Publications

Financial Probity and Compliance in Somali Assistance Systems: Considerations for Aid Delivery

Aid diversion in Somalia is once again rising. To minimise losses from diversion, the international system has over the years introduced a complex edifice of compliance – biometric registration, geotagged monitoring, hotlines, financial due diligence, results frameworks, third party monitors...

Tình yêu chết người : Giết hại phụ nữ trên cơ sở giới tại Việt Nam, một phân tích từ thông tin báo chí

IDS Working Paper 625

Phân tích báo chí về các vụ giết hại phụ nữ và trẻ em gái vì lý do giới (femicide) được trình bày trong báo cáo nghiên cứu này là một phần của dự án “Những linh hồn đã mất, những chiếc bát trắng: Ghi nhận các vụ giết hại...

Pauline Oosterhoff

Tu-Anh Hoang

The Missing Fiscal Link? Social Insurance, Tax Capacity, and Health Financing in Lower-Income Countries

ICTD Policy Brief 24

Social insurance systems have played a major role in the development of modern fiscal states. In high-income countries they have both been a large source of public revenue, and have supported wider tax and state capacity – by strengthening fiscal reciprocity, encouraging formalisation,...

Max Gallien

Bridging the Gap between Vocational Training and Employment

IDS Policy Briefing 229

Vocational and technical education is often praised because of its promotion of youth employment, its integration with local labour markets, and its contribution to national development. In West Africa, however, formal technical schooling is often not well integrated with employment markets,...

Cati Coe

School Meals Programmes in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: Evidence and Lessons from Mali on Contributions to Peace and Social Cohesion

This country insight report, developed by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), explores the role of school meal programmes in Mali and their potential contribution to peace and social cohesion, with a specific focus on Bandiagara and Mopti. Building on...

School Meals Programmes in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: Evidence and Lessons from Somalia on Contributions to Peace and Social Cohesion

This country insight report, developed by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), explores the role of school meal programmes in Somalia and their potential contribution to peace and social cohesion, with a specific focus on Galkayo. Building on the 2025...

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler & 3 others

Rapid Evidence Review: School-Based Transmission of Orthoebolaviruses

This report was finalised on 29 September 2026. A search for relevant evidence was conducted on 18 September 2026. School-based transmission of orthoebolaviruses was examined in one article written on the 2022 Uganda outbreak and was not found to be a statistically significant risk factor. A...

Inclusive and Clean Energy for SMEs in Rural Bolivia

CEDCA Stories of Change 2

Bolivia has achieved high rates of electricity access, yet rural and semi-rural producers still face major barriers to securing reliable, affordable energy for productive use. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the agrifood sector play a central role in ensuring national food security...

Fulfilling the Rights to Food and Nutrition through Equity-driven Evidence: A Case Study of the Union Against Hunger in South Africa

FEC Working Paper 009

The Union Against Hunger (UAH), launched in 2025, advocates for the constitutional rights to access sufficient food and basic nutrition in South Africa using ‘evidence-based activism’. By combining explicit knowledge (quantitative statistics) with tacit knowledge (lived experiences) it...

Stephen Devereux

Busiso Moyo

How ATIP Delivery Partners Bridged Gaps in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Systems in Africa

This booklet synthesises learning from the process to show how ATIP addressed gaps in each of seven science, technology and innovation (STI) system dimensions.

Jo Carpenter

Kirthi V Rao

Cards for Innovation Systems Strengthening

This toolkit was produced by the African Technology and Innovation Partnerships (ATIP) programme which is funded by the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

Jo Carpenter

Kirthi V Rao

From Resource Stability to Livelihood Security: Pathways Toward Sustainable and Equitable Aquaculture in Coastal Northern Vietnam

SEA Policy Brief

Coastal communities face multiple challenges: climate-related shocks that undermine aquaculture productivity; arduous working conditions that can cause both short- and long-term health problems; and growing competition for land with other sectors such as industrial manufacturing, which threatens...