- Climate policy and development: an economic analysis
- F. Ackerman / Stockholm Environment Institute, 2012
- This paper describes the use of the Climate and Regional Economics of Development (CRED) model to explore the interconnections between climate and development policy. CRED scenarios, based on high and low projections of climate damage...
- Social Safety nets in Bangladesh: Ground Realities and Policy Challenges (Volume 2)
- H.Z. Rahman 2012
- The current volume focuses on implementation and outcome realities of SSN programmes and the policy challenges implied therein. The field assessment covered ten major programmes covering major types as well as GO and NGO mandates. The...
- Global Water Forum
- The Global Water Forum is a knowledge sharing platform focusing on current water challenges.
- Inclusive and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities, policies and partnerships
- Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- These challenge papers aim to address two key questions: how has the development challenge changed, and how could it be understood for the future; and what are the implications for development agencies and development partnerships? Th...
- How policy actors engage with information systems, and where knowledge intermediaries could best add value
- S.J. Batchelor / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- This is a draft report to share some interim findings from the study – "Information Ecosystems of Policy Actors – reviewing the landscape." This report is for general circulation on the understanding that it is a work in p...
- Beyond low and middle income countries: what if there were five clusters of developing countries?
- A. Sumner / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- Many have challenged the use of income per capita as the primary proxy for development. This paper continues this tradition with a twist. The paper challenges the continuing use of income per capita to classify developing countries as...
- New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)
- The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent academic research and educational institution with students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. NECSI has been instrumental in the development of complex systems science and its applications. We study how interactions within a system lead to its behavioral patterns, and how the system interacts with its environment. NECS...
- Climate finance readiness: lessons learned in developing countries
- J. Gastelumendi / The Nature Conservancy, 2012
- This report explores how strategies to reduce carbon emissions relate to a country’s financial structures and institutions. It details lessons learned in Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Mexico and Peru on how best to design in-cou...
- What difference does a policy brief make?
- P. Beynon; C. Chapoy; M. Gaarder; E. Masset / International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012
- 3ie and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in collaboration with Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), explored the effectiveness of a policy brief for influencing readers’ beliefs and prompting them to ...
- Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit (IVM)
- The Institute for Environmental Studies (Instituut voor Milieuvraagstukken, IVM) is an interdisciplinary research institute at VU University in the Netherlands.
- How to Support Women’s Land Rights in Mozambique? Approaches and Lessons Learnt in the Work of Four Main Organisations
- R. Kaarhus 2012
- The Mozambican Land Law of 1997 has been referred to as one of the best in the world, for the way in which it protects and codifies local people’s land rights. The law aims to balance different objectives and structures within on...
- From privatisation to corporatisation and the need for a counter-strategy
- J. E. Magdahl / Association for International Water and Forest Studies, Norway, 2012
- This report explores the development from privatisation to corporatisation within neoliberal policy on urban water services in developing countries. The findings call for the water justice movement to update and adjust its strategy, i...
- Public climate finance: a survey of systems to monitor and evaluate climate finance effectiveness
- B. Buchner / Climate Policy Initiative, 2012
- Multilateral and bilateral intermediaries are a crucial part of the climate finance landscape. In general, intermediaries are working hard to improve their monitoring and evaluation systems, but there is significant room for improveme...
- Climate change, environment and migration in the Sahel: selected issues with a focus on Senegal and Mali
- D. Hummel / micle, 2012
- The micle research project investigates the social-ecological conditions of population movements in Mali and Senegal. The overall goal of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of the complex relationships between clim...
- Dissonance in Development. Foreign aid and state formation in Malawi
- O. Eggen / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2011
- This PhD thesis focuses on certain characteristics of the state and of state formation in Malawi, with particular emphasis on the effects of development aid. It consists of three papers for publication in journals, each focusing on di...
- Decentralization in Nepal: Laws and Practices
- D. N. Dhungel / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2011
- This report analyses the legal framework for local governance in Nepal and how its is practiced in six districts. It focuses specifically on transfer of resources and delivery of services, how various groups participate in local plann...
- Open source software and crowdsourcing for energy analysis
- M. Bazilian / Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 2012
- Decisions on energy policies and associated investment are among the most difficult facing countries, particularly in developing economies. On them may depend billions of dollars and even determine whether energy services are availabl...
- Energy-based economic development: mapping the developing country context
- S. Carley / Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, 2012
- Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanis...
- Addressing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Tropical Wetland Systems of Indonesia
- D. Murdiyarso / Center for International Forestry Research, 2011
- This policy brief discusses the nature of climate change mitigation and adaptation in the wetland ecosystems of Indonesia. It describes the ecosystem services which accrue from peatland and mangrove forests and outlines the research t...
- What Shapes the Influence Evidence Has on Policy?: The Role of Politics in Research Utilisation
- C. Porter / Young Lives, 2010
- What shapes the influence evidence has on policy? The key lesson that emerges from this paper is the primacy of politics in shaping how evidence is used. In order to influence the policy process, the research community must understand...
- Strategic Foresight Group
- Strategic Foresight Group seeks to undertake forward-looking research in geopolitical, economic, technological and societal changes. Their research examines future trends and discontinuities in spaces where geopolitics intersects with business, economy, society, religion and technology.
- Research Information Network
- The Research Information Network is a policy unit funded by the UK higher education funding councils, the seven research councils and the three national libraries. Its aim is to enhance and broaden understanding of how researchers in the UK create and use information resources and services of all kinds and to support the development of effective policies and practices for research...
- The FOR-LEARN project
- The FORLEARN project is part of the European Foresight Knowledge Sharing Platform. This programme is intended to provide support to Foresight practitioners and users at local, regional, sectoral and national or trans-national level who are either running a Foresight exercise or planning to start one. Users have the option to use either a multi-direction support mech...
- National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
- Organisation that works on enhancing innovation in the UK
- Wiley InterScience
- Wiley InterScience is a resource for content across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors. It asserts that it regularly adds new content and functionality; offers search and navigation capabilities; and provides robust online manuscript submission and management tools.
- The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
- The Rights and Resources Initiative is a coalition of international, regional and community organisations engaged in conservation, research and development. The RRI mission is to promote greater global action on pro-poor forest policy and market reforms to increase household and community ownership, control and benefits from forests and trees. Its programme areas are broken down into c...
- Research4Development (R4D)
- This research portal provides up-to-date information on the current research portfolio of the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID). The research portal provides access to: latest research news and activities associated success stories and case studies projects and programme information across all the sectors...
- Global HIV/AIDS Initiative Network (GHIN)
- The Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives Network (GHIN) is a network of researchers in 21 countries that explores the effects of Global Health Initiatives on existing health systems. Specifically, the network focuses on the impact of World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program including the Multi-country AIDS Program; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and The United States President’s Emergency Pl...
- AEI Center for Regulatory and Market Studies
An insight as to how markets, laws and regulation contribute to economic well-being- International Development Centre, Open University (IDC)
- UK-based international development institute
