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Exclusion from Economic Growth and Transformation in Sierra Leone
No full textThis report identifies the population groups most likely to be left out of economic growth and transformation in Sierra Leone and the reasons for their exclusion. It pays particular attention to location, socio-economic status, gender, disability, sexual orientation, and the intersection between them. It highlights the formal and informal power dynamics that shape access to resources, opportunities, and decision-making processes, as well as the risks of unintended harm.</p
Barriers to Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth in Sierra Leone
No full textThis rapid evidence review report examines the main barriers to inclusive, sustainable economic growth in Sierra Leone, with a focus on key considerations such as political economy, governance, state capability, human capital, electricity supply, access to investment, and resilience. It also investigates how these identified barriers can be overcome, drawing upon a mix of academic research and grey literature, primarily from multilateral and international institutions.</p
K4DD Health Evidence Summaries and Discourse September 2025
No full textMonthly Health Evidence and Discourse Summaries aim to signpost FCDO and others to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on global health. This summary is structured around the following topics:Health Systems Strengthening including service delivery, human resources for health, health information systems, access to essential medicines and technologies, health financing and leadership and governance.Health Equity & Rights.</p
Barriers and Opportunities for Wetland Conservation in Uganda
No full textWetlands are permanent or seasonal water bodies with permanently waterlogged soil. They occupy between 10-13 percent of Uganda’s land area, and provide a range of key ecosystem services, playing an important role in local climate and water cycles, in addition to being biodiversity hotspots. While Uganda has established policy and legislative mechanisms governing wetland use, degradation continues largely due to agricultural, residential and industrial developments, leading to wetland drainage and reclamation, disrupting the functioning of the overall ecosystem, with issues of corruption and competing land tenure arrangements impacting effective governance.</p
Glossary – Democracy Contested
No full textThis is the glossary for IDS Bulletin 56.1, 'Democracy Contested'.</p
What Makes Land Use and Climate Change Programming Deliver Adaptation Benefits?
No full textThis K4DD Briefing Note provides an overview of where land use and climate change programming, which focuses on governance and supply chains, can deliver adaptation benefits, and where there are risks of maladaptive outcomes for forest-based communities.This Briefing Note has been prepared in support of a Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) Evidence and Policy Clinic in January 2025 on effective climate adaptation in tropical forest settings, drawing on case studies and learning presented by staff from the (IFU) and other departments across the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. The Briefing Note also draws on synthesised evidence from two K4DD rapid evidence reviews (RERs) prepared in advance of the evidence and policy clinic discussions.</p
United Kingdom Experience with Affordable Housing in Low and Middle-Income Countries
No full textThis rapid evidence-review focusses on the experience of the United Kingdom with providing affordable housing in middle and lower-income countries, including Nigeria. The review also explores the costs of providing affordable housing. It assesses the role that affordable housing, supported by the UK government, has played in providing employment opportunities and technology transfer in host countries.</p
Rediscovering Empathy: Building Solidarity in Difficult Times in Uttar Pradesh, India
No full textHumqadam is the story of quiet resistance. In the villages of Uttar Pradesh, where social polarisation was tearing communities apart, a group of veteran activists found themselves facing fear, not just around them, but within. This case study, as part of the Countering Backlash programme, follows their journey as they chose to respond, not with retreat, but with hope: rebuilding trust, reframing masculinity, and drawing strength from forgotten traditions of coexistence.</p
The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Financial Crisis
No full textLebanon’s 2019 financial collapse ranks among the worst globally in recent history. Rooted in decades of fiscal mismanagement, entrenched clientelism, and a post-civil war economic model that emphasises speculative financialisation over social welfare, the resultant collapse of the Lebanese pound (LBP)–US$ peg triggered widespread socioeconomic devastation, with hyperinflation, skyrocketing poverty, and the erosion of people’s savings and wages. With more than 70 per cent of the population living in multidimensional poverty, Lebanon’s already fragmented social protection systems were overwhelmed, highlighting the urgent need for systemic reform.This paper examines the structural causes of the financial collapse, the subsequent impact on Lebanon’s social protection systems, and the limitations of shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) frameworks in such a context. Drawing on participatory workshops, key informant interviews, and multiple strands of academic and policy research, the paper highlights how systemic vulnerabilities and political dysfunction constrained Lebanon’s ability to implement effective SRSP. These vulnerabilities and dysfunctions must therefore be addressed simultaneously alongside more technical social protection policy reform.</p
Evidence From Cash Plus Programmes: Lessons for Zambia
No full textSocial protection strategies, and cash transfer programmes in particular, have been on the rise globally since the early 2000s. By 2019, 35 African countries had adopted a national social protection policy or strategy. Cash plus approaches (including graduation programmes) addressing a wider range of socioeconomic outcomes emerged more recently and have expanded quickly. The Zambian government approved a cash plus approach in 2022, and a range of cash plus interventions are already being implemented. Exploring cash plus experiences and evidence from other countries is key to informing programme development, with a focus on what we can learn from these contexts that is relevant for Zambia. This includes ‘what works’ in terms of different combinations of cash plus components as well as how to deliver through national and local governance structures.</p