We regret to announce that today’s event “The evidence we can’t ignore: religious inequality and Covid-19 in India, Nigeria and beyond” has been postponed due to exceptional unforeseen circumstances. We hope to announce a new date very soon for the launch of this important new...
Religious Inequalities in Development
Join the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Professor Karima Bennoune, and the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), in the launch of the Special Rapporteur’s final report to the United Nations General Assembly. Watch...
To mark Black History Month 2021 IDS is convening a seminar, along with the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS), that looks to explore the ways in which development can be viewed as a project that supports coloniality, while also aiding the reproduction of Western colonialist and...
Agroecology is both the science that allows us to design agroecosystems that are more sustainable and socially just, largely based on small-scale producers of food, and also represents a global movement to transform to current globalized food system that is dominated by a handful of...
This talk examines the question of whether and how bureaucratic effectiveness contributes to development, what makes for an effective bureaucracy and what are the building blocks of state capacity. The panel will review contemporary research, especially in economics, and connect this to...
This lecture makes the argument for putting uncertainty at the centre of thinking and practice in development. This means rejecting a linear, technocratic framing and embracing the implications of uncertainty for today’s complex, dynamic world. Through a number of examples – from the fields...
On the occasion of the launch of the first ever SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry, co-edited by Professor Sonia Ospina in collaboration with Danny Burns and Joanna Howard (both from IDS). This panel - facilitated by Professor Erica Foldy - will seek to reflect on the place of...
CDI webinar series on methods for theory-based evaluation
The event has been postponed due to illness. Watch this space for a new date. In this seminar we will share experiences in using a realist evaluation in the evaluation of a global mobile phone-based programme aiming to change nutrition-related behaviours in Sub-Sahara Africa. More...
WTO Public Forum (virtual). A discussion of new evidence on the a) implications of current e-commerce proposals in practical terms for African businesses, particularly SMEs; b) priorities of an AfCFTA e-commerce protocol, as identified by the African private sector itself; and c) design of...
Religious Inequalities in Development
Join us for this webinar organised by the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) which will share pioneering research from Iraq and Pakistan on hate speech targeting religious minorities and approaches to countering this. Around the world hate speech,...
In this episode of Between the Lines, IDS Director of Research, Peter Taylor interviews IDS Research Fellows; Danny Burns and Jo Howard, and Sonia M. Ospina, Professor of Public Management and Policy at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service who edited the recently published: SAGE...
The global debate on climate change is focusing attention on reducing emissions from livestock production, particularly ruminants. As a result, advocates of a ‘protein transition’ emphasise the need for a major shift to plant-based diets. Others call for more space devoted to nature...