Publications

Practical Guides for Participatory Methods: Body Mapping

This guide offers practical guidance on body mapping. It explains why it might be useful, key considerations, practical steps and a case study of how it has been used. Body mapping may be useful for practitioners and researchers who want to: Examine and appreciate how emotions, cultural...

Pauline Oosterhoff

Practical Guides for Participatory Methods: Time Sequencing

This guide offers practical guidance on time sequencing. It explains why it might be useful, key considerations, practical steps and a case study of how it has been used. Discrete visual documentation of different activities in one location may be useful for practitioners and researchers who...

Pauline Oosterhoff

Practical Guides for Participatory Methods: Mapping and Power Analysis

This guide offers practical guidance on mapping and power analysis. It explains why it might be useful, key considerations, practical steps and a case study of how it has been used. This method enables participants to create a visual map of the key resources and assets in their community,...

Joanna Howard

Practical Guides for Participatory Methods: Rivers of Life

This guide offers practical guidance on Rivers of Life. It explains why it might be useful, key considerations, practical steps and a case study of how it has been used. Through drawing of a river, this method helps to access and communicate personal experiences, and facilitate group dialogue...

Joanna Howard

Visual Nudges: How Deterrence and Equity Shape Tax Compliance Attitudes and Behaviour in Rwanda

ICTD Research in Brief; 81

Tax administrations in low-income countries engage in a variety of interventions to improve taxpayer compliance and close their countries’ financing gap. With this aim, the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) has implemented measures of enforcement, facilitation, and promotion of professionalism...

Celeste Scarpini & 2 others

The Tax Response to COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Lessons for the Future

African Tax Administration Paper;28

The government of Ethiopia, like other governments, has provided tax response measures in order to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. These measures, among others, include a waiver of outstanding tax liabilities that taxpayers owe to the government; a tax amnesty or relief on...

Summary Report: BRiCE Project DRC and Niger. Teacher Wellbeing and Teaching Quality in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts

Report

This research summary presents the key results of the research project led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Bukavu (ISP Bukavu) in Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Gauthier Marchais & 3 others

Unravelling Backlash in the Journey of Legislating Sexual Offences in Uganda

IDS Working Paper 585

This paper interrogates the reality of gender backlash in Uganda by tracing the process of legislating on the 2019 Sexual Offences Bill (SOB). We trace the early beginnings of the Bill by highlighting the motivation that guided its framing, the role of individual actors and alliances in pushing...

Translating Northeastern Neo-Aramaic Idioms into English

CREID Working Paper 20

This paper explores how to define and classify idioms, and suggests specific strategies and procedures to translate idioms from the NENA dialect Bartella (a local Aramaic dialect in Nineveh Plain) into English.

Kakai Religion and the Place of Music and the Tanbur

CREID Working Paper 19

This paper discusses the historical context and mythic framework of the Kakai religion. While some information regarding Kakai theological views and beliefs may be known to outsiders, many facets of their religious life, customs and traditions remain undisclosed.

Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing

Genome editing—a plant-breeding technology that facilitates the manipulation of genetic traits within living organisms—has captured the imagination of scholars and professionals working on agricultural development in Africa. Echoing the arrival of genetically modified (GM) crops decades ago,...

Dominic Glover & 6 others

From One Flooding Crisis to the Next: Negotiating ‘the Maybe’ in Unequal Karachi

Every few years, Karachi floods during the summer monsoon. The flooding brings latent manoeuvrings by political actors looking to establish their hold over the city to the surface. Politicians, urban administrators, and relevant state and non-state institutions blame historical planning...

Nausheen H Anwar

Sobia Ahmad Kaker