Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium

05 Mar On borrowed time: The limits of informal credit for livelihood security in Herat, Afghanistan

Posted at 17:02h by George Richards

of the urgent need to create opportunities for Afghanistan’s surplus rural labour force and to meet the needs of migrants to and returnees from Iran. Background Image reference https://www.flickr.com/photos/imtfi/5475527439/license:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/...

28 Jan Politics and Governance in Afghanistan: Nangarhar Province

Posted at 13:00h by winona_admin

play, it explores subnational governance and access to public goods. The key messages are: Initiatives to build improved and sustainable governance requires an understanding of formal and informal power...

11 Sep Sierra Leone

Posted at 12:36h by George Richards

pregnancy in Sierra Leone: priorities for a future research agenda Briefing Paper / Sierra Leone + Adaptation in practice: lessons from teenage pregnancy programmes in Sierra Leone Briefing Paper /...

04 Mar What Ebola tells us about how to do state-building

Posted at 16:13h in Blog by George Richards

negative and pejorative attitudes towards the poor, both in developed countries – think ‘chavs [^]’ – as well as developing ones. This inhibits responses to crises that might engage more...

10 Dec The New Deal in difficult places

Posted at 16:12h in Blog by George Richards

...There’s a need in welcoming the New Deal and seeking to make progress in its implementation not to lose sight of countries where donors and the regimes currently in power...

04 Apr The Missing Piece of the Jobs Puzzle? Reflections on the 2013 World Development Report

Posted at 14:38h in Blog by George Richards

and allegiances of individuals and communities – may involve governments designing policies that are structured in ways to benefit specific political allies or favoured religious and ethnic groups. This divide,...

11 Sep Uganda

Posted at 12:23h by George Richards

to redress, remedy and reparation, and it is understood from recent studies that such people’s priorities cover a range of issues, including: physical and mental health services; education services; assistance...

14 Sep What we do

Posted at 16:58h by George Richards

of research was based on three research questions. These research themes were developed over the course of an intensive one-year inception phase between 2011 and 2012. Findings from this first...

09 Jan What are SLRC researchers reading?

Posted at 15:53h in Blog by George Richards

power’. It argues that that there are several potentially sound and productive taxes that could be used, notably regional excises (on vehicles and fuel), making sales and business taxes more...

19 Sep Publications

Posted at 16:29h by George Richards

4 – Rethinking inclusion and fairness + The mental landscape of post-conflict life in northern Uganda: Annexes – Tools + Adaptation in practice: lessons from teenage pregnancy programmes in Sierra...

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