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Covid Collective Research Platform
The Covid Collective Research Platform will offer a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing Covid-19 related development challenges.
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Report
30 September 2020
Governance and Building Back Better
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The pandemic is in many ways a crisis of governance. Its magnitude and mitigation are determined by the nature of policy responses and crisis management by leaders and governments, and existing socioeconomic inequality has led to a disproportionate impact on some groups.
Programme
Pakistan Hub
The Pakistan Hub provides focus in a country at the leading edge of development thinking and practice and is...
Project
Sustaining Power: Women’s struggles against contemporary backlash in South Asia
Sustaining Power: Women's struggles against contemporary backlash in South Asia (SuPWR) is a five-year ESRC-funded project that...
Publication
22 November 2019
Guidance Note on Scaling Up Social Norm Change
This is a guidance note on how DFID can support the scale-up of inclusive approaches to complex social change for marginalised and...
Book
1 October 2019
Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters: Democracy Under Inequality in Rural Pakistan: Cambridge University Press (2019)
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Are poor voters condemned to be electoral cannon fodder and politically marginalised in contexts of extreme inequality? Much of the...
Report
31 July 2019
Political Economy Analysis of Local Economic Development in Serbia
Local Economic Development (LED) has gained renewed interest within SDC and beyond. In particular, there has been greater recognition of...
Project
Learning on the Streets. Youth and vending in urban Zimbabwe
IDS Research fellow Marjoke Oosterom has won an ESRC New Investigators grant to do research on youth and political socialization in the...
Project
Gendered Contentions: Unpacking Women’s Leadership, Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA)
Under what conditions does women’s social and political action contribute to the strengthening of women’s empowerment and lead to...
Brief
8 March 2019
Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan’s Big Cities: Evidence for Reform
Published by: IDS
Why did 11 million fewer women than men vote in Pakistan’s 2018 general elections? Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is a much higher gender gap in each province’s largest metropolitan city compared to its remaining constituencies. This gap relates to men’s views about women’s vote and women’s knowledge of politics and the electoral process.
