The document outlines the Rainbow Framework for planning evaluations. It discusses 9 key areas to consider when planning an evaluation: 1) Manage the evaluation, 2) Define what is being evaluated, 3) Frame the evaluation boundaries, 4) Describe activities, outcomes and context, 5) Understand causes of outcomes, 6) Synthesize data, 7) Report and support use of findings. For each area, it provides questions to guide planning such as deciding purpose, questions, data collection and ensuring findings are used. The framework helps create comprehensive evaluation plans and support effective evaluations.
Presentation given at “Unlocking Investment in Africa’s Renewables: What are the Binding Constraints?” event, organised by the Institute of Development Studies and held on 19 January 2017 at the Wellcome Collection, London. For more information, please visit http://www.ids.ac.uk/events/unlocking-investment-in-africa-s-renewables-what-are-the-binding-constraints.
Faculty members involved with the "Heritage Under Threat" project, a collaboration between the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) and the Universities of Mosul and Iraq are presented with awards by Prof Melissa Leach (IDS), Professor Dr Kossay Al-Ahmady (UoM) and Dr Lukman Hasan (UoD).
The document outlines the Rainbow Framework for planning evaluations. It discusses 9 key areas to consider when planning an evaluation: 1) Manage the evaluation, 2) Define what is being evaluated, 3) Frame the evaluation boundaries, 4) Describe activities, outcomes and context, 5) Understand causes of outcomes, 6) Synthesize data, 7) Report and support use of findings. For each area, it provides questions to guide planning such as deciding purpose, questions, data collection and ensuring findings are used. The framework helps create comprehensive evaluation plans and support effective evaluations.
Presentation given at “Unlocking Investment in Africa’s Renewables: What are the Binding Constraints?” event, organised by the Institute of Development Studies and held on 19 January 2017 at the Wellcome Collection, London. For more information, please visit http://www.ids.ac.uk/events/unlocking-investment-in-africa-s-renewables-what-are-the-binding-constraints.
Faculty members involved with the "Heritage Under Threat" project, a collaboration between the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) and the Universities of Mosul and Iraq are presented with awards by Prof Melissa Leach (IDS), Professor Dr Kossay Al-Ahmady (UoM) and Dr Lukman Hasan (UoD).
This 3 sentence document describes a red painting or artifact from Lalish, Shikhan from an unknown year. It credits the Wednesday celebration to Shikh Jalal.
The document summarizes Andy Stirling's work at SPRU related to building back better after COVID-19, including research on vaccine innovation, diagnostic testing, data governance for testing apps, lessons from past pandemics according to the WHO, challenges of the pandemic for transformation, structural change for UN agencies, steering innovation pathways for UNDP, governance of expertise in science and politics for COVID-19, modeling lessons for public policy, science politics and governance around pandemics, power and politics in science and innovation, a new book on politics of uncertainty in transformation, how the pandemic highlights a modern fallacy of control, and leading a cross-campus initiative on a post-pandemic university.
The document discusses the work of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic through research and knowledge sharing. It outlines three key areas of focus: 1) Engaging social science expertise to support the pandemic response, 2) Research on "Building Back Better" through scenarios and briefings on public health, gender, social protection and governance, and 3) Reorienting many existing IDS research programmes and projects to cover the wider implications of the pandemic such as on informal settlements, governance at the margins, agriculture policy and more.
This document lists several research centers and programs at the University of Sussex that focus on global issues related to health, sustainability, migration, and society. Specifically, it mentions the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme, the Centre on Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health, the Centre for Global Health Policy, and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. It also includes websites for researching the university's work on COVID-19 and the Discover Society publication co-edited by Gurminder Bhambra.
The Centre for International Education (CIE) at the University of Sussex researches issues relating to education in the global south, including governance, policy, pedagogy, and inequality. Over 170 doctoral students and 500 master's students have graduated from CIE programs. CIE's research with governments, NGOs, and international organizations aims to explore how COVID-19 is exacerbating educational inequalities and disrupting systems. The document outlines CIE's work highlighting pandemic-related issues like private/public divides, gender/race, and the disruption of education in conflict that many in the global south face regularly.
The document discusses the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which promotes transparency around oil, gas, and mineral resource extraction. It notes that many resource-dependent countries are facing fiscal crises due to falling commodity prices and the COVID-19 pandemic. The EITI establishes a global standard for transparency and accountability in the extractives sector. It requires disclosure of payments, contracts, production data, and more. Implementing countries set up multi-stakeholder groups to oversee EITI implementation and ensure data is communicated to the public. The EITI is working to expand transparency to new areas like commodity trading, subnational revenue distribution, and environmental reporting.
The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) potentially offer an inclusive, integrated approach to development, centred on social justice, for all of humanity. But how are they being implemented in practice? Too often a piece-meal, sectoral approach is adopted, rooted in modernist assumptions of linear transition and control.
Ian Scoones, IDS researcher and co-director of the STEPS Centre
The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development sector also help to bring about the sorts of transformations now required to prevent climate chaos?
This lecture looks at the intertwined histories of development and climate change and argues that only a very different approach to development can help to address the climate crisis we currently face.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions.
Speaker: Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
Speaker: Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development sector also help to bring about the sorts of transformations now required to prevent climate chaos?
This lecture looks at the intertwined histories of development and climate change and argues that only a very different approach to development can help to address the climate crisis we currently face.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions.
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and addressing the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals.
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and addressing the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In a recently published book “How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics”, authors Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern examine data spanning seven decades, on Palanpur, a small, village in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh in India. Those involved lived in the village for long periods, examining society, politics and institutions as well as economics, providing a unique opportunity to examine these issues in depth.
The document discusses issues with the overuse of the term "community" in development contexts. It argues that the term is used more as a moral claim or virtue signaling rather than accurately reflecting social realities. In many places, power relations within so-called communities actually involve significant gender oppression and economic exploitation. Exceptions are indigenous peoples and pastoralist societies where relationships are based on maintaining culture rather than exploitation. However, the terminology of "community" and "community-based" has become dominant in development organizations partly because projects need to frame activities in that language to get funding. The term also ignores instances of conflict within communities.
The document discusses building dairy value chains in Afghanistan to improve nutrition. It describes an intervention by Afghanaid from 2013-2016 that provided technical training, inputs, and business skills to women dairy producers and established cooperatives. This aimed to empower women economically and increase their leadership roles. The intervention sought to assess its impacts on participating households' nutrition and the wider population's dairy consumption, availability, and affordability. The value chain was found to increase milk volumes but faced challenges around infrastructure, quality management, and competition from imports that require further investment and support to intermediaries for coordination.
1) The document summarizes agri-food value chains in South Asia, focusing on three case studies: Grameen Danone Foods Ltd in Bangladesh, the Supplementary Nutrition Programme in India, and mandatory flour fortification in Pakistan.
2) In Bangladesh, Grameen Danone Foods Ltd is a social enterprise joint venture that produces fortified yogurt. It faces challenges with costs, pricing, availability, and expanding market reach while maintaining commercial viability and supporting dairy farmers and distribution networks.
3) India's Supplementary Nutrition Programme provides fortified food to women and children. Case studies from Telangana and Tamil Nadu show different state-led and public-private partnership models for production and distribution
Value chains for nutrition in South Asia: Who Delivers, How, and to Whom. Mar Maestre (IDS)
From 7 February 2018, Brighton, UK
With LANSA team:
Nigel Poole (SOAS); Bhavani RV and Rohit Parasar (MSSRF); Haris Gazdar, Natasha Ansari and Rashid Mehmood (CSSR); Sirajul Islam and Abid Ul Kabur (BRAC)
Major findings from the five-year Making All Voices Count (MAVC) programme highlighted in its final report Appropriating Technology for Accountability: Lessons from Making All Voices Count suggest that the impact of technologies on improving accountability and government responsiveness as as well citizen empowerment has been mixed.
This 3 sentence document describes a red painting or artifact from Lalish, Shikhan from an unknown year. It credits the Wednesday celebration to Shikh Jalal.
The document summarizes Andy Stirling's work at SPRU related to building back better after COVID-19, including research on vaccine innovation, diagnostic testing, data governance for testing apps, lessons from past pandemics according to the WHO, challenges of the pandemic for transformation, structural change for UN agencies, steering innovation pathways for UNDP, governance of expertise in science and politics for COVID-19, modeling lessons for public policy, science politics and governance around pandemics, power and politics in science and innovation, a new book on politics of uncertainty in transformation, how the pandemic highlights a modern fallacy of control, and leading a cross-campus initiative on a post-pandemic university.
The document discusses the work of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic through research and knowledge sharing. It outlines three key areas of focus: 1) Engaging social science expertise to support the pandemic response, 2) Research on "Building Back Better" through scenarios and briefings on public health, gender, social protection and governance, and 3) Reorienting many existing IDS research programmes and projects to cover the wider implications of the pandemic such as on informal settlements, governance at the margins, agriculture policy and more.
This document lists several research centers and programs at the University of Sussex that focus on global issues related to health, sustainability, migration, and society. Specifically, it mentions the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme, the Centre on Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health, the Centre for Global Health Policy, and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. It also includes websites for researching the university's work on COVID-19 and the Discover Society publication co-edited by Gurminder Bhambra.
The Centre for International Education (CIE) at the University of Sussex researches issues relating to education in the global south, including governance, policy, pedagogy, and inequality. Over 170 doctoral students and 500 master's students have graduated from CIE programs. CIE's research with governments, NGOs, and international organizations aims to explore how COVID-19 is exacerbating educational inequalities and disrupting systems. The document outlines CIE's work highlighting pandemic-related issues like private/public divides, gender/race, and the disruption of education in conflict that many in the global south face regularly.
The document discusses the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which promotes transparency around oil, gas, and mineral resource extraction. It notes that many resource-dependent countries are facing fiscal crises due to falling commodity prices and the COVID-19 pandemic. The EITI establishes a global standard for transparency and accountability in the extractives sector. It requires disclosure of payments, contracts, production data, and more. Implementing countries set up multi-stakeholder groups to oversee EITI implementation and ensure data is communicated to the public. The EITI is working to expand transparency to new areas like commodity trading, subnational revenue distribution, and environmental reporting.
The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) potentially offer an inclusive, integrated approach to development, centred on social justice, for all of humanity. But how are they being implemented in practice? Too often a piece-meal, sectoral approach is adopted, rooted in modernist assumptions of linear transition and control.
Ian Scoones, IDS researcher and co-director of the STEPS Centre
The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development sector also help to bring about the sorts of transformations now required to prevent climate chaos?
This lecture looks at the intertwined histories of development and climate change and argues that only a very different approach to development can help to address the climate crisis we currently face.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions.
Speaker: Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
Speaker: Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development sector also help to bring about the sorts of transformations now required to prevent climate chaos?
This lecture looks at the intertwined histories of development and climate change and argues that only a very different approach to development can help to address the climate crisis we currently face.
This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions.
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and addressing the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals.
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and addressing the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In a recently published book “How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics”, authors Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern examine data spanning seven decades, on Palanpur, a small, village in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh in India. Those involved lived in the village for long periods, examining society, politics and institutions as well as economics, providing a unique opportunity to examine these issues in depth.
The document discusses issues with the overuse of the term "community" in development contexts. It argues that the term is used more as a moral claim or virtue signaling rather than accurately reflecting social realities. In many places, power relations within so-called communities actually involve significant gender oppression and economic exploitation. Exceptions are indigenous peoples and pastoralist societies where relationships are based on maintaining culture rather than exploitation. However, the terminology of "community" and "community-based" has become dominant in development organizations partly because projects need to frame activities in that language to get funding. The term also ignores instances of conflict within communities.
The document discusses building dairy value chains in Afghanistan to improve nutrition. It describes an intervention by Afghanaid from 2013-2016 that provided technical training, inputs, and business skills to women dairy producers and established cooperatives. This aimed to empower women economically and increase their leadership roles. The intervention sought to assess its impacts on participating households' nutrition and the wider population's dairy consumption, availability, and affordability. The value chain was found to increase milk volumes but faced challenges around infrastructure, quality management, and competition from imports that require further investment and support to intermediaries for coordination.
1) The document summarizes agri-food value chains in South Asia, focusing on three case studies: Grameen Danone Foods Ltd in Bangladesh, the Supplementary Nutrition Programme in India, and mandatory flour fortification in Pakistan.
2) In Bangladesh, Grameen Danone Foods Ltd is a social enterprise joint venture that produces fortified yogurt. It faces challenges with costs, pricing, availability, and expanding market reach while maintaining commercial viability and supporting dairy farmers and distribution networks.
3) India's Supplementary Nutrition Programme provides fortified food to women and children. Case studies from Telangana and Tamil Nadu show different state-led and public-private partnership models for production and distribution
Value chains for nutrition in South Asia: Who Delivers, How, and to Whom. Mar Maestre (IDS)
From 7 February 2018, Brighton, UK
With LANSA team:
Nigel Poole (SOAS); Bhavani RV and Rohit Parasar (MSSRF); Haris Gazdar, Natasha Ansari and Rashid Mehmood (CSSR); Sirajul Islam and Abid Ul Kabur (BRAC)
Major findings from the five-year Making All Voices Count (MAVC) programme highlighted in its final report Appropriating Technology for Accountability: Lessons from Making All Voices Count suggest that the impact of technologies on improving accountability and government responsiveness as as well citizen empowerment has been mixed.
Indira awas yojana housing scheme renamed as PMAYnarinav14
Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) played a significant role in addressing rural housing needs in India. It emerged as a comprehensive program for affordable housing solutions in rural areas, predating the government’s broader focus on mass housing initiatives.
karnataka housing board schemes . all schemesnarinav14
The Karnataka government, along with the central government’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), offers various housing schemes to cater to the diverse needs of citizens across the state. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the major housing schemes available in the Karnataka housing board for both urban and rural areas in 2024.
Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.Christina Parmionova
The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
To date, the following regional organisations maintain or share lists of vessels that have been found to carry out or support IUU fishing within their own or adjacent convention areas and/or species of competence:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO)
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO)
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
The Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List merges all these sources into one list that provides a single reference point to identify whether a vessel is currently IUU listed. Vessels that have been IUU listed in the past and subsequently delisted (for example because of a change in ownership, or because the vessel is no longer in service) are also retained on the site, so that the site contains a full historic record of IUU listed fishing vessels.
Unlike the IUU lists published on individual RFMO websites, which may update vessel details infrequently or not at all, the Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List is kept up to date with the best available information regarding changes to vessel identity, flag state, ownership, location, and operations.
United Nations World Oceans Day 2024; June 8th " Awaken new dephts".Christina Parmionova
The program will expand our perspectives and appreciation for our blue planet, build new foundations for our relationship to the ocean, and ignite a wave of action toward necessary change.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos