34,462 research outputs found
IDS Postgraduate Prospectus 2019
No full textPostgraduate studies have been central to IDS since its foundation in 1966 as the UK’s specialist institution for teaching and research on international development. Our teaching and learning is shaped by our distinctive ‘engaged excellence’ approach. This means working in partnership with
those at the heart of progressive change, including policymakers, civil society, activists and practitioners, to produce and mobilise rigorous and operationally relevant research and evidence.
Our courses are designed to connect cutting-edge research with policy and practice, and IDS’ teaching and learning is embedded in our efforts to contribute to global transformations that will reduce inequalities, accelerate sustainability and build inclusive and secure societies
IDS Annual Review 2019
No full textDuring the past year, international development has involved grappling with a series of dramatic social and political shifts. We have seen extreme right-wing populism taking hold in more countries; the US retreating from the global stage while China grows its influence through the Belt and Road Initiative; protest movements such as Extinction Rebellion and Women’s March gathering global momentum despite shrinking civil society spaces; and growing recognition and action on major global challenges from plastics pollution and urbanisation to epidemics and antimicrobial resistance
IDS Project Workflow Toolkit
No full textTruly effective resource sharing depends upon each library running at peak efficiency. The goal of the Workflow Toolkit is to help ILL staff implement best practices that will save valuable turnaround time, while also cutting the costs of doing business. Maintained by the IDS Project\u27s Mentors, in partnership with Atlas Systems, the Toolkit provides best practices that can enhance all aspects of borrowing, lending, and document delivery services through ILLiad customizations, resource sharing strategies, and workflow improvements. View the online version for the most recent updates and additions.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/idsproject-press/1000/thumbnail.jp
Dataset of Grouped Commit Author IDs after Identity Resolution
No full textThis Dataset contains the SHA1 values of IDs for 5,427,024 commit authors who have created commits in git version control system, and have more than 1 ID in git. It is a compressed CSV file (separated by ; ) with 14,861,538 author IDs, where the first column is the group ID, which is same as the first (randomly selected) author ID of the group, and the second column is the author ID that is part of the group. If an author was found to have 2 different IDs: I1, I2, then it is recorded in the file in 2 separate lines, with the lines being I1;I1 and I1;I2, i.e. the first column is the group identifier, which is one of the IDs in a group, and the second column contains the different author IDs in separate lines. Author IDs consist of the Author's name and email address in the format: Name .</p
Dataset of Grouped Commit Author IDs after Identity Resolution
No full textThis Dataset contains the IDs of 5,427,024 commit authors who have created commits in git version control system, and have more than 1 ID in git. It is a compressed CSV file (separated by ; ) with 14,861,538 author IDs, where the first column is the group ID, which is same as the first (randomly selected) author ID of the group, and the second column is the author ID that is part of the group. If an author was found to have 2 different IDs: I1, I2, then it is recorded in the file in 2 separate lines, with the lines being I1;I1 and I1;I2, i.e. the first column is the group identifier, which is one of the IDs in a group, and the second column contains the different author IDs in separate lines.</p
PHE-SICH-CT-IDS
No full textThis publicly available dataset namely PHE-SICH-CT-IDS, which is constructed 120 CT scans of patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. PHE-SICH-CT-IDS contains 3,511 CT images of SICH occurring in the basal ganglia region, with associated labels for the surrounding edematous zone around the hematoma. PHE-SICH-CT-IDS provides multiple functionalities including segmentation, detection, feature extraction, and more. It is divided into three sub-datasets representing different functionalities and formats: subdatasetA in NIfTI format, containing source CT data and edema zone labels, offering segmentation, feature extraction and prognosis prediction functionalities; subdatasetB and subdatasetC in JPG and PNG formats, containing sliced data with segmentation labels and detection annotations, providing segmentation and detection functionalities.</p
Rights talk and rights practice: Challenges for southern Africa
No full textRights are increasingly enshrined in legislative frameworks in southern Africa and rights-based approaches are increasingly seen as a core component of development. But how can rights be made real for poor people in rural areas? Research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe sheds light on the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of "legal pluralism" and complex, politicised institutional settings. Rather than an emphasis on rights in abstract legal or constitutional terms, the research has explored instead the practices of rights claiming and the complex politics of actors and institutions that affect this. In the southern African context, rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested. In practice, rights are realised through complex negotiations about access to resources at a local level. Broader rights frameworks enshrined in the constitution, in legislation and in policy can - despite their progressive nature - be irrelevant, unless the local institutional context is conducive to encouraging effective rights claiming by poor people. A rights-based approach for sustainable livelihoods must therefore concentrate on institutional mechanisms for gaining access to resources, rather than only on establishing universalised legalistic rights frameworks
Warden IDs - Warden Elmar Knowlton (left) and the Author Preparing to Blow a Dam
No full textHistorical Photographs taken by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Group of photos identified as Warden IDs . Photo identified as Warden Elmar Knowlton (left) and the author preparing to blow a dam
Livelihood dynamics: Rural Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
No full textDrawing on research carried out by the Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa (SLSA) programme, this article gives a brief overview of some of the diverse ways people make a living in harsh physical and economic environments in Zambézia province, Mozambique, Chiredzi district Zimbabwe, and South Africa's Wild Coast. It describes the contexts of increasing vulnerability, including the impact of economic reform programmes, the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of extreme climatic events. It explores the livelihood strategies of rural people and the emergence of new institutional and governance arrangements that facilitate or constrain these strategies. It demonstrates that gaining access to natural resources continues to play, alongside a portfolio of other activities, a crucial part in rural people's livelihood strategies
The rural poor, the private sector and markets: Changing interactions in southern Africa
No full textDrawing on case study material from the Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa programme, this article examines the turn to strategies for development in southern Africa, which seek to boost the access of the rural poor to new markets and investment opportunities. It investigates the prospects for "pro-poor" engagement with the private sector, and lists a number of policy measures needed in order to make such initiatives work for the benefit of rural livelihoods. Markets are highly politicised, the playing field is uneven and, without regulation and protection, poor communities are vulnerable to potential exploitation. Without concerted attention to improving the capacity of poor people to enter and engage with markets and to the distribution of benefits - through active state support and redistributive measures - the ideals of "pro-poor growth" and "private sector partnership" for development will remain more rhetorical gloss than reality
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