Post author: Joanna Howard

Dr. Jo Howard is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and Leader of the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change Cluster. She co-convenes the Master’s programme in Participation, Power and Social Change.

Find out more: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/jo-howard/

Video
Panellists at CREID FoRB Ministerial event in London, July 2022
Why are religious dynamics glaringly absent from global development?

This is the video of an event organised by CREID as part of the Civil Society Fringe events for the International Ministerial Conference on Freedom…

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Report
Front cover for the report entitled "Understanding Intersecting Vulnerabilities Experienced by Religious Minorities Living in Poverty in the Shadows of Covid-19"
Understanding Intersecting Vulnerabilities Experienced by Religious Minorities Living in Poverty in the Shadows of Covid-19

This study, conducted between November 2020 and March 2021 in India and Nigeria, explored the direct and indirect effects of Covid-19 on religiously marginalised groups…

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Policy Brief
First page of Policy Briefing on poverty, religious inequality and Covid19 in Nigeria
Vulnerability and Poverty During Covid-19: Religious Minorities in Nigeria

This policy briefing by Dr Joanna Howard, Professor Oluwafunmilayo Para-Mallam, Dr Plangsat Bitrus Dayil, and Dr Philip Hayab, draws on research into the experiences of…

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Policy Brief
First page of policy briefing poverty, religious inequality and Covid-19 in India on
Vulnerability and Poverty During Covid-19: Religious Minorities in India

This policy briefing, by Dr Jo Howard and an Indian co-author (who must remain anonymous for reasons of personal safety) draws on research with religious…

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Working Paper
Using Participatory Action Research Methodologies for Engaging and Researching with Religious Minorities in Contexts of Intersecting Inequalities

While there is growing scholarship on the intersectional nature of people’s experience of marginalisation, analyses tend to ignore religion-based inequalities. A lack of Freedom of…

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