This project aims to understand how livestock and agricultural commercialisation policy in Africa can be better connected to research on the food cultures of agropastoralist people. In both East and West Africa, agro/pastoralism is an important livelihood and ethnoprofessional activity....
As African countries experience rapid urbanisation, there is a need to ensure that this process is well managed, and underpinned by strong public policy and social governance, to support economic development and social welfare. China has much to share from its experience of rapid...
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it has become clear that we require systemic change across societies, and that as a consequence we need transformational pathways of development. This in turn requires knowledge that is transformative, both in terms of its focus, and how it...
EFFECT – Ecosystems For Futuristic Entrepreneurship through Collaboration and Technology EFFECT aims to explore opportunities and challenges for furthering knowledge economies through trade partnerships that enable ecosystems for entrepreneurship. The project will examine the topics of...
POTENCIAR is a programme focused on addressing accountability and governance issues undermining the delivery of basic services in Mozambique. The programme takes an innovative research-led and knowledge-centred adaptive approach to achieving inclusive development outcomes via a series of...
This collaboration between IDS, the National Council for People with Disabilities and the Human Sciences Research Council (in South Africa) focuses on the experiences of South Africans with disabilities during Covid-19, particularly in relation to the different levels of lockdown. The research...
This knowledge translation project aimed to increase the visibility, support and uptake of research generated by IDRC’s cohort of CORE research projects, to foster evidence-based policymaking for response to and recovery from the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19.
The Covid Collective Research Platform will offer a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing Covid-19 related development challenges.
IDS, Karen Snyder and our partners, aim to improve the knowledge base on TIP, identify what works in reducing human trafficking, and improving service delivery to trafficking survivors and people at risk of being trafficked.
Many countries in Africa are experiencing a closing of civic space. This network brings together activists, analysts and researchers from seven African countries.
From patients accessing health services through telemedicine to school children only being able to attend classes through remote learning, the rapid digitization of services and activities across social and economic life during the COVID-19 pandemic (especially in its early months) has provided...
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...
