Making a living and securing basic necessities in challenging environments. Including issues such as: social protection, climate change, resource scarcity, human capital, disabilities, resilience, and wellbeing.
New Perspectives in International Development
Principal Investigator: Asadul Islam. Lead Organisation: Monash University
Co-investigators: Ummul Ruthbah; John List; Anya Samek; Steven Stillman; Stefan Boes
Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam
Towards a Quantifiable Measure of Resilience
Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of Resilience Interventions: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations
Key issues guide on women at work: understanding the social norms that restrict women's access to paid work
A recent synthesis of evidence of research funded by the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation which explores how emerging opportunities for women to enter paid employment interact with social norms in traditionally conservative contexts.
News: Automation, women, and the future of work
Will women benefit from the rapid automation and digitisation that is set to change the world of work as we know it? This briefing explores the impact of automation on women and work in developing countries.
Automation, women, and the future of work
Explores the impact of automation on women and work in developing countries, considering global targets on valuing unpaid care, rights to economic resources, and access and use of information and communication technologies.
Blog: Perception matters: new insights into what determines resilience
Christophe Bene explores how resilience can be a powerful concept, bringing insights into how people respond to shocks and also how this can be linked to longer-term development outcomes. In his blog, he discusses research findings that challenge assumptions of conventional models suggesting that resilience is not just about income or assets. The research findings are significant for building better resilience interventions.
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