Learning from ODF districts in Mozambique
Mozambique has committed to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation by 2030. Much progress
Institute of Development Studies
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State incapacity by design: Understanding the Bihar story
<p> The Indian state of Bihar has long been a byword for bad governance. It was however governed particularly badly between 1990 and 2005, and has since experienced something of a ‘governance
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Infrastructures of consent: interrogating citizen participation mandates in Indian urban governance
<p>This paper explores notions of participation as located in ‘second generation’ or institutional reforms, particularly as articulated by prominent state-sponsored public-private partnerships such as the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) and the Tamilnadu Urban Development Fund (TNUDF).
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Climate smart disaster risk management
<p>This report presents a new approach to disaster risk management: ‘climate smart disaster risk management’ (CSDRM) approach. It is primarily for those working in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. It will also be critical reading for those working more broadly on vulnerability and poverty reduction programmes within or outside government.</p>
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Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia
<p>The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.
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Global poverty and the new bottom billion: what if three-quarters of the worlds poor live in middle-income countries?
<p>This paper argues that the global poverty problem has changed because most of the world’s poor no longer live in poor countries meaning low-income countries (LICs).
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Building climate resilience at state level: disaster risk management and rural livelihoods in Orissa
<p>Carried out in Orissa, India, this study is one of three case studies testing the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach, a tool to help crosscheck disaster risk management (DRM) interventions for their responsiveness to current and future climate variability.
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Scoping study for Madhya Pradesh state climate change action plan
<p>Climate projections for India suggest that impacts are likely to be varied and heterogeneous, with some regions experiencing more intense rainfall and flood risks, while others will encounter sparser rainfall and prolonged droughts.
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The role of private investment in increasing climate friendly technologies in developing countries
This paper contributes to a review examining the responsibilities of developed and developing countries alongside the relative roles of the public and private sector in developing climate friendly technologies. The paper focuses on the private sector
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Going to scale with community-led total sanitation: reflections on experience, issues and ways forward
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is widely and correctly recognised as a revolutionary participatory approach to rural sanitation. It is timely and the purpose of this paper is to review experience gained as it has spread, and to explore options and ways forward for the future.
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Urban governance for adaptation: assessing climate change resilience in ten Asian cities
Rapidly expanding urban settlements in the developing world face severe climatic risks in light of climate change. Urban populations will increasingly be forced to cope with increased incidents of flooding, air and water pollution, heat stress and