The population in sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing and the youngest in the world, yet the politicians ruling them are typically among the oldest. In some East African countries, the current rulers are yesterday’s rebels. Some have developed a range of authoritarian practices to stay...
CDI webinar series on methods for theory-based evaluation
The RCT debate is often heated: it seems you can only either love or hate them. This seminar aims to spark a cooler discussion about the pros and cons of RCTs, using the practical examples of two studies on taxation in Rwanda. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDKcykdVs04 Tax...
This Sussex Development Lecture will explore how, in 2020, South Africa and India brought a proposal to the World Trade Organisation to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 medical goods so that poor countries could manufacture Covid-19 vaccines and medicines instead of relying on the...
Compassion in World Farming is hosting a two-day international conference to share solutions on global food system transformation with partners including the Institute of Development Studies, IPES-Food, Birdlife International and others. The Extinction or Regeneration conference, to be held...
In this Sussex Development Lecture we present the results of the Steering Research and Innovation for Global Goals (STRINGS) project – a major global study into the alignment of sciences, technologies and innovations (STIs) with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We highlight glaring...
In 1989, Melucci’s Nomads of the Present argued that social movements were cultural ‘laboratories of experience’ within which ‘new problems and questions are posed. New answers are invented and tested, and reality is perceived and named in different ways’ (Melucci, 1989:207) Watch...
Did you know that between IDS and our partner the University of Sussex, we provide 29 postgraduate degrees under the theme of international development? This is one of the broadest and most comprehensive programmes of international development Masters courses on offer. Development Studies Week...
A rise in Mpox virus cases detected in West Africa from 2017 provided warning signs of the potential for outbreaks elsewhere. Yet it was not until the multi-country outbreak in 2022 that the disease received significant global attention and a public health emergency of international concern was...
This panel considers the role of UK universities in supporting the global 15by30 goal. They examine how growing state repression has been met with resistance from students and grassroot activism, which has led to the rapid growth of the Universities of Sanctuary movement, Student Action for...
In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Researcher Stephen Thompson and IDS Research Officer Mariah Cannon interview Professor Robert Chambers who is one of the most influential and prolific scholars to write about participation, poverty, and knowledge in development...
CDI webinar series on methods for theory-based evaluation
In this Centre for Development Impact (CDI) seminar we will launch the Special Issue in the European Journal of Development Research on Evaluating Research for Development: Innovation to Navigate Complexity. Watch now https://youtu.be/IPr37pUpDO0?t=83 Large publicly funded programmes of...
In this Participation, Inclusion and Social Change cluster Seminar we are celebrating our new partnership with Fundacion Paraguaya (the developers of the Poverty Stoplight) and will discuss and share how we develop understandings of participatory processes to work to generate change through...