Publications

Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible

K4D Briefing Pack

This briefing pack provides some of the latest evidence and information about groundwater, along with key messaging and resources for World Water Day 2022. The briefing pack was produced as part of the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme's Learning Journey on Water...

Kim Ozano & 13 others

World Water Day 2022 – Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible

The theme for World Water Day 2022 is ‘Groundwater – Making the Invisible Visible’. Groundwater is water found underground in aquifers – geological formations of rocks, sands and gravels, that hold substantial quantities of water. Groundwater feeds springs, rivers, lakes and wetlands,...

Kim Ozano

Inclusion Across the Nexus in Protracted Conflicts

K4D Inclusion in Crisis Learning Journey - Briefing Note

This Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme briefing note summarises key considerations and resources to guide the inclusion of people most affected by intersecting inequalities in coordinated humanitarian, development and peacebuilding assistance programming in...

Becky Carter

Tax and Governance in the Context of Scarce Revenues: Inefficient Tax Collection and its Implications in Rural West Africa

Working Paper;139

In recent years, domestic and international policy attention has often focused on broadening the tax base in order to include a greater share of the population in the ‘tax net’. This is based, in part, on the hope that the expansion of taxation will result in positive ‘governance...

Vanessa van den Boogaard

Rachel Beach

Vaccine Anxieties, Vaccine Preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 Era

Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to global injustice in vaccine distribution and African countries as rightful beneficiaries of international de-regulation and...

Melissa Leach & 14 others

Responsible E-Waste Value Chains in Africa

K4D Helpdesk Report

Population growth, increasing prosperity and changing consumer habits globally are increasing demand for consumer electronics. Further to this, rapid changes in technology, falling prices, increased affordability and consumer appetite for new products have exacerbated e-waste management...

Drivers, Barriers and Opportunities of E-waste Management in Africa

K4D Helpdesk Report

Population growth, increasing prosperity and changing consumer habits globally are increasing demand for consumer electronics. Further to this, rapid changes in technology, falling prices and consumer appetite for better products have exacerbated e-waste management challenges and seen millions...

Climate Adaptation: Lessons and Insights for Governance, Budgeting, and Accountability

K4D Helpdesk Report

This rapid review draws on literature from academic, policy and non-governmental organisation sources. There is a huge literature on climate governance issues in general, but less is known about effective support and the political-economy of adaptation. A large literature base and case studies...

Roz Price

Digital Financial Services and Digital IDs: What Potential do They Have for Better Taxation in Africa?

ICTD Working Paper 137

New digital technologies are now being widely used in Africa and lower-income countries (LICs). This has had an impact on tax administration, which has been increasingly digitised. Specifically Digital Financial Services (DFS) and digital IDs can improve tax administration. They have the...

Fabrizio Santoro & 4 others

Negotiating Intersecting Precarities: Covid-19, Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Africa

Medical Anthropology

This article shares findings on Covid-19 in Africa across 2020 to examine concepts and practices of epidemic preparedness and response. Amidst uncertainties about the trajectory of Covid-19, the stages of emergency response emerge in practice as interconnected. We illustrate how complex...

Melissa Leach & 14 others

Agents, Coercive Learning, and Social Protection Policy Diffusion in Africa

IDS Working Paper 559

This paper makes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of social policy diffusion, drawing on the case of social protection in Africa, and Zambia in particular. We examine a range of tactics deployed by transnational agencies (TAs) to encourage the adoption of...

Stephen Devereux

Anna Wolkenhauer

Taxing Profits from International Maritime Shipping in Africa: Past, Present and Future of UN Model Article 8 (Alternative B)

ICTD Working Paper 133

International maritime shipping is an essential part of global business. Since the establishment of the current international tax regime in the 1920s, there has been a consensus that profits generated by this business are taxable only in the residence state –the state where the shipowners are...