A4EA Action for Empowerment and Accountability [UK]
A4NH Agriculture for Nutrition and Health [USA]
APHRC African Population and Health Research Center [Kenya]
APRA Agricultural Policy Research in Africa [UK]
ARISE Accountability and Responsiveness in Informal Settlements for Equity [UK]
ASHA/ANM Accredited Social Health Activists/Auxiliary Nurse Midwives
BAME black and minority ethnic groups
BASIC Better Assistance in Crises
BHESP Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme [Kenya]
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party [India]
BRACED Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters
CDP Committee for Development Policy [USA]
CEPR Centre for Economic Policy Research [UK]
CHW community health worker
CORTH Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health [UK]
COUNSENUTH The Centre for Counselling, Nutrition and Health Care [Tanzania]
CREID Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development [UK]
CSO civil society organisation
CSP Customer Service Point
CVD cardiovascular disease
CVE countering violent extremism
DBM double burden of malnutrition
DESA Department of Economic and Social Affairs [USA]
DFA Department of Foreign Affairs [Ireland]
EADD East Africa Dairy Development [Kenya]
EC European Commission [Belgium]
ECOSOC Economic and Social Council [USA]
ENA Ethiopian News Agency
EPHI Ethiopian Public Health Institute
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [Italy]
FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office [UK]
FDI foreign direct investment
FGM female genital mutilation
FoRB freedom of religion or belief
FSIN Food Security Information Network [Italy]
GAIN Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition [Switzerland]
GBV gender-based violence
GCRF Global Challenges Research Fund [UK]
GDP gross domestic product
GF Ghetto Foundation [Kenya]
GFDRR Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery [USA]
GPE Global Partnership for Education [USA]
GSDRC Governance and Social Development Resource Centre [UK]
HIV human immunodeficiency virus
HLPE High Level Panel of Experts
HNWI high net worth individual
ICG International Crisis Group [Brussels]
ICT information and communications technology
ICTD International Centre for Tax and Development [UK]
ICU intensive care units
IDP internally displaced person
IDRC International Development Research Centre [Canada]
IDS Institute of Development Studies [UK]
IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute [USA]
IGC International Growth Centre [UK]
IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development [Canada]
ILO International Labour Organization [Switzerland]
IMF International Monetary Fund [USA]
INGO international non-governmental organisation
IOM International Organization for Migration [Switzerland]
IPA Innovations for Poverty Action [USA]
IPC Integrated Food Security Phase Classification [Kenya]
IRC Inter-Religious Council [Uganda]
ISIS Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ISST Institute of Social Studies Trust [India]
IVLP International Visitor Leadership Program [USA]
K4D Knowledge for Development
LIC low-income country
LMICs low- and middle-income countries
LSE London School of Economics and Political Science [UK]
LSHTM London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [UK]
MERS Middle East respiratory syndrome
MoH Ministry of Health [Kenya]
MoHCDGEC Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania]
MSJC Mathare Social Justice Centre [Kenya]
MSPARC Mathare Special Planning Area Research Consortium [Kenya]
NCHR National Commission for Human Rights [Pakistan]
NCSS Nairobi Cross-Sectional Slums Survey [Kenya]
NGO non-governmental organisation
NRLM-SHG National Rural Livelihood Mission-Self Help Group [India]
ODI Overseas Development Institute [UK]
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [France]
OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [Switzerland]
OIE World Organisation for Animal Health [France]
OPHI Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative [UK]
PDS Public Distribution System
PI Principal Investigator
PPE personal protective equipment
PSNP Productive Safety Net Programme [Ethiopia]
R&D research and development
SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome
SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
SDG Sustainable Development Goal
SDI Slum Dwellers International [Kenya]
SEWA Self Employed Women’s Association [India]
SLURC Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre
SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies [UK]
SPARC Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises [UK]
SRH sexual and reproductive health
SRSP shock-responsive social protection
SSHAP Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform [UK]
TDHS-MIS Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey
TRLA Transformative Reflective Leadership Approach
UDHR Universal Declaration of Human Rights
UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS [Switzerland]
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [Switzerland]
UNDP United Nations Development Programme [USA]
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [France]
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund [USA]
UNGA United Nations General Assembly [USA]
UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund [USA]
UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Social Development [Switzerland]
UNSCN United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition [Italy]
UNTF United Nations Trust Fund [USA]
UNU-WIDER United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research [Finland]
USCIRF United States Commission on International Religious Freedom [USA]
V-DEM Varieties of Democracy
WaE Women against Extremism [UK]
WASH water, sanitation, and hygiene
WFP World Food Programme [Italy]
WHO World Health Organization [Switzerland]
WIEGO Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing [UK]
WRO women’s rights organisation