• Beyond access : shaping a gender-transformative approach to financial inclusion 

  KIT Royal Tropical Institute (2018)

  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 ...
• Management response to the evaluation of the Open Data for Development Program 

  Perini, Fernando (2018-06)
• Increasing women’s access to skilled pregnancy care to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality in rural Edo State, Nigeria : a randomized controlled trial 

  Sanni, Yaya; Okonofua, Friday; Ntoimo, Lorretta; Kadio, Bernard; Deuboue, Rodrigue; Imongan, Wilson; Balami, Wapada (BioMed Central, 2018)

  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 ...
• Each woman : Health Projects Plus CAPS poster 

  Webber, Gail; Chirangi, Bwire; Magatti, Nyamusi (2018)
• Community member and policy maker priorities in improving maternal health in rural Tanzania 

  Webber, Gail; Chirangi, Bwire; Magatti, Nyamusi (Wiley, 2018-01)

  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, ...
• ASEAN Regional Entrepreneurship Report 2015/2016 

  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, ...
• Developing a portfolio of financially sustainable, scalable basic legal service models : volume 1 (of 2), final report 

  Law & Development Partnership Ltd.; IDRC (2015-12)

  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 ...
• Developing a portfolio of financially sustainable, scalable basic legal service models : volume 2 (of 2), annexes 

  Law & Development Partnership Ltd.; IDRC (2015-12)
• Developing a portfolio of financially sustainable, scalable, basic legal service models : 4 pager 

  Law & Development Partnership Ltd.; IDRC (2016)

  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, ...
• Developing a portfolio of financially sustainable, scalable basic legal service models : costing methodology paper 

  Law & Development Partnership Ltd.; IDRC (2016-06)

  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 ...
• Developing a portfolio of financially sustainable, scalable basic legal service models : briefing paper 

  Law & Development Partnership Ltd.; IDRC (2016-04)

  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), ...
• Social theories of urban violence in the Global South : towards safe and inclusive cities 

  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 ...
• Improving internet governance : support to the Global Commission on Internet Governance 

  Hampson, Fen (2018-03)

  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. ...
• Leveraging mobile network big data for developmental policy : final technical report 

  LIRNEasia (2018-03)

  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 ...
• Improving disease outbreak forecasting models for efficient targeting of public health resources 

  Fernando, Lasantha; Perera, Amal; Lokanathan, Sriganesh (2018-03)

  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 ...
• Bulk data : policy implications (DRAFT) 

  Samarajiva, Rohan; Perera-Gomez, Thavisha (2018-03)

  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 ...
• Analyzing Facebook data to understand regional connectivity 

  Wijeratne, Yudhanjaya; Samarajiva, Rohan; Lokanathan, Sriganesh; Surendra, Aparna; Fernando, Lasantha (2018-03)

  An ongoing study using social network data aims to understand social linkages between countries, and the corresponding links in economic activity and human movement.
• Automated traffic monitoring for complex road conditions 

  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 ...
• Deep semantic segmentation for built-up area extraction and mapping from satellite imagery 

  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 ...
• Code of practice for the secondary use of mobile network big data 

  LIRNEasia (2018-03)

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