Opinion

South Africans lose two Nobel Peace Prize laureates in two months

The recent passing of two South African leaders of diametrically opposed backgrounds and character prompts reflection on the complexities and compromises associated with significant political and social change. When Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away on Boxing Day 2021 at the age of 90, the...

Stephen Devereux & 3 others

Learning from 2021 to achieve “equity everywhere” in 2022

There is no doubt that as the world tentatively looks towards 2022, we are at a crossroads. We are still in the midst of a global pandemic, with continued uncertainty. The global community will need to draw on local knowledge and evidence in a rapid and engaged way. This sits at the very core of...

Melissa Leach & 7 others

Three challenges for Ethiopia’s renewable energy procurement programme

Developing countries are increasingly using auctions for the procurement of utility-scale renewable electricity. But countries like Ethiopia face institutional and ideological barriers on this pathway to green energy. More than 100 countries have implemented renewable energy auction programmes...

Wei Shen

Tadesse Kuma Worako

A decade of nutrition policy and political economy research with A4NH

The Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) programme comes to a close at the end of 2021.  Over ten years and two waves of programming, A4NH has catalysed, funded and supported highly impactful research on the links between agriculture, nutrition and health. This important contribution to...

Nicholas Nisbett & 7 others

As Omicron sweeps through Zimbabwe, how are people responding?

Ian Scoones

The Danger of Digitalising Aid

Becky Faith

News from PASTRES: December 2021

Ian Scoones

Inclusive sanitation: empowering marginalised urban Freetown residents

In Freetown, Sierra Leone, sanitation challenges and risks are enormous, complex, and recurring. The risks are multi-layered and city-wide, including flooding, water contamination and the spread of rodents and mosquitoes. The outcomes are more dire for residents of informal settlements, where...

Primary health care for UHC: building, fuelling and tuning the engine

The Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the urgency of achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and the dangers and harms that societies face without health systems that protect everyone. Not only has the pandemic caused a health crisis, including stretching and diverting health and other social...

Tom Barker

China-Africa declaration on climate change: old wine in new bottles? 

China and Africa’s ground-breaking declaration on climate change will profoundly impact China’s future international development strategy. In this blog, IDS Fellow Wei Shen highlights how and what more needs to be done to successfully implement this vision. A ground-breaking joint...

Wei Shen

Learning Guide: Mutual learning for policy impact: Insights from CORE. Adapting research methods in the context of Covid-19

Erica Nelson & 3 others

Zimbabweland is ten years old!

Ian Scoones