CEDCA Panel Discussion: Opposition and resistance to clean energy transition
While switching from fossil fuels to clean energy addresses the climate crisis and offers development opportunities, opposition to the...
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While switching from fossil fuels to clean energy addresses the climate crisis and offers development opportunities, opposition to the...
16 August 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
On 8 December 2023, SSHAP convened a roundtable discussion on social science research in epidemic preparedness and response in Senegal....
5 July 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In this landscape paper, we aim to summarise the contextual factors that shape health emergencies and responses to health emergencies in the West Africa region (termed ‘health emergency cycles’).
7 February 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Now that the dust has begun to settle on the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to reflect on and draw lessons from country experiences in...
13 December 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) was a three-year, CA$25m rapid research initiative that brought together 20 research projects to...
13 September 2023
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.
10 August 2023
8 August 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Across West Africa and East Africa, policy actors and citizens have tended to discuss socio-environmental issues in ways that recognise emotional, subjective viewpoints, but can be antagonistic.
8 August 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Les premières publications sur la délibération environnementale partaient du principe que les pairs débattaient rationnellement des preuves pour parvenir à des conclusions logiques. Cependant, des travaux plus récents présentent les activités artistiques comme un moyen de reconnaître les dimensions émotionnelles comme essentielles aux processus délibératifs.
26 July 2023
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In the face of shocks that are recurrent, predictable, interrelated, and multi-annual, governments and the international community are increasingly looking to the potential of shock-responsive and adaptive social protection to address multidimensional risk in a sustainable and integrated manner. This is the case in the West African Sahel, where social protection systems are being strengthened and an array of new delivery approaches are underway to coordinate efforts and address shocks related primarily to food security arising out of climate and conflict-related shocks and displacement.