- Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?
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insights #80 December 2009
Cash transfers are an increasingly popular throughout Latin America, where conditional cash transfers are dominant, and sub-Saharan Africa, where unconditional cash transfers are more common. How can this difference in approaches be explained, and what evidence exists on their elative effectiveness?
- Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform
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insights #79, November 2009
Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability. The SSR concept has a four-fold heritage.
- Getting research into policy and practice
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Experiences from sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS
insights #78, October 2009
The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.
- Are NTFPs a way out of poverty?
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insights #77, May 2009
Over the last 30 years, policymakers and conservation non-government organisations have focused on the sustainable production and commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NFTPs). Is this a way forward in tropical forested areas for successful conservation and rural development?
- Making health markets work for poor people
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insights #76, March 2009
People use a variety of market-based providers of health-related goods and services ranging from highly organised and regulated hospitals and specialist doctors to informal health workers and drug sellers operating outside the legal framework. Many encounters with health workers and suppliers of pharmaceuticals involve a cash payment.
