The Sanitation Learning Hub’s latest Frontiers of Sanitation edition shares key lessons learnt from government sanitation campaigns around the world, including India, China, Nigeria, Vietnam and Zambia. It is a vital learning resource for ongoing and future government campaigns aiming to end...
28 July 2021
Children as young as seven years old are working in thousands of small businesses across Bangladesh's leather sector, new research has found. Based on observations of over 150 children working 12-14 hour days, six days a week, it showed they are exposed to dangerous chemicals and at risk of...
16 July 2021
The UK's House of Commons held a vote today (Tuesday 13 July) in which the majority of MPs voted in favour of supporting the Government decision to reduce the UK's aid budget from 0.7 percent of national income to 0.5 percent. Earlier today the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, set...
13 July 2021
IDS alum, Dr Paul Howe will assume leadership of the Feinstein International Centre on 1 September 2021. Howe graduated from IDS with a PhD by Research in Development Studies in 2004. His PhD thesis was on famine in southern Sudan. He was supervised by IDS Fellow Stephen Devereux. Stephen...
13 July 2021
Experts are calling for national level policy reforms to protect the food and livelihood security of those hardest hit by Covid-19 – women and workers in the informal economies of low- and middle-income countries. This includes jobs such as street sellers, market traders and domestic workers....
13 July 2021
Despite warnings of rising Covid-19 infections in February, India’s national government failed to prepare for a second wave and allowed mass gatherings that went on to cause a sharp surge in cases and high death rate across the population. The pandemic also revealed systemic deficiencies and...
2 July 2021
The UK parliamentary International Development Committee heard evidence on Tuesday (29 June) from Professor Mariz Tadros on the situation for religious minorities in Pakistan, as part of the Committees’ inquiry on UK aid to Pakistan. In her role as Director of the IDS-based Coalition for...
30 June 2021
In the latest episode of IDS' podcast Between the Lines, IDS Fellow Shandana Mohmand interviews Adam Auerbach, author of the book: Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums. Listen now The book draws on more than two years of fieldwork in the...
30 June 2021
The independent UK aid watchdog ICAI has rated the government’s response to its latest recommendations to improve aid effectiveness and value for money as inadequate, as well as expressing concern regarding FCDO’s lack of transparency. The criticism was made in a follow-up review published...
23 June 2021
Next month, IDS researchers will attend the EADI ISS Conference 2021: Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice. The event brings together world-class researchers and practitioners working on peace and justice to debate critical issues, share insights, exchange ideas and network. Together we hope...
22 June 2021
The IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equalities and Inclusive Development (CREID) is launching a new programme website which shares over 200 resources including news, views, videos, podcasts and publications generated by the programme since its launch in 2018. Until today, CREID resources were...
17 June 2021
The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), which is based at the Institute of Development Studies, is now accepting applications to the ‘Research on Tax and Development’ course. This course is part of the ICTD’s commitment to build research and analysis capacity on tax and...
15 June 2021
