Sierra Leone’s current political settlement is highly influenced by the externally imposed peace agreement that ended the civil war in 2001. Prior to this, there had been several unsuccessful attempts at establishing a new political settlement between the country’s various elites. Following the attacks by Revolutionary United Front (RUF) soldiers on UN peacekeeping forces in ...» 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.
Violent Conflicts and Civil Strife in West Africa: Causes, Challenges and Prospects
The advent of intra-state conflicts or ‘new wars’ in West Africa has brought many of its economies to the brink of collapse, creating humanitarian casualties and concerns. For decades, countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea- Bissau were crippled by conflicts and civil strife in which violence and incessant killings were prevalent. While violent ...» more
Medellín’s Biblioteca España: Progress in Unlikely Places
This paper explores whether improvements in state capacity and infrastructure at the local level can have a broad impact in poor and violent communities. It focuses on public works project in the city Medellín, Colombia. The survey results reveal that citizens of comunas Popular and Santa Cruz, which are served by the library park Biblioteca España, perceive their situation to ...» more
Evaluating Outside the Box: Mixing Methods in Analysing Social Protection Programmes
This paper proposes a framework for evaluating social protection programmes that (1) assesses a broader range of impacts, and (2) uses a broader range of methods in a more holistic way. It draws on a case study of an evaluation of a cash transfer pilot programme in Tigray, Ethiopia.Most evaluations of social protection programmes have two limitations. Firstly, they measure a ...» more
Ending conflict and building peace in Africa: A call to action
This report from the African Development Bank’s High-Level Panel on Fragile States draws on commissioned research on conflict and fragility in Africa and on wide consultation with African governments, civil society organisations and citizens. It calls for emphasis within the development agenda in Africa on addressing economic, social and envrironmental change – population ...» more