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...
90 per cent of all COVID-19 cases globally occur in urban areas. However, the ecology of risk, that is, the direct and indirect impacts of the disease, as well as the long-term implications of responses to the pandemic, go well beyond city limits. The pandemic has called into question the very...
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...
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...
We are pleased to invite you to a webinar Designing for Impact: South-South Trade and Investment - A Tool for Revitalizing the Global Economy Post COVID-19. In March 2019, for the first time ever, the United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40) recognized trade and...
IDS students have come together to organise the first ever TEDxIDS event. Exploring the theme of “Building Back Better, but Different”, this event will feature different talks to understand what post-Covid development looks like. The talks will cover a range of topics, from the gender...
The pandemic is in many ways a crisis of governance. Its mitigation is determined by the nature of policy responses by leaders and governments, and the challenge of building back better will require governments to collect revenue more equitably, and to spend it more inclusively and accountably....
Governments globally have faced unprecedented challenges in responding to Covid-19. While they have managed to get some things right, delayed responses, insufficient test, track and trace programmes, contradictory messages, disinformation, and a sense of the economy being prioritised over public...
Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy, reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings...
