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28 October 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.
Studies have shown that it is often wealthier people in a community who benefit from market approaches to combatting poverty – men more than women, non-disabled more than disabled. So how and to what extent can market-based solutions improve the lives of extremely poor people?
1 July 2015
Published by: IDS and IFAD
This is a summary of the Uganda Country Report, based on research carried out in 2014 in association with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of an IFAD-funded programme on the role of PPPs in agriculture.
1 June 2015
Published by: IDS
As part of the Sexuality and Development Programme at IDS, a project was undertaken to explore the application of drama and theatre to research into sexualities. Three workshops were undertaken in Uganda, India and UK to work with different groups working in the areas of gender and sexualities.
31 March 2015
Published by: IDS
Uganda is one of three focus countries within the Unpaid Care Work (UCW) programme of the Accountable Grant. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is partnering with ActionAid International (AAI) to help each of the three country programmes involved to develop and implement an advocacy strategy to make unpaid care work more visible in public policy.
Future Health Systems is a research consortium working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor.
4 November 2014
Published by: IDS
New technology that enables sustainable and profitable production of food is critical for both food and nutrition security and economic development. Yet, recent research suggests assessments of the productivity gains farmers realise from new technology are routinely flawed methodologically and hence unreliable as a basis for decision making.
24 July 2014
This collection of essays has been jointly produced by Sexuality Policy Watch and the IDS Sexuality and Development Programme.
14 July 2014
Published by: Springer
Background
Over the past decade, development assistance for health (DAH) in Uganda has increased dramatically, surpassing the...
1 July 2014
Background
Based on the realization that Uganda is not on track to achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, Makerere...