This commissioned study brought together the existing literature on gender and social protection in the informal economy with a view to drawing out lessons on good practice to inform ongoing policy discussions.
This project is part of the Asian Development Bank's efforts to address a research gap by quantifying social protection activities throughout Asia by creating a social protection index (SPI) using four summary indicators.
An examination of the policy responses to new challenges for producers of food products in East Africa and South-East Asia.
GSDRC provide high quality, timely knowledge products to support international development planning, policymaking and other activities area. This includes a document library, a research helpdesk and email bulletins.
This research examines people's experience of asbestos related diseases. It seeks to explore how people feel after contracting the disease and how it affects them personally.
Recent literature on decentralisation has recognized that if democratic local governance is the ultimate objective, then just as much emphasis must be placed on mechanisms for genuine downward accountability to local residents as is placed on aspects such as the degree of autonomy from central...
This is a doctoral research project conducted by IDS DPhil Student, Tobias Denskus, and supervised by IDS Fellow, Rosalind Eyben. After year-long fieldwork in Germany and Nepal, Tobais aims to make sense of the ethnographic research he conducted inside the international aid community in...
Using case studies of Brazil and India, this work looked at the impact on development finance of compliance with international codes and standards.
This research project was initiated and conceptualised in the framework of the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP), an informal network of around 30-donor and non-governmental organisations that works on strengthening the nexus between poverty reduction and environmental protection in...
More than 40 countries, including many of the poorest, have thus far produced Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in response to the international initiative led by the World Bank. The major donor agencies are now realigning their aid strategies around these documents.
Citizen engagement with the state and the formation of national policies
The goal of this project was to support more effective, transparent and accountable budget processes in partner countries. The purpose is to enable donors to develop a deeper understanding of the politics and political context of budget processes in specific country settings.
