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25 Mar Expert in focus: Agnes Soucat on service delivery in conflict

Posted at 22:38h in Video by George Richards

Report 2004 anniversary conference about what needs to be done to ensure people have access to basic services in conflict-affected situations. For more information about the conference click here: https://www.odi.org/events/wdr-conference-making-services-work-for-poor-people...

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19 Jun Service delivery and state capacity: findings from the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium

Posted at 13:00h by winona_admin

synthesises the findings of these studies, drawing out cross-cutting themes that help us understand both the ways in which capacity development in such contexts is currently undertaken, and the assumptions,...

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19 Jun Service delivery, public perceptions and state legitimacy: findings from the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium

Posted at 13:00h by winona_admin

into this complex enterprise, offering donors and agencies a relatively tangible means of supporting these processes. The central logic here is that, by building governments’ capacity to deliver their ‘core...

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19 Dec Durable research uptake in DRC

Posted at 10:39h in Blog by George Richards

research findings reach key audiences. In recent years, research uptake has evolved from mere dissemination and communication strategies built around bombarding policy-makers and development actors with messages in the hope...

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16 Oct How to do a rigorous, evidence-focused literature review in international development: a guidance note

Posted at 16:33h by George Richards

the core principles of ‘full’ systematic reviews, but that also contains space within the process for innovation and reflexivity. We discuss all stages of the review process, but pay particular...

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10 Jun Defining and identifying IDPs outside of camps in South Kivu: challenges, contradictions and consequences

Posted at 15:45h by George Richards

and host communities concerned with IDPs, this study aims to provide insight into the multiple representation of the definitions of IDPs.   The study seeks to address three overarching research...

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12 Aug How did social welfare provision (de-)legitimise the post-colonial state in Sri Lanka?

Posted at 11:23h by George Richards

to upholding the core values of social justice, and the subsequent changes in its norms and values as a result of political, socioeconomic and conceptual changes to offer a more...

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06 Jun Women beedi rollers and necrocapitalism in Sri Lanka

Posted at 12:54h in Blog by George Richards

company escapes its obligation to pay fair compensation, provide other welfare benefits such as insurance and pensions, while seriously undermining the workers’ health and wellbeing. Given the paltry wages that...

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27 Mar The new OECD States of Fragility report: exciting analysis but conventional policy prescriptions

Posted at 15:39h in Blog by George Richards

multiple dimensions of fragility are recognised. What’s more, it passes the ‘common sense test’ in that the countries in the core look like the right ones. But it also rightly...

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10 Jul Provincial tribalisation: the transformation of ethnic representativeness under decentralisation in the DR Congo

Posted at 14:05h by George Richards

the previous ones and the country as a whole, which reduces the appeal of representativeness for larger groups and the claims for representativeness of smaller ones. Second, because of the...

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