Cash-plus programmes aim to strengthen food security and livelihoods by providing cash transfers alongside complementary support and services. In stable settings, these programmes can, to some...
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WFP Social Protection & Resilience Policy Brief - Maximizing impact: The Intersection of Social Protection and Resilience (January 2024)
This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to WFP’s effective positioning and contribution within this space. ...
Covid Collective Learning Report
This report provides an overview the Covid Collective research platform, how it was operationalised, and the learning which emerged from the three-year programme. The foundation of the Covid...
IDS Working Paper 597: Equity in Food Systems Livelihoods: A Review of Conceptualisations, Approaches, and Actions
Food systems employ billions of people across the world, many of whom are socially and economically marginalised. The livelihoods within the food systems these people rely on tend to be precarious...
World + 18 more
Information preparedness and community engagement for El Niño in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region
El Niño can be viewed as a multi-hazard event, and considerations for information needs cut across different populations and risks, including direct weather-related hazards, reduced agricultural...
Insights for Influence: Understanding Impact Pathways in Crisis Response
Learning Report Published on 10 November 2023 The Institute of Development Studies knowledge translation team worked with Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) project teams to reconstruct and reflect...
Over 70 INGOs urge the UK government to secure an urgent ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT)
October 18, 2023 73 leaders of UK INGOs have signed a statement calling on the UK government to secure an urgent ceasefire in Israel and Gaza following blasts at al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza and...
Meeting the challenges of multiple crises: Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
In July 2023, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) hosted a series of online learning events which explored and showcased learning and...
Effective Governance Responses to Crises: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
In times of crisis, decision-making becomes paramount, yet it is often influenced by two distinct behavioural patterns: analysis paralysis and risk aversion. Drawing a parallel between the studies...
IDS Annual Review - 2022-23
Against the backdrop of another challenging year, where multiple intersecting crises are affecting a world still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic, our 2022–23 Annual Review highlights the progress...
Peru + 3 more
Social Protection Pathways to Nutrition Synthesis report (August 2023)
Summary and recommendations This report summarises and synthesises the outcomes of a project designed to improve nutritional outcomes that can be achieved through social protection systems in the...
Nepal + 1 more
Adapting Menstrual Health Interventions for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Emergencies - Frontiers of Sanitation 22, July 2023
Menstrual health is a public health issue, yet many women and girls in low- and middle-income countries still need to achieve it. People with disabilities are particularly disadvantaged and often...
SLH Learning Brief 16A: Participatory Assessment for Climate-Induced WASH Vulnerabilities in Bangladesh
This SLH Learning Brief is intended to provide inspiration to practitioners and WASH experts on how to adapt existing vulnerability assessment tools to integrate climate considerations. A...
World + 1 more
More than 90 UK civil society organisations have written to the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today to demand that he keeps his promise on climate finance
More than 90 UK civil society organisations from environment, international development, education, trade union, disability inclusion, trade, humanitarian, business, and faith groups have written to...
Informality and Marginalised Groups in Crisis Response
The Covid-19 pandemic had ripple effects that extend beyond the domain of health risks into economic, social, and political domains. These effects were not evenly distributed and exacerbated existing...
SLH Learning Brief: Adaptation of the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Protocol During the COVID-19 Response (June 2023 | Issue 15)
Before COVID-19, Mozambique’s Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) protocol, introduced in 2008 and referenced in the Strategy of Rural Sanitation 2021-2030, broadly aligned with the original...
People’s Agenda for Pandemic Preparedness
In May 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid-19 is no longer a health emergency. Now that the world is in this new period of living with the coronavirus, it is an important...
Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context
This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book...
Conflict-Sensitive Social Protection: Somalia Country Report 2022
This is one of three country case studies (the others being of Kenya and Sudan) that explore the interaction between social protection and conflict in the Horn of Africa. In a context of weak central...
Conflict-Sensitive Social Protection: Kenya Country Report 2022
This is one of three country case studies (the others being of Somalia and Sudan) that explore the interaction between social protection and conflict in the Horn of Africa. Kenya's social protection...