Opinion

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

Photo Exhibition: Pastoralism in an Uncertain World

Ian Scoones

By banning ‘gender ideology’ Bolsonaro feeds his far-right ideals

Crisis climatica y nuevo paradigma tecno-economica

Anabel Marín

Exploring how people with disabilities have experienced the Covid-19 crisis

There was great concern at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic about the consequences of such an unprecedented global crisis on people with disabilities; particularly on people with disabilities in low- and middle-income settings. The Disability Research team at IDS wanted to explore whether and...

Stephen Thompson & 2 others

Why COP26 failed on fossil fuels

For the first time at a key climate summit, the F word got a mention in the final text: fossil fuels. Yet even then, extensive lobbying ended with the word fossil fuels being prefaced with ‘inefficient’, leaving scope for generous interpretation, and only ‘unabated’ coal is to be...

El Progresismo en el Laberinto Del Desarrollo

Anabel Marín

Why is there vaccine inequity when there is plenty to go around?

Governments and institutions in developed countries continue to prioritise their own populations, and perversely, the profits of northern-based pharmaceutical firms over the imperative of ensuring life-saving COVID-19 vaccine access to everyone everywhere. This is not only a matter of gross...

Tabitha Hrynick