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Youth employment and politics
Over 40 percent of global populations are under 25 yet young people cannot secure work and increasingly face a crisis of citizenship....
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Making Space for Dialogue on Just Transitions in Africa’s Oil and Gas Producing Regions
The oil and gas sector offers some of the greatest challenges and opportunities for global efforts to secure a just transition. Africa...
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Learning with SPARK
Learning with SPARK was an innovative action learning partnership between the Institute of Development Studies, the Accountability...
Journal Article
25 February 2019
Small Wars in Marsabit County: Devolution and Political Violence in Northern Kenya
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
When the elections of 2013 devolved budgetary and legislative powers to 47 counties in Kenya, there was nationwide relief when they...
Journal Article
1 December 2018
Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Large Qualitative Participatory Studies
Published by: Sage
Participatory research studies utilizing qualitative data drawn from large, diverse samples appear increasingly common in the social sciences, particularly in international development.
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Power and Popular Politics
In a world that is increasingly affected by a rise in authoritarianism and populist politics, our research supports the actors who are...
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Engaging people for Biodiversity Net Gain
Book
16 October 2017
Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
Published by: Routledge
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights?
Working Paper
1 June 2017
Innovative Methods for Research on Social and Political Action in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings
Published by: IDS
Fragile and conflict-affected settings present particular challenges for researchers seeking to study the effect of social and political action (SPA). These challenges are not simply due to prevalent violence and conflict, but contexts of insecurity can restrict the flow of information, key actors can be hard to identify, and if information can be found, vital pieces of the picture may be missing.
Journal Article
2 May 2017
Precarious Lives: Or Why it’s Vital to Protect the Right to Food in the Face of Market Volatility
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
The global food crisis of 2007-11 left food prices higher and more volatile than they had been for a generation. The Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility project explored the everyday aspects of people's lives, as they responded to this change in prices. The project found that people are no longer experiencing price rises as shocks but rather as a constant pressure, particularly as wages are no
Journal Article
25 November 2016
Power, Poverty and Inequality
Published by: IDS
Ten years on from the landmark 2006 edition of the IDS Bulletin that brought us the ‘powercube’ – a practical approach to power analysis that offered a way of confronting its complexity – we return to the question of how to analyse and act on power in development.
