Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to efforts to integrate social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). The need to integrate these three domains is now increasingly recognized by practitioners and academics. Relying on 124 agricultural programmes implemented in 5 countries in Asia, this paper considers how these elements are ...» more
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This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
What Works and What Does Not: A Discussion of Popular Approaches for the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation
A range of interventions have been carried out over the past few decades to promote the abandonment of female genital mutilation (FGM). While these efforts have had varied success, the prevalence of FGM is reducing in nearly all the countries in which it is traditionally practiced. In most cases, however, this decrease has been slow, raising questions about the efficacy of ...» more
Democratic Accountability and Service Delivery: A Desk Review
This paper seeks to identify and document how different modalities of democratic accountability are linked to improved service delivery in developing democracies. The aim is to better understand the workings of accountability mechanisms. This paper addresses a double democratic challenge: to strengthen formal and legal mechanisms that allow citizens to articulate and voice ...» more
Measuring Change in Women Entrepreneurs’ Economic Empowerment: A Literature Review
This paper is aimed to support the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) member projects to integrate gender considerations more fully into private sector development (PSD) measurement systems. It takes a first step at bridging the knowledge gap by reviewing current literature for: definitions of women’s economic empowerment; identifying current measures for women’s ...» more
Climate and Environment Assessment: Women’s Economic Empowerment and Growth in Low Income Countries: a Global Research Programme (2013-2018)
This report assesses the environmental impact of a new DFID multilateral research programme, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Growth in Low Income Countries (WEEG). It also looks at how climate change could affect the success of the WEEG programme. The WEEG research programme will help generate and inform policies that promote women’s contribution to economic growth. This will ...» more