Vision & strategy

Our vision is for a more equitable and sustainable world, where people everywhere can live their lives free from poverty and injustice.

A woman, dressed in red, walking away from the camera through a sunlit field of yellow flowers
Credit: James Morgan

Strategic Plan 2020-2025

Our commitments:

  • Upholding climate and environmental justice
  • Reducing extreme inequities
  • Fostering healthy and fulfilling lives
  • Nurturing inclusive, democratic and accountable societies

Our priorities:

  1. Collaborate across sciences, sectors and communities to do research that brings progressive change
  2. Build future leadership for development
  3. Champion the use of evidence for social and environmental justice
  4. Work with partners to expand international research and mutual learning networks for development
  5. Create a sustainable, resilient and equitable institution

IDS Strategy 2015-20Read our 2020-25 strategy Transforming Knowledge, Transforming Lives to see how we are responding to to the global disruptions and shocks of our era and seizing opportunities for the work we do with academic, business, civil society, government and philanthropic partners.

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