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Vocational education in Kenya - a randomized evaluation
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015Despite the importance of youth unemployment, little is known about how best to facilitate the transition of youth from school to the labor market in less developed countries, or how to provide marketable skills for youth not on the academic schooling track. Vocational education provides a promising opportunity for addressing the problem.DocumentSafeguarding against corruption risks in Lebanon’s offshore petroleum sector
Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, 2015Given Lebanon’s dismal track record in countering corruption and its chronically gridlocked political process, the risks of corruption in the country’s nascent petroleum sector are significant.DocumentSpoils of oil? Assessing and mitigating the risks of corruption in Lebanon’s emerging offshore petroleum sector
Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, 2015To be fully prepared for Lebanon’s possible transformation into a major oil and gas producer, the risks of corruption in connection to its nascent petroleum sector need to be better understood and addressed.DocumentSector keysheets: water resources management and supply
Evidence on Demand, 2015Providing clean water and sanitation in developing countries involves more than clean water supply, and wastewater disposal, it may best be seen as part of the move towards water security: building resilience to ‘water related hazards’ and ensuring there is sufficient water of sufficient quality for productive sectors as well as ecosystems.DocumentLivelihood diversification and entrepreneurship: an analysis of production and marketing innovations in smallholder farming in a rural Kenyan district, Mbeere
Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2003This study investigates the dynamics of smallholder production and marketing innovations, against a background of farm-none-farm or rural-urban linkages, within the broader rural livelihood diversification paradigms.DocumentQuick money and power: tomatoes and livelihood building in rural Brong Ahafo, Ghana
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012This paper uses the example of small-scale, labour-intensive tomato production in Brong Ahafo, Ghana to explore the prospects some dynamics of young people’s engagement with the agrifood sector in Africa.DocumentRevolution reconsidered: evolving perspectives on livestock production and consumption
STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2013Over the last two decades much has been written about the on-going re-structuring of the global food system and its regional, national and local manifestations (McMichael 1993; Goss et al. 2000; Busch and Bain 2004; Konefal et al. 2005; Thompson and Scoones 2009).DocumentWork in progress: how the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its partners see and do engagement with crisis-affected populations
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015This mapping aims to take stock of how engagement with crisis-affected populations has been understood, implemented, and thought of by the organisations funded by Norway between 2010 and 2014. The focus is on the organisations that receive most of Norway’s humanitarian- and natural disaster-related funding.DocumentSubsidies promote use of drought tolerant maize varieties despite variable yield performance under smallholder environments in Malawi
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015This study used a three-year panel dataset for 350 Malawian farm households to examine the potential for widespread adoption of drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties, a technology that holds considerable promise for helping smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) adapt to drought risk.