This photographic exhibition tells the story of changing lives and livelihoods in Lokichar, a small town in Turkana County, and surrounding villages that are at the centre of northern Kenya’s oil frontier. This exhibition will be opened by the Labour MP for Kemptown and member of the...
The Impact Initiative is excited to announce its participation in the ESRC Festival of Social Science. 17:00 Round Table Discussion: How can we improve life choices for women? Women and girls are often expected to fulfil roles that limit their ability to make strategic and empowering life...
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human...
How lives and livelihoods change over time and the forces behind those changes is key to understanding Development Economics and addressing the issues of the Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/347562315804569/ In a recently published book “How Lives...
Millions of people passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity, authoritarianism and fear. They reject both corporate capitalism and an elite political system over which they have no control, but they are sceptical of the traditional weapons of the left: seizing state power and...
Abstract Cities, towns and urban areas host a majority of 25 million global refugees. In case of the Syrian civil war, of the 5 million Syrians who have fled the country, 85 per cent settled in and around urban centres. Most Syrians reside in the region, with up to 2 million living in Lebanon...
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Several high-level UN reviews reassert that female peacekeepers enhance operational effectiveness of peacekeeping missions supporting the implementation of protection of civilian mandates. Yet how female uniformed peacekeepers are trained and deployed by Troop Contributing Countries is under...
The Fifth Global Symposium will focus on “Advancing Health Systems for All in the SDG Era” and will facilitate conversations and collaborations on new ways of financing health; delivering services; and engaging the health workforce, new social and political alliances, and new applications...
This seminar discusses the main themes of the recently published IDS Bulletin 49.2, 'Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage'. https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/533322937107254/ The themes this seminar will talk about are: the nature of...
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cP1gEqiNehP89gyctcxW5 The Between the Lines podcast series begins with an interview with international development legend Robert Chambers, on his book ‘Can We Know Better? Reflections for Development.’ Download transcript This podcast is produced...
Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and founding director of UNAids, delivered the IDS Annual Lecture 2018 on ‘Can we end the aids epidemic? The need for a development approach’. Lecture was broadcast live on Facebook. As a result of...
The Government of Ghana, the Institute of Development Studies and the University of Sussex invite you to a Side Event at the UN High-level Political Forum on building on synergies and exploring financing options for effective implementation of the SDGs
