This seminar shares fieldwork conducted in the Pandemic Preparedness Project, presenting findings related to different meanings and practices of preparedness, and contemporary dynamics related to ‘rethinking’ preparedness. We will give a spotlight to fieldwork in Uganda, where the idea...
This event will use the mid-point of the Sustainable Development Goals to take stock of global collaboration on development. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wKHOYrf9I Join us for this important online event, taking place one week ahead of the UN SDG Summit in New York. The...
In this Centre for Social Protection international conference we will discuss and debate the past, present and future roles of social protection as a development policy agenda, at a time of global uncertainty and multiple crises. Themes include social protection policy processes, social...
Join IDS and ARISE for a lunchtime seminar and exhibition of ‘ARISE Kenya Photovoice’ and find out more about our work on health, wellbeing and accountability in the urban informal settlements of Nairobi. The exhibition includes a selection of images produced using Photovoice, a method...
In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, IDS Research Fellow Max Gallien, interviews Elliot D. Green about his book: Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World. Listen now The book and podcast explains how and why ethnicity changes...
North American archives and special collections preserve and create access to cultural heritage materials often perpetuating a colonial and imperialist style of record keeping that can dehumanize underrepresented and marginalized individuals. Today progressive librarians and archivists...
'Dalit Defenders' is a documentary by young German Filmmakers showing the issues of Dalits, the so-called untouchables, who are outside of the caste system. Dalit women are at the bottom of this hierarchy and in rural areas the widespread image of a Dalit woman is one of weakness. But there are...
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...
