sociology | The Impact Initiative

Urban Africa: Risk and Capacity (Urban ARC)

Principal Investigator: Mark Pelling. Lead Organisation: Kings College London.

Co-Investigator: Bruce D Malamud (Kings College London); Blessing Meru (frican Population and Health Research Center, APHRC); Adriana Elizabeth Allen; (University College Lonodon); Cassidy Anne Johnson (University College London): Susan Marion Parnell (University of Bristol); Mtafu A.Z.

Choice constraint and the gender dynamics of labour markets in West Bengal

Principal Investigator: Naila Kabeer. Lead Organistion: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Co-investigator: Ashwini Deshpande (University of Delhi)

Integrated policies to reduce poverty in its many dimensions

Principal Investigator: Sabina Alkire. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford

This research project addresses the overarching research question: What factors shape pathways into and out of poverty and people's experience of these, and how can policy create sustained routes out of extreme poverty in ways that can be replicated and scaled up?

Graduation as resilience stage two

Principal Investigator: Mushtaque Chowdhury. Lead Organisation: BRAC Centre

Co-investigators: Asheek Mohammad Shimul; Ferdous Jahan; Martin Greeley

Mobile payment systems to reduce rural water risks in Africa

Principal Investigator: Robert Adrian Hope. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford

New development frontiers? The role of youth, sport and cultural interventions

Investigating the role of sport, cultural and educational programmes in sustainable development among young people in low-income countries, tackling poverty, conflict in fragile states, environmental sustainability, and gender inequality.

Blood bricks: examining the climate change-modern slavery nexus in the Cambodian construction industry

Principal Investigator: Katherine Ann Brickell. Lead Organisation: Royal Holloway, University of London

Co Investigators: Mark Sithirith (CARE Cambodia); Laurie Parsons (Independant Anti-Slavery Comissioner)