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Review of the literature on social protection shock responses and readiness

Publication - Research reports and studies - 10 May 2013

This literature review was carried out to complement a ‘social protection shock-readiness toolkit’ developed for DFID to support assessment of the readiness of low- and middle-income countries to respond to future shocks through social protection provision, and to examine the institutional context from the donor perspective, which frames these responses.

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What is the evidence on the impact of employment creation on stability and poverty reduction in fragile states

Publication - Research reports and studies - 10 May 2013

Rebecca Holmes, Anna McCord and Jessica Hagen-Zanker with Gina Bergh and Franzisca Zanker

This systematic review identifies and synthesizes the current literature on the evidence of the impacts of employment creation on stability and poverty in fragile states.

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Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition

Publication - Research reports and studies - 29 April 2013

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

This paper, commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance, addresses the question of how sustainable smallholder agriculture can contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition in the developing world.

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UK International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone at the ASAZA gender-based violence centre.

Good practice in preventing and responding to gender-based violence in humanitarian contexts

Projects - April 2013 to June 2013

This project seeks to map and critically analyse evidence of good practice in prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian contexts in order to support humanitarian practitioners and policy makers to improve the quality of GBV programming in the field.

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What does the difference between driving a bus in Stockholm and Delhi have to do with evidence-based policymaking?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 10 April 2013

'Decentralisation reforms could offer a unique opportunity to strengthen evidence-informed policy-making from the bottom up.'

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Shockwatch - Land transparency initiative

Projects - March 2013 to March 2014

This project will analyse the potential and limitations of different land governance and transparency initiatives.

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Innovation - Providing global public goods in a rapidly changing world

Projects - March 2013 to December 2013

Innovative ways of making progress on global economic and environmental governance

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Evidence review on research for health in humanitarian crises

Projects - April 2013 to September 2013

This project, carried out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Harvard University and the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), ODI, seeks to carry out an evidence review on research for health in humanitarian crises.

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A guide for planning and strategy development in the face of complexity

Publication - Discussion papers - 19 March 2013

ODI Background Notes

Richard Hummelbrunner and Harry Jones

Does complexity make planning an irrelevant exercise? While it is true that complex situations require a greater focus on learning and adaptation, this does not render planning irrelevant. This background note is a guide, explaining how planning and strategy development can be carried out despite complexity.

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Gender and social protection in the developing world: beyond mothers and safety nets

Event - Public event - 13 March 2013 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+00)

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2013, this book launch encapsulates the theme of voice, empowerment and agency, to discuss what these concepts mean in practice and how they can be achieved through different pro-poor policy and programming measures and in different contexts.

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