Former IDS Director wins prestigious World Food Prize 2018
IDS would like to congratulate Drs Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro for winning the 2018 World Food Prize.
IDS would like to congratulate Drs Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro for winning the 2018 World Food Prize.
The GODAN Action project is pleased to re-open applications to their free e-learning course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition.
Launched today in partnership between the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a new online platform, the Epidemic Response Anthropology Platform (ERAP2), building on the success of the award-winning work of the original Ebola...
A new film showcases why it’s so important to understand the impact of intersecting inequalities on people’s lives and the relevance of this for achieving all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With stories from Egypt, Ghana, India, South Africa and Uganda, the film reflects on what...
Launched today, the Global Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI-Global) and HANCI-Africa show that the Tanzanian and Sudanese Governments, alongside many other countries are putting in place important efforts address hunger and undernutrition.
A Sussex Development Lecture series, convened senior humanitarian and development leaders, practitioners and academics, to cast a critical light on the shifting relationships between humanitarian aid and development, exploring how they can work better together.
With nearly two million people newly infected with HIV in 2016 and one million AIDS-related deaths in the same year, the end of AIDS remains elusive. Professor Peter Piot, will deliver the IDS Annual Lecture 2018 on ‘Can we end the aids epidemic? The need for a development approach’.
Across the world millions of adults and children are caught in the modern slavery trap of bonded labour – forced to work under terrible conditions to pay off debt owed to moneylenders. A new briefing provides insight into appropriate policy interventions and future directions for research in...
This is a call for papers for a special issue of the IDS Bulletin which will be looking at how accountability for addressing sexual harassment actually works on the ground. This call is open to scholars, practitioners, policy experts and activists, and we welcome contributions from around the...
Syrian refugees prevented legal residency by complex bureaucracy and prohibitive costs are struggling in poor, makeshift housing not officially recognised by the Lebanese authorities. This ‘illegal’ living is taking its toll on both Syrian refugees and the local Lebanese communities living...
To mark the launch of the new IDS Bulletin on Accountability for Health Equity, and to consider the key learning and implications for actions to achieve Universal Health Coverage, UHC2030 and IDS announce a new webinar on 17 May.
IDS and the University of the West Indies - Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) - have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the University’s annual conference on ‘Sustainable Futures for the Caribbean: Critical interventions and the 2030...