Access to financial products and services is believed to be a key enabler of women’s economic empowerment, allowing them the freedom to better manage their lives. But access to finance alone is not transformative: gender ...
Nigeria presently has the second highest absolute number of maternal deaths and perinatal deaths (stillbirth and neonatal deaths) in the world. The country accounts for up to 14% of global maternal deaths and is second ...
Objective: To determine community member and policy maker priorities in improving maternal health in rural Tanzania. Methods: The present participatory action research project was conducted in Rorya District, Mara Region, ...
Xavier, Siri Roland; Sidin, Samsinar Md; Guelich, Ulrike; Nawangpalupi, Catharina(Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Jalan Tangsi, Kuala Lumpur, 2016)
For three years (2013 – 2015), a comprehensive research on entrepreneurship has been carried out to understand the nature, characteristics and dynamics of entrepreneurs and enterprise formation within Southeast Asia, ...
This study develops a framework for thinking about how basic legal service interventions addressing problems of a civil and administrative nature can be taken to scale in a sustainable manner to enable improved access to ...
The year 2015 saw the making of a 15-year international commitment to Global Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which seeks to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, ...
This methodological paper sets out an approach to costing the delivery of basic legal services at scale as applied to a range of basic legal service models in a recent study funded by the Open Society Foundations and ...
This briefing paper summarises the findings of a recent study funded by the Open Society Foundations and International Development Research Centre which, against the backdrop of the Sustainable Goals for Development (SDGs), ...
Salahub, Jennifer Erin; Gottsbacher, Markus; de Boer, John(RoutledgeIDRC, 2018-04)
While cities often act as the engines of economic growth for developing countries, they are also frequently the site of growing violence, poverty, and inequality. Yet, social theory, largely developed and tested in the ...
The Centre for International Governance Innovation established the Global Commission on Internet Governance and the associated Research Advisory Network (RAN) to address a significant and growing research and policy deficit. ...
The central problem addressed by this research grant is that of how to realize the potential of big data to better inform public policy and allow for greater use of evidence in the policy making process. LIRNEasia has had ...
Dengue is estimated to have approximately 390 million infections annually out of which an estimated 96 million manifest (Bhatt et al., 2013). WHO estimates almost half the global population to be at risk from this neglected ...
In many spheres of human activity, the trend is for co-present or physical interactions and transactions to be supplemented if not replaced by virtual interactions and transactions by parties who are not co- present. For ...
An ongoing study using social network data aims to understand social linkages between countries, and the corresponding links in economic activity and human movement.
Opatha, R. K; Peiris, Akila; Gamini, D. D. A.; Edirisuriya, Ananda; Athuraliya, C. D.; Jayasooriya, Isuru(2018-03)
Traffic management is one of the major pressing issues in any urban setting. Situation is severe especially in developing countries due to the lack of infrastructure and up to date regulations. Authorities report that ...
Athuraliya, C. D.; Ramasinghe, Sameera; Lokanathan, Sriganesh(2018-03)
Urban population and urban areas continue to grow. Today, 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas and it is projected to be 66% by 2050. Governments and practitioners are in a continuous struggle to capture this ...