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Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development and environment
Elsevier, 2019Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed to support Sustainable Development Goal advances and similar agendas.DocumentBridging the territory between me, we, and living earth: Six explorations into action research for sustainability
SAGE, 2019A call to action has been made for action research to more intentionally support sustainability approaches that shift current pathways that are leading to ecological and social destruction.NewsCan Open Access pay the bills?
24 Oct 2019: For over 20 years, Eldis has provided free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on global development issues. The Eldis database now includes summaries and links to over 60,000 full-text research and policy documents from a growing global network of several thousand research organisations and networks.DocumentTime to redress the globally unjust cost of climate change
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2019Climate change has global impacts, but hits poor and vulnerable communities first and worst. The 47 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are at a disproportionately high risk of adverse consequences with global warming of 1.5°C and beyond. LDCs contribute the least to global warming. But over the last 50 years, 69% of worldwide deaths caused by climate-related disasters were in LDCs.DocumentMasculinities and transition in Kazakhstan: Country brief
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019In both policy-oriented and scholarly literatures on the gender dimensions of the social and economic transitions in Kazakhstan of the past 30 years, men and their gendered experiences of transitions are scarcely discussed.DocumentPolicy incentives and agribusiness investment in Ethiopia: Benefit or deadweight?
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019The importance of agriculture to the Ethiopian economy is underlined by the country’s forthright promotion of investment in agriculture since the turn of the century, but how effective has this investment really been? This brief summarises the findings and conclusions of the APRA study ‘Policy approaches to business investment in agricultural commercialisation in Ethiopia’.Blog PostHow social protection schemes can provide vital support to older people
01 Oct 2019: This blog originally appeared on the Impact Initiative website.DocumentThe governance of Nepal’s flood early warning system: opportunities under federalism
Overseas Development Institute, 2019Flood early warning systems (EWS) are extremely complex, with multiple layers of communication and relationships between stakeholders, across different scales of governance. With the development of weather and flood forecasting models, Nepal’s EWS has advanced significantly in recent years, but warnings can still fail to reach downstream communities in the low-lying Tarai plains.DocumentBarriers to urban shelter self-recovery in Philippines and Nepal: lessons for humanitarian policy and practice
The British Academy, 2019Most households affected by disasters reconstruct their houses themselves by self-building or employing local labour: they ‘self-recover’. Humanitarian agencies’ experience in assisting self-recovery in urban communities is limited; little is known about how to support it in practice.OrganisationThe British Academy
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