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Death and Funerary Practices in the Context of Epidemics: Upholding the Rights of Religious Minorities
Published by: IDS
This CREID Working Paper explores the challenges that emerge when public health measures to mitigate the risk of infection during an epidemic infringe on the rights of religious communities to say a final farewell to their loved ones according to their custom.
Resource Warfare, Pacification and the Spectacle of ‘Green’ Development: Logics of Violence in Engineering Extraction in Southern Madagascar
Published by: Elsevier
Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in...
IDS student receives social impact prize for startup enterprise
IDS master’s student, Yoko Inagaki, has been awarded an £8,000 prize in the University of Sussex's annual student enterprise...
Brief – Impact Evaluation of Fastenopfer’s Solidarity Group Approaches in Madagascar and Senegal
Solidarity groups (SGs) use savings and lending as an entry point for creating a safety net and promoting community-led empowerment...
Global investment, local struggles
Following the global commodities boom, investment has poured into large-scale extractive, green energy and other resource development...
An Impact Evaluation of Fastenopfer’s Solidarity Group Approaches in Madagascar & Senegal
Fastenopfer procured the services of IDS to design, plan and conduct a rigorous mixed-methods impact evaluation of Solidarity Group...
‘Seeing’ Conflict at the Margins in Kenya and Madagascar
In a context of unprecedented investment in natural resource developments, this project bridges the social sciences, the humanities and community-based participatory research to ask how different ‘communities’ of actors ‘see’ and experience resource conflicts in Kenya and Madagascar. We use social science alongside a variety of participatory multimedia methods to open up conflict research to more diverse framings and voices, which can offer new insights on the drivers of resource conflict and pathways to peace.
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Jobs for the boys (and girls)?Lessons Learnt on Scaling Up Child Sensitive Social Protection Within Eastern and Southern Africa Programmes
IDS has been commissioned to document experiences and lessons learned from various child sensitive social protection programmes UNICEF is supporting within the Children and AIDS Regional Initiative (CARI)