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Five-stars for transparency
IDS has been awarded five-stars for transparency in the Transparify 2018 global rating of the financial transparency of major think tanks.
19 July 2018
IDS has been awarded five-stars for transparency in the Transparify 2018 global rating of the financial transparency of major think tanks.
19 July 2018
We're excited to welcome 27 participants from 11 countries to this year’s Transforming Nutrition short course at IDS.
16 July 2018
For student’s looking to start their postgraduate degree in international development and for anyone with an interest in development studies, we have put together a selection of recently published titles that reflect a wide range of themes.
12 July 2018
IDS would like to congratulate Drs Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro for winning the 2018 World Food Prize.
27 June 2018
The GODAN Action project is pleased to re-open applications to their free e-learning course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition.
22 June 2018
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...
11 June 2018
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...
30 May 2018
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.
25 May 2018
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.
22 May 2018
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’.
21 May 2018
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...
17 May 2018
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...
17 May 2018
