This project brought together researchers in Latin America, Africa, North America and Europe to analyse the developments and assess the implications for fair trade organisations and producers.
The research of this project has focused on the transformation of gender and employment in both export manufacturing and agriculture.
The DRC is a five-year programme funded by the UK Department for International Development and is based at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex.
Lessons of Design and ImplementationBackgroundThere is growing recognition that public sector governance (PSG) reform is critical to efforts to strengthen state capacity and enable it to perform its core functions. A decade of experience has shown that technocratic approaches to civil service...
This project sought to understand the factors that contribute to turnaround in fragile states.
This project sought to understand how eight development initiatives achieved success in the extremely difficult conditions found in ‘fragile states', or what the World Bank calls ‘low income countries under stress (LICUS)'
The aim of this research is to better understand the interactions between migration (internal and international) and social protection in order to inform initiatives that can create ‘mobile’ systems of social protection.
An analysis of whether firms in the Southern Brazilian clusters of the Sinos Valley (footwear) and the Serra Gaucha (furniture) show different patterns of industrial upgrading according to the global and national value chains they feed into.
Water scarcity has emerged as a potential 'global crisis' with serious implications for food security, human health and social and economic development. The UN estimates that 2.7 billion people will face water scarcity by 2025. Against a growing alarmism around 'water wars', solutions have been...
A comparative study of rural health care services undertaken in collaboration with partners in Vietnam and China.
Those working in energy argue that a wide range of direct and indirect benefits can result from the provision of improved energy services to poor households. It is also suggested that there are feasible mechanisms for the establishment of such services, though the problems of devising effective...
The DFID funded Future Agricultures Consortium is an Africa-based alliance of research organisations seeking to provide timely, high-quality and independent information and advice to improve agricultural policy and practice in Africa.
