On 25 February 2025, the University of Duhok hosted a conference titled ‘Preserving Cultural Heritage in Kurdistan – Iraq’. This event, organised in collaboration with the Institute of Development ...

Deq (Arabic: دەق) or xal (Kurdish: خاڵ) are the Arabic and Kurdish words for tattoo respectively. Traditional Deq (tattoo) or Xal has long been a part of cultural heritage in Kurdistan and Iraq, it is ...

How did the e-levy become so unpopular, and what will repealing it mean? Over three years, researchers from the IDS-based International Centre for Tax and Development worked with partners in Ghana to ...

On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, a country going through a civil war and an already worsening humanitarian crisis under the military junta. The earthquake was the most ...

With limited assets and multiple constraints to access to land, accumulation by young people in our A1 land reform sites is challenging. This blog looks at the multiple pathways followed, highlighting ...

In this first blog, we introduce the work of the Full Spectrum Coalition evidence and learning group and the challenge it responds to.

Calls for action to acknowledge and address caste power dynamics and prejudice based on caste in Higher Education.

Young people’s urban lives are often riddled with inequalities and everyday obstacles inhibiting their full societal ...

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

Dr. Ben Cislaghi is an international development scholar and practitioner specializing in gender norms, social justice, and community-led development. Ben has led and contributed to major research ...

Thematic expertise and methodological support for the Peace Governance and Equality (PGE) section of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is provided by the consortium Partnership ...

The cuts to ODA budgets have severe consequences for climate change projects around the world, warns experts at IDS.