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Resilience capacities of health systems: accommodating the needs of Palestinian refugees from Syria
Elsevier, 2019This study of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA) in Lebanon and Jordan explored their degree of health system resilience to the impact of shocks and stressors arising from the Syrian crisis.DocumentSimplifying property tax administration in Africa: Piloting a points-based valuation in Freetown, Sierra Leone
International Centre for Tax and Development, 2019The current method of property valuation in Freetown, Sierra Leone is highly inaccurate and generally regressive, as it does not take subjective property characteristics that are major determinants of value into account. The newly elected Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr made revenue mobilisation a central pillar of her ‘Transform Freetown’ agenda.DocumentProviding alternatives to fossil fuels in Nepal
Impact Initiative, 2019Inadequate energy supply continues to hinder social and economic development in Nepal. Despite a wealth of renewable energy potential – particularly with hydropower but also solar and biomass – sustainability and access remain major challenges.DocumentPrivate sector development interventions and better-quality job creation for youth in Africa
INCLUDE Knowledge Platform, 2019There is consensus among policymakers and the research community that demand for young people’s labour is the main constraint to achieving sustainable job creation in Africa (e.g. Fox & Kaul, 2017; AfDb et al., 2012).OrganisationINCLUDE Knowledge Platform
DocumentMigration, brokerage, precarity and agency
University of Sussex, UK, 2019Globally, brokerage is widespread in migrant labour markets. Brokers fill the gap between migrants and the countries or places they are travelling to, and help migrants traverse complex immigration systems, border controls and labour markets.Document'This changes everything'?: Rethinking fragility and violent conflicts from the climate crisis perspective
Reimann and Burns, 2019With reports of Arctic fires (e.g. Cockburn 2019) in the summer of 2019 and extreme heat waves and droughts in South Asia and Europe and flooding in the USA becoming more frequent and intense, and weekly worldwide climate demonstrations, we are reminded that climate change is very real, and political action has to be taken urgently.OrganisationReimann and Burns
NewsParticipate in the 2020 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
08 Jan 2020: In November 2020, IDS, and over 2,000 fellow members and partners from over 140 countries will meet in Dubai for the biennial Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (#HSR2020), co-sponsored by Health Systems Global (HSG) – the international membership society for people interested and engaged in the generation and use of knowledge from health policy and systems research – the WNewsSussex research findings continue to influence policy on migration and poverty
17 Dec 2019: After nearly a decade, the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium (MOOP) is drawing to a close, having conducted research in more than ten countries in an effort to uncover how and why migration plays such a significant role in poverty reduction in some contexts, but not in others.Pages