Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are on a trajectory of an historically unique period of rapid population growth. Between now and 2050 the continent’s population is projected to double to 2.5 billion. Infant mortality rates have been declining and in most countries fertility rates are falling...
This Evidence and Learning Initiative was a cooperation with the Prosperity Fund (PF). It helped to ensure that in the current context of COVID-19, changes to the existing PF portfolio (and investments in new ones) are informed by and contribute to the evidence base on how the pandemic is...
The project of work forms part of a hub of UK research organisations delivering innovative interdisciplinary research on the challenge of achieving gender justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies. Funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) it seeks to address the...
This Learning Journey aimed to establish a more effective approach to two-way learning with the civil society sector in order to share and develop wider FCDO (then DFID) policy and programmes. It therefore responded to internal policy directives, the objectives of the SDGs, the Commonwealth...
K4D provides the UK Department for International Development with facilitated learning activities to explore and respond to complex, interdisciplinary development issues of strategic importance to policy, programming and organisational learning.
The Security & Access to Justice (S&J) Learning Journey will help address S&J challenges and capability gaps within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). This will be done primarily through a series of facilitated discussions and expertise-sharing with select FCDO and Open...
This project, led by the Institute of Development Studies, in partnership with Ernst & Young and ABPmer, delivered a review and set of recommendations for informing Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) in Indonesia for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) as part of The Global...
This action-research project will establish a mutual exchange network on just food system transition including food system actors from four usually unconnected geographies. This will be a space for dialogue, exchange and learning between local food system actors working and advocating for...
This is a multi-disciplinary research partnership, led by IDS, which brings together a diverse group of anthropologists, historians, public health and nutrition specialists, and epidemiologists in Peru, Colombia and Nicaragua to create a network to tackle the challenge of malnutrition in Latin...
Es una colaboración multidisciplinaria, liderada por IDS, uniendo a un grupo diverso de antropólogo/as, historiadore/as, especialistas en salud pública y nutrición, y epidemiólogo/as en Perú, Colombia y Nicaragua, para la creación de una red que indague sobre el reto de la desnutrición...
K4D provides the UK Department for International Development with facilitated learning activities to explore and respond to complex, interdisciplinary development issues of strategic importance to policy, programming and organisational learning.
In 2012, DFID (now FCDO) put together the Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia (PEPE) to respond to the second growth and transformation plan of the government of Ethiopia. Within the focus areas of this growth and transformation plan, PEPE prioritised sectors where there were clear...
