Publications

The Tax Era of Development: Taxing Smarter for Equity, Growth, and Resilience

Tax is not only the primary source of financing in lower-income countries, but also the lynchpin of development finance.

Max Gallien & 5 others

Public Support for Wealth and Progressive Taxes in Pakistan

This brief explores public support for wealth taxation and the factors that shape those attitudes in Pakistan.

Max Gallien & 2 others

Práticas colaborativas melhoram a responsabilização e a governança

IDS Policy Briefing 221

Esta nota informativa analisa seis estudos de caso do programa POTENCIAR, implementado no setor da saúde em Moçambique. Destaca lições para os programas de governança e discute a forma como o POTENCIAR facilitou a partilha de conhecimentos, o planeamento participativo, a coordenação...

Ludovico Alcorta & 4 others

Key considerations: Home-based care for mpox in Central and East Africa

SSHAP Briefing

In September 2023, an outbreak of mpox caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV) clade Ib was reported in Kamituga, a mining region in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). More cases of mpox started to be reported across the country and in neighbouring countries in the east, including...

Key considerations: Mpox response in urban informal settlements

SSHAP Briefing

The World Health Organization declared the second mpox public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in August 2024. Cases of mpox have been reported in both endemic and non-endemic countries in diverse settings in Central and East Africa. In urban areas, there is sustained...

Megan Schmidt-Sane

Annie Wilkinson

Key considerations: Introducing experimental vaccines during health emergencies

SSHAP Briefing

This brief provides an overview of the experimental stages of vaccine development during a disease outbreak and highlights key considerations at each stage from a social science perspective. This brief complements a recent SSHAP publication that synthesised social and behavioural science (SBS)...

Collaborative Practice Pathways Improve Accountability and Governance

IDS Policy Briefing 220

This policy briefing looks at six case studies from the POTENCIAR programme, implemented in Mozambique’s health sector. It highlights lessons for governance programmes and discusses how POTENCIAR’s interventions facilitated knowledge-sharing, participatory planning, institutional...

Ludovico Alcorta & 4 others

Supporting the mpox response for people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression in contexts where their rights are restricted

SSHAP Briefing

People with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression (SOGIE) are a hard-to-reach population. This is because of restrictive legal frameworks, social exclusion, stigma and discrimination in service delivery. Because people with diverse SOGIE often avoid seeking...

Key considerations: Mpox in the Busia-Malaba border region linking Uganda and Kenya

SSHAP Briefing

Mpox has spread along the Busia-Malaba border that links eastern Uganda and western Kenya, with risk factors centred on cross-border mobility. Community responses to mpox are shaped by access to information on radio, television and social media as well as local terminologies, understandings of...

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Türkiye

Countering Rollback Country Brief

Anti-feminist discourse has long been present among groups across the political spectrum in Türkiye. Erdoğan has explicitly stated that he is against gender equality, that abortion is murder, and that using contraception undermines the nation. This rhetoric influenced the official stance on...

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: South Africa

Countering Rollback Country Brief

South Africa’s Constitution offers protection, and formal recognition as equal citizens, to women and to LGBTQI+ people. It also positions South Africa as an important regional place of refuge for LGBTQI+ Africans, despite the country’s high rates of gender-based violence and xenophobia.

Chandni Sai Ganesh

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Philippines

Countering Rollback Country Brief

Feminist and LGBT+ movements in the Philippines face mounting challenges that are deeply rooted in cultural, religious, and political dynamics. Machismo culture continues to reinforce strict gender roles and perpetuate male dominance, leaving little room for gender equality.

Chandni Sai Ganesh