A new issue of the IDS Bulletin, Knowledge in Times of Crisis: Transforming research to policy approaches, provides unique insights from a diverse group of Southern research organisations belonging to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) supported, Covid-19 Responses for Equity...
Revenue administrations have recently been investing significant efforts into registering a large number of new taxpayers, in the broader quest to formalise the informal sector. But have these efforts been effective in increasing revenue and improving administration? The ICTD hosted a webinar...
Karuna Nundy’s IDS Annual Lecture is entitled ‘Gender, Justice and Joy: Legal travels through the patriarchy, suppressed speech and corporate crime’. She reflects on how patriarchal laws have travelled across the globe alongside colonialism, how women’s activism comes into conflict with...
The eradication of poverty has traditionally relied on growing the economy, combined with redistribution: GDP growth, in this approach, is essential to the fight against poverty, a condition for financing public services and social policies. Watch...
In this Sussex Development Lecture, Mohammed Abu-Nimer will share his research and practice on questions - and issues related to advancing reconciliation and forgiveness in the Arab region, as a pathway to building peace and sustainable development in conflict areas.
Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing...
Join us to hear from special guest speaker, IDS Alumni, Roy Trivedy, who has over 30 years of international development experience, working in a variety of managerial and advisory roles for government and NGOs in Southern and Eastern Africa, South Asia and the UK.
Seven stories about living with uncertainty What are you uncertain about? If you can’t control or predict the future, how can you prepare for it? Uncertainty can be scary, but can it also be a source of hope or opportunity? In this exhibition, visitors are invited to explore seven...
A new study by IDS and OTT claims the fields concerned with the theories and practice of knowledge translation are highly fragmented, too focused on the global North and fail to engage adequately with Southern perspectives on structural power, equity and evidence use. It promotes the central...
In this Sussex Development Lecture, cultural activist Ganesh Devy, best known for the People's Linguistic Survey of India, will discuss three democratic popular movements in India, which have impacted Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and History over the last three decades.
Access to water and decent sanitation service is a human right. However, its realisation has always been fraught with challenges which are likely to be magnified as structural injustices intersect with the impacts of the climate crisis. We see this, for instance, with extreme weather events...
A conversation with Prof Dirk-Jan Koch on his new book Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJW_h2cktNs This seminar will take the form of a public conversation with Dirk-Jan Koch about his new book Foreign Aid and its Unintended...
