An independent impact evaluation of a Millennium Villages Project (MVP) covering 35 villages in Northern Ghana was led by Itad in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and Participatory Development Associates Ghana (PDA Ghana). The Millennium Villages in Northern Ghana...
14 October 2018
In a speech at the UN General Assembly, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Secretary of State Penny Mordaunt MP will announce a range of new initiatives that will improve understanding of the factors that drive modern slavery and the worst forms of child labour and develop...
24 September 2018
IDS researcher Mary Wickenden welcomes new UK government initiatives to help improve the economic opportunities as well as health and education outcomes for people with disabilities living in low and middle-income countries.
24 July 2018
Response from Professor Melissa Leach to the Development Initiatives Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018 showing a stagnation in humanitarian spending and a reliance on few government donors.
19 June 2018
Syrian refugees prevented legal residency by complex bureaucracy and prohibitive costs are struggling in poor, makeshift housing not officially recognised by the Lebanese authorities. This ‘illegal’ living is taking its toll on both Syrian refugees and the local Lebanese communities living...
4 May 2018
Statement from IDS Director, Melissa Leach, in response to the new UK Labour Party policy paper.
26 March 2018
Legislating 18 as a minimum age for marriage ignores the reality of why many young girls marry. Ahead of the 62nd Commission for the Status of Women (CSW62) meeting in New York, research from a leading UK university indicates that marriage practices, conditions of poverty and limited prospects...
19 March 2018
National and local level women’s economic empowerment initiatives in developing countries are failing to capture the full physical, emotional and economic costs to women of balancing paid work with unpaid care duties. Research by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) finds that unless...
26 February 2018
Leading UK anthropologist and social/interdisciplinary scientist Professor Melissa Leach will present at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), February 15 – 19, 2018.
15 February 2018
For immediate release, Friday 2 February, 2018 The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has been ranked second out of 132 international development think tanks in the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, moving up two places from it’s ranking in the 2016 index. The Institute has also...
2 February 2018
The Institute of Development Studies is calling on world leaders to urgently address how decent work for all – an agreed UN Global Goal – will be achieved by 2030, amid the threat that digital technologies will cause mass future job losses around the world.
20 September 2017
Launch of the Ethiopian Tax Research Network September 20th 9am – 5pm at the Capital Hotel, Addis Ababa Following the third international Financing for Development Conference, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The first action area, outlined...
20 September 2017
