Opinion

New workbook shares archiving practices vital for preserving community heritage

In a context were religious minorities and communities are at risk of violent and systematic targeting or climate change impact, the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) programme is working with young people in the Middle East to document and archive their...

Sofya Shahab

James Baker

Imposing Standards: Lessons from tax history about the ‘global tax deal’

Martin Hearson

Speaking youth to power at COP26

COP26: Two worlds talked past each other – or never even met

Ian Scoones

Philanthropy and academic research in West Africa

Partners from the Ghana Development Studies Hub convened by IDS co-hosted a webinar with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research at the University for Development Studies, Ghana, on ‘Exploring the Role of Philanthropy in Development Research’. It aimed to explore the connections...

Imogen Bellwood-Howard

Eme Iniekung

‘Education is freedom’ – turning the rhetoric of inclusion into action

Paulo Freire is often quoted as saying education is freedom. Education in general has changed drastically in the 100 years since he was born, yet questions remain as to whether these changes are moving us all closer to the freedom that Freire envisaged or whether some people continue to be left...

Stephen Thompson

PASTRES at COP26

Ian Scoones

The World Bank and IMF are using flawed logic in their quest to do away with the informal sector

Max Gallien & 2 others

COP26: why a more sophisticated debate on livestock and the climate is needed

Ian Scoones

COP26: Let’s talk about social assistance in protracted crises

If the global pandemic has taught us anything, it is that crises will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. This is no truer than in the context of climate change. As global leaders take part in the COP26 Global Climate Summit, finance, energy transitions, burden-sharing, and resilience are some...

Lars Otto Naess

Carolina Holland-Szyp

Policing environmental injustice – embracing abolition

Environmental justice (EJ) is a central concept to much community organising against destructive extractive and infrastructure projects and polluting industries. In recent years, abolitionist campaigns that seek to reduce or eliminate policing and related institutions and practices have become...

An uncomfortable truth? Religious diversity reality in most humanitarian settings

What's the best way to include religious diversity in humanitarian settings? Olivia Wilkinson and Jennifer Philippa Eggert, of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI), share insights on their new working paper co-published by JLI and the IDS-led Coalition for Religious...