IDS Knowledge Services seek to provide a bridge between research, policy and practice in international development by delivering and supporting a range of information-sharing services, and strengthening the ability of others to do the same. With over forty years experience in this field, we aim to help people understand and make sense of the complexities and realities of poverty and injustice, emphasising the importance of using diverse and credible information in decision-making processes. We work closely with other knowledge brokers across the world, and with partners in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Our flagship services include the British Library of Development Studies, Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries; BRIDGE, which supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming with print and online information services; and Eldis, a web portal sharing a broad range of publications on development research, policy and practice. We are also running a number of projects which look at opening up access to research information, stimulating demand for its use, and strengthening the capacity of others also engaged in this knowledge brokering role. Our Impact and Learning Team is exploring this role in the context of research to policy process and testing approaches to planning, monitoring, evaluation, and sharing the wider lessons around this. We want to work with others to understand and champion the role of information in tackling poverty and injustice and help address the power imbalances and capacity constraints that limit people's ability to access and make use of information.
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This report analyses the state of the energy sector and energy policy in seven small island developing states (SIDS) in the Caribbean, with an emphasis on renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities in the countries. The report provides an overview of the status and recent developments in the seven SIDS, followed by more detailed individual reviews of the state of their energy sector and energy plans, projects and policies. The report was prepared as part of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas’ (ECPA) Low-Carbon Communities in the Caribbean (LCCC) initiative, which seeks to help Caribbean countries take actions and implement strategies to reduce carbon emissions and increase the sustainability of their energy supply by promoting greater use of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
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Multilateral and bilateral intermediaries are a crucial part of the climate finance landscape. In general, intermediaries are working hard to improve their monitoring and evaluation (M&E;) systems, but there is significant room for improvement, particularly to ensure that M&E; is applied across the full lifecycle of projects and programmes. This paper examines the M&E; systems applied by a selection of eight multilateral and bilateral intermediaries, as well as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reporting framework. The report argues that a key ingredient for a successful M&E; system is simplicity. It is important to balance the need for rigor and comprehensiveness with the recipient country’s capabilities and related transaction and administrative costs and to focus on information that is genuinely required to understand how well money is being spent and the impact it is having on tackling the global challenge of climate change.
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This report highlights the role of information and communication technology (ICT) to prevent the effects of climate change related emergencies in Africa. The objective of the case study on Mozambique is to uncover the pattern of municipal ICT impact that may exist in other low capacity countries with similar political economy structures in connection with leveraging ICTs in public sectors. According to the report, geographic information systems (GIS) assist local governments in the identification of flood zones on maps, measurement of communities’ vulnerability and planning for new prevention infrastructure. The study concludes by suggesting measures to link Africa’s ICT boom in citizen-based mobile and internet usage with the rapid rise of public sector ICT phenomena as a promising means to plug service delivery gaps.
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This collection of analyses spotlight cases and interviews with prominent women activists involved in natural resource management in Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines and China to better understand the diverse challenges faced by Asian women in relation to limited rights and insecure tenure. Despite contextual differences, the studies identify a number of similarities and trends. The authors argue that many poor Asian women face challenges articulated around three nexuses: generic gender issues; the interrelations between poverty and tenure issues; and ill-conceived, gender blind and gender biased development interventions. The paper includes the following recommendations: increase women’s visibility through mobilisation and networking; improve capacity building within projects and organisations; reinforce participatory ethos; and increase links with policy planning and implementation.
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This report provides an overview of a project that aims to help Indian smallholders to join the global carbon market in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. The project is based on the SMART-CDM approach, which introduces specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and tangible practices that smallholders can take to improve their access to carbon markets. The approach helps smallholders to work together and is based on 40 possible activities designed to reduce emissions or sequester carbon through activities related to tree-planting, agriculture activities and energy consumption reduction activities. Implementation of the project has been facilitated through cooperation with livelihood programmes.
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Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world, where more than 3.5 million coastal peoples’ livelihoods depend directly or indirectly on fishing and related activities under extremely difficult conditions. Economic hardship is likely to be aggravated by climate change and its various effects. This study examines the probable linkage of the changing regimes in sea surface temperature, tropical cyclones and related climatic hazards with the declining livelihoods of the coastal fishers. The paper is organised into two sections: the first documents the sea surface temperature and tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal based on analysis of available climatic data between 1985 and 2009; and the second documents fishers’ own experience and perceptions of the changing climate based on analysis of survey data from ten coastal areas of Bangladesh.
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The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) 2012 focuses on innovative ways to finance sustainable development. It notes that while the need for aid remains ...Eldis latest research
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This toolkit aims to strengthen the ability of community-based institutions to address REDD+ issues, with benefit sharing being a key feature in the design ...Eldis latest research
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This report describes how climate change effects will damage human rights in Latin America. It seeks to aid the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ...Eldis latest research
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This Compendium of ICT Applications on Electronic Government is a unique collection of current ICT applications being used directly by or in partnership ...Eldis latest research
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This study examines some of the main telecenter experiments in Latin America, with particular reference to Central America and the Caribbean, to help ...Eldis latest research
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The aims of this qualitative study, carried out in 2010, were twofold. The first was to explore and document the psychosocial, sexual and reproductive ...Eldis latest research
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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development. However, there is debate about whether adolescent ...Eldis latest research
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Much of DR Congo's rainforest is still untouched, but authorities are deviding the country in zones for conservation and commersial use. This process ...Eldis latest research
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HIV prevention for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) has largely focused on ensuring HIV negative MSM (MSM-) remain negative. MSM living with HIV (MSM+) ...Eldis latest research
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Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits ...Eldis latest research
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The Paper emphasizes the importance of telecentres in the continuum and supports the theory that sustainability of telecentres and knowledge networks ...Eldis latest research
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