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...
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,...
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 is an integrated multi-sector study to consider synergies and inter-linkages within the Water-Food/Nutrition-Energy nexus in Cox’s Bazar District. At the heart of the nexus approach is a strong understanding of the interdependencies among these three systems and how to ensure...
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...
Nearly 50 years since its apex, the Green Revolution (GR) – a chapter in history associated with rapid expansion in agricultural production and yields driven by science and technology – retains the power to inspire. Notwithstanding criticism emphasising its harmful social and environmental...
This research is part of the project 'Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania' - strengthening research to achieve SDGs, a collaborative project between the UONGOZI Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, Finland, with a main research objective of informing the...
With funding provided by the Wellcome Trust this project is intended to improve the accessibility of the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) Legacy Collection, ensuring it becomes an invaluable and enduring research resource for a new generation of scholars. The project has been...
This desk research, conducted by IDS over 6 months, worked to increase the understanding of the long-term changing nature of work and the impact on the Global South, including labour markets, employment models and understandings of work but also the impact on society itself.
