What lessons can we learn from using local knowledge in countries like Sierra Leone to combat past epidemics like the Ebola outbreak and the recent Covid-19 pandemic. When an Ebola outbreak swept across West Africa in 2013, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the...
28 June 2024
A new Community of Practice on research and policy in Gender and Tax (CoPGT), whose secretariat is hosted by the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), held its first official general meeting on Thursday, June 20th. The CoPGT is a partnership between the ICTD and the Center...
25 June 2024
IDS researchers are out in force this year presenting at this years Development Studies Association (DSA) conference – the biggest of its kind in Europe – and which takes place at SOAS, London from the 26 to 28 June. The theme of the conference this year is Social justice and development in...
25 June 2024
Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) is hosting a series of online events in July to share some of the exciting highlights from the six year research and innovation programme. It was funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)...
18 June 2024
Children's stories on family violence, health crises, and access to education, in the context of their lives as child labourers, are today brought to life through a new immersive, visual, multi-lingual (English, Bangla and Nepali) platform ‘Hard Labour: A collection of stories about working...
12 June 2024
We are very pleased to announce that IDS PhD researcher Sunisha Neupane -whose research is about Maternity Care in Rural Nepal - is the winner of the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition 2024. Congratulations to Sunisha! The competition is run by the Sussex Researcher School, at our partner...
5 June 2024
During the 25th Annual Sir Arthur Lewis of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) Conference, held at the beginning of May, the University of West Indies (UWI) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) signed a new Memorandum of Understanding. Present to sign the agreement at the opening...
22 May 2024
India is the world’s largest democracy with a population of more than 1.4 billion people. This election, 969 million people are eligible to vote – this number totals over 10 percent of the global population, including 18 million first-time voters. Elections started on 19 April and...
16 May 2024
This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, IDS is highlighting the progress it has made towards making our content, communications, and workplace as accessible as possible to users both within and outside of IDS. We also spoke with two of our recent graduates about their experiences of...
16 May 2024
Gendered disinformation is being used across Africa as a tactic to silence critics and exclude women from online civic discourses, new research shows. A new book ‘Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda’ explores this further. It is written by Nkem...
10 May 2024
Major land sales organised by states and businesses continue to cause problems for rural communities and indigenous groups, a landmark conference in Colombia has found. Over the past 20 years, more than 30 million hectares of agricultural land has been sold off around the world according...
10 May 2024
The ICTD hosted on April 17, 2024 a webinar on ‘Getting Targets Right – How much tax can low-income countries raise?’ with a panel of researchers and practitioners to discuss whether optimistic tax targets are helpful or hurtful and how to make them better.
29 April 2024
