Governments across the African continent are investing heavily in digital transformation and have made huge progress in the past decade. Many core functions such as tax filing and payment are fully digitised in many contexts. The development of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has been key to...
The global expansion of authoritarian rule is witnessing a brand of development that is intensifying processes of social polarisation and growing inequalities. In engaging with these pressing issues of our times, this webinar brings together grassroots activists and development...
*Please note this webinar has been postponed to the New year. Date to be confirmed. By the turn of the millennium, a once marginalised feminist agenda - the prevention of harm to women’s bodily integrity - ultimately succeeded in becoming integrated into a range of powerful norms and...
This seminar will share insights from the POTENCIAR programme about brokering dialogue in adaptive programmes, examining what incentivises collaboration in highly centralised authoritarian contexts and what we are learning about collaborative practices – including why they operate like...
Watch now https://youtu.be/VypXV2DPXL0 As Brazil's 2024 G20 presidency draws to a close, a panel of expert speakers will discuss how much progress has been made on the country’s stated priority areas of fighting poverty, promoting sustainable development and reforming global governance,...
As digitalisation climbs the policy agenda on national, regional, and international stages, tax administrations worldwide are implementing digital reforms and leveraging digitized data. However, ongoing research and policy debate are demonstrating the complexities of implementing effective...
The IDS Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, speaking on ‘Rethinking growth: making economies work for the common good’. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/live/ShK2gORuRsI In a time of rising global inequality, climate and water crises, and health pandemics,...
The rise of ultra-processed foods (UPF) in human diets is harming public and planetary health. The impacts of UPF systems are experienced differently, between and within countries, with implications for social and gender equity, resource (mal)distributions in the food economy, and environmental...
Violence against women and girls remains a global human rights violation, with the UN reporting that almost 1 in 3 women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence. Along with the ever-growing forces catalysing backlash against gender justice worldwide, understanding the reasons,...
An event for the launch of a major new IDS report, Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMvv0_ZChLY Gender and sexual rights are increasingly under threat from a global wave of backlash. This report examines the challenges...
Mariaelena Huambachano's book Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well (2024) provides a comprehensive ethnographic study of the philosophies of well-being, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), and sustainable food systems of the Māori and Quechua...
Social protection features in numerous country policies and development agency strategies, as well as in several Sustainable Development Goals. However, following more than two decades of considerable expansion in policies, programmes, and research, the sector finds itself at a crossroads. In...
