In this project, IDS designed and delivered a 5-day workshop in Nampula, Mozambique on behalf of the ALIADAS-WVL programme in March 2023. The ALIADAS-WVL programme convenes a network of NGOs working to defend the rights of women and girls across Mozambique, and requested support from IDS to...
This 23-month project seeks to contribute to the reform of the R4D system through a co-produced process of articulating an agenda for change and fostering a community of open dialogue amongst key actors in the R4D space.
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...
In the UK, 50% of people in the most deprived areas report poor health by age 55–59, over two decades earlier than those in the least deprived areas. Health inequalities are avoidable, unfair, and systematic differences in health between different groups of people. Health inequalities exist...
This one-year research project will investigate the scale and impacts of Chinese renewable energy activities in Africa. We will focus on China’s involvement in critical mining activities in relation to the renewable energy and energy storage sectors, including lithium, cobalt, and nickel. We...
The Just Transitions Learning Project will increase voice and power, and support more inclusive and effective advocacy strategies, among marginalised communities and groups affected by energy transitions inhigh-inequality, resource-rich nations of Africa and Latin America.
Education Out Loud (EOL) is a fund for advocacy and social accountability that supports civil society to be active, representative, and influential in shaping education policies to better meet the needs of communities, especially of vulnerable and marginalized populations. EOL’s overall goal...
In response to the 2022 multi-country Mpox outbreak, a six-month ESRC-funded rapid research collaboration between IDS and the University of Ibadan focused on Nigeria: the country with the highest number of recorded Mpox cases in...
How is the digitalisation of social protection affecting workers’ rights and digital rights?
The Sousveillance Project will document the supply chain of digital technologies from the global North used for illegal surveillance in Africa and produce evidence to hold accountable the companies that benefit from violating citizens’ rights.
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...
