It has been another busy year for IDS and our project partners, and an important year for international development. At a time when the world is grappling with a series of dramatic social and political shifts, our work continues to bring important new evidence, insights and engagement to...
19 December 2019
The actions of China’s ‘project of the century’, said to span 67 countries and be worth between eight and nine trillion dollars, will be critical to whether climate change goals and the SDG 2030 deadline – now just ten years away – are to be met. A new IDS Bulletin ‘The Belt and Road...
18 December 2019
The Institute of Development Studies is seeking to appoint a Chair of the Board of Trustees to take up the role following the Board’s meeting in July 2020. This would entail chairing the Board at its next scheduled meeting in December 2020. The role requires an exceptional candidate with...
17 December 2019
Professor Melissa Leach has responded to media reports that the UK’s Conservative party and Prime Minister Boris Johnson are considering merging the Department for International Development (DFID) within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. A joint letter published in the Financial Times on...
13 December 2019
Social enterprises are on the rise and have become a way for both companies and social entrepreneurs to proactively address real world problems by taking matters in to their own hands. In April, IDS alumnus Mamunur Rahman won the 2019 British Council Entrepreneurial Award for his innovation...
12 December 2019
Global progress on gender equality is under threat. We are living in an age where major political and social shifts are resulting in new forces that are visibly pushing back to reverse the many gains made for women’s rights and to shrink civic space. This patriarchal backlash is escalating...
11 December 2019
The Unequal Voices project has produced vibrant policy engagements from the local to the global level, and for its final output, a set of flagship articles synthesising the evidence and insights from São Paulo, Amazonas, Maputo and Zambézia have been published. The latest of which is the Novos...
10 December 2019
Vice President of the Gambia, Isatou Touray has spoken of the critical role that women, young people and social movements played in achieving the country’s non-violent transition from dictator to democracy, as she delivered the Institute of Development Studies Annual Lecture. The lecture...
6 December 2019
Women’s rights activist, IDS alum and now Vice President of The Gambia, Isatou Touray, will deliver the 2019 IDS Annual Lecture on Thursday 5 December. Entitled ‘From dictatorship to democracy: the role of women in politics in The Gambia’ Vice President Touray will explore how The Gambia...
21 November 2019
World Toilet Day, marked on the 19th November, highlights the global sanitation crisis and the action needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which promises sanitation for all by 2030. The need to achieve sustainable sanitation for all is an urgent one: 2.3 billion people still...
18 November 2019
On 16 October 2019, the Rift Valley Forum hosted a discussion of initial findings from the Seeing Conflict at the Margins project, in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, Sussex University) and Friends of Lake Turkana. The forum opened with an introduction to the project,...
15 November 2019
Around 600 participants from governments, academia and businesses across China and internationally gathered together in Beijing to discuss accelerating progress against the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development (Global Goals). The conference also hosted the launch of...
30 October 2019
