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...
The Pakistan Hub provides focus in a country at the leading edge of development thinking and practice and is centered on a long-term partnership between IDS and the highly regarded Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). It recognises that...
2020 was defined by disruption caused by Covid-19 and its global impacts as well as the departure of the UK from the European Union. Following the decision to leave in 2016 there followed many thousands of hours of negotiation between governments which ended at the very last minute with a...
6 January 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated vulnerabilities and inequalities worldwide. An estimated 246 million children are missing out on the school meals they rely on and 49 million people are expected to fall into poverty globally during the course of this year. While the crisis has exposed the...
11 December 2020
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
Youth Employment and Politics Seminars
In this webinar, distinguished panellists will discuss the content and policy implications of two publications about rural youth in Africa. The book ‘Hard work and Hazard. Youth and the rural economy in Africa’ edited by Dr. James Sumberg, is based on a multi-country, mixed-methods research...
Youth Employment and Politics Seminars
This webinar will connect higher-level policy debates on the securitization of the youth peacebuilding agenda to debates on youth engagement with local-level armed conflict, insecurity, and destruction of heritage. Speakers will discuss global policies and give focused case studies of Syria and...
Youth Employment and Politics Seminars
This webinar will focus on young people’s civic and political action before and during the pandemic, connecting this to debates on civic space. In various countries, lockdowns were accompanied by state violence. The webinar will be relevant for academics, policy makers and practitioners...
Youth Employment and Politics Seminars
In May 2020, the ILO estimated that already 1 out of 6 young people had lost her/his job due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with young women more affected than young men. The pandemic has amplified youth vulnerabilities in the world of work. This webinar will focus on critical issues in the debate...