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Nutrition
How to design agriculture and food-related policies, programmes and interventions to improve nutrition.
Nutrition
In much of South Asia, women make up a majority of the agricultural workforce, but what effect does working in agriculture have on the nutrition of these women and their children?
Taxation
Resources to enhance the exchange of tax knowledge in Nigeria
Taxation
Research focusing on challenges in increasing property tax revenues in Africa
Latest documents
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Participatory impact investing: concepts and definitions
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018Impact investors have done a lot of good (and some bad) so far, but mostly on their own terms.DocumentParticipatory impact investing: concepts and definitions
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018Impact investors have done a lot of good (and some bad) so far, but mostly on their own terms.DocumentTime to share the costs of participation in impact investing
E. Jackson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018That there are real costs to participation is not news. But impact investors, donors and investees themselves have not yet confronted the question of how such costs should be addressed across their industry. It is time to do so.DocumentOpportunities for participatory approaches in impact investing cycle
P. O'Flynn, G.L. Higdon / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018Building on the foundational definitions that underpin participatory processes in impact investing, the authors identify entry points for participation during the investment process for members of the wider community who will be affected by an investment, intended beneficiaries of anDocumentShifting economic power dimensions for women in Adonara, Indonesia
E-j. Quak / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019Towering over the small island of Adonara in Indonesia, the Ile Boleng volcano is always present in the background. In the nearby village of Adobala, I listened as female heads of households, dressed in sarungs, talked about how they had organised themselves as a women’s group in the local cooperative ‘Lodan Do’e’.DocumentTransformative participatory impact investing: The Buen Vivir Fund
G.L. Higdon / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019In 2018, the Institute of Development Studies partnered with the Open Society Foundations Economic Justice Programme to build an evidence base to explore the question: “What constitutes meaningful participation in economic advancement?” ResearcherSubscribe
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29 August 2019In 2018, the Institute of Development Studies partnered with the Open Society Foundations Economic Justice Programme to build an evidence base to explore the question: “What constitutes meaningful participation in economic advancement?” R -
5 July 2019Towering over the small island of Adonara in Indonesia, the Ile Boleng volcano is always present in the background. In the nearby village of Adobala, I listened as female heads of households, dressed in sarungs, talked about how they had organised themselves as a women’s group in the local cooperative ‘Lodan Do’e’.
What's new
7th August 2019
Following renewed funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and DFID, the African Property Tax Initiative (APTI) is pleased to announce a second call for proposals for research projects on property taxation that are of a high academic standard and relevant to policy and practice.
7th August 2019
This new issue of the IDS Bulletin, edited by Jody Harris, Molly Anderson, Chantal Clément and Nicholas Nisbett examines a range of perspectives on power in food systems, and the various active players, relationships, activities, and institutions that play a major role in shaping them.
20th June 2019
The latest issue of the IDS Bulletin, Exploring Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development aims to identify how partnerships focused on the production of policy-engaged research seek to achieve societal impact and explores the chall
9th May 2019
With the global rise of inequality and conflict and the acute challenges facing the most socially and politically excluded, civil society organisations, charities and development agencies are increasingly concerned with how to effectively broker the knowledge of marginalised communities.
11th March 2019
At this year’s Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, researchers from the Insitute of Development Studies will highlight the limitations of social protection policies such as cash transfers in relation to improving the lives of women across the world.