Publications

Monitoring Inclusion in Crises

K4D Inclusion in Crises Learning Journey

This Briefing Note from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme responds to key challenges articulated by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development (FCDO) staff in monitoring how, and the extent to which, programming, policy and humanitarian interventions in crisis...

Jo Carpenter

Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary No.29

K4D Helpdesk Report

This is the 29th monthly Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme’s Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary, signposting to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action to inform and support their response. It is the result of one day of work...

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...

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...

African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic

This issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact of COVID-19 on African women and African women’s responses to the pandemic. As a continent, Africa has endured decades of economic, political and social crises. Since the colonial period, the continent has been a primary commodity...

RCCE Strategies for Monkeypox Response

Given the health, social, and economic upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is understandable anxiety about another virus, monkeypox, quickly emerging in many countries around the world. In West and Central Africa, where the disease has been endemic for several decades, monkeypox...

Megan Schmidt-Sane & 3 others

Social Considerations for Monkeypox Response

Given the health, social, and economic upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is understandable anxiety about another virus, monkeypox, quickly emerging in many countries around the world. In West and Central Africa, where the disease has been endemic for several decades, monkeypox...

Syed Abbas & 3 others

Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary No.27

K4D Helpdesk Report

This is the 27th monthly Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme's Humanitarian Evidence Summary (HUMES), signposting to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action to inform and support their response. It is the result of one day of work per month...

Luke Kelly

Feminist Africa: African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic

This issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact of COVID-19 on African women and African women’s responses to the pandemic. As a continent, Africa has endured decades of economic, political and social crises. Since the colonial period, the continent has been a primary commodity...

Dorte Thorsen & 2 others

Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary No.26

K4D Helpdesk Report

This is the 26th monthly Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme's Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary to signpost the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action. It is the result of one day of work per month and is not intended to be a...

Luke Kelly

Disease X and Africa: How a Scientific Metaphor Entered Popular Imaginaries of the Online Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the addition of Disease X, a hypothetical infectious threat, to its blueprint list of priority diseases. In the construction of discourse that circulated following this announcement, conceptions of Disease X intersected with representations...

Kelley Sams & 3 others

Water, Climate Change, and Conflict

K4D Helpdesk Report

There is a growing global water crisis and that this is one of the of the most significant threats the world is facing. Climate change is one of the key drivers of the water crisis as it changes the global water cycle, increases variability in availability and water stress and scarcity, as well...

Rachel Cooper