A group of IDS and SPRU students have been awarded a cash investment to develop a sustainable behaviour and gamification project that will help the University of Sussex to realise it’s Sustainable Sussex strategy. The Pitch for the Planet event was held on 27 July at the Attenborough...
27 August 2021
Architecture students from Umeå University (Sweden) and Yaşar University (Turkey) have collaborated with Syrian refugees and low-income Turkish residents to create community-focused architectural designs in İzmir, Turkey. The collaboration is part of the interdisciplinary “Wellbeing,...
23 August 2021
The speed of the Taliban takeover of Kabul has shocked people globally, as have the scenes that followed, with many citizens desperately trying to access the airport and leave the country. At the Institute of Development Studies, we share this shock and concern for citizens across Afghanistan....
19 August 2021
The ICTD is very pleased to announce that Dr Waziona Ligomeka has been appointed to the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters for the 2021-2025 term. The committee fosters international cooperation on domestic and international tax matters, working...
18 August 2021
The Director of the Institute of Development Studies is calling on the UK Government to provide urgent support for those from Afghanistan due to take up their places as students in the UK after being offered a Chevening Scholarship, and supported a letter from the University of Sussex Vice...
16 August 2021
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the UN body responsible for climate science – has published the first of its three-part 6th Assessment Report (AR6). This landmark report comes at a crucial time as world leaders look ahead to the climate conference COP26 in Glasgow in...
9 August 2021
For student’s looking to start their postgraduate degree in international development this autumn and for anyone with an interest in development studies, we have put together a selection of recently published titles from IDS that reflect a wide range of themes.
5 August 2021
Two new members have recently been appointed to the advisory board of the ICTD’s Nigerian Tax Research Network (NTRN). Ms Amina Ado and Dr Oyebola Okunogbe, who bring specialised expertise to the table, have joined Mrs Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, MFR, the Chair of the advisory board, and...
5 August 2021
Jose Antonio Ocampo and Tamsyn Barton, both internationally respected leaders in their fields of international development, have been appointed to the Board of Trustees for IDS. José Antonio Ocampo is an internationally recognised economist and expert in global economic governance and Latin...
2 August 2021
On World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) is sharing new evidence on how social, political and economic marginalisation as well as physical and psychological violence resulting from religious inequalities can feed...
30 July 2021
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