Opinion

Two developments for South-South trade and investments post Covid-19

Between 2000 to 2016, countries of the global South, in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, have seen their collective share of world GDP rise from 28% to 40.6 per cent According to UNCTAD’s 2018 World Investment Report, alongside South-South trade volumes have seen sharp increase...

Mateusz Bratek & 2 others

Fundamental Changes Needed at UN Summit to Tackle Global Food Insecurity

Nicholas Nisbett & 2 others

No ‘green bullet’ – should carbon taxes be introduced in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Giovanni Occhiali

Charles Lawrie

Challenging simplistic land degradation and restoration narratives in Zimbabwe

Ian Scoones

Moving beyond the US-Taliban narrative for Afghanistan

Since the heart-breaking events in Afghanistan unfolded and the Taliban took over the political capital Kabul, the media, political figures and many security experts have been forming opinions about the current situation in the country. A majority of those commenting have agreed on two points -...

Scared and hiding: Shi’a Hazaras of Afghanistan fear renewed Taliban persecution

With a long history of persecution and the Taliban's particular brand of hatred and ruthless violence towards them in previous years, Shi'a Hazaras in Afghanistan are fearing for their lives and have gone into hiding. Maryam Kanwer and Jaffer Mirza working the IDS-led Coalition for Religious...

Maryam Kanwer

Jaffer A. Mirza

Finding and using causal hotspots: a practice in the making

This is the second blog in our series ‘Lessons on using Contribution Analysis for impact evaluation’. In our first blog, we introduced Contribution Analysis (CA) as an overarching approach to theory-based evaluation and the idea of causal hotpots as a way to zoom in, unpack and make the hard...

Marina Apgar

Mieke Snijder

Forcibly displaced persons’ socio-economic crises during the pandemic

Brigitte Rohwerder

Challenging negative views of pastoralism in Europe: Q&A with Fernando García-Dory

Ian Scoones

Learning through and about Contribution Analysis for impact evaluation

Over the past five years, colleagues from the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – a joint initiative between the Institute of Development Studies, Itad and University of East Anglia - have been innovating with and learning how to use Contribution Analysis as an overarching approach to impact...

Marina Apgar

Giel Ton

Tree planting schemes can destroy rangelands and damage pastoral livelihoods

Ian Scoones

What works for successful learning processes?

The UK Aid sector has faced unprecedented challenges over the last 18 months due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, reduction in funding, and shake up of the politics and policy driving development. Constant throughout all the debates and changes has been the importance of quality evidence...

Paul Knipe