Conflict-induced hunger has been increasingly highlighted at a global level and prioritised as a key issue within crisis-affected contexts. InterAction and its partners are undertaking a multi-country action-based research study that includes helping organisations analyse the protection risks in...
As a part of the Afghanistan Strategic Learning Initiative, IDS led a workshop exploring needs and vulnerability in Afghanistan. Leveraging the collective knowledge and experience of leading global think tanks working on Afghanistan and aid issues, the resulting report will be based on analysis...
The intersection of protracted conflict and displacement with recurring climate shocks, alongside the shifting nature of humanitarian responses, presents multiple challenges for how to provide social assistance more effectively in protracted crises. BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) Research...
The protection of civilians is a fundamental principle in humanitarian policy and practice, and continues to be a priority for many humanitarian organisations. While protection strategies have traditionally been top-down, reactive, and often militaristic, recent approaches have increasingly...
On the 25 November, the annual international campaign of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence has begun. The UK is also hosting the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) conference where it will look at how to strengthen the global response to Conflict-Related...
29 November 2022
In 1994, at the age of six years old, Clemantine Wamariya fled Rwanda and spent the next six years moving to the next ‘safer’ country. By the age of twelve, Clemantine had travelled through seven African countries until she was granted refugee status in the United States. Clemantine was...
4 February 2020
World Refugee Day is a stark reminder that the international community and humanitarian agencies need to do much more to protect the most vulnerable groups, as Tina Nelis and Brigitte Rohwerder from the Humanitarian Learning Centre in their blog post.
20 June 2018
This Theory of Change (TOC) document looks at each of the relevant strategic outcomes from the 2018 CSP in turn (temporarily rolled over as a result of the uncertainty) and proposes theoretical ways in which the interventions can be best aligned with medium- to longer-term goals.
11 October 2022
This short note sets out the likely medium-term policy framework and some considerations for WFP in navigating its desire not to entirely neglect development and peace aspects in Afghanistan despite the severity of the humanitarian situation.
11 October 2022
This paper draws on a series of events under the Afghanistan Strategic Learning Initiative (ASLI). Between December 2021 and February 2022, ASLI convened four workshops led by each of the partner organisations in turn, which brought together senior leaders, decision-makers, experts, researchers...
24 May 2022
IDS Working Paper 563
This paper examines the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus in a humanitarian context, with a specific focus on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). It highlights the complex and non-linear interactions that WASH has with other areas of the WEF nexus.
17 February 2022
Cities have a distinctive role in development processes: they are focal points for economic growth, jobs and innovation but also for poverty, inequality, vulnerability and conflict. Although we can learn from historical processes of urbanisation, there are many new development elements...
IDS has pioneered approaches to linking up the supply of inclusive research with the demand for evidence from governments, donors, international development agencies, and civil society. It has also helped shape the concept of the politics of knowledge and current understandings of the...
In their new report, the Humanitarian Learning Centre (HLC) calls for the global community to heed the lessons of the past and hold those who use famine as a weapon of war to account for their actions, by revising international law to reflect such atrocities.
6 September 2017
The inaugural Digital Development Summit will explore the pressing challenge of how to ensure decent work for all in a rapidly digitising world.