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5 May 2017
One step to a thousand miles: building accountability in Liberia
Accountability Lab Liberia aims to build a new generation of active citizens and responsible leaders across the country. The Lab’s...
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News
10 November 2016
Small Grant offer from the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
ERAP would like to announce that it will be giving small grants to social science students from the three Ebola-affected countries - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to support the important fieldwork on topics related to Ebola response or other zoonotic and viral disease hazards.
Report
14 June 2016
Reducing Violence in a Time of Global Uncertainty: Insights from the Institute of Development Studies Addressing and Mitigating Violence Programme
Published by: IDS
This Evidence Report details key insights from the Institute of Development Studies Addressing and Mitigating Violence programme, which involved detailed political analysis of dynamics of violence as well as efforts to reduce and prevent violent conflict across a number of countries and areas in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
Report
6 April 2016
Beyond Borders: The End of the Mano River War(s)?
Published by: IDS
The Mano River sub-region, which includes Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire, has experienced decades of violent upheavals and political instability. This notably includes civil wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire.
Project
Programme of Implementation Research to Inform the Effective and Sustainable Scaling-Up of Integrated Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Control Initiatives
COUNTDOWN brings together an innovative multidisciplanry partnership from from the UK, USA and sub-Saharan Africa to support cost-effective scale-up, sustainable control and elimination of NTDs as a public health problem.
News
28 January 2016
Social Science shines through in Ebola reports
UK parliamentary reports on Ebola cite the crucial role that social science and anthropology played in mounting an effective response to the unprecedented crisis.
Past Event
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Extralegal Groups in Liberia: A Livelihoods Perspective
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.
Programme
Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium
Future Health Systems is a research consortium working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor.
Brief
24 February 2015
Ebola and Lessons for Development
Published by: IDS
As the Ebola crisis continues to unfold across West Africa and the international community belatedly responds, broader questions arise beyond the immediate challenges on the ground.
Publication
24 February 2015
Global Governance and the Limits of Health Security
Published by: IDS
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed the limits of the current approach to the global governance of infectious diseases, which mixes public health and security interests.