This report details the findings and recommendations associated with an inclusive participatory learning process that was facilitated with disability-inclusive, development-focused research networks ...

In this podcast Martin Griffiths presents his own definition of the concept of humanitarian diplomacy which includes independent and principled mediation to end conflicts.

When we last explored what was happening to young people across our field sites in 2016, the experience of ‘waithood’ was very evident (see our ROAPE paper for a discussion). This is a period between ...

Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and ...

Those working in humanitarian aid need to build and advance humanitarian diplomacy; reconnect with human rights; use legal ...

Initiatives that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic provided marginalised communities with dignified access to food and can ...

Institute of Development Studies IDS Room 221 and online on Zoom. In the highly insecure borderlands of Somalia and North-Eastern Kenya, communities are driving their own governance and resilience, ...

Mpox was perceived to be a mild disease which had implications on the study population’s behavioural practices affecting ...

Wealthy Africans face lower effective tax rates than average citizens, replicating a trend already demonstrated for the relative tax burden of small and large companies. This situation is ...

This factsheet explains how much zakat we can estimate is being paid in Pakistan every year – and where the money is going.

There is a large literature on the economic returns to education around the world. Most of this points to the value of schooling in simple economic terms for boys and girls at both primary and ...

The global race to transition to a low-carbon economy critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and copper climate change ...