This podcast looks at what needs to be prioritised to ensure that we do not lose momentum on increasing social protection coverage globally?

Policy making is a messy business. While rationality and certainty are often viewed as desirable traits, the reality is that ...

Social and Humanitarian Assistance in Crises: agendas, ambitions and aspirations for more effective intervention.

This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

Over the past five years, colleagues from the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – a joint initiative between the Institute of Development Studies, Itad and University of East Anglia – have been ...

The famed self-trained historian Pathisa Nyathi has died aged 73 as a result of complications with diabetes. He has been described by many as a brilliant historian, a living library, an archive of ...

Since 2009, the Boko Haram insurgency has become the most prominent source of violence in northern Nigeria, particularly affecting the north-east. The group’s activities, including bombings, ...

This paper reviews the evidence and concludes that, whether or not a ‘technical’ famine occurred, Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza caused avoidable hunger and ...

We work with hundreds of partners around the world to improve people’s lives through research, teaching and action. Collaborating with IDS can help you create new knowledge, make better use of ...

The American election result is a surprising and significant blow to those of us who believe in equitable and sustainable development globally. It tells us that the argument made for progressive ...

On 28 October 2024, the Israeli parliament voted 92-10 to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the single largest provider of humanitarian aid in occupied Palestine. Palestinians ...