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Adaptation Research Alliance consultation workshop
… The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is a global collaborative effort to catalyse increased investment in and capacity for action-orientated research that supports effective adaptation to climate change – … by the science. The ARA’s focus is on Results-Orientated Adaptation Research (ROAR) to better link knowledge to action. It is an initiative …
Publication, 15 October 2021
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Gender and intersectionality in action research
… change. We are committed to conducting gender-transformative research that tackles the many and reinforcing inequalities that women … carried out a structured analysis of their selected past and ongoing research to see how effectively it incorporated the issues of gender … Gender and intersectionality in action research …
Publication, 20 April 2021
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Promoting anti-racist narratives in development sector research
… people and people of colour. 2. Leaving racial injustice out of the research and development context Most of the stories we tell through development research consistently mask - and by default deny - the race-based … is a visible challenge. Also, the topics that rise to the top of research agendas, and donor-driven approaches to sharing research …
Insight, 19 May 2022
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Confronting structural inequalities in South-North research collaborations
… In an interdependent world, research collaborations across the global ‘North’ and ‘South’ can help … policy issues. But models whereby organisations in the North set research and policy agendas for the global South reflect colonial … models whereby global South actors fundamentally shape agendas, from research design to feeding findings into policy. Learning from the …
Insight, 11 May 2022
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Adaptation Research Alliance: accelerating adaptation action and solutions
… vulnerable to current and future climate risks. Action-orientated research helps inform effective adaptation to reduce the risks from … demanded by the science. Increasing investment in effective action research  The Adaptation Research Alliance  is a network of organisations, funders, policymakers … Adaptation Research Alliance: accelerating adaptation action and solutions …
Project, 29 March 2022
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Addressing urban inequalities I: co-creating pathways through research and practice
… Cali, and networks in Latin America & Asia. The papers share original research, practices, experiences and theoretical reflections about the … processes. Some of these papers were produced under the international research programme Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW), which … Feedback papers. These include a field note that follows previous research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic’s first wave for …
Publication, 31 October 2022
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Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development
… an anti-racist organisation , and both set out the need to unpack research biases that perpetuate colonial perspectives and social and … 12-strong leadership team, only two were women. Colonial legacies in research Understanding the colonial history of research is key to grasping the power dynamics of knowledge production …
Insight, 16 March 2022
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African Cities Research Consortium
… The African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) aims to generate evidence to tackle complex … ICLEI Africa , the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) and Slum Dwellers International (SDI) ; as well as … United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) . The objective is to produce new knowledge that …
Project, 16 October 2020
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Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short
… Most research projects must pass through internal institutional ethics … often based on ethical principles originally developed for biomedical research. For example, the ‘do no harm’ principle − an obligation that no harm is inflicted on research participants − is believed to have emerged from the Hippocratic …
Insight, 28 February 2022
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New tracker paves the way for researchers to identify EU priorities from Majority World experts
… An innovative tool developed by IIED Europe to amplify the research priorities of sustainable development experts in the global … launch in January 2023.    The tool – known as the IIED Europe Global Research Priority Tracker – aims to recognise the priorities and … the impacts of European environment and development policies, research practices and funding in other parts of the world.  For …
News, 20 December 2022