This Sunday will mark International Women’s Day across the world. Many will celebrate the progress that has been made towards eliminating gender inequality. However, for women living in conflict there is still a long way to go. Over the last four years, we have been...
Last Wednesday, we were lucky enough to be invited along to the launch of the Institute of Development Studies’ Ebola: Lessons for Development papers [^]. The event got us thinking about what the Ebola crisis tells us about our conventional ways of doing state-building and...
SLRC worked to mainstream gender throughout the first phase of its research. In this post, Dyan Mazurana reflects on what went well, what didn't, and what the Consortium has learned from the experience....
Action on pay and working conditions in conflict-affected situations is needed, and this should be connected to the long history of working people fighting to combat exploitation through collective action....
Sometimes we forget that the state is not a thing, but a set of institutions made up of people. People can shape how the state functions and can trigger changes in the way it provides services and makes itself accountable to the population. ...
In the run up to International Migrants Day, SLRC has teamed up with Al Jazeera to bring together academics and journalists to tell a story about what migrants face when they embark on this risky journey....
Most economic activity in developing countries is informal [^] in nature. But the mistake people make is thinking that it is therefore untaxed and open to all (a kind of ultimate free market). This simply isn’t the case. ...
Although the state has been primarily responsible for financing and administering social protection initiatives in Nepal over the last ten to 20 years, external aid agencies have been pivotal in shaping the social protection policy landscape, both through the promotion of particular programmes and the provision...
Making judgements about whether the continued use of traditional health providers in Sierra Leone is right or wrong misses the point. The fact is it happens. Dealing with long-term health problems first means understanding how local health systems actually work and why people continue to...
We have known about the impacts of the seasons on health and agriculture for decades. It therefore seems remarkable that this fundamental issue still does not feature as a core pillar of health and nutrition programming....