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Performing Peace-building – Conferences, Rituals and the Role of Ethnographic Research

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article explores performance and ritual theory in the context of anthropological research on peace‐building institutions and...

Improving Social Protection’s Response to Child Poverty and Vulnerability in Nepal – Report

Published by: Save the Children

This report aims to assess to what extent social protection in Nepal addresses child poverty and vulnerability and can be considered to be 'child-sensitive', and how it can be strengthened to further improve children's lives.

Improving Social Protection’s Response to Child Poverty and Vulnerability in Nepal – Policy Brief

Published by: Save the Children

Nepal can be considered at the forefront of social protection compared to other low-income countries, being one of the first to have introduced a social pension, implementing a set of nationally funded social protection schemes and in the process of finalising a National Framework for Social Protection (NFSP).

‘Who Cares’: Reflections on the International-level Advocacy Work of the Unpaid Care Work Programme (2012–2015)

Published by: IDS

At the end of September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be launched. Building on the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were officially established in 2000, the SDGs will potentially have 17 goals – one of which was explicitly absent from the MDGs: the unpaid care work of women and girls.

High-Level Roundtable on Improving Lives and Reducing Violence through the Provision of Services

Published by: IDS

This high-level roundtable explored the complex links between poverty, violence, insecurity and the provision of services, drawing on four case studies from within Nairobi, Kathmandu, Mumbai and India as a whole.

Equate and Conflate: Political Commitment to Hunger and Undernutrition Reduction in Five High-Burden Countries

Published by: Elsevier

As political commitment is an essential ingredient for elevating food and nutrition security onto policy agendas, commitment metrics have proliferated. Many conflate government commitment to fight hunger with combating undernutrition.

The Effect of Gender Equality Programming on Humanitarian Outcomes

Published by: UN Women

This UN Women report presents the overall findings, draws comparative conclusions across the four case studies and discusses practical recommendations for integrating gender equality programming in future humanitarian interventions in ways that strengthen effectiveness and inclusiveness.

Unravelling Commitment? An Empirical Assessment of Political Commitment to Reduce Hunger and Undernutrition in Five High Burden Countries

Published by: IDS

In recent years, the global hunger and nutrition community has increasingly come to view political commitment as an essential ingredient for pushing food and nutrition security higher up public policy agendas.

The role of volunteering in sustainable development

This report shares findings from the global action research project, Valuing Volunteering which explores how and why volunteering contributes to poverty reduction and sustainable positive change, and the factors which prevent it from doing so. It reveals that volunteers can make a unique contribution towards efforts to end global poverty.