A renewed focus on equity is being driven by the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation framework and Sustainable Development Goal 6, which emphasise the importance of adequate and equitable sanitation for all. Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is based on the idea that sustained, collective...
The Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development 2019 will be awarded to Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Ian Scoones will give an open lecture titled 'Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development'. The Ester Boserup Thesis Prize 2019...
Democracy is under stress throughout the world. Trust in elected leaders is declining in key countries and remains too low in others. In the UK, the Brexit referendum has thrown one the world’s democratically elected legislatures into...
Nomadic pastoralism in the Arabian Peninsula has undergone significant change over the past 150 years as a response to alterations in its relationship with central authority. Efforts to settle and transform pastoralists into settled farmers – a key policy of Post WWI neo-colonial and later...
In this episode of between the lines, Nanjala Nyabola, a Kenyan activist, political analyst and author, speaks about her fascinating book ‘Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya’, about how the digital age and social media has impacted...
Tackling the pressing environmental, social and economic challenges of our era will require increased international cooperation across countries, sectors and disciplines. Both the UN Global Goals and China’s multi-billion dollar BRI which spans over 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin...
Elinor Ostrom was the first and so far only woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics. Her innovative work on ecological economics challenged the notion of ‘the tragedy of the commons’. Her political economy analysis, focusing on trust, cooperation, diversity, deep democracy and innovative...
Speaker Dan Carden MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/851780745165500/ This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions. This lecture will be streamed live to the...
In the run up to this year’s Sussex Refugees Tales Walk and as we approach World Refugee Day, the Lewes Organisation in Support of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (LOSRAS) in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) will host a public meeting to showcase locally produced...
In When Things Don’t Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel makes a simple but controversial claim, based on the work of the eminent social scientist Albert O. Hirschman. Grabel argues that as concerns global financial governance and development finance we are now in a period that she calls productive...
In this episode of --between the lines-- IDS researcher, Richard Longhurst, speaks to Hilary Cottam about her book: 'Radical Help: how we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state.' https://open.spotify.com/episode/0na545rhe8VgGQq22CUPgX Radical Help is...
Heralded with much fanfare and preceded by intensive policy contestation, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed in September 2015 promises a far-reaching development framework in a global context of widening inequalities within and between countries, economic crises, conflict,...
