefing

Mpox has spread along the Busia-Malaba border that links eastern Uganda and western Kenya, with risk factors centred on cross-border mobility. Community responses to mpox are shaped by access to information on radio, television and social media as well as local terminologies, understandings of...

What Impact Do Tax Agents Have on Taxpayers’ Compliance in Uganda? Evidence from Tax Administrative Data

ICTD Working Paper 221

This study builds on existing exploratory evidence on the role of tax intermediaries in encouraing or hindering tax compliance in low-income countries through the analysis of all corporate income tax (CIT) and value added tax (VAT) returns submitted in Uganda between 2019 and 2023.

Giovanni Occhiali

Frederik Kalyango

Gold Mining, Conflict, and Post-war Governmentality in Côte d’Ivoire

Over the last twenty years, there has been a new gold rush in West African countries along a new resource frontier. The article’s key question is how mining governance reform and discourses around the 2014 Mining Code in Côte d’Ivoire create socio-environmental conflicts over the local...

Jeremy Allouche

Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below

In this paper we apply the concept of just transition to food systems, a domain central to environmental sustainability and social justice. We broaden and democratise the just transition debate by foregrounding a new set of voices and experiences from civil society organisations and networks in...

Lídia Cabral & 4 others

Rethinking ‘Farmer–herder’ Conflicts in the Ivorian Internal Frontier

There is a heightened concern among the media, United Nations (UN) agencies, and security experts about the rising number of localized conflicts in West Africa. While many of these conflicts are labelled as farmer–herder conflicts, they are, in fact, more complex and multidimensional. This...

Jeremy Allouche & 2 others