Publications

Brief

Digital Poverty in the UK

IDS Policy Briefing 202

As every aspect of life – from job seeking to health care – moves online, digital connectivity is a daily necessity, not a luxury. Against the backdrop of the UK’s worst cost of living crisis in 40 years, discussions about fuel and food poverty are now joined by a new concern with what has...

Becky Faith & 2 others

4 August 2022

Brief

Should Governments Tax Digital Financial Services? A Research Agenda to Understand Sector-specific Taxes on DFS

ICTD Research in Brief 77

Low-income countries are facing strong pressure to bring in more revenue at home. With digital financial services (DFS) rapidly expanding across Africa and other low-income countries a growing number are therefore considering new taxes on DFS. In light of the heated debate over DFS taxes, this...

Mary Abounabhan & 4 others

3 August 2022

Brief

Supporting Small Food Businesses to Build Resilience During Crises

IDS Policy Briefing 201

Small food businesses are vital to delivering affordable, nutritious food to low-income communities. Yet food systems are under threat from multiple stressors.

Evert-jan Quak

Jodie Thorpe

1 August 2022

Journal

Pandemic Perspectives: Why Different Voices and Views Matter

IDS Bulletin 53.3

Responding effectively to the Covid-19 crisis and in ways that address systemic inequalities in the longer term raises many challenges – and opportunities – for researchers and commissioners of research. Launched in October 2020, the Covid Collective brought together the expertise...

29 July 2022

Working Paper

Responsiveness to religious inequalities in contexts of displacement: Evidence from providers of humanitarian assistance to Shi’a Hazara refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan

CREID Working Paper 12

This Working Paper discusses inequalities caused or exacerbated by religious diversity in displacement and how humanitarian action can be aware of and responsive to this. It is based on interviews with Shi’a Hazara refugees from Afghanistan and local, national and international providers of...

Jennifer Philippa Eggert & 2 others

26 July 2022

Report

Learning from Life Story Collection and Analysis with Children who Work in the Leather Sector in Bangladesh

Learning Note 1

The CLARISSA Bangladesh team successfully collected and analysed 405 life stories from children in the worst forms of child labour (WFCL). Our key learning from undertaking this first part of a systemic Action Research process in the context of WFCL is as below: Trust and rapport...

Mashrique Sayem & 3 others

22 July 2022

Publication

Building Safer and More Sustainable Food Systems in Peru

Stories of Change

The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people living in Latin American cities. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Covid-19 Responses for...

Ricardo Fort

Karine Gatellier

20 July 2022

Publication

Funding Mechanisms to Local CSOs

K4D Helpdesk Report

Civil society can be broadly defined as the area outside the family, market and state. As such, civil society encompasses a spectrum of actors with a wide range of purposes, constituencies, structures, degrees of organisation, functions, size, resource levels, cultural contexts, ideologies,...

19 July 2022

Publication

Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary No.28

K4D Helpdesk Report

This is the 28th monthly Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme Humanitarian Evidence Summary to signpost to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action to inform and support their response. It is the result of 1 day of work per month and is not...

15 July 2022

Report

Emerging Practice for the Engagement of Men and Boys in WASH

Frontiers of Sanitation;

This document accompanies Frontiers of Sanitation: Engaging men for gender transformative WASH, Part 2, which explores the extent to which engaging men and boys in WASH processes is leading to transformative change in gender roles, attitudes, and sustainable change in reducing gender...

Godfrey Bongomin et al.

14 July 2022

Report

Engaging Men and Boys for Gender-Transformative WASH

Frontiers of Sanitation;20

This issue of Frontiers of Sanitation explores the extent to which engaging men and boys in WASH processes is leading to transformative change in gender roles, attitudes, and sustainable change in reducing gender inequalities across households, communities, organisations, and policy. This...

Sue Cavill & 2 others

14 July 2022

Working Paper

Access to Covid-19 Vaccines and Concerns of Returnee Migrant Workers in Lao PDR During the Covid-19 Pandemic

IDS Working Paper 574

This research examined the access Lao international migrants returning to Lao PDR had to Covid-19 vaccination and the practical and ideological barriers returnee migrants faced in obtaining the vaccination.

Vanphanom Sychareun & 7 others

7 July 2022