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...
This Sussex Development Lecture discussed the evolution of a road beside a Communal Reserve in Peruvian Amazonia. It considered the use and narrative power of the concept of ‘sustainable development’ within local, national, and international cultures and discourses. Does the concept succeed...
In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, Jigyasa Agarwal – a journalist, development practitioner and current master's student at IDS – interviews IDS Alumni Naimat Zafary. In this personal and powerful account, Naimat, talks about his journey to becoming a...
White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NsX9iWVyqw There is a growing interest in understanding the meaning, manifestations, analysis and implications of racism in North/South relations. White...
Over the past 12 months, colleagues from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) have run a series of events reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the Limits to Growth. In 1973 a SPRU research team criticised the MIT group’s modelling of global resources and futures, reclaimed...
This CDI seminar introduced the emerging causal pathways network which seeks to help philanthropy and other funders to open up the black box of strategy and systems change by building awareness, will, and skills to use evaluation approaches that can make sense of causal relationships without...
This event examines the progress and challenges that have shaped water and development from Mar-del- Plata (1977) to the upcoming UN Water Conference in New York City (2023). Speakers will focus on key achievements and missed opportunities, and reflect on what’s proposed at New York in terms...
Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Professor Nick Mirzoeff (New York University) and Olu Jenzen (University of Brighton) about the recent publication of Nick Mirzoeff's White Sight: The Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (2023). Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual activist,...
Healing Justice is an emerging political organising framework that addresses the systemic injustice and intergenerational harm experienced by oppressed and marginalised peoples. This seminar presents insights from research that explored its relevance for feminist movement-building in different...
The military coup of February 1st, 2021, shook Myanmar, and intensified a long-standing situation of conflict-induced displacement, with a resulting dramatic increase of people seeking shelter away from their hometowns and villages. In this context, existing networks of informal support become...
Gender-progressive policies around the world are facing significant backlash. Gender justice activists and women’s rights organisations are having to mobilise quickly to counter these attacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYMF3Ga_dZg The rise of racist, misogynist, populist and...
In this online event, we will highlight the policy and practice implications emerging from the discussions at a three-day workshop on ‘Pastoralism, Development and Policy’. These will be discussed by a panel of commentators from different regions of the world, and including policymakers,...
