The aid cuts could not have come at a worse time. The implementation of Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS), signed by President Salva Kiir ...

IDS graduates Callum Chapman and Norma Jean Park (MA Food & Development, Class of 2024) were lead authors on an IDS Working ...

How do we build economic systems that recognise and work within the biophysical limits of our finite planet while reducing poverty and inequality? This has become a defining question of our time.

Our studies of young people across our A1 land reform sites in Zimbabwe show the real challenges that young people face in getting established as independent economic actors. This requires putting ...

The future of funding for global health programmes like those detecting and treating HIV/Aids are in peril after funding cuts.

In early 2024 the UK government introduced legislation requiring that when housing or infrastructure development occurs in ...

Young people’s urban lives are often riddled with inequalities and everyday obstacles inhibiting their full societal participation, to negatively affect their health and wellbeing. Findings from a ...

This paper examines how communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict local people have relied on their own means of governance and mutual support to ...

Combined with the severe cuts to USAID, there is also concern about what impact the high tariffs will have on lower—middle-income country economies and in turn, the investment available for ...

Programme emerged as a response to the global learning crisis. Launched in 2014 as a strategic partnership between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Economic and ...

organisations of people with disabilities, understanding power dynamics, engage in policy influencing, ethics and feedback mechanisms.