Background The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened existing social, health and nutritional inequities and highlighted common challenges facing marginalised and racialised communities in cities across the Global North and South. It has also driven new social innovations and cross-sector...
Promoting Peaceful Pastoralism is an XCEPT, Conciliation resources funded project which examines changes to cross-border pastoral movements on the Uganda/Kenya border, in particular, as a result of environmental change and their implications for peace and security, and uses research findings...
Global progress on gender equality is under threat. We are living in an age where major political and social shifts are resulting in new forces that are visibly pushing back to reverse the many gains made for women’s rights and to shrink civic space. This patriarchal backlash is escalating...
IDS Research fellow Marjoke Oosterom has won an ESRC New Investigators grant to do research on youth and political socialization in the informal economy. Research partners are Tinotenda Chishiri (RAU), Dr. Rekopantswe Mate (University of Zimbabwe) and Simbarashe Gukurume (Great Zimbabwe...