This programme collected evidence on how people living in mega-cities in India and Latin America interact with the political system, to test an hypothesis about a 'new politics' based in civil society.
Following the food crisis in Malawi in 2002, Action Aid commissioned IDS to try to unravel what went wrong and identify appropriate policies and responses to prevent similar crises in the future.
The project aimed to define and quantify destitution, to identify how people become destitute and what are the most appropriate policy measures to address destitution.
The China Health Development Forum is an informal association coordinated by the Chinese Health Economics Institute (CHEI) and IDS.
This research looks at recent reforms of the state that seek to create new patterns of state-society relations around the public provisioning of social and other services.
This work looked at how different development actors understand right-based approaches and also considered how grassroots movements use accountability structures in their campaigns on land, housing and property rights.
IDS is coordinating a programme of work based on the belief that global eradication of famine is achievable in the foreseeable future. The ultimate objective of this policy-oriented research is to contribute to a new policy agenda for famine prevention.
The overall aim of the research was to investigate how law, judicial and regulatory institutions, both formal and informal, can contribute more effectively to resolving land disputes and enhancing security over the possession and use of land.
The goal of this comparative study of Rural Brazil and the Philippines was to identify when the rural poor are able to use state law, through the judicial system, as an instrument for progressive social change.
Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce promises a radical shift in the way in which enterprises trade with each other.
Effective policy, institutions and processes (PIPs) are increasingly recognised as essential for the achievement of sustainable livelihoods. However, exactly how to create them is often unclear.
This research, funded by the Department for International Development Policy Research Programme...
Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa was a three-year collaborative project carried out by research partners in Mozambique, South Africa, UK and Zimbabwe, funded by the UK Department for International Development.
