Conflict, fragility and recovery: six years of research, three surprises
Read Rachel Slater, Paul Harvey and Richard Mallett's reflections on SLRC's research on the ODI's comment site ...
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Sanitation work and caste in Sri Lanka
In Jaffna, Sri Lanka, sanitation workers employed by the state all belong to one caste: the Parayar. Here, Aftab Lall argues that the institutionalisation of Parayar workers as low-status government officials legitimates the discrimination they face, and ignores its origins. ...
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Jun
Women beedi rollers and necrocapitalism in Sri Lanka
Women in one village in the Jaffna district of northern Sri Lanka have been rolling beedi with their bare hands for over fifty years in a gendered survival economy. This is no accident....
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Nov
On the trail of respondents in Ilam, Nepal
The SLRC Panel survey is examining people’s access to services, livelihoods and perceptions of governance in 5 countries. We’re now carrying out the second round after a first round in 2012. The survey aims to inform debates around whether and how delivering services and supporting...
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Oct
Change-makers: how a new generation of Afghan women are inspiring others to action
Sunday 11 October was International Day of the Girl. This year’s focus is on Adolescent girls. Despite the MDG targets to achieve universal primary education and eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2015, according to Afghanistan’s most recent census only 23% of...
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Oct
Ebola, health systems and the human face of capacity
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. But what happens when he is unable to practice what he was taught? ...
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Jul
Why capacity building needs to smarten up
Richard Mallett reflects on the importance of capacity building in this blog posted by Devex....
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Apr
Beyond the medical crisis: The politics of Ebola in Sierra Leone
The response to Ebola has overlooked the political dimensions of this crisis, argues Lisa Denney in this IDS blog....
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The new OECD States of Fragility report: exciting analysis but conventional policy prescriptions
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