Sanitation is one of the most off-track Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the WHO and UNICEF reporting that 3.8 billion people still lacking access to safely managed sanitation. In many low- and middle-income countries, centralised and capital-intensive sanitation and waste...
In this talk, Ian Scoones will introduce his new book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World (Polity Books, 2024). Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the...
A book launch and panel discussion on the lives and work of artists, activists and academics engaged in the struggle for life-saving HIV treatment in and beyond South Africa. Join us for this event with Elizabeth Mills, author of the new book HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine and former...
Join us for the first event in our new Sussex Development Lecture series on politics, power and hope, with guest lecturer Dr Danny Sriskandarajah speaking about the themes from his new book Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world. Danny Sriskandarajah learned the value of...
While switching from fossil fuels to clean energy addresses the climate crisis and offers development opportunities, opposition to the transition is rife. The panel will discuss the pitfalls of clean energy transition, and the drivers thereof, and strategies to inform policy and...
Following Israel’s declaration on 8 October 2023 of a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, a food crisis rapidly developed. But did the situation deteriorate into a full-blown famine? A series of food security assessments conducted by the international community in 2023-24 will be analysed...
Each year we invite a prominent speaker on an issue relevant to international development to give the IDS Annual Lecture. These events are open to the public and available to attend in person and watch online. Past speakers include the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado...
The Sussex Development Lecture series is an opportunity to hear from leading global thinkers on development. It is jointly run by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the School of Global Studies , the Science Policy and Research Unit (SPRU) and the Centre for International Education...
The IDS Conflict, Violence and Development seminar series focuses on mass violent conflicts as well as every day forms of insecurity, looking at their relationship with poverty and development. It provides a forum to discuss the Institute's work in this area, as well as some exciting work on...
The Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development (CRPD) conducts and facilitates research on: the impact of the BRICS and other rapidly-changing and increasingly influential middle-income countries on low-income countries the need for the restructuring of global development...
Mega-Infrastructure Projects (MIPs) represent a central element of globalized development. MIPs like the Chinese driven ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) include large-scale agrarian, road, rail, port and energy networks. They are complex ventures involving international capital and multiple...
Access to water and decent sanitation service is a human right, however, its realisation has always been fraught with challenges and is likely to get magnified as structural injustices intersect with the impacts of global warming. For instance, extreme weather events such as droughts, floods...
https://youtu.be/1Ne2KVL_ueo The purpose of the webinar is to share emerging mixed methods insights on the relationship between complex crises (namely armed conflict, displacement, climate shocks and stressors, and Covid-19), poverty dynamics and social assistance in Nigeria. Nigeria...
Funding from development agencies for research projects is integral for trying to reduce global poverty, but often short-term funding produces short-term results which are hard to track in the terms of a positive impact. But what are the benefits of long-term funding of a long...
Following last year’s historic vote supporting the establishment of a new UN Framework Tax Convention, a UN Ad Hoc Group has now been convened and a zero draft terms of reference (TOR) for a future UN Framework Tax Convention has been published. An amended version of the TOR is set to be...
Participatory approaches to complex social issues like child labour
This seminar critically reflects on the praxis of children’s participation in a five-year programme tackling the worst forms of child labour in Nepal and Bangladesh. Posed as a conversation between theory and practice, the speakers share what they had to learn (and unlearn) to work effectively...
Critical accountants study how accounting shapes organisations and the social world. They aim to bring alternative accounts into focus. This parallels radical aspirations in development studies to empower countervailing voices in the economic sphere. Yet little dialogue exists between these...
Participatory approaches to complex social issues like child labour
CLARISSA responded to the complex challenge of child labour through a deliberate and participatory approach to adaptive management. But what does it really mean to implement such an approach in practice? And what evidence do we have of how it worked? In this webinar we will reflect on our...