Mobilising social science for humanitarian action: insights and lessons
This webinar will share key learnings from the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform’s mobilisation of evidence and expertise...
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This webinar will share key learnings from the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform’s mobilisation of evidence and expertise...
While switching from fossil fuels to clean energy addresses the climate crisis and offers development opportunities, opposition to the...
14 May 2024
Published by: Springer
This chapter examines the important role that can be played by national and regional development banks in the green transformation. Our focus is on the European Investment Bank (EIB), but we argue that EIB’s effective mechanisms to fund the initiatives of the European Green Deal can be diffused worldwide to other regional and national banks, including in Latin America. Carbon shadow carbon pricing, green taxonomy, climate roadmap, and new instruments such as venture debt constitute experiences that can be drawn on by Latin American and other countries.
8 May 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Protests are a feature of both democratic and non-democratic regimes. However, protests in non-democratic regimes have received insufficient academic attention. The nature of protest grievances, strategies, and tactics have been little studied in authoritarian and hybrid regimes. Additionally, triggers of protests are themselves an under-theorised concept.
26 January 2024
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.
10 November 2023
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.
18 September 2023
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?
8 August 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Societies are committed to moving from fossil to clean energies. Yet, this transition will not be possible if we do not change the way we extract minerals. Clean energy systems require massive amounts of them, but they create multiple environmental and social problems.
19 June 2023
Published by: Kingston University
The purpose of this paper is to outline a new intellectual and research agenda for future work taken forward by the Food Equity Centre on the theme of Healthy Diets. We outline our initial conceptual approach and summarise current thinking and action on dietary equity through four country case studies, then propose a number of research gaps that we will address in future research and publications together.
IDS is providing 12 IDRC-funded research projects on Clean Energy for Development with knowledge translation and communications support.