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Understanding gender backlash: Southern perspectives
This event will launch the new IDS Bulletin ‘Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives’. It will address the urgent...
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RLO Grantholder Event 2024
IDS will design and facilitate a three-day grant holder event in Nairobi in November 2024, bringing together researchers from across the...
Working Paper
29 January 2024
Measurement and Mirage: The Informal Sector Revisited
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Recent years have seen an increasing availability and usage of measurements of informal sectors as the basis of scholarship and policy advice on the causes and consequences of informality. This has created an impression of a consensus around a clearly conceptualised and operationalised object of study – that when we talk about the informal sector, we know what we are talking about.
Working Paper
26 January 2024
Dispositions Towards the Living Wage Proposition: Baseline Report of the Rainforest Alliance Living Wage Strategy Evaluation
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper reflects on the changes induced by modifications in the Rainforest Alliance certification system that require wage transparency from plantation owners, a comparison with the local living wage benchmark, and a wage improvement plan. The paper synthesises the findings of four case studies in Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, and Kenya, covering plantations of coffee, bananas, and tea.
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Resilient and Equitable Nature-based Pathways in Southern African Rangelands (REPAiR)
REPAiR is a research project that critically explores whether and how equitable, contextual, community-led approaches to nature-based...
Brief
19 December 2023
Community Solutions to Insecurity Along the Uganda–Kenya Border
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In the Karamoja and Turkana border regions of Uganda and Kenya, there is widespread violence including armed robbery, rape, and human rights abuses, yet community complaints about failures of governance remain largely unaddressed. This Policy Briefing highlights how different insecurities reinforce one another in ways exacerbated by the international border.
Report
10 November 2023
Insights for Influence: Understanding Impact Pathways in Crisis Response
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report presents an overview of impact pathways from a selection of the Covid-19 Responses for Equity projects, chosen to represent the diversity of approaches to engage policymakers, civil society, and the media to generate and share evidence of the effect of the pandemic on diverse vulnerable groups.
Working Paper
18 September 2023
Landscapes of (In)justice: Reflecting on Voices, Spaces, and Alliances for Just Transition
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Diverse groups of citizens need to be engaged in the design and implementation of global energy transition policies across all scales and sectors for them to succeed and be socially acceptable. But how? And what lessons can we take from emerging practice to guide future action?
Brief
13 September 2023
Waste Pickers Are Part of the Solution to Solid Waste Management in Senegal
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Waste pickers from the Bokk Diom organisation, working at Dakar’s Mbeubeuss landfill, continued to provide essential waste management services throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. However, their incomes and livelihoods are threatened by the transformation of the city's waste management system, a process which they are excluded from.
Brief
29 June 2023
Horticulture in Kenya: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The horticulture sector is fundamental to Kenya’s economy and its citizens’ livelihoods. However, global connectivity and high perishability make the sector vulnerable to shocks. The Covid-19 pandemic and related policy measures impacted the sector in multiple ways, with an estimated US$3m lost per day during lockdowns.
