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12 December 2016
Published by: SDC/IDS/Helvetas/swisspeace
This work explores the role of customary and informal actors in governance processes in Tanzania. The report draws on findings emerging from qualitative data collected in February 2015 in nine wards in two districts in Iringa region and one ward in Morogoro region.
6 December 2016
Published by: IDS
The signatories of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have called on a wide range of businesses ‘to apply their creativity and innovation’ to address sustainable development challenges. Yet the role of business in contributing to development depends profoundly on its interaction with the state. This paper asks how states and businesses interact in different contexts to shape development outcomes.
1 December 2016
Published by: IIED
Reflecting on Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this paper demonstrates how global monitoring often fails to reflect and support local efforts to improve water and sanitation in low-income settlements.
22 November 2016
Published by: IDS
Over the past decade, nutrition has received strong global attention as a development problem. Concerted efforts by international donors, philanthropical foundations, national and international non-government organisations and civil society have pushed nutrition further up global and national policy agendas.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Since 2008 Russell has worked for DFID documenting the impact of the UK’s overseas aid in developing countries around the world.
1 November 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative
Many international development research projects aim to influence policy and practice by providing rigorous evidence that impacts on real-life decisions. To ensure the evidence they are generating engages their target audiences, researchers need to interact with a range of different actors, processes and systems – and work through knowledge intermediaries.
IDS are working to design, develop and maintain an online knowledge exchange forum to facilitate consultation during development of training packages, to increase the nutrition capacity of frontline workers in East Africa.
3 October 2016
1 October 2016
Published by: Water Alternatives
This article asks how IWRM manages the competing interests as well as the diverse priorities of both large and small water users in the midst of foreign direct investment. The article asks whether institutional and capacity weaknesses around IWRM implementation can be exploited by powerful actors that seek to meet their own interests, thus allowing water grabbing to take place.
21 June 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report details findings of research undertaken under the Banking on Change Academic Partnership, which was established in 2014 between the Banking on Change (BoC) programme (a partnership of Plan UK, CARE International UK and Barclays Bank) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).
