With just one week to go until applications close for our online policy course, here's a spotlight on our guest speakers, course content and organisation training package this April 2023.
For the seventh consecutive year, the University of Sussex together with the Institute of Development Studies has been ranked as the best in the world for Development Studies, in the QS World University Rankings. The QS World University Rankings by Subject are compiled annually to help...
22 March 2023
From the loss of a parent to family financial problems and addiction - through participatory research children reveal what led them to harmful work in Kathmandu’s Adult Entertainment Sector. In the largest study of its kind, 400 children’s life stories were collected and then analysed by...
16 March 2023
Belsti, Merhatsedik and Hailemariam live in Gojjam, northwestern Ethiopia. They share a similar agony: at night, a constant itch that overwhelms them; in the day, widespread rashes and sores that lead them to be insulted and ignored by people around them. Many people affected by scabies –...
15 March 2023
Global health leaders must look beyond technological solutions says a new report published today by the Institute of Development Studies. Three years on from the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic, experts are warning the global health community to think beyond vaccines and lockdowns,...
10 March 2023
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) is launching the next phase of its Fellowship Programme to begin in May 2023. Funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Wellcome Trust, SSHAP is looking for future leaders in social science to be able apply...
27 February 2023
IDS has launched a new organisational training package for its Shaping Policy with Evidence short course running from April to May 2023. Institutions and programmes seeking to enhance their production and use of evidence can now apply for a follow up workshop to the popular live online course...
26 February 2023
Across the arid landscape of northern Kenya, roadside signs proclaim projects aimed at creating “resilience” among pastoralist communities. This is a region where frequent droughts, animal disease, insecurity and structural exclusion all affect pastoral livelihoods.
When many people make grand proclamations about Zimbabwe’s land reform, there is often very little specificity – both of where and when they are talking about. For the post-2000 land reform is not an event, but a process – with both a prehistory going back to the colonial era and a future...
21 March 2023
The United Nations 2023 Water Conference takes place in New York this week, nearly five decades after the first conference in 1977. That first conference sought to avoid a global water crisis by the year 2000 and produced the Mar del Plata Action Plan - much of which remains relevant to this...
21 March 2023
“The world is on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” This was the opening statement from António Guterres, the UN Secretary General at COP27. There is no denying that the issue of climate change requires immediate action, but do proclamations such as this lead to...
21 March 2023
There must be a unified water movement if we are to avoid the global water crisis getting far worse. The 2023 UN Water Conference in New York City is our opportunity to reimagine a new form of global collective action – but it’s taken 46 years of waiting to get here. ‘We will need a more...
20 March 2023
New digital platforms for citizens' initiatives, such as Decidim, are becoming more popular. Adrian Smith and Pedro Prieto Martín argue that the technology itself should also be developed in a democratic way, thereby ensuring such instruments can establish themselves as tools for democracy in...
17 March 2023
The failures of development policies in pastoral areas are well known. But what are the alternatives? How can we shift the narrative – of both the diagnosis of the problems and the definition of the solutions?
17 March 2023