This project examined some of the factors that contribute to better local governance and economic performance, focusing on district-level variations.
A seminar series to tackle the theoretical and policy challenge of making climate adaptation work for the poor; and to reposition the theory and discourse of climate adaptation at multiple scales, recognising the importance of science and knowledge towards pro-poor adaptation.
This project developed a screening approach for assessing climate change impacts and addressing adaptation in development projects in China.
This research investigates the linkages between good urban governance, climate adaptation and resilience, and poverty and sustainable development concerns. It develops and tests an analytical framework for urban adaptation governance ten Asian cities.
This large research programme seeks to identify systems for exercising power, conducting politics and building states in sub-Saharan Africa that will offer better outcomes in terms of poverty reduction than the current arrangements.
The purpose of this review is to assess how effective the involvement of United Nations agencies, collectively and individually, has been in the Poverty Reduction Strategy processes.
Based on extensive fieldwork interviews in China and Africa, this project examines the role of Chinese private enterprises in Africa.
Promoting greater citizen participation in local governance through international dialogue and exchange.
A five-year research programme, taking an innovative micro level, multidisciplinary approach to studying the conflict cycle.
Joint project led by Sarah Cook, together with Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), to develop collaborative research on informal employment
CGAP has contracted the IDS to develop several simple indicators based on the Afghan context, that will report on what degree MFIs serve poor people and access to basic health care services.
A review of literature on the impact of labour regulations and anti-discrimination legislation on gender quality in employment in developing countries.
