Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research
The intersection of protracted conflict and displacement with recurring climate shocks, alongside the shifting nature of humanitarian...
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The intersection of protracted conflict and displacement with recurring climate shocks, alongside the shifting nature of humanitarian...
Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture (ACHA) is a seven-year research programme supported by the Foreign,...
Comparative research conducted in Romania and Kyrgyzstan provides evidence that small to medium forms of cooperation provide the rural poor with predictable livelihood strategies under conditions of uncertainty.
The aim of this research is to better understand the interactions between migration (internal and international) and social protection in order to inform initiatives that can create ‘mobile’ systems of social protection.
IDS were commissioned by UNICEF to carry out a review of 17 National Plan of Actions and supporting documents agreed to identify to what extent and in what forms social protection themes and issues are apparent.
In 2011 the Ministry of Public Services, Labor and Social Welfare, Government of Zimbabwe (MPSLSW) launched a social cash transfer programme, known as the Harmonised Social Cash transfer (HSCT) for labour constrained extremely poor households. The Centre for Social Protection has been commissioned to design a grievance mechanism and an options paper for responsible exit of the HSCT.
The WFP has contracted IDS to develop a think-piece examining the nexus of food security, nutrition and safety nets and social protection that will support the Safety Nets and Social Protection unit take shape and that will refine the areas of WFP’s corporate and global engagement. This will build on the work of the High Level Panel of Experts on Social Protection for Food Security.
This position paper lays out the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) position on social protection and resilience building, with a particular emphasis on protracted crises and fragile and humanitarian contexts.
A new initiative that will support government action to deliver cost effective school feeding programmes sourced from local farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Productive Safety Net Programme "provides transfers to the food insecure population [...] in a way that prevents asset depletion at the household level and creates assets at the community level." This work comprises bi-annual impact evaluations of the PSNP utilising a mixed methods approach. IDS leads on the qualitative evaluation.