Frontiers of Sanitation: Innovations and Insights 15
This issue of Frontiers of Sanitation describes four Rapid Action Learning approaches that have been developed and tested in India by IDS and partners to support the Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin, and encourages others to use them, to innovate other approaches, and to share their...
21 September 2020
Shielding is a term used to describe the protection of individuals at high risk of severe COVID-19 illness by separating them from the general population. An initial analysis of key considerations regarding shielding was set forth in the previous Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform...
18 September 2020
K4D Emerging Issues Report 35
This report focuses on the social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries and considerations around preparedness, response/mitigation, resilience, and recovery measures taken or proposed in response. However, it should be acknowledged that the different 10 impacts...
14 September 2020
CREID Working Paper 2
This CREID Working Paper paper endeavours to make visible the targeting of poor women from religious minorities in contexts where society and/or the state both engage in religious ‘otherisation’, seeking to contribute to addressing the blind spot in both feminist and freedom of religion or...
10 September 2020
Why this session now? Governance and accountability can seem like abstract notions – but in fact they are at the heart of implementation. If something that is supposed to happen does not happen, there is generally a problem with governance and accountability. COVID-19 has laid bare the...
10 September 2020
Briefing
The Covid-19 pandemic is more than a health crisis. Its long-term economic and societal effects may well outweigh its initial public health impact. It is therefore essential that responses are socially sensitive and attuned to mitigating these secondary effects.
8 September 2020
IDS Annual Review;2020
Our research, learning and teaching continues to transform the knowledge, action and leadership needed for more equitable and sustainable development globally. It has been an extraordinary year of challenge and change. As the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic, social and political...
7 September 2020
Brooke Shearer Series 9
Opportunities for employment, or the lack of them, have long been a central interest of African governments, young people, and their families. Youth employment is also currently the subject of considerable policy, research, and practitioner interest (e.g., CTA et al., 2014; Filmer and Fox, 2014;...
1 September 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has undermined capacity and efforts to address other health needs that are just as pressing as the virus itself, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Pressure on governments to act on COVID-19 now to save “immediately identifiable lives” rather than...
1 September 2020
This is the third edition of Ideas from IDS, our publication featuring student essays, now from the 2018/19 academic year. This is the first time this publication has a thematic focus: food.
28 August 2020
ESRC-DFID Research Impact
This working paper highlights the key points and emerging policy themes arising from a virtual event hosted by the Global Coalition Against Child Poverty (GCACP) and the Impact Initiative in May 2020. The event concentrated on one impact pathway: engagement with global advocacy movements....
28 August 2020
Policy Briefing
The separation between provision of short-term humanitarian assistance and long-term development programmes – such as social protection – often creates inefficiencies, wastes resources and means support fails to reach those who urgently need it.
27 August 2020