This paper summarises the evidence on the effectiveness of employment programmes, and on whether employment programmes can reduce crime and violence. This evidence comes from impact evaluations that compare program participants to comparison groups, often tracking impacts for years, and including some randomized control trials. The paper finds that the literature shows some ...» 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.
Exploring coordination in humanitarian clusters
In most crisis situations, a large number of organisations will be working to provide support in the same area. This study attempts to identify the factors that contribute to effective coordination. It concentrates on the IASC ‘Clusters’, a formal humanitarian coordination forum for ‘sectors’ of the response at the country level. Using a mixed methods approach combining a ...» more
Unlocking innovation: Enabling and blocking factors in developing innovative programmes in Oxfam GB
The aim of this research is to explore uncommon but successful behaviours or strategies that have enabled certain teams in Oxfam GB to find better solutions to problems. The researchers undertook semi-structured interviews with respondents across 13 innovative initiatives. The researchers chose these projects based on a review of a wider set of Oxfam programmes, choosing those ...» more
Financing in Crisis? Making humanitarian finance fit for the future
This paper expands on the Future Humanitarian Financing initiative’s recommendations about how to close the humanitarian funding gap. It summarises good practices by DAC members and attempts to find solutions to common challenges: Predictable funding for predicable costs. Funding for longer-term – protracted – crises that helps boost the resilience of crisis-affected ...» more
Do men and women have different policy preferences, and if so, why? Determinants and implications of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ gender gaps in Africa
This paper evaluates the presence of gender-based differences in political preferences in a cross-section of 19 African countries, using nationally representative data culled from Afrobarometer. Specifically it focuses on whether female and male constituents differ in their policy priorities across 10 meaningful policy areas (economy, poverty, infrastructure, health, ...» more