The question driving this project was how was the 'organisational decomposition of the innovation process' (ODIP) changing the global distribution of innovation activities.
Concern commissioned IDS to carry out an external evaluation of the FACT programme in Malawi
This research investigated whether the capabilities associated with the basic 'production' of software had led to increasing 'innovation' capabilities after the turn of the millennium.
This research project looked at non-governmental public actors and how they engage with multi-level policy processes which bridge Southern and Northern contexts. It also investigated the impacts and outcomes of these engagements.
IDS were commissioned by the UK Department for International Development to conduct a literature review of how and to what extent social cash transfer programmes have had effects upon the local economy.
How, in the political and institutional environments typical of poor countries, can governments and other state actors achieve substantial increases in productive private investment?
Major illness in the family has become an important cause of household impoverishment in China and the ex-command economies of Southeast Asia, as these countries have managed the transition to a market economy.
This project, led by ActionAid, is designed to reduce people's vulnerability to natural disasters by targeting schools.
Commissioned as an independent evaluation by the Ministry of Finance, Rwanda, this evaluation sought to examine progress in the preparation, design and implementation of Rwanda's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP).
Analytical study to assist with the design of a functional health and education conditioned cash transfer for the poor in Nigeria.
This project aims to create and strengthen analytical and practical capacity of policy analysis in Ethiopia and to support the government in its endeavours to meet the challenges of the MDGs.
IDS is part of the Realising Rights Research Programme Consortium, which brings together researchers from several disciplines to focus on populations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with the greatest access and entitlement problems in sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
