As we enter the decade of delivery for the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development (Global Goals), the transformative change that is needed to make progress against this ambitious framework will only be possible if there is a deeper collective recognition that this is a...
Transformational change requires equitable and sustainable partnerships that generate knowledge, action and leadership that is shaped by a range of perspectives. We are committed to promoting collaborations around research, learning and teaching through the establishment of international...
Together with partners in Brazil, IDS is co-developing a Brazil-centred development research, engagement and mutual learning hub focused on the transformation of Development Studies both in Brazil and with Brazil. The hub builds on more than 50 years' collaborative working with partners in...
Transformational change requires equitable and sustainable partnerships that generate knowledge, action and leadership that is shaped by a range of perspectives. We are committed to promoting collaborations around research, learning, teaching through the establishment of international...
Sharing learning across borders during Covid-19 Brazil, China, Pakistan and the UK are very different countries with quite divergent development histories and trajectories. But Covid-19 has brought them closer together, along with countries around the world, in their need to respond to a common...
11 November 2020
Last week, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and partner organisations in Brazil were due to convene a series of events to bring together leading academics, policy makers, civil society and business leaders from the UK and Brazil to discuss potential collaborations around creating more...
24 March 2020
As the Covid-19 crisis continues to unfold, some wish for a quick return to normality whereas others hope for a chance to build back better. While the crisis has exposed our vulnerability as human beings and the consequences of our unrelenting encroachment into nature, it has also seen prompted...
Today, IDS Director Melissa Leach will join a high-level panel to discuss the future of international development cooperation. The impacts of Covid-19 have thrown global development governance into sharp focus. Many new questions and challenges are emerging. The need for effective development...
27 October 2020
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has established a formal Memorandum of Understanding with two longstanding and valued partners, Anthrologica, and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), to help strengthen global responses to humanitarian crises such as Covid-19,...
28 April 2020