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COP28: A cautious cheer for Brazil’s return

Brazil’s enthusiastic return to this year’s COP - the UN’s annual climate change conference - is welcome but we should interrogate the motivations of powerful players in the government’s broad-based coalition, including agribusiness. There is a danger that these players encourage the...

Lidia Cabral

Sérgio Sauer

1 December 2023

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Girl advocates in Bangladesh respond to Obama, Clooney and Gates’ child marriage campaign

In my role working with children and young people who have been affected by child marriage, I am evaluating child-led advocacy and reflecting on common narratives around childhood. One such narrative is highlighted in the BBC article ‘Obama, Clooney and Gates ‘We Can End Child...

Helen Veitch

1 December 2023

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Localising aid for urban displacement: Donor views of contested public authority

Municipal authorities often play a vital role to displaced populations in acute and chronic crises as key first providers of support and services. This role was recognised by the World Humanitarian Summit (2016) which set out a ‘localisation’ agenda with an aim to direct greater attention...

Dolf J.H. te Lintelo

30 November 2023

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Partnerships in the UK White Paper: from principles to practice

The recently published International Development White Paper presents a profound and welcome change in tone in comparison to other UK government pronouncements on international development in recent years. There is much food for thought in the background analysis. Many are rightly commenting...

Peter Taylor

Andrea Ordóñez Llanos

30 November 2023

Opinion

Will the UK’s new international development strategy support fairer, more effective taxation?

The UK government's recently published new White Paper on International Development, the first in fourteen years, which sets out its approach to international development until 2030. The new strategy includes a call for fairer and more effective taxation systems which is timely given the recent...

Wilson Prichard & 2 others

29 November 2023

Opinion

Empowered deliberation for responsible digital transformation

Within the recently published UK White Paper on International Development, harnessing digital transformation is highlighted as a core area in international development. The white paper points to the following priorities and focus areas: Digital inclusion and responsible digital...

Caroline Khene

28 November 2023

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Why a focus on climate change and class struggle must be central to debates at COP28

COP28 opens in Dubai later in the week and debates about how to address the climate crisis are in the news. But in the air-conditioned halls of the conference centre there will be little talk of class struggle. Technical solutions dominate – offset markets, carbon capture and alternative...

Ian Scoones

28 November 2023

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COP28: Seeing past ‘blind spots’ on climate change and just transitions

Crisis and hope loom large in discussions around the UN’s COP28 climate conference. Climate change continues to be discussed as a crisis that requires rapid action. Governments around the world have made sweeping pledges to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Meanwhile, businesses and...

Nathan Oxley

Amber Huff

27 November 2023

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Shaping water access through benevolence and solidarity in Tamale, Ghana

Water is essential for life yet is often unavailable to many in acceptable quantities and quality. In Tamale, Ghana, evidence from the Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration reveals the realities of severe deprivation, precarity and struggles that households and communities...

Issahaka Fuseini & 2 others

24 November 2023

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Reframing analysis of ecological dynamics in rangelands of Kenya

A paper that I recently published in the journal Landscape Ecology lays out an approach for integration of social science concepts into analyses of vegetation change in rangelands of Kenya. I intended this paper to open up a reflexive dialogue between social scientists and ecologists working...

Ryan Unks, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

24 November 2023

Opinion

A participatory treasure trove

Here at IDS, on the second floor of the Octagon, is a hidden treasure trove: the Participation Resource Centre (PRC). Full of useful resources on participatory methods and the theory of power and participation, for many years, it was funded, open to the public and photocopies of materials were...

Mariah Cannon & 2 others

20 November 2023

Opinion

The UK’s Global Food Security Summit – what about social protection?

On 20 November the UK government, alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Foundation, will host a Global Food Security Summit to “explore how innovation, partnerships and the latest technological advances can ensure long term food security and improved...

Nicholas Nisbett & 2 others

20 November 2023

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COP28: A cautious cheer for Brazil’s return

Girl advocates in Bangladesh respond to Obama, Clooney and Gates’ child marriage campaign

Localising aid for urban displacement: Donor views of contested public authority

Partnerships in the UK White Paper: from principles to practice

Will the UK’s new international development strategy support fairer, more effective taxation?

Empowered deliberation for responsible digital transformation

Why a focus on climate change and class struggle must be central to debates at COP28

COP28: Seeing past ‘blind spots’ on climate change and just transitions

Shaping water access through benevolence and solidarity in Tamale, Ghana

Reframing analysis of ecological dynamics in rangelands of Kenya

A participatory treasure trove

The UK’s Global Food Security Summit – what about social protection?

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