The Covid-19 pandemic was responsible for high but also highly varied mortality and illness, both of which also had major wellbeing consequences for affected individuals, households and communities. Policy responses to the pandemic also severely disrupted economies and social life and all...
We know that Covid-19 caused a major impact on households’ production and access to quality, nutritious food, due to losses of income, combined with increasing food prices, and restrictions to movements of people, inputs and products. Research from the IDS-led CORE programme has...
This is a webinar aimed at social scientists and public health and humanitarian practitioners involved in public health emergencies. The objective is to get insights across different contexts on achieving a context-adapted community engagement for future epidemic and pandemic preparedness. This...
Close collaborations with government’s responding to the Covid-19 pandemic produced a range of monetary and fiscal policy recommendations for longer term recovery and future resilience. As we continue to face multiple crises, what have learnt about the effectiveness of range of...
How do we ensure that informal and marginalised groups are recognised in disaster response? Informality encompasses those in informal employment, living in informal settlements and undocumented migrants. CORE research - a rapid research initiative designed to understand the socio-economic...
The launch of Pathways to Equitable Food Systems, a new report by IDS. The report examines the extent to which power imbalances have resulted in certain groups being disadvantaged by unjust and inequitable food systems, based on evidence from the past 10 years on topics such as corporate...
This talk draws from an ethnographic study of the intersection of the international development industry and domestic labour, drawing attention to the mismatched rewards and opportunities the industry brings to its practitioners and supposed “beneficiaries”. Expatriate aid workers in...
The IDS-led Countering Backlash programme has organised panel debate where the chair will engage a panel of international experts in a topical discussion on questions for development arising from a swell of anti-gender backlash across the world: ‘What is it?’, ‘How should development...
Climate change is complicated. So are the things we're doing about it. How might the arts help us to address that complexity? As educators and researchers in a university, how do we embed sustainability themes across our activities? As people on a planet, how do we talk and think about...
The Department of Economics at the University of Sussex Business School and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) are hosting a public lecture in honour of Professor Michael Lipton. This event celebrates the outstanding contributions that Professor Michael Lipton made to the Department of...
How did the latest UN Water Conference influence the progress of global water governance? Join us in a hybrid discussion of what matters! Global water and sanitation governance still have a long way to go before attaining the ambition of SDG 6 to "ensure access to water and sanitation for...
Background A century since the League of Nations first began to discuss international taxation, global tax governance is at a major inflection point. This year provides an unprecedented opportunity to debate what is needed from institutional arrangements, as well as the subject matter of...
