Opinion

The invisibility of women’s faces in religious freedom-promoting high places

What accounts for the invisibility of women in high-level policy spaces on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB)? Here we tell the story through photos. Let's start with a game: spot the woman in the photo. If a picture can be worth a thousand statistics, then this image below from the...

Mariz Tadros

The politics of medium-scale A2 farms in Zimbabwe

Ian Scoones

Strategies to challenge backlash against women’s rights in South Asia

Even as International Women’s day (IWD) – a global day to celebrate women’s achievements - is upon us in 2021, the struggle for gender parity continues across our world, with its increasing and multiple contradictions and fissures. On the one hand, Covid-19 has blurred the boundaries...

Deepta Chopra

Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: priorities for pastoralists

Michele Nori

Conflict is the new ‘hazard’ on the social protection block

There has never been a more important moment to understand how to work with and help the most vulnerable people cope better with global shocks and crises. The global pandemic has shown how fragile our systems, communities and countries are – even in richer countries. The current status quo of...

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler & 13 others

Child poverty in the UK: learning from international experience

How should child poverty in the UK be defined? And how should it be measured? These are questions being considered by the UK Parliament’s cross-party Work and Pensions Committee in their inquiry ‘Children in poverty: Measurement and targets’. Over the course of the next few weeks, the...

Keetie Roelen

Digital rights in closing civic space: lessons from ten African countries

The publication of Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space by the African Digital Rights Network is the first comprehensive analysis of the range of digital technologies and tactics being used across Africa by citizens to open democratic space online and by governments to close it down. According...

Tony Roberts

Post-pandemic transformations: new directions for development studies?

Does the pandemic reveal new directions for development studies? This was the focus of discussion at a recent IDS seminar. A new paper in World Development on ‘post-pandemic transformations’ by a group of us at IDS was the starting point. Although the pandemic is far from over, some...

Melissa Leach & 2 others

Cross-pollinating pastoral studies with wider agrarian questions

Linda Pappagallo

Empowering meaningful community engagement and involvement in global health research

Erica Nelson & 5 others

Covid vaccine passports – balancing rights vs recovery

The global focus on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has  shifted attention to vaccines: their availability, roll-out, and take-up. Distribution is complex with this recent IDS article reflecting on the significant inequalities and inequities associated with who actually gets the vaccine,...

Peter Taylor

Remote research and disability inclusion during the pandemic

Covid-19 has brought with it a host of changes for development researchers. In many cases, fieldwork has been replaced with remote research methods, ranging from third party data collection to phone interviews and SMS surveys. Whilst remote methods are improving, there are some clear gaps in the...