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Household wellbeing and coping strategies in Africa during COVID-19 – Findings from high frequency phone surveys

CMI Report | Dec 2020

This report provides data on household wellbeing in countries in sub-Saharan Africa following the Covid-19 pandemic. The focus is on employment and ...

wellbeing, employment, covid-19, covid, food security, income, coping mechanisms, education, health care, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, Niger, DRC

Covid-19 and donor financing. Minimising corruption risks while ensuring efficiency

U4 Brief | Jun 2020

With the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, development aid and donor agencies face new challenges. They have to deliver essential products and financial ...

Covid-19, Corruption, Aid, Multi-partner funds, Funding mechanisms

Reviewing Dynamics of Change in rural Sudan

Event | 13 Oct 2014

ARUSS WorkshopReviewing Dynamics of Change in rural Sudan14 – 16 October 2014Ahfad University for Women Workshop Programme Tuesday 14/10 ...

Oil for development... or for decay?

Event | 18 Nov 2016

Coping with oil in Norway, Angola and Venezuela. Javier Corrales, Amherst College, Jonathon Moses, NTNU, and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, University of ...

Coping with aridity. Drought impacts and preparedness in Namibia- Experiences from 1992/93

Edited Book | Jan 1995

Coping with aridity. Drought impacts and preparedness in Namibia- Experiences from 1992/93 Richard

Food insecurity and coping strategies among the lower income urban households in Malawi

CMI Report | Jan 1991

This paper highlights the main findings of a survey carried out amongst low income groups in Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi's two major cities. The survey ...

Poverty, Urban areas, Survival strategies, Household survey, Malawi

Cross-border trade in the war areas of the Sudans: Smuggling or a form of cooperation?

Sudan Working Paper | Dec 2016

After the war broke out again in the border areas between the Sudans, a trading pattern known earlier as the “peace markets” reemerged. In ...

war, Border, Coping mechanisms, markets, Sumbuk, trade, Livelihoods, Sudan, South Sudan, Southern Kordofan State

A woman's world

News | 16 Dec 2011

An increasing number of poor women in Namibian shantytowns form their own households and female social networks. Men are not part of their family coping strategies.

Reciprocity networks, service delivery, and corruption: The wantok system in Papua New Guinea

U4 Issue | Feb 2020

In all countries, informal systems of reciprocity influence the distribution of state resources. These social networks help people cope with adversity ...

Introduction

Book Chapter | Jan 1995

Introduction Richard Moorsom, Jutta Franz and Moono Mupotola Coping with aridity. Drought impacts a

Rainfall records and the analysis of drought

Book Chapter | Jan 1995

Rainfall records and the analysis of drought Richard Moorsom and J.D.S. Coping with aridity. Drough

"Xiculungo" - Social Relations of Urban Poverty in Maputo, Mozambique

CMI Report | Jan 2007

This report is the second in a series of six participatory and qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique, undertaken as part of the monitoring and ...

Mozambique, Urban areas, Poverty

Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis

Edited Book | Jan 2001

This book is about the multitude of associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, ...

Urbanisation, Civil society, Africa

Complaints mechanisms in health organizations

U4 Brief | Oct 2013

Strategies to increase transparency and accountability often include complaints mechanisms by which organisations can respond to individual suspicions ...

health, India

The vagaries of descent-reckoning: Father's right is mother's loss

DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990

"Pure" matrilineal systems are said to be "doomed" because they are incompatible with economic growth. The author argues that descent systems are not ...

Zambia, Matriliny, Agricultural development, Gender, Africa: Zambia

'Xiculungo'. Social Relations of Urban Poverty in Maputo, Mozambique (Sub-Project 2)

Project | Mar 2007 - Jan 2008

This report is the second in a series of six participatory and qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique, undertaken as part of the monitoring and ...

Mozambique, Urban Poverty, Coping Strategies

Business Corruption: Incidence, Mechanisms and Consequences

Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2006

The present study describes some of the mechanisms behind business corruption. It begins by explaining the distinct methodological challenges related ...

Corruption, Business corruption, Theses

The Future of Mechanized Schemes and Agricultural Investment in the South Kordofan State / Nuba Mountains

Sudan Working Paper | Sep 2016

Abstract This paper tackles the issue of the future of mechanized schemes and investment in the agricultural sector in the South Kordofan State/Nuba ...

agriculture, Sudan, South Sudan, Nuba, Nuba mountains, South Kordofan State

Human Rights as a Mechanism for Integration in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Journal Article | Jan 2006

Human Rights as a Mechanism for Integration in Bosnia-Herzegovina Hugo Stokke International Journal

Human rights, Integration, Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Effects of Payment for Performance on accountability mechanisms: Evidence from Pwani, Tanzania

Journal Article | Jan 2017

Payment for Performance (P4P) aims to improve provider motivation to perform better, but little is known about the effects of P4P on accountability mechanisms. ...

P4P, RBF, Health, Tanzania