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28 Nov State capacity and malnutrition: a critical analysis of capacity support to Sierra Leone’s nutrition sector

Posted at 12:49h by George Richards

Sierra Leone is one of the world’s most malnourished countries. While the international community is working together with the Government of Sierra Leone to build the preventive capacities of the...

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25 Nov On the trail of respondents in Ilam, Nepal

Posted at 14:08h in Blog by George Richards

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...

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10 Oct Videos

Posted at 12:33h by George Richards

False assumptions: what the policy community gets wrong about conflict...

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11 Oct Multimedia

Posted at 15:33h by George Richards

Check out the latest videos, pictures and expert opinion from the SLRC. Visit our Youtube and Flickr pages for more content.           Interviews with our researchers...

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06 Jul $15bn is spent every year on training, with disappointing results. Why the aid industry needs to rethink ‘capacity building’

Posted at 12:02h in Blog by George Richards

Lisa Denney explains why the aid industry needs to rethink capacity building. Read the blog on From Poverty to Power....

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15 Sep Understanding malnutrition and health choices at the community level in Sierra Leone

Posted at 12:36h by George Richards

paths of healthcare access varied across research sites and interventions to improve healthcare will need to understand how the above factors play out in different contexts and tailor programmes accordingly....

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03 Sep Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Sri Lanka

Posted at 16:39h by George Richards

individuals, households and communities shape processes of service delivery (and receipt) and determine livelihood outcomes (in conflict-affected situations); Whether or how the delivery of basic services, the provision of social...

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06 Mar International Women’s Day: Living in conflict

Posted at 15:53h in Blog by George Richards

and social ties matter when it comes to accessing opportunities. Women and malnutrition Approaches to tackling malnutrition tend to involve interventions aimed at changing the behaviour of mothers. But our...

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19 Mar ‘Outside the net’: women’s participation in fishing activities in Trincomalee district of Sri Lanka

Posted at 16:53h in Blog by George Richards

contribution to the fisher household economy, and the sector as whole, is still underestimated or ignored. For example, some researchers have found that activities such as gleaning and near-shore fishing...

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16 Dec Gender, youth and urban labour market participation: evidence from the catering sector in Lira, Northern Uganda

Posted at 12:43h by George Richards

gender-based vulnerability and violence.   Among the study’s main findings are issues of trade-offs (taking up one opportunity in the present may undermine someone’s ability to secure better opportunities in...

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