Eleven million fewer women than men voted in the 2018 Pakistan elections. A gender gap in political participation is common in many democracies around the world. To tackle this, many policy interventions focus on increasing participation through educational programmes providing information and...
13 June 2022
BASIC Research, with socialprotection.org, is delivering an e-discussion series in June on social assistance in crises contexts.
1 June 2022
Many sustainability problems are serious and require urgent attention, but what to do about them is not always clear. The ESRC STEPS Centre’s new Methods portal includes a wealth of examples, case studies and resources to help guide researchers and others in using methods for pathways to...
1 June 2022
For more than 30 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 31 May as World No Tobacco Day, which aims to inform the public of the danger of using tobacco, the leading preventable cause of death in the world. On this day, we’re pleased to share with you our new website Taxing...
31 May 2022
Last week it was reported by the world’s largest credit rating agencies that Sri Lanka had defaulted on its national debt. This follows weeks of mounting protests by citizens against the Government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the country and its population of almost 23 million...
25 May 2022
In this new episode of the IDS podcast Between the Lines, BBC journalist Sana Safi interviews Max Gallien, Research Fellow, IDS and Florian Weigand, co-director at the Centre for the Study of Armed Groups at ODI and research associate at LSE about their book: The Routledge Handbook of...
25 May 2022
New research reveals that young female workers (aged 18 to 24) in Bangladesh often experience sexual harassment at work, but their concerns about it are going ignored. Most do not dare to challenge men when witnessing or experiencing sexual harassment because of feelings of shame, and a lack of...
24 May 2022
Refugees and migrants globally are missing out on Covid-19 vaccines due to supply shortages, exclusionary policies and anti-migrant sentiment, according to new research published by the Institute of Development Studies. Despite many countries having legal provisions in place mandating equal...
19 May 2022
A devastating heatwave affecting South Asia over the past two months has persisted into this week, with temperatures in parts of Delhi hitting a record 49.2 degrees Celsius over the weekend. From as early as March this year daytime temperatures have frequently passed the 40 degrees Celsius mark...
16 May 2022
The UK’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has today announced the long-awaited Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) new International Development Strategy. The strategy sets out the Government’s future approach to international development, prioritising investment...
16 May 2022
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) - a partnership between the Institute of Development Studies, Anthrologica, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - has announced the third cohort of its SSHAP Fellowship. The Fellowship, which will run between May 2022...
3 May 2022
The unprecedented threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a crisis for the international humanitarian system. At a time when the number of people in need of assistance has drastically expanded, humanitarian funding has been cut as countries focus on their domestic economies....
2 May 2022
