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Moving from food aid to cash transfers in Ethiopia
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The debate on whether cash transfers are more effective than food aid continues. Governments and organisations seeking to transfer cash to poor households should be aware of the challenges in targeting and the availability and price of food in local markets.DocumentAdapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.DocumentMore and better teachers needed: achieving quality education for all
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Eighteen million primary school teachers are needed over the next decade to meet Universal Primary Education (UPE) goals, says a recent report from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. This is to fill the new posts needed and the vacancies created by attrition (teachers leaving existing posts).DocumentMore aid for Africa is only a mixed blessing
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The donor community has pledged to double aid to Africa by 2010. This presents Africa with great opportunities. But it can also make life harder for exporters and the private sector. Their production costs will have to be lowered but can aid help achieve that?DocumentThe effect of increased education on employment for Kenyan women
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Creation of wage jobs has not kept up with rapid growth in the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, since the 1990s employment has become dominated by the informal sector, particularly for women. How has this affected the gender gap in employment? Does education increase women’s participation in the labour force?DocumentHow donors fail at educating children in conflict-torn states
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Even in times of conflict, education is a basic human right. Yet out of the world’s 77 million children out of school, half live in conflict-affected fragile states – a disproportionate number. Why are these children losing out on attending school and what is needed to rectify this situation?DocumentGlobal Information Society 2007
Global Information Society Watch, 2007The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy impacts on the lives of people living in developing countries.DocumentTime to articulate the right to water?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Target ten of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people without sustainable and safe access to water. Although attempts have been made to link the MDGs and human rights, promoting a right to water achieves little if institutions, norms and values remain unchanged.Documentid21 classic: Poverty and famines
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007‘Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.’ So begins Professor Amartya Sen’s ground-breaking study on famine published in 1981.DocumentUnderstanding the movements of Somali refugees
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Since the late 1980s, Somalis have been leaving their country, fleeing civil war, poverty, drought and famine. Today they form one of the world’s largest diasporas. With local integration in neighbouring states or asylum in Europe increasingly difficult, large numbers embark on complex journeys – secondary migrations – which are hard to document.Pages