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The IDS Knowledge Services' mission is to help people to understand and make sense of the complexities and realities of poverty and inequality. We inform debate, advocacy, research and policy, and thereby stimulate action to bring about positive social change. By sharing information from diverse perspectives, we influence those in situations of power to make better-informed decisions and support those without power to have their voices heard.

Over the next five years, our strategic ambitions are:

  1. We will have adopted a much more decentralised and networked approach: collaborating with others, particularly in the South, in sourcing and sharing information, and creating spaces to stimulate interaction and debate.
  2. We will be presenting a more diverse range of perspectives: broadening debates on international development, and helping to amplify voices that are not being heard, especially those from the South.
  3. We will be doing more to encourage learning and action: working with others to understand and champion the role of information in tackling poverty and injustice, strengthening the capacity of Southern information intermediaries and helping to address the power imbalances and capacity constraints that limit people's ability to access and make use of information.
  4. We will be closer to users and more engaged in debates: so we understand information needs better and improve our services, target our efforts, increase our influence, and demonstrate impact better.
  5. We will be doing what we do well, but doing it better: building on our trademark strengths in delivering trusted, high quality services, experimenting with new ways of delivering our objectives and doing more to reach out to new users.
  6. We will be more coherent and effective as a department: strengthening structures and management systems so the services work together better and so we are able to provide a productive and supportive environment for staff to work in.

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