African Digital Rights Network publish first study to compare digital rights landscapes of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Cameroon. In the first study of its kind, researchers in ten African countries have documented 115 examples of...
2 March 2021
In response to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s written statement setting out the findings of the cross-government review of how Official Development Assistance (ODA) will be allocated against the government’s priorities for 2021. Professor Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of...
26 January 2021
As the FDCO publishes its review of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, announced in a statement by the Foreign Secretary, IDS Director Melissa Leach calls for a sustained commitment to ensuring that UK aid remains effective in tackling extreme poverty and supporting the Sustainable...
17 December 2020
In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer announcement today that the UK commitment to spend 0.7 percent of its GNI on overseas development aid is to be reduced to 0.5 percent, Professor Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies, said: “Today’s announcement is...
25 November 2020
Call for young leaders of the future to have courage, empathy and love. The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, called for all countries to go further in addressing the global climate crisis, and to avoid climate setbacks due to Covid-19, as he gave the Institute of Development...
24 November 2020
Commenting on the One Nation Caucus “Global Britain and Development” report on priorities for the UK’s foreign and development policies, Prof Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies said: ‘Since the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the Department for...
12 November 2020
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is working with the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and a group of world leading organisations to develop urgently needed research that will support recovery from Covid-19. The FCDO funded Covid Collective will commission...
10 November 2020
In response to the Royal Society and the British Academy report entitled ‘COVID-19 vaccine deployment: Behaviour, ethics, misinformation and policy strategies’, Professor Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies, said: “Vaccine hesitancy is nothing new, and not specific...
10 November 2020
Ahead of next week’s US presidential elections, the Director of the Institute of Development Studies has issued a ‘wish list’ of the ten priorities in international policy for the new administration to tackle critical global issues – from climate and environmental change to Covid-19...
29 October 2020
A new ground-breaking guide on incontinence, seeking to break taboos and share practical advice for carers and health workers, is published today by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). It also recommends actions needed to tackle incontinence and help achieve the targets of sanitation and...
22 October 2020
Communication with COVID-19 vaccine trial participants and their communities, pre, during and post-trial is key to finding and delivering a successful vaccine, say social scientists from the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP), in a new brief published today. The authors...
8 October 2020
Collective actions against sexual harassment in countries such as Egypt, the Philippines and India, need to be more widely recognised and learnt from to help tackle abuse against women. This is the argument made in a new collection of articles published by the Institute of Development Studies...
30 September 2020
