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26 March 2025
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Brief
24 March 2025
Local Self-Governance on the Somalia–Kenya Border
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Thirty years of civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in Somalia and neighbouring northeastern Kenya have hollowed out state services and left borderland communities beleaguered. Yet in this apparently ‘ungoverned’ space, local self-governance persists. Citizen-led reflection shows how communities are repairing the social and physical damage wrought by violence, organising basic services, and providing public goods.
Brief
14 March 2025
Key Considerations: Using Social and Behavioural Science to Inform the Use of Vaccines During Health Emergencies
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This brief synthesises social and behavioural science (SBS) research on the use of vaccines during health emergencies in sub-Saharan...
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CEDCA Panel Discussion: Opposition and resistance to clean energy transition
While switching from fossil fuels to clean energy addresses the climate crisis and offers development opportunities, opposition to the...
Working Paper
13 September 2024
Directrizes sobre a Protecção Social e a Sensibilidade ao Conflito para Moçambique
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Este relatório apresenta uma visão geral das principais preocupações relacionadas a sensibilidade aos conflitos para os programas de protecção social e as suas modalidades de implementação em Moçambique, a nível regional, local e de programação.
Working Paper
13 September 2024
Social Protection and Conflict-Sensitivity Directions for Mozambique
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report contains an overview of the main conflict-sensitive concerns for social protection programmes and implementation modalities in Mozambique at the regional, local, and programme levels. The report includes a set of recommendations for generating inclusive policy debate on the importance of conflict-sensitive social protection at national scale.
Brief
12 September 2024
Promoting Sustainable Waste Management in Mekelle, Ethiopia
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region in Ethiopia, is plagued by water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) challenges. Rapid population growth, unplanned urbanisation, limitations in WASH services, climate change, and the impacts of war and conflicts are affecting the sanitation conditions of the city.
Report
2 September 2024
The Digitalisation of Social Protection in Africa: The Perspective of Marginalised Workers
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This is the first study of digital social protection from the perspective of informal marginalised workers in Africa. The right to decent work including social protection is guaranteed to all citizens in multiple international human rights and labour rights conventions, as well as in African Union resolutions.
Brief
29 August 2024
Just and Resilient Infrastructures in Pakistan and Kenya
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The relationship between infrastructure development and intensifying climate crisis is generating new cycles of 24-hour risks in the urban global South. Research from Karachi and Nairobi points to opportunities to build resilient infrastructures that strengthen and support community networks and inclusion.
Working Paper
29 August 2024
The 24-Hour Risk City: A Framework for Thinking About Building Infrastructures of Climate Repair in Nairobi and Karachi
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Extreme heat, altered precipitation patterns, and flooding events, exacerbated by climate change, are changing the nature of 24-hour risk cycles faced by low-income neighbourhoods and informal settlements in the urban global South.