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From exclusion to integration: how informal workers can improve urban waste management

Roll, Michael / Hani Abu-Qdais / Tim Kornprobst / Hazem Abu Mukh / Hussein Abu Jabal / Yaser Suleiman (2025)
Policy Brief 29/2025

How can informal workers improve urban waste management? It is crucial to "frontload trust" towards them and "prioritise integration over training". This approach was used to great success by the municipality of Irbid, Jordan, and an informal workers' cooperative, as this policy brief shows.

Managing coastal ecosystems in the Philippines: what Cash for Work programmes can contribute

Altenburg, Tilman / Cecilia Fischer / Kerstin Huck / Anna Kruip / Sören Müller / Stefanie Sörensen (2017)
Studies 94

Cash for Work (CfW) programmes can contribute effectively to the sustainable management of natural resources. We show this for fishery management and mangrove reforestation. The study compares CfW with alternative incentives schemes and shows how CfW should be designed to achieve its objective

Economic development and barriers to (decent) work for women in SSA and MENA

Stöcker, Alexander / Tina Zintl (2024)
Discussion Paper 16/2024

We discuss barriers to female employment against three labour market transitions (to wage employment, decent work, and specialized jobs) and compare them for women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) regions.

Chinese workers and their “Linguistic Labour”: Philippine online gambling and Zambian onsite casinos

Camba Alvin / Hangwei Li (2021)
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Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face-to-face experiences for humanitarian aid workers' motivation

Friesen, Ina (2023)
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Overcoming Social Insecurity in the Global South

Bonn, 16. Juni 2011

We are living in the age of insecurity. A South-South interdisciplinary research project at the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) examines how the government of India, Brazil and South Africa are responding to social insecurity through innovative social protection and public work programs. How can informal…

Do free healthcare policies play a role in expanding national health insurance enrollment among informal sector workers? The case of the Afya Care pilot program in Kenya

Wamalwa, Phidelis / Christoph Strupat / Edmund Yeboah / MaryBennah N. Kuloba / Boniface Mbuthia / Manuela De Allegri (2025)
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What Works in Fragile Contexts? Science meets practice in analysing aid effectiveness

What Works in Fragile Contexts? Science meets practice in analysing aid effectiveness Download What-Works-in-Fragile-Contexts_30.10.2012_Programme_ENG.pdf

The digital and digitally enabled economy as a driver of women employment? The Case of Jordan

Zintl, Tina (2025)
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Cash-for-Work als Instrument des Wiederaufbaus in Syrien

Zintl, Tina / Markus Loewe (2025)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 17. März 2025

Es ist beim Wiederaufbau kriegszerstörter Länder gleichermaßen wichtig, das soziale Gefüge, sozusagen die ‚Software‘ des Landes, wie auch die gebaute Infrastruktur, also seine ‚Hardware‘, wiederherzustellen.

Third Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network

Online, 04. September 2023

Decent work and economic growth, SDG8, was the topic of the 3rd Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network, which now comprises members from the three cohorts. The VGAMs provides an exchange platform for the members of the network. The meetings have the purpose to give the alumni and the regional block…

Supporting local actors in times of conflict: the Civil Peace Service and its various actors

Ruppel, Samantha / Bernd Rieche / T. Debey Sayndee / Christoph Schlimpert / María Requenq López / Daniela Pastoors (2023)
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Agency and everyday knowledge of filipina migrants in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Christ, Simone (2011)
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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: further evidence of a subnational ‘diversity dividend’

Gisselquist, Rachel M. / Stefan Leiderer / Miguel Niño-Zarazúa (2014)
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Who remains uncovered? Assessing inequalities and determinants of national health insurance enrolment among informal sector workers in Kenya

Wamalwa, Phidelis / Christoph Strupat / Kavita Singh / Jacob Kazungu / Manuela De Allegri (2025)
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When your lab is the world but the world is closed down

Ruppel, Samantha (2020)
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Embracing universality: toward the future of United Nations development work

Baumann, Max-Otto / Haug, Sebastian (2025)
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The moral space and the logic of collective self-organisation of domestic workers in Chennai, India

Vogel, Johanna / Eberhard Rothfuß (2020)
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Do exports and innovation matter for the demand of skilled labor? Evidence from MENA countries

Aboushady, Nora / Chahir Zaki (2021)
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Give qualitative research the recognition it deserves

Bercht, Anna Lena / Verena Sandner Le Gall / Jürgen Straub / [...]/ Jonas Hein et al. (2024)
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