In recent years, international development programmes have increasingly sought to address complex problems, and this has led to growing demand for "complexity-aware" approaches to monitoring and evaluation. One key area of this frontier is the family of approaches known as theory-based...
How do we determine when our research has impact? If our aim is to produce research that contributes to making a positive difference in the world, how do we measure and track achievements? In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS’ Director of Communications and Impact, James Georgalakis,...
Religious Inequalities in Development
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) is launching new research and bringing together both an expert panel of international speakers and the authors of a forthcoming collection,...
As the Covid-19 crisis continues to unfold, some wish for a quick return to normality whereas others hope for a chance to build back better. While the crisis has exposed our vulnerability as human beings and the consequences of our unrelenting encroachment into nature, it has also seen prompted...
Building back better with environmental sustainability and inclusion: What must development practitioners and young leaders do? Watch https://youtu.be/QgHqVh4zwjk Covid-19 is a health crisis and an economic crisis facing countries across the world. H. E. the President of Costa Rica and...
Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? From finance and technology to climate change, pandemics, migration and security, what the future holds feels increasingly uncertain and demands alternative approaches. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformations are to be realised, then...
China and Global Development Seminar Series
This webinar, part of the China and Global Development Seminar Series, is delivered by the IDS China Hub, the Centre for Rising Powers, and the China Global Development Knowledge Network, in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council. This webinar is part of a webinar/seminar...
Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? From finance and technology to climate change, pandemics, migration and security, what the future holds feels increasingly uncertain and demands alternative approaches. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformations are to be realised,...
14th AFD International Research Conference on Development This Open Discussion Days sessions are an open invite event over two days, 9 to 10 November. The event is part of the first global summit of Public Development Banks, The Visible Hand: Development Banks in Transition, running from 3 to...
We are pleased to announce that registration to the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2020) is now open. The Symposium will bring together over 2,000 policy-makers, practitioners and researchers from more than 100 countries to explore how we can build health systems which...
The current political and economic situation in Brazil is shaped by the emergence of a new type of anti-environmentalism of an authoritarian and racialised character. The pressure for the liberalisation of public lands and communal territories by the rural segment is accompanied by a rhetoric of...
The Sanitation Learning Hub is a side event and will be presenting during the plenary along with CARE Peru. This session leverages the experience from community-based adaptation (CBA) in CARE Peru’s Glaciares program, and CBA research from the Sanitation Learning Hub and University of...