Enhancing the capacity of higher learning institutions to deliver effective education programmes that contribute to the wider transformation of individuals, institutions and society.
IDS was commissioned to assess the implementation of ETI member companies' codes and resultant impacts for workers.
This project considered policymaking processes in the forestry, land and primary health sectors in Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and India to identify policy lessons for development agencies seeking to promote a pro-poor policy agenda.
The research investigated the major areas of concern to developing countries of the Basle II Capital Accord.
Vaccines for children are currently high on international policy, aid and funding agendas, as a major promised means to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Yet major challenges have emerged in ensuring effective coverage and dealing with public anxieties.
Vaccines for children are currently high on international policy, aid and funding agendas, as a major promised means to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Yet major challenges have emerged in ensuring effective coverage and dealing with public anxieties.
Poverty reduction has never been more salient in discussions of development than in recent times. The global commitment to the Millennium Development Goals and the strong preoccupation with poverty in certain key donor agencies have raised its profile.
This project aimed to investigate ways in which codes implemented by from buyers in Europe could address the rights and needs of all workers, especially women and non-permanent workers.
IDS research has highlighted, and contributed to, the emergence of a number of proposals on alternative macroeconomic policies for adoption in developing countries.
IDS assisted Uganda’s Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in their efforts to mainstream social protection concerns throughout Uganda’s revised Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP).
Comparative research conducted in Romania and Kyrgyzstan provides evidence that small to medium forms of cooperation provide the rural poor with predictable livelihood strategies under conditions of uncertainty.
This study examined new forms of social protection for informal workers in global horticultural value chains.
