This report provides a broad review of the field of education in fragile states and charts a new agenda for maximizing education’s contribution to the development and well-being of people living in these contexts. Recommendations made are based on evidence developed both from the analysis and synthesis of the latest available data as well as primary research. Its key findings ...» more
Library
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.
Dividing lines: Grazing and conflict along the Sudan-South Sudan border
The emergence of a national border into a complex environment containing many groups with different histories and narratives has deeply affected all of the communities in the area. This working paper explores these dynamics through five case studies: the Northern Bahr el Ghazal-East Darfur border; Abyei; the Unity-South Kordofan border; the Upper Nile-South Kordofan border; and ...» more
Behavioural Economics and Public Sector Reform: An Accidental Experiment and Lessons from Cameroon
This paper explores how behavioural change (and thus institutional change) might be better motivated in the public sector. The study is based on an 'accidental experiment' – two projects in Cameroon, supported by the World Bank, of different scale, scope and design in the same governance environment. The paper argues for the value of using ideas from behavioural economics to ...» more
Rethinking social accountability in Africa: lessons from the Mwananchi Programme
How can social accountability projects enhance citizen engagement to deliver pro-poor policy and practice changes in Africa? This report draws on five years' of lessons and case studies from implementing the Mwananchi Governance and Transparency Programme in six African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. It argues that there are three major ...» more
Shifting Sands: Changing gender roles among refugees in Lebanon
This report, based on a rapid gender situation and vulnerability assessment, finds that many refugee men are experiencing severe stress and feelings of powerlessness because they are unable to fulfil their traditional role as family provider and protector. Many refugee women and girls no longer have access to the resources and services they used to have in Syria before the ...» more