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Use of legal empowerment approaches to improve access to health services : workshop summary
Full text linkThis report documents the global online workshop's main insights, discussion points, and findings. The workshop was held on February 22nd and practitioners, policymakers, researchers, funders, and civil society actors working at the intersection of legal empowerment and access to health services were invited. Representatives of IDS presented a scoping paper on “Legal Empowerment Approaches to Improve Access to Quality Health Services.” Participants were then encouraged to discuss the research and practice gaps raised by the paper and their own experiences
IDS Annual Review 2021–22
No full textIt has been a year marked by conflict, climate change, and Covid-19 – intersecting crises that intensify and entrench longer-term vulnerabilities. As we highlight in the IDS 2021–22 Annual Review, these uncertain times demand that development research be done differently, with new approaches to learning and knowledge exchange that engage policy actors and diverse communities. Our work in the past year has centred on navigating uncertainties and crises, and despite the ongoing effects of Covid-19 and the challenge of major cuts to UK Government aid funding, IDS has made exciting progress. Read the 2021–22 Annual Review to find out more
Investing in the future : reforming public policy to end undernutrition in India
No full textTo reduce undernutrition in India, significant reform in public policy interventions is required. An increase in economic growth and a declining poverty rate have not translated into an equivalent decline in undernutrition. Both gender and caste dynamics limit the impact of nutritional interventions in the long run, while policies need to be more sensitive to existing inequalities in the short run. For maximum nutrition effect, programmes like the NFSA need to focus on the first 1000 days of life - from conception to the end of the second year; and on the nutrition status of adolescent girls
Towards a New Political Economy of Climate Change and Development
Full text linkIn this article, the authors propose a new political economy of climate change and development in which explicit attention is given to the way that ideas, power and resources are conceptualised, negotiated and implemented by different groups at different scales. The climate change and development interface warrants such attention because of its importance to achieving sustainable poverty reduction outcomes, cross-sectoral nature, urgency and rapid emergence of international resource transfers, initiatives and governance architectures, and the frequent assumption of linear policymaking and apolitical, techno-managerial solutions to the climate change challenge.MI
The social function of formal schooling: The views of Foster and the experience of Tanzania
No full textInstitute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairob
State-society Relations And The Dilemmas Of The New Developmentalist State
No full textIn confronting neoliberal models and their emphasis on state-market alliances, new developmentalism has emerged as a powerful alternative, received with enthusiasm by progressive forces. It has certainly been responsible for unquestionable advances in fighting inequalities, particularly in Latin America where it has been adopted by leftist governments from 2000 on. However, it has been unable to redefine the old formula of a 'strong, self-sufficient state' and the centralising political practices characteristic of the 'old' developmentalism. Therefore, the article argues that the new developmental state has ended up by draining the potential of participatory democracy, which had brought together hopes for inclusive and sustainable development policies and had announced a new alliance between state and society through which rights could be ensured and democracy deepened.472A15716
Introduction: 'Some for All Rather than More for Some'? Contested Pathways and Politics since the 1990 New Delhi Statement
No full textThis introduction reviews the experience of the water and sanitation sector since the 1990 New Delhi Statement Some for All Rather than More for Some. It explores the policy pathways and contested politics that took place as a result of three key years in the early 1990s, from the issuing of the New Delhi Statement in 1990, through the Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development in 1992, to the output of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. These key events have shaped policy and practice over a period of two decades, including generating major contestation over the idea of water as an economic good. Past lessons suggest that the wider global water and sanitation community needs to rethink approaches and emphases, shifting from targets and global pronouncement to issues concerning sustainability, global/local mismatches, contested knowledges, equity, politics and power.MI
Planning for Electrification: On- and Off-Grid Considerations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Full text linkEnergy poverty, in particular, the lack of access to electricity, is a chronic impediment to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting over one billion people. Recently, electrification efforts have bifurcated into two pathways: grid extension/enhancement and off‑grid. Expanding and enhancing the existing national grid is the de facto approach, but is struggling to keep up with growing populations and demand in many countries. Off-grid solutions such as solar home systems and mini-grids are seen as a way to ‘leap frog’ the national grid, but face distribution, affordability, and regulatory challenges. This article explores each electrification pathway through the lens of a traditional power system planner. This perspective shows that implicit planning assumptions about cost recovery, procurement, reliability requirements, economic benefit, what entities are involved, and the role of renewable energy require re‑visiting and re-invention in the sub‑Saharan African context
IDS Working Paper 84
No full textThis is an output of the collaboration between the Training and Research Centre, Harare, and the Health and
Social Change Programme at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. It was written while the author
was a Visiting Fellow at the IDS in August and December 1998.Participation of communities is widely argued to be an important factor in improving health outcomes and the
performance of health systems. This paper uses a review of past experience of participation in Zimbabwe’s
health system to propose that participation be strengthened along two dimensions: Creating realistic
expectations between communities and health services in their contributions towards health, and in the
governance of health systems. Various examples are outlined of the relationship between social participation
and control and health outcomes. The paper also outlines the features of and factors in building participation in
governance of health systems. It argues for a wider inclusion of social groups from civil society, elected
leadership and health systems in structures and processes that set and audit health policies and priorities. It
discusses issues to be addressed in enhancing participation, including the information, processes, capacities and
resources required. Finally, it reviews the proposals for and issues to be addressed in enhancing participation
and accountability in Zimbabwe's health sector at district, referral hospital and national level
African pay structures in a transnational context : the British connection
No full textExamines the determinants of public sector salaries in several African countries in order to make policy recommendations for training programs and institutional reforms. Concludes that salary levels are high and significant salary differentials persist among different categories within this sector
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