Publications

Key Considerations: Alleviating Chronic Food Insecurity in South Sudan

SSHAP Briefing

This brief describes the scale of the food insecurity facing populations in South Sudan. It also analyses the causes of food insecurity, responses by government and non-government actors and partners, and offers considerations for these actors to support ending food insecurity, especially via...

Leben Nelson Moro

Tong Deng Anei

Key Considerations: Effective Vaccine Rollout and Uptake in Sierra Leone

SSHAP Briefing

This brief draws on evidence from academic and grey literature, proposing key considerations for ongoing vaccination efforts in Sierra Leone.

Key Considerations: Child Engagement in the Context of Disease Outbreaks in Eastern and Southern Africa

SSHAP Briefing

Effective child engagement strategies are essential to optimise the response to disease outbreaks and minimise their impact while ensuring children's protection, well-being and resilience. When children understand disease outbreaks, they are better able to cope, contribute and recover. This...

Digital IDs and Digital Payments – Opportunities and Challenges for Tax Administration

ICTD Policy Brief 7

This policy brief speaks to the broader challenges of translating investments in DPI into improved development outcomes – and the potential for investments in strengthening digitalisation of tax systems to be a catalyst for digitalisation of the public sector more broadly.

Fabrizio Santoro & 2 others

Key Considerations for Responding to Floods in South Sudan Through the Humanitarian-Peace-Development Nexus

SSHAP Briefing

In common with many other African countries, the Republic of South Sudan is increasingly experiencing devastating floods linked to climate change. The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and El Niño regulate the climate of Equatorial Eastern Africa. In 2019, a dipole warming in the western Indian Ocean,...

Leben Nelson Moro & 2 others

Key Considerations: Social, Structural and Community Dynamics of Cholera Transmission and Mortality in Ethiopia

SSHAP Briefing

The current cholera outbreak in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia began in August 2022. As of April 2024, active outbreaks had been recorded in most regions of the country, including: Amhara; Dire Dawa; Harari; Oromia; Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR);...

Does Cash-Plus Programming Work in Contexts of Protracted Crises?

BASIC Research Policy Briefing 1

This Policy Briefing asks whether cash-plus programming is fit-for-purpose in protracted crises settings, and offers recommendations for enhancing its effectiveness.

Carolina Holland-Szyp & 2 others

Maximizing impact: The Intersection of Social Protection and Resilience

WFP Social Protection & Resilience Policy Brief

This brief explores the relationship between social protection and resilience, aiming to clarify conceptual linkages and contribute to WFP’s effective positioning and contribution within this space. This brief explores the complementary and interconnected roles that social protection and...

Stephen Devereux & 2 others

Getting Targets Right: How Much Revenue can Lower-Income Countries Raise?

ICTD Policy Brief 6

We highlight that overly zealous tax targets can be actively counter productive to tax administration and suggest five concrete ways to set better targets.

Max Gallien & 2 others

My Experience as a Peer Researcher with the Enabling Early Child Development in Ealing (ECDE) Project

This briefing provides the reflection of a peer researcher working on the Early Childhood Development in Ealing (ECDE) project. The project gathered the perspectives of 77 parents, carers, and 10 children across the borough on services and support for young children (aged 5 and under). This...

Towards Gender Equality in Tax and Fiscal Systems: Moving Beyond the Implicit-Explicit Bias Framework

ICTD Policy Brief 5

As explicit biases become increasingly rare, this policy brief argues that the implicit and explicit bias framework is no longer fit for guiding policy towards improved tax equity and gender equality.

Caren Grown

Giulia Mascagni

Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 2: Early Findings

BASIC Research Research Briefing 2

This briefing applies BASIC Research's new tool – the Capacity Cube – to better understand how to sustain capacity to deliver existing social programmes and systems in situations of climate and/or conflict crisis in Nigeria, Iraq, and Syria.