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WFP’s Support to Strengthening the National Social Protection System in Colombia
No full textThis case study reviews the role of the World Food Programme (WFP) in supporting social protection in Colombia since 2020. It assesses how WFP has supported the various building blocks of Colombia’s national social protection system and delineates the lessons learned. The case study is a light-touch exercise, undertaken through a rapid literature review and interviews with WFP staff and other key stakeholders.</p
Can Issue-based Programming Work to Tackle Corruption in Kenya?
No full textThe rapid evidence review examines the effectiveness of issue-based programming in combating corruption in Kenya. It highlights lessons from case studies in Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh, and Tanzania, emphasising the importance of adaptive, flexible, and politically informed program designs. Key insights include the need for strategic patience, building trust among stakeholders, aligning approaches with government interests, and involving committed individuals and strong civil society. Success relies on local context adaptation, evidence-based advocacy, and stakeholder mobilisation.</p
Land Commoning in Deagrarianized Contexts: Potentials for Agroecology?
No full textAmid socially and ecologically failing food systems, land commoning has been proposed as a pathway to align food systems with agroecology and food sovereignty. This article aims to contribute to nascent understandings of land commoning movements in relatively deagrarianized contexts by presenting two distinct and complementary case studies in England and South Africa. We show how commoning imaginaries in both contexts are informed by racial justice politics.These movements offer some potential to change food provisioning yet are also limited by tensions with other strategies for both racial justice and agroecology that reinforce individualized property relations. We argue that the nuances and potentials of land commoning movements in deagrarianized contexts merit further research.</p
Mental Health and Wellbeing
No full textAs part of CLARISSA’s qualitative, thematic research agenda, Geographic Information System (GIS) journey mapping and ethnographic observation was conducted to gain insights into the daily lives, experiences, journeys, and feelings of children involved in the Adult Entertainment Sector (AES). Twenty children documented their daily activities using a mobile app, with support and accompaniment from CLARISSA researchers. Subsequently, a collaborative analysis was conducted with participants and the CLARISSA research team, culminating in the formation of a number of GIS-based Action Research Groups (ARGs) to work on predominant issues or themes.The formation of Nepal ARG 5 was prompted by recurring issues around children’s mental health and overall wellbeing that emerged through the research. The children involved are exposed to various forms of exploitation, abuse, trauma, and violence, all of which have a profound and adverse impact on their mental health. As such, this group was formed to work on the theme/issue ‘mental health and wellbeing’.</p
Evaluating Ethiopia’s Environmental Management Strategy: Does it Support Green Growth?
No full textEthiopia has been pursuing a manufacturing-led development strategy since the early 2000s, achieving substantial growth and poverty reduction for over a decade. However, little attention has been paid to whether these results were achieved at the expense of environmental sustainability. Relying on the review of promulgated environmental policies and on 22 in depth interviews with public and private stakeholders, this study aims to assess whether the existing command and-control approach to environmental management is delivering on its promises, and whether there is scope for a wider deployment of environmental taxes. Our analysis demonstrates that, despite the implementation of a variety of policies since the late 1990s, environmental management in Ethiopia is substantially ineffective. This is due to a combination of institutional instability and a lack of technical and human resources in the main agency tasked to protect the environment, and to the low political priority of environmental protection, seen as an unaffordable luxury when pursuing rapid economic growth. In this context, whether a switch to a market-based approach to environmental management would improve the situation seems doubtful, as any new instrument would be ineffective as long as there is a lack of political will to enforce environmental protection by capacitating the agencies mandated to this task.</p
Considérations Clés: Comportements en Matière de Santé dans la Province de l’Équateur, RDC || Key Considerations: Health-Seeking Behaviours in Équateur Province, DRC
No full textCette note stratégique résume les considérations socioculturelles clés inhérentes aux croyances et aux comportements en matière desanté dans le contexte de la flambée épidémique d’Ébola survenue dans la province de l’Équateur, en RDC, en juin 2018. Une analyse
plus complète devrait être faite avec la population affectée, mais en raison de la transmission qui se poursuit, la priorité a été accordée à la communication des points clés et des recommandations immédiates dans la province de l’Équateur. Cette note stratégique est basée sur une étude rapide de la littérature grise publiée existante, de l’expérience de précédentes flambées épidémiques d’Ébola en RDC, en Ouganda et en Afrique de l’Ouest, des discussions informelles qui ont eu lieu avec des collègues de l’UNICEF, de l’OMS, de la FICR et du Groupe de sciences sociales GOARN, ainsi que des contributions de conseillers experts du CNRS-MNHN-Musée de l’Homme Paris, de l’Institut Pasteur, de l’Université d’Édimbourg, de l’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, du Réseau Anthropologie des Epidémies Emergentes, du Social Science Research Council, de l’Université de Floride, de l’Institute of Development Studies, d’Anthrologica et autres. Nous souhaitons remercier tout particulièrement Tatiana
Carayannis, Lys Alcayna-Stevens, Jean-Benoît Falisse, Romain Duda et Alain Epelboin, ainsi que Santiago Ripolli, Theresa Jones et Ingrid Gercama. La responsabilité inhérente à cette note stratégique revient à la Plateforme Social Science in Humanitarian Action.
This brief summarises key socio-cultural considerations concerning health beliefs and health-seeking behaviour in the context of the outbreak of Ebola in Équateur Province, the DRC, June 2018. Further participatory enquiry should be undertaken, but given ongoing transmission, conveying key considerations and immediate recommendations related to community engagement have been prioritised. This brief is based on a rapid review of existing published and grey literature, experience of previous Ebola outbreaks in the DRC, Uganda and West Africa, informal discussions with colleagues from UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and GOARN Social Science Group, and input by expert advisers from the CNRS-MNHN-Musée de l’Homme Paris, Institut Pasteur, University of Edinburgh, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Réseau Anthropologie des Epidémies Émergentes, Social Science Research Council, University of Florida, Institute of Development Studies, Anthrologica and others. Particular thanks are extended to Tatiana Carayannis, Lys Alcayna-Stevens, Jean-Benoît Falisse, Romain Duda and Alain Epelboin, and to Santiago Ripolli, Theresa Jones and Ingrid Gercama. Responsibility for this brief lies with the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
Global Governance Education: The Sustainable Development Goals as a Product and Mechanism?
No full textGlobal governance as an area of study emerged in the latter half of the 20th century. During this period, common global challenges appeared, economic and political interdependencies between nations increased, and international and non-governmental organisations amplified their influence as norm-setters and global knowledge producers. This new world order has been described by some as “governance without government” (Rosenau and Czempiel 1992, p. 5), with a range of diverse and evolving international and regional actors attempting to exercise authority (Robertson 2012). While global governance has been well developed in other fields, its discussion in the field of education is still limited (Chung et al. 2018). When it is discussed there, much attention is given to the role played by the World Bank, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in shaping national policy and global discourse (Elfert and Ydesen 2023).This special issue brings together a collection of articles which explore the various ways in which the SDGs affect education, as well as how the SDGs are representative of a global agenda for change. This collection draws attention to how the SDGs can be seen as both a product of global governance and a mechanism through which global governance is used to influence nations and regions. Before introducing the separate articles in this issue and how they explore the role of the SDGs in global governance, we first describe our conceptualisation of “global governance”.ES/P005888/2RLO</p
Improving Children's Foundational Learning Through Community-school Participation: Experimental Evidence From Rural India
No full textDue to almost-universal enrolment in primary schools, policy focus has shifted towards improving learning outcomes. One important way of doing this is to enhance accountability, especially in the case of public provision of education. In this context, we examine the effectiveness of two different strategies of increasing accountability – one involving only the community, and the other which builds collaboration between the schools and the community. We implement a randomized controlled trial in 400 villages in India, and find: (i) both interventions led to a significant enhancement in children's foundational literacy and numeracy skills, (ii) we observed limited differences between the impacts of the two interventions, and (iii) the community-school intervention exhibited significantly greater effects when parents reported visiting the school, underscoring the vital role of parent-teacher interactions and their shared responsibility in shaping children's learning outcomes. In terms of mechanism, we find that direct learning inputs play a major role in mediating the observed effects of both interventions. Additionally, parent-teacher engagement and children's studying habits outside of the school are potential important channels through which the observed effects operate in the community-school intervention.ES/P005349/1RLO</p
Impact of Crisis (Conflict, Natural Hazard Related Disaster, and Health Emergencies) on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities - Background Paper for the Global Disability Inclusion Report
No full textCrises, including conflicts, natural hazard related disasters, and health emergencies, are on the rise and becoming increasingly complex. Marginalised and socially excluded groups, such as people with disabilities, are disproportionally affected by crises and are often excluded from the emergency or humanitarian response, despite progress on inclusion in policies and guidelines. Crises have a detrimental and disproportionate impact on people with disabilities as they exacerbate pre-existing inequalities and create new barriers. The marginalisation of people with disabilities in crises are often extensions of exclusionary processes that play out in their daily lives and especially affect those with disadvantages based on intersectionality.This background paper to support the drafting of Chapter 3 of the Global Disability Inclusion Report explores the impact of crises on the lives of people with disabilities, focusing on barriers to inclusive crises preparedness and response; the impact on health and wellbeing; the impact on poverty, livelihoods and social protection; the impact on education; and the impact on community and participation. The second half of the paper looks at the strategies for a more disability inclusive response to crises, focusing on disability inclusive preparedness; legal requirements and international commitments to disability inclusion in crises; the role of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and people with disabilities; identification of people with disabilities and their needs; disability inclusive programming in crises response; disability inclusive humanitarian cash/social protection; rehabilitation services; reconstruction and peace processes; and challenges to strategies for inclusive responses to crises. The paper ends with recommendations focused on implementation and coordination; training; resourcing; accountability and longer-term considerations. It is based on a rapid evidence review looking at disability in conflict, disasters, and health emergencies in high-, middle- and low-income countries conducted in September 2024.This background paper has been produced by the team to support the drafting of chapter 3 of the Global Disability Inclusion Report: Accelerating Disability Inclusion in a Changing and Diverse World for the Global Disability Summit 2025, and to inform broader discussion. It was commissioned by UNICEF through their contract with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). This work was made possible thanks to the financial support the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany.</p
دور المؤسسات المتناهية الصّغَر والصغيرة والمتوسطة في سياق الإنتقال إلى استخدام الطاقة النظيفة في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا: دراسة حالة لبنانThe Role of MSMEs in the Context of the Clean Energy Transition in MENA: The Lebanon Case Study
No full textيستكشف هذا التقرير الشامل كيف تواجه الشركات متناهية الصغر والصغيرة والمتوسطة في لبنان تحديات التحول في مجال الطاقة في ظل الأزمات المناخية والاقتصادية. ويسلط الضوء على الدور المحوري لهذه الشركات في تعزيز الاستدامة، ورسم مستقبل مرن ومنخفض الكربون في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا.This comprehensive report explores how micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Lebanon are navigating the challenges of energy transition amidst climate and economic crises. It sheds light on MSME's pivotal role in fostering sustainability, and shaping a resilient, low-carbon future in the MENA region.English translation available</p