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18 June 2019
This report analyses the implications for development of the recent wave of closures of civic space that has primarily affected human...
8 April 2019
How and to what degree is the World Bank putting its new institutional citizen engagement commitments into practice? This question guides an independent assessment that the Accountability Research Center at American University has undertaken as part of the Institute of Development Studies-led Action for Empowerment and Accountability research programme’s investigation into how external actors can best support local processes of and conditions for empowerment and accountability.
25 March 2019
Religious inequalities, discrimination and conflict, driven by religious nationalism and ethnic tensions, are increasing challenges for many countries in East Asia. Over 80 delegates from a broad spectrum of academic, development practice, civil society and religious backgrounds recently gathered at the Yunus Centre, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, to discuss how efforts to tackle poverty and ‘leave no one behind’ can be made more sensitive and responsive to religious inequalities.
26 October 2018
IDS, in partnership with Adapt Peacebuilding and Myanmar’s Relief Action Network for IDP’s and Refugees (RANIR), has won a United...
5 October 2018
In a speech at the UN General Assembly, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Secretary of State Penny Mordaunt...
2 October 2018
Published by: IDS
What does closing civic space mean for development? Aid donors are concerned about the implications of restrictions on civil society for their partners and programmes, but to date there has been little clarity about what this means for development.
