Publications

The objective of this report is to present insights of a statistical analysis of recent survey…

Funded by DFID, FAO Syria is implementing the “Supporting emergency needs, early recovery and longer-term resilience…

This paper reflects on the ethical implications of using crowd-based methods to collect information in situations…

The SDG 16 Data Gap Analysis is a systematic review of availability and suitability of data for SDG 16 indicators in Uganda. It entails a review of data sources, data producers, data processes, and data gaps. It maps the 23 indicators for SDG 16 versus the data sources and data producers in Uganda. It also analyses the existing data with the indicators metadata issued by the United Nations. The resulting report reflects current state of data for SDG 16, highlights achievements to date, identifies data and methodology gaps, and suggests practical and indicator and-institutional level recommendations on how to close the data gaps.

This study presents the results of an impact assessment of a school-based peace education programme in…

We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where…

This paper aims at disentangling the mutual link between conflict, drought and food security in Somalia.…

In the last decade, well over $10 billion has been spent on employment programs designed to…

Six findings from six months of Life with Corona, a global research project to collect real-time…

School gardens have become a widely used approach to influence children's food knowledge, preferences and choices…

Funding aspects are a key issue in peace negotiation and mediation processes (referred to as peace…

Peace negotiation and mediation processes are standard approaches to ending armed conflicts. While the international system…

We focus on one pillar of society—trust—and explore how trust correlates with the individual experiences of the pandemic. We show that those who have had contact with sick people and those that are unemployed exhibit lower trust in people, institutions, and in general.

The Syrian refugee influx into Jordan has heightened risks of conflict and insecurity in what has…

The study contains detailed findings from the field research in Kyrgyzstan and is part of a wider…

Integrated home garden interventions combine training in gardening practices with education about nutrition knowledge. Such interventions…

This study presents an in-depth analysis of the sector reforms needed to enable the Kyrgyz Republic to achieve higher and more sustainable economic growth. Dr Damir Esenaliev of ISDC has co-authored the chapter titled on Human Resources for Inclusive Growth.

A common finding of the migration literature is that migrants are more likely to choose self-employment…

We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain.

Effective social protection is increasingly as essential to supporting affected populations in situations of protracted instability…

The policy reform conducted in 2011 in Kyrgyzstan to increase the wages for teachers, health and social workers not only reduced wage gap in these sectors compared to non-reformed sectors, but also had a pronounced gender gap narrowing effect in the reform sectors and economy-wide.