The case for maximising research impact at a time of brutal cuts
Now is the time to make a case for a collectivised, programme level approach to knowledge brokering and impact. The increasing calls for policy to “follow the science”, pressures created by ODA cuts and the urgent requirement to demonstrate the value of research, make for the perfect opportunity to secure approaches to connecting research with policy that value wider bodies of knowledge and broader definitions of impact.
South Sudan and Afghanistan are case studies for this work that examines the implications in fragile states for comprehensive programming of risk management among UN agencies and international NGOs.
Risk Management and the Bunkering of the Aid Industry
Challenging environments: Danger, resilience and the aid industry
How Did we Become Unprepared? Emergency and Resilience in an Uncertain World
Total War as Environmental Terror: Linking Liberalism, Resilience, and the Bunker
