The Al-Khoei Foundation, a founding member of the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), has successfully engaged with religious leaders, teachers, headteachers and local education departments to initiate reforms to religious education in Iraq and address the...
17 September 2020
17 September 2020
Since at least the dawn of the 21st century, there has been growing academic interest and practitioner engagement with cross-sector partnerships for development, especially between private businesses and the public sector. I have also been a contributor to this field. Most recently, this...
17 September 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic and responses to it have triggered a global crisis that extends beyond health impacts to all aspects of life. The pandemic poses a threat to sustainable development and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The impacts of the crisis are harshest for those...
14 September 2020
Emerging evidence suggests that people with disabilities are amongst the groups most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in all aspects of their lives, but more systematic evidence is needed to fully understand how and why this has occurred. To this end, we have conducted narrative interviews with...
14 September 2020
11 September 2020
When the world rebuilds after the Covid-19 crisis, Africa will have a unique challenge to face: bringing its overwhelmingly young workforce into decent, productive, and secure jobs. Africa has the world’s youngest population, a fact that some hope will mean fewer deaths and serious cases,...
10 September 2020
Collaborative work between IDS and Fonkoze has helped improve the wellbeing of Haiti’s women and children and contributed to a global move to pay closer attention to the issue of child-sensitive impacts of development programming. The partnership has strengthened research, programming and...
10 September 2020
10 September 2020
Researching the history and culture of the Shan, the largest ethnic minority group in Myanmar, is possible in UK and US libraries where small well conserved, and cataloged Shan manuscripts are available. Researching in Shan State in Myanmar is more complicated. One can only travel in “safe...
9 September 2020
A month after a Pashtun Sunni teen was lynched by a mob in Hazara Town, Shia Hazara women express their fears from outside the community and within. On 29 May 2020, Bilal Noorzai, a Pashtun teenager, was brutally lynched by a Hazara mob in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. Two of his friends and...
9 September 2020
From the very beginning of the pandemic, we have heard about the effects of Covid-19 or associated restrictions on religious communities. Purim was one of the earliest events disrupted for many congregations this year. It soon became clear, from Shincheonji Church in Korea through to Tablighi...
9 September 2020
