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11 June 2015
Published by: STEPS Centre
Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere.
To support Cairo University in establishing and offering a full one-year accredited Professional Diploma or MA in Gender Studies.
20 April 2015
Published by: Elsevier
Strong leadership has been highlighted as a common element of success within countries that have made rapid progress in tackling child and maternal undernutrition. Yet little is known of what contributes to nutrition leaders’ success or lack of it in particular policy environments.
The proposed research attempts to contribute to our knowledge of VAW incidence and prevalence as well as responses, coping strategies and mechanisms of support in the five governorates in Gaza 2015.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
This seminar explains how extralegal groups in Liberia came about, how they persisted, and the threats and opportunities that they created for statebuilding in the aftermath of the civil war. It illuminates the political economy of post-conflict transitions and contributes to a growing literature examining intra-state variation in post-conflict outcomes.
9 January 2015
Published by: IDS
This roundtable was held at Goodenough College, London, on 15 October 2014. Its purpose was to engage high-level policymakers and academics on the relevance of the political settlement lens for the comparative study of political settlements within countries across different time periods and levels.
1 January 2015
Published by: GSDRC
This rapid review is based on eleven days of desk-based research and provides a short synthesis of the literature on conflict and peace in Iraq.
1 January 2015
The developmental benefits of governments taxing citizens, even for modest sums, are often disregarded. African governments have long depended on revenue from natural resources or foreign aid to fund budgets. While the potential contribution that better domestic resource mobilisation could make to national finances has received greater attention since the 2008 global financial crisis, international donors often fail to recall the central role that bargaining over taxation has played in building effective, accountable and responsive states across the developed world. Although never popular, taxation is an essential component of consensual and representative government.
1 January 2015
Social justice that inspired millions to take to the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya
1 January 2015
This report presents the findings of an independent end of programme evaluation of the DFID funded “Support to Accountable Security and Justice in the OPT” programme (2011-2015) implemented by UN Women from March 2011 to end March 2015.