SSHAP (the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform) focuses on the social dimensions of emergency responses related to health, conflict, or the environment by exploring the political economy, community engagement and cultural logics, social difference, and vulnerabilities of those...
As part of the our Trust and Governance programme, IDS has partnered up with a team of international researchers from the ISDC, UNU-WIDER, IGZ and University of Konstanz on an exciting and very timely research initiative to collect real time data on the coronavirus and its social and economic...
IDS is working jointly with JUMEME Rural Power Supply Ltd, a pioneering company developing and managing solar PV hybrid mini-grids in Tanzania, and NGO Tanzanian Gender and Sustainable Energy Network (TANGSEN) to implement a business model for off-grid electricity supply that combines financial...
This networking activity convenes research, policy, cultural and community engagement organisations from across Sahelian Francophone West Africa. It seeks to understand whether the arts and cultural activities can act as a mode through which citizen and policy actors can communicate, co-creating...
Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture (ACHA) is a seven-year research programme supported by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) that started in January 2020. The aim of the programme is to build evidence on: the forms, drivers, and experiences of...
Women in South Asia have struggled for many decades to improve their lives within their families, in their communities, for securing their livelihoods and in getting their voices heard as citizens by the state, with women's movements being critical in advancing their rights. However,...
The Navigating Civic Space in a Time of Covid project examined patterns of changing civic space and civic action in Mozambique, Nigeria and Pakistan during the first nine months of the Covid-19 pandemic. How did the pandemic affect already shrinking civic space, particularly for activists and...
This research project is led by Eric Kasper of the cities cluster and funded by Winrock and USAID. Phase one What constitutes successful reintegration for survivors of trafficking in persons (TIP) and what can various stakeholders do to increase the likelihood of successful...
This research and action project will contribute to finding ‘durable solutions’ for housing infrastructural deficits in Turkey, in the context of large scale displacement of Syrian refugees and rapid urbanisation.
In Africa, remote borderland regions are commonly the site of protracted humanitarian crises. These places are formidable “islands of innovation”, where local initiative and skills are combined to generate innovative adaptive responses through multiple shocks. How do these individual and...
This project, undertaken in partnership with UNICEF, explored the main ethical challenges, and corresponding mitigation strategies, in relation to involving children with disabilities in evidence generation. Children with disabilities are defined as individuals under 18 years of age who have...
This project aims to understand how horticultural crop production in low and middle income countries can be resilient to drought, in a way that is equitable for actors involved in and affected by the horticulture industry. Growing high-value horticultural crops for export has been shown to...