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Down to Zero / Building Back Better - ECPAT International This activity forms part of the Building Back Better (BBB)  in times of Covid-19, Fighting SEC on the Rise programme.  The programme will work in 12 countries in Latin America and South and South East Asia: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, and the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The selected countries have particular high risks of SEC as well as compromised CPS capacity. They are highly affected by the Covid-19 related trends, with the impact of travel and tourism being an integral part of their context. The programme will also address cross-border SEC such as along the ColombiaPeru, Brazil-Bolivia-Peru and India-Nepal-Bangladesh borders. In the BBB  Programme the overall goal is to ensure that children and youth are better protected when at risk or victim  of sexual exploitation in the times of Covid-19. This will be achieved through five (5) outcomes:
1. Children (in particular victims and those at risk of SEC) are able to access specialised services that protect them, help them rehabilitate, reintegrate and reduce their vulnerability to SEC in the context of Covid-19.

2. Children and youth are able to advocate for continued SEC prevention and response in the context of Covid-19.

3. Parents, caregivers, and community leaders are strengthened to provide a protective shield around children against SEC, in the context of Covid-19.

4. Actors in the Child Protection System are strengthened in multi-stakeholder settings to prevent and advocate for protection from SEC, in the context of Covid-19.

5. Intergovernmental bodies at regional and international level, governments and the private sector prioritize SEC within the wider child protection agenda in building back better during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The key target group (and final beneficiaries) of the programme are girls and boys up to 18 years old, who are victims and survivors and those at risk of SEC. We will mostly work with them through children and youth groups. We will also work with local and national government departments, including LEA officers, responsible for CPS, a wide range of civil society organisations working at various levels and private sector 7 actors, in particular in the tourism and travel industry and internet service providers.
Down to Zero / Voice for Change Programme -India This activity forms part of the Voice for Change programme, which aims to build the capacity of children and youth to raise their voice against CSEC in order to better protect themselves and their peers and to raise awareness of the different stakeholders to include a child, victim and gender sensitive approach in prevention and prosecution of CSEC in Colombia, Dominican Republic, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal and cross-country. In the Voice for Change Programme the overall goal is to: ‘Amplify the Voices of children and youth so that they are central to enhancing child- and gender-sensitive prevention and response by Child Protection Systems.’ Per stakeholder. specific long-term goals are formulated  as follows: 
a) Child victims and children at risk are empowered and act as agents of change and are able to protect themselves from (re)victimisation of CSEC (Children) 
b) Local government applies policies, plans of actions, budgets and protocols to effectively combat CSEC (Government)/The judiciary system applies policies, plans of actions, budgets and protocols to effectively combat CSEC (Law enforcement agencies). Children and youth, both victims and at risk of CSEC, are the main actors in this intervention. We define children as girls and boys up to 18 years old and youth as adolescent girls and boys aged 18 to 24 years old. We will mostly work with them through children and youth groups. We will also work with government officials at local and national level, representing various Ministries responsible for the effective implementation of the national child protection system. We will also work with law enforcement agency officers and civil society organisations. Civil society organisations will include those providing services to CSEC victims and those at risk, organisations supporting CSEC prevention work and those working with youth as advocates.
CREID The Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) will provide research evidence and deliver practical programmes which aim to redress the impact of discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, tackle poverty and exclusion, and promote people’s wellbeing and empowerment.
​Afghanistan Future Funding Initiative - Topic 2 Part of the Afghanistan Strategic Learning Initiative, IDS will lead on the Likely impacts on human development and vulnerability theme where it will convene a workshop, alongside authoring a briefing paper informed by the workshop discussion.
DfID Brasilia Mapping Study Map the key areas of complementarity between UK's official development and Brazilian cooperation interventions evaluating the links between programme inteventions and outcomes/impacts
Increasing transparency in smallholder supply chains Comparing approaches to monitoring performance Increasing transparency in smallholder supply chains: Comparing approaches to monitoring performance of investments and private sector participation. Our proposal draws on the strengths of the Centre for Development Studies (CDI) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), which has been spearheading the agenda and conducting research on the measurement of investments with a social purpose
The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) Research Consortium The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) is a global policy research network, devoted to improving the quality of tax policy and administration in developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. It aims to contribute to development through the mobilisation of knowledge that will help make taxation policies more conducive to pro-poor economic growth and good governance.The ICTD was formally established on 15 November 2010, by a consortium of organisations and individuals with an interest in tax and development issues. The ICTD was initially funded by a five-year grant from the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) and additional funding from NORAD, which ran until March 2016. We are currently funded by DFID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Global Learning for Adaptive Management DFID and USAID have formed a partnership to understand and implement adaptive management approaches to delivering aid. The GLAM programme will establish a technical assistance mechanism that delivers monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) support to adaptive development programmes in DFID and USAID. It will also establish a centre for learning about adaptive management. Programme objective: The objective of the GLAM programme is to improve the value for money and impact of development interventions as a consequence of using better monitoring and evaluation evidence for adaptive management decisions. In addition, the programme will support the use of innovative methods, approaches and digital technologies to monitor, evaluate and learn from adaptive programmes. It will also build a set of standards and an evidence base to understand links between the use of effective monitoring and evaluation strategies which allow adaptive management, and the delivery of more effective, efficient, relevant and sustainable development interventions.
Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP) - Impact Project The Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP) programme’s main objective is to generate new evidence or synthesise existing evidence on which humanitarian interventions work, and support innovation in the humanitarian sector. A 2017 business case extension secured modest additional resource for uptake activities to extend the reach and impact of HIEP. This contract aims to utilise the remainder of these funds.
Aid Connect-Inclusion Works The focus of the Inclusion Works programme is “how can more people with disabilities be included in/access formal waged employment?” The programme aims to engage a wide group of stakeholders including a diversity of people with disabilities through their representative organisations (DPOs), governments as employers and duty bearers, private sector as employers and influencers, as well as other key groups. The programme seeks to test models of inclusive employment practice and generate robust evidence and data which can be used to influence at a national, regional and global level.
DFID African Universities Research Approaches (AURA) Capacity Development Programme AURA is an action research programme aimed at strengthening the individual
and institutional capacities in up to nine African institutions to improve research
and teaching practices, research communications, and learning outcomes.
The overarching aim of AURA is to reduce poverty through investments in
people-centred innovations in universities that will bring about economic
prosperity and democratic, responsive governance. These continent-wide
goals were expressed at the UNECA annual conference (2014).
AURA is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID)
and the programme will run until March 2018. It is a learning partnership
led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK, in collaboration with
Loughborough University, UK.
Measuring the impact of closing civic space on development A feasibility study of measuring the impact of closing civic space on development
NIHR Global Health Research Units The NIHR Global Health Research Units and Global Health Research Groups awards form a key part of the NIHR Global Health Research commitment to ODA. The  Global Health Research Units and Global Health Research Groups offer is unique for NIHR in that it provides funding to support not only delivery of research that will improve health outcomes for people living in LMICs, but also strengthens crucial research capability in resource-poor settings, in particular, training and capacity-building in both academic research and programme support functions. Together these provide a vital and sustainable platform for future research in those countries.

These awards will provide funding to collaborations of specialist researchers within universities and research institutes in LMICs and the UK who wish to establish new programmes of applied health research. Global Health Research Units will have an existing track record of delivering internationally recognised applied global health research and wish to consolidate and expand this work. Units will address unmet global health needs through equitable research partnerships and must have Joint UK and LMIC Lead applicants, clear plans to strengthen research capacity and support future sustainability of research in partner countries.
Empowerment and Accountability Research Programme Consortium to design, manage and implement a five year, multicountry research programme on empowerment and accountability (E&A). This research programme will produce operationally relevant and robust research to understand the impact and effectiveness of social and political action for more effective empowerment and accountability and the role external actors have in supporting these change processes.
International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) helps to address evidence gaps on how to make tax systems more equitable, efficient and conducive to poverty reduction, stable economic growth, and better governance. ICTD works closely with tax administrations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to i) deliver a high quality set of research findings, ii) build tax research capacity in low income countries, and iii) engage with policy makers to facilitate the uptake and impact of this new research.
TDDAP (Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa) Programme This is a five-year flagship programme for DFID’s Africa Regional Department. Following the Ebola crisis and various outbreaks since then, DFID is using learning from these and its regional preparedness programme to deliver on its commitments on global health security. DFID’s interventions during the Ebola crises and in other public health emergencies have contributed to a common understanding of the weaknesses in African health systems and the international health architecture. The programme proposed here aims to address a number of challenges that limit the effectiveness of responses to disease outbreaks. The TDDAP will focus on building the ability of our partner countries and institutions to prevent and respond to the health emergencies presented by exceptional outbreaks of diseases like Ebola, Zika and yellow fever.
Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research aims to inform policy and programming on how to help poor and vulnerable people cope better with crises and meet their basic needs through more effective social assistance in contexts of recurrent shocks, climate crises, humanitarian crises, protracted conflict and forced displacement. Focussing on four key conflict or crises affected countries, BASIC Research will concentrate on climate resilience, value for money, and effective and efficient delivery and governance of social assistance programmes.  Inclusion – with a particular focus on gender, age and disability – is a cross-cutting concern
Child Labour: Action Research Innovation in South and South Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) - Implementation phase) Our aim is to co-develop, with stakeholders, innovative and context-appropriate ways to increase options for children to avoid engagement in hazardous exploitative labour. The primary beneficiaries will be children in modern slavery and the worst forms of child labour and those who are vulnerable to being drawn into it. The families of these children will benefit from greater resilience to shocks, better options for their children’s safe and healthy future and less intra-family stress and conflict. Businesses will benefit from practical solutions to child-labour free supply chains. Policy makers, NGOs, and researchers will benefit from a knowledge of what works. Action-Research for innovation: We will generate activities and interventions through a large scale action research process. Interventions will range from small scale solutions to local problems, behaviour change initiatives, and large scale pilots. Action research is a programming modality which combines evidence gathering and learning from action. It is designed to enable diverse groups to meet over a period of time to consider evidence and generate theories of change about interventions; plan and programme innovative solutions; test the solutions in real time, and then evaluate them. In this way action research groups act as engines of new innovation.
COVID-19 Collective Covid Collective Research Platform
The Covid Collective Research Platform will offer a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing Covid-19 related development challenges.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a global crisis requiring rapid generation of policy-relevant evidence to inform decision-making as we move from crisis to recovery phase and beyond. The Covid Collective brings together the expertise of, initially, eight partner organisations, coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies.

The main functions of the platform will be the:

Co-generation of research and evidence through a grant-making mechanism. This will commission work under four thematic bases: governance and politics, social development and inclusion, conflict, and humanitarian.
Knowledge curation, learning and strategic communication to encourage and enable evidence-informed decision-making. This will include a range of activities to support mutual learning across geographic and sectoral boundaries. It will identify potential synergies and opportunities for collaboration and strengthen engagement with policy networks and decision-makers.
Beyond these primary functions, the partnership approach taken by the Collective aims to build effective, relationships. These will drive collaborative action to address global development challenges. The Collective will promote universality, mutual learning, and the genuine integration of social science evidence.
DFID Aid Connect Tackling the drivers of child labour and modern slavery his programme will co-develop, with stakeholders, innovative and context-appropriate ways to increase options for children to avoid engagement in hazardous exploitative labour. The primary beneficiaries will be children in modern slavery and the worst forms of child labour and those who are vulnerable to being drawn into it. The families of these children will benefit from greater resilience to shocks, better options for their children’s safe and healthy future and less intra-family stress and conflict. Businesses will benefit from practical solutions to child-labour free supply chains. Policy makers, NGOs, and researchers will benefit from a knowledge of what works. Our programme responds to six of seven DFID priority areas: responsible business; children’s agency; gender sensitivity; children in conflict and crises; drivers of vulnerability and vulnerable groups; and evidence. We also respond to three of four sectoral priorities: agriculture; manufacturing and domestic servitude. The work will contribute to meeting Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 (eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking),and mark a step change toward the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour expressed in ILO convention 182 and article 190. The consortium takes as its starting point a child’s right to protection from exploitative work (Art. 32 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [UNCRC]) and the right to participate in decisions that affect them according to their evolving capacity (Art. 12 of the UNCRC). The core consortium is: the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (lead partner); Terre des Hommes (Tdh), ChildHope (CH); Consortium for Street Children (CSC); the Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI); and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) - working with southern partners and global corporations.
China International Development Research Network (CIDRN) Phase 2 IDS and the IDS Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development has been selected to be the role of UK Anchor Institution for Chinese development co-operation with the UK by DfID China. This is to build upon the increasing need for strong and regular collaborative links between researchers in the UK and in China to build long-term cooperation on a variety of development research topics. Chinese and UK research councils are working together more closely nowadays to organise joint calls. New UK funds such as the Newton Fund and Prosperity Fund are also creating new opportunities for China-UK collaboration. This project will create an institutionalised platform for UK and Chinese researchers and government policy actors to work together to respond to new joint opportunities. IDS will manage a number of collaborative initiatives, especially with the China International Development Research Network (CIDRN). This will include summer school visits for Chinese students, events by development experts, fellow visits to top UK universities and joint publications of an IDS bulletin amongst other activities.
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) IDS are partners in the LANSA RPC led MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (India) and signatories to the LANSA RPC consortium agreement. IDS are delivering defined aspects of the LANSA programme and processing the financial transactions to other partners. The project has 3 research pillars: 1 Enabling environments - how can agriculture and food systems be better linked to other drivers of nutrition? 2 Agri-food value chains - How can the nutrition impacts of agriculture and agri-food value chains be enhanced through appropriate strategies and policies? 3 Pro-nutrition agriculture - How can agriculture interventions be designed to improve nutritional status? Three cross-cutting themes: Gender, Innovation Systems and Fragility Also Capacity Support (Capacity Building), and Influencing & Engagement (Research Uptake/Communications)
Disability Inclusive Development (DID) Disability inclusion is a neglected, under-prioritised issue in international development; a lack of evidence around what works in practice to deliver inclusion contributes to difficulty in building effective programmes. The DFID Disability Inclusive Development (DID) Programme is a £30m programme designed to contribute to the long-term improved well-being and inclusion of people with disabilities in low-and-middle-income countries. DID will carry out a series of small scale interventions around increased access to health care and education, improved livelihoods and reduced stigma and discrimination, using new development approaches such as adaptive management and community-based consultation to deliver better quality of life for persons with disabilities. The programme will create a solid evidence base around what delivers positive results for persons with disabilities to scale up, as well as ensure this data and evidence is disseminated and informs the global community and governments. DID will run for six years and complement DFID’s current disability inclusion programming including UK Aid Connect.
Knowledge for Development K4D supports the use of learning and evidence to improve the impact of development policy and programmes. It is funded by UK AID and is designed to assist the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and other partners to be innovative and responsive to rapidly changing and complex development challenges.
Performance Evaluation of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Programme The evaluation will focus on the following areas of inquiry: 
•	Assess the achievement of the overall impact and outcome targets and whether or not the activities and outputs of the GODAN initiative (GODAN Secretariat and GODAN Action) have enhanced accountability and transparency, improved service delivery, innovation and economic growth and whether or not there have been any unintended outcomes;
•	Assess the programme theory of change (ToC) to see if the logic, supporting evidence and assumptions held up against implementation experience? Is there any evidence which challenges the programme design or rationale?  
•	Consider whether or not the programme has had a beneficial impact on women in terms of providing a greater voice in decision making; greater choice in opportunities to benefit from paid work and to have sufficient income; and greater control over their income, productive assets and other resources.
•	To assess the overall sustainability of the programme.
COVID19 Learning Evidence and Research (CLEAR) Programme for Bangladesh The Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme (CLEAR) is a 2.5 year FCDO-funded programme to support an evidence-informed Covid-19 response and recovery in Bangladesh.
Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) The Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) consortium is a five-year research programme that works to respond to these issues. Working across three work streams in six focal countries, APRA aims to generate new evidence on pathways to agricultural commercialisation.