Populations around the world are placing their hope in vaccines as a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, but even if lower-income countries can get the doses they need, vaccinating the hardest to reach is a complex challenge that needs to be evidence-informed to be successful. With UK leadership...
19 January 2021
The lived experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic are starkly divided along gender lines, and the pandemic has already exacerbated gender inequalities within the home and in the labour market across countries. To understand the gendered impacts and experiences of the pandemic in urban Pakistan and...
19 January 2021
The lived experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic are starkly divided along gender lines, and the pandemic has already exacerbated gender inequalities within the home and in the labour market across countries. Building on our previous work to understand gender gaps in democratic accountability in...
19 January 2021
Recent global estimates suggest that school closures, unequal access to technology-based educational inputs, and other disruptions caused by the pandemic are likely to result in 'learning loss'. This presents a real fear of increasing school dropout rates, and aggravating existing equity gaps in...
18 January 2021
18 January 2021
15 January 2021
Heritage and culture can be rooted in physical spaces, so when these come under threat or are permanently altered by conflict or climate change, this can have an impact on those intangible rituals and practices which can define communities and secure their survival. In this final blog, part of...
14 January 2021
In May 2019, IDS became the UK Anchor Institution for the China International Development Research Network funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and supported by the Ministry for Commerce, China. The three-year project is enabling researchers to strengthen connections,...
14 January 2021
14 January 2021
Global development is at a turning point. We need to recognise the differences and competition between regions and countries while still promoting development cooperation. Global challenges require global responses and local solutions. In an international environment of increasing tension and...
13 January 2021
Covid-19 has changed the way we do almost everything. There is significant hope this is temporary, but while we continue to live under various lockdowns and restrictions, how can we carry out research that ensures the safety of the participants and researchers above all else? Very little has...
12 January 2021
The protest-turned-riot at the Capitol building in Washington DC on January 6th was shocking and has led to intense soul searching on the state of democracy today. For those that study institutions of governance, the big question is about how these are able to withstand assaults by populist...
11 January 2021
