AAS African Academy of Sciences [Kenya]
ADBI Asian Development Bank Institute [Japan]
AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council [UK]
ARC Accountability Research Center [USA]
AREU Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
ARTF Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund
ASBANC Asociación de Bancos del Perú [Association of Banks of Peru]
ATM automated teller machine
BBS Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
BIGD BRAC Institute of Governance and Development [Bangladesh]
CBGA Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability [India]
CCODE Centre for Community Organization and Development [Malawi]
CEPR Centre for Economic Policy Research [UK]
CGD Center for Global Development [USA]
CIPPEC Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas Promotoras de Equidad y Crecimiento [Centre for the
Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth,
Argentina]
CORE Covid-19 Responses for Equity
COVAX Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access
CPAN Chronic Poverty Advisory Network [UK]
CPD Centre for Policy Dialogue [Bangladesh]
CSEA Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa [Nigeria]
DPOs disabled people’s organisations
FCDO Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office [UK]
GBV gender-based violence
GCRF Global Challenges Research Fund [UK]
GDP gross domestic product
GHRU Gender and Health Research Unit [South Africa]
GloPID-R Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness [France/UK]
GoB Government of Bangladesh
GRADE Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo [Group for the Analysis of Development, Peru]
GrOW Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women
HIES Household Income and Expenditure Survey
HVTN HIV Vaccine Trials Network
ICED International Centre for Evidence in Disability [UK]
ICTD International Centre for Tax and Development [UK]
IDLG Independent Directorate of Local Governance [Afghanistan]
IDP internally displaced person
IDRC International Development Research Centre [Canada]
IDS Institute of Development Studies [UK]
IE&LFS Income, Expenditure and Labour Force Survey [Afghanistan]
IFRC International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [Switzerland]
IGA income-generating activity
IIED International Institute for Environment and Development [UK]
IIPH Indian Institute of Public Health [India]
ILO International Labour Organization [Switzerland]
IPA Innovations for Poverty Action [USA]
IPS Institute of Policy Studies [Sri Lanka]
ITU International Telecommunication Union [Switzerland]
LIC low-income country
LMICs low- and middle-income countries
LMICs lower-middle-income countries
LUMS Lahore University of Management Sciences [Pakistan]
MCGM Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai [India]
MHM menstrual hygiene management
MHRC Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Centre [Pakistan]
MIDIS Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion [Peru]
MNFSR Ministry of National Food Security and Research [Pakistan]
MoPH Ministry of Public Health [Afghanistan]
MRRD Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development [Afghanistan]
MSM men who have sex with men
NGO non-governmental organisation
NSDF National Slum Dwellers Federation [India]
NSDFU National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda
NSIA National Statistics and Information Authority [Afghanistan]
OCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [USA]
ODA official development assistance
ODI Overseas Development Institute [UK]
OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [Switzerland]
OPDs organisations of persons with disabilities
PARCC Program for Asia Resilience to Climate Change
PENDA Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action [UK]
PEP Partnership for Economic Policy [Kenya]
PHFI Public Health Foundation of India
PI principal investigator
PII personally identifiable information
PPE personal protective equipment
PPRC Power and Participation Research Centre [Bangladesh]
REACH Relief Effort for Afghan Communities and Households
RMG ready-made garments [sector]
SAMRC South African Medical Research Council
SDI Shack/Slum Dwellers International [South Africa]
SIGAR Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction [USA]
SIPA School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University [USA]
SLRC Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium [UK]
SME small and medium-sized enterprises
SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies [UK]
SPARC Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres [India]
SRH sexual and reproductive health
SRHR sexual and reproductive health rights
SSNP social safety net programme
TTI Think Tank Initiative
UCL University College London
UDP Urban Development Programme
UKCDR UK Collaborative on Development Research
UKRI UK Research and Innovation
UN United Nations
UNAMA United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
UNCRPD United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [Switzerland]
USAID United States Agency for International Development
WASH water, sanitation, and hygiene
WHO World Health Organization [Switzerland]
WIEGO Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing [UK]