International development and global humanitarian assistance has been uprooted at the beginning of 2025 due to a series of budget cuts announced to Official Development Assistance (ODA). Most notably, the USAID funding freeze caused shockwaves around the world, removing life-saving…
In September 2024, four members of IDS will be attending the Global Evidence Summit (GES) in Prague, and will be engaged in conversations about how best to translate and share evidence and knowledge for global public good. This year’s theme…
The UK general election is being held on the 4 July 2024 and soon after a new government will be formed. The rise of AI technologies, trade negotiations, global taxation, poverty and inequalities, and conflict and humanitarian crises – not…
Over the past five years, colleagues from the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – a joint initiative between the Institute of Development Studies, Itad and University of East Anglia – have been innovating with and learning how to use Contribution…