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Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

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Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]

Journal article

Childhood poverty and evidence-based policy engagement in Ethiopia

01/06/2008

13 pages long

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This article explores efforts to bridge multi-disciplinary research and policy engagement to tackle child poverty in the contexts of developing countries, based on the experiences of Young Lives, an international longitudinal policy-research project. It focuses on a case study involving the application of research evidence on child poverty to shape policy debates concerning Ethiopia’s second-generation […]

Discussion paper

Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

14/07/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections. It is based on the 2012 findings of the […]

Research report

What Makes For Decent Work? A study with low-paid workers in Scotland

09/03/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The experience of work and its security and rewards have changed significantly in recent decades. Increasingly, large numbers of people experience work which is insecure and which is paid at levels which do not allow families to live above the poverty line. In Scotland, around half of the working age adults experiencing poverty live in […]

Research report

The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Interventions Supporting Shelter Self-Recovery Following Humanitarian Crises: An evidence synthesis protocol

13/04/2016

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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The purpose of this document is to clearly describe the proposed research methodology for an evidence synthesis on shelter self-recovery so that it can be finalised prior to undertaking the study and replicated in future. Thus it describes: a) the theoretical background to the study (Section 2), which includes definitions of key terms used in […]

Research report

Building Resilience through Iterative Processes: Mainstreaming ancestral knowledge, social movements, and the making of sustainable programming in Bolivia

30/08/2017

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This case study takes a retrospective look at the 2010-11 Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO) Small-Scale Disaster Project in La Paz and the context within which it took place. Our research found that absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities can be fostered by iterative development processes. It also demonstrated that disaster […]

Research report

Durable Peace Programme: Baseline Report

01/06/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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This baseline survey and report examine the Durable Peace Programme (DPP) in Myanmar, which delivers a broad range of activities. The report provides an insight into the current situation facing both internally displaced persons (IDPs) and conflict-affected non-IDP communities in Kachin state, Myanmar. It is based on a comprehensive and systematic research process involving just over 2,200 […]

Research report

We Worked and Overcame Hardship: Stories of change from youth participating in youth group microenterprises in Ethiopia

22/01/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Empower Youth for Work (EYW) is a five-year programme, funded by the IKEA Foundation. The programme focuses on enabling young people (especially young women) in rural climate-affected areas of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Ethiopia to seek and obtain economic independence. To realize these goals, the programme applies a holistic approach to drive young people’s economic […]

Research report

The Demand Side of Impact Investing: Elevating the perspectives of local entrepreneurs in the impact sector

06/09/2019

1 documents

77 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Development practitioners often view impact investing as an important tool for alleviating poverty. They tout the ability of impact investing to leverage private sector investment to complement limited public sector, foundation, or development assistance funds, as well as the potential to harness efficiencies of market-based approaches. With such a focus on attracting investment capital, research […]

Journal article

Feminist initiatives in the SWANA region: fighting the patriarchal education with feminist knowledge

12/12/2023

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist initiatives in the SWANA region: fighting the patriarchal education with feminist knowledge

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Overview

This research analyses the way in which the majority of the formal school education system in the SWANA region reproduces and reinforces gender stereotypes. Through a discussion of the idea of feminist pedagogy and comparing it to classroom practices in predominant public education, it becomes clear that feminist pedagogy is almost absent from schools in […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]

Journal article

Childhood poverty and evidence-based policy engagement in Ethiopia

01/06/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores efforts to bridge multi-disciplinary research and policy engagement to tackle child poverty in the contexts of developing countries, based on the experiences of Young Lives, an international longitudinal policy-research project. It focuses on a case study involving the application of research evidence on child poverty to shape policy debates concerning Ethiopia’s second-generation […]

Discussion paper

Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

14/07/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections. It is based on the 2012 findings of the […]

Research report

What Makes For Decent Work? A study with low-paid workers in Scotland

09/03/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The experience of work and its security and rewards have changed significantly in recent decades. Increasingly, large numbers of people experience work which is insecure and which is paid at levels which do not allow families to live above the poverty line. In Scotland, around half of the working age adults experiencing poverty live in […]

Research report

The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Interventions Supporting Shelter Self-Recovery Following Humanitarian Crises: An evidence synthesis protocol

13/04/2016

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this document is to clearly describe the proposed research methodology for an evidence synthesis on shelter self-recovery so that it can be finalised prior to undertaking the study and replicated in future. Thus it describes: a) the theoretical background to the study (Section 2), which includes definitions of key terms used in […]

Research report

Building Resilience through Iterative Processes: Mainstreaming ancestral knowledge, social movements, and the making of sustainable programming in Bolivia

30/08/2017

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This case study takes a retrospective look at the 2010-11 Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO) Small-Scale Disaster Project in La Paz and the context within which it took place. Our research found that absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities can be fostered by iterative development processes. It also demonstrated that disaster […]

Research report

Durable Peace Programme: Baseline Report

01/06/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This baseline survey and report examine the Durable Peace Programme (DPP) in Myanmar, which delivers a broad range of activities. The report provides an insight into the current situation facing both internally displaced persons (IDPs) and conflict-affected non-IDP communities in Kachin state, Myanmar. It is based on a comprehensive and systematic research process involving just over 2,200 […]

Research report

We Worked and Overcame Hardship: Stories of change from youth participating in youth group microenterprises in Ethiopia

22/01/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Empower Youth for Work (EYW) is a five-year programme, funded by the IKEA Foundation. The programme focuses on enabling young people (especially young women) in rural climate-affected areas of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Ethiopia to seek and obtain economic independence. To realize these goals, the programme applies a holistic approach to drive young people’s economic […]

Research report

The Demand Side of Impact Investing: Elevating the perspectives of local entrepreneurs in the impact sector

06/09/2019

1 documents

77 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development practitioners often view impact investing as an important tool for alleviating poverty. They tout the ability of impact investing to leverage private sector investment to complement limited public sector, foundation, or development assistance funds, as well as the potential to harness efficiencies of market-based approaches. With such a focus on attracting investment capital, research […]

Journal article

Feminist initiatives in the SWANA region: fighting the patriarchal education with feminist knowledge

12/12/2023

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist initiatives in the SWANA region: fighting the patriarchal education with feminist knowledge

Keywords

Overview

This research analyses the way in which the majority of the formal school education system in the SWANA region reproduces and reinforces gender stereotypes. Through a discussion of the idea of feminist pedagogy and comparing it to classroom practices in predominant public education, it becomes clear that feminist pedagogy is almost absent from schools in […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]

Journal article

Childhood poverty and evidence-based policy engagement in Ethiopia

01/06/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores efforts to bridge multi-disciplinary research and policy engagement to tackle child poverty in the contexts of developing countries, based on the experiences of Young Lives, an international longitudinal policy-research project. It focuses on a case study involving the application of research evidence on child poverty to shape policy debates concerning Ethiopia’s second-generation […]

Discussion paper

Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

14/07/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections. It is based on the 2012 findings of the […]

Research report

What Makes For Decent Work? A study with low-paid workers in Scotland

09/03/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The experience of work and its security and rewards have changed significantly in recent decades. Increasingly, large numbers of people experience work which is insecure and which is paid at levels which do not allow families to live above the poverty line. In Scotland, around half of the working age adults experiencing poverty live in […]

Research report

The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Interventions Supporting Shelter Self-Recovery Following Humanitarian Crises: An evidence synthesis protocol

13/04/2016

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this document is to clearly describe the proposed research methodology for an evidence synthesis on shelter self-recovery so that it can be finalised prior to undertaking the study and replicated in future. Thus it describes: a) the theoretical background to the study (Section 2), which includes definitions of key terms used in […]

Research report

Building Resilience through Iterative Processes: Mainstreaming ancestral knowledge, social movements, and the making of sustainable programming in Bolivia

30/08/2017

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This case study takes a retrospective look at the 2010-11 Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO) Small-Scale Disaster Project in La Paz and the context within which it took place. Our research found that absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities can be fostered by iterative development processes. It also demonstrated that disaster […]

Research report

Durable Peace Programme: Baseline Report

01/06/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This baseline survey and report examine the Durable Peace Programme (DPP) in Myanmar, which delivers a broad range of activities. The report provides an insight into the current situation facing both internally displaced persons (IDPs) and conflict-affected non-IDP communities in Kachin state, Myanmar. It is based on a comprehensive and systematic research process involving just over 2,200 […]

Research report

We Worked and Overcame Hardship: Stories of change from youth participating in youth group microenterprises in Ethiopia

22/01/2019

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Empower Youth for Work (EYW) is a five-year programme, funded by the IKEA Foundation. The programme focuses on enabling young people (especially young women) in rural climate-affected areas of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Ethiopia to seek and obtain economic independence. To realize these goals, the programme applies a holistic approach to drive young people’s economic […]

Research report

The Demand Side of Impact Investing: Elevating the perspectives of local entrepreneurs in the impact sector

06/09/2019

1 documents

77 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development practitioners often view impact investing as an important tool for alleviating poverty. They tout the ability of impact investing to leverage private sector investment to complement limited public sector, foundation, or development assistance funds, as well as the potential to harness efficiencies of market-based approaches. With such a focus on attracting investment capital, research […]

Journal article

Feminist initiatives in the SWANA region: fighting the patriarchal education with feminist knowledge

12/12/2023

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist initiatives in the SWANA region: fighting the patriarchal education with feminist knowledge

Keywords

Overview

This research analyses the way in which the majority of the formal school education system in the SWANA region reproduces and reinforces gender stereotypes. Through a discussion of the idea of feminist pedagogy and comparing it to classroom practices in predominant public education, it becomes clear that feminist pedagogy is almost absent from schools in […]