This week the Matasa Fellows Network is launching a call for young African researchers to apply to become a fellow. The chosen theme of this year’s fellowship is Youth Employment and Private Sector Growth in Africa.
7 November 2017
A global backlash against women’s rights is on the rise. Women’s movements have pushed long and hard for women’s rights to be enshrined in international policy frameworks, and the current global political landscape risks a serious regression on progress made.
6 November 2017
New research reveals the imagined futures of Zimbabwe's youth.
6 November 2017
"What is the unrepresented past within our present?", we are prompted to ask, and how does addressing that affect our understandings of the modern world and who we are as its legitimate citizens?
2 November 2017
Reflections on the tensions between the global ambitions of the New Urban Agenda and SDGs, and local decision-making processes in shaping the future of our cities.
30 October 2017
The importance of bottom up movements in providing disaster assistance in Puerto Rico, in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
26 October 2017
Last month’s devastating earthquake in Mexico City highlights a dire need to escalate the fight against corruption. IDS's Beatriz Aguirre Martinez explains why.
26 October 2017
Drawing from his remarks at the final plenary of the fifth BRICS Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies conference, Ian Scoones outlines the challenges for agrarian studies in confronting authoritarian populism.
23 October 2017
IDS’s Hadeer El Shafie explains why and how we must challenge orthodox approaches to homelessness
19 October 2017
Having grown in popularity in recent years youth savings groups are promoted as an ideal way to promote financial inclusion in Africa, particularly among young people. Yet, are the assumptions that underpins these groups correct?
18 October 2017
Globally, an estimated 40.3 million adults and children are trapped in modern slavery. Could automation liberate millions from the horrors of breaking stones by hand, embroidering handkerchiefs, picking and cleaning cotton, or painting plastic bangles?
18 October 2017
Reflections on the current status of UN-Habitat and how we might move towards a more effective approach to urban work in the UN and beyond.
17 October 2017
