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27 March 2025
Gauthier Marchais receives prestigious education research award
Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and International Education...
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26 March 2025
Designing Social Assistance Programmes for Displaced People
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Social assistance programmes for displaced people are likely to be more effective if they take the circumstances and preferences of...
Opinion
21 March 2025
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Working Paper
10 September 2024
Assessing Displaced People’s Design Choices Around Social Assistance
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper sets out to partially address the exclusion of displaced people from the design and planning of social assistance programming by consulting them in a range of design choices about how they engage with social assistance and what a good social assistance programme would look like. The paper draws on research in two locations (camp and city) in each of three countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lebanon, and Pakistan.
Brief
28 August 2024
Key considerations: Mpox, mining, and vulnerabilities of women and children in eastern DRC
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This brief presents considerations for contextualising and responding to the mpox outbreak in the mining towns of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It focuses on women and children living and working in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) areas.
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Brief
20 August 2024
Workshop Report: How Can Epidemic Preparedness and Response be Improved in the Central and East African Borderlands?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Epidemics have long affected the borderlands in Central and East Africa due to a combination of ecological, social, economic and...
Working Paper
20 August 2024
China’s Engagement with DRC’s Critical Minerals Sector: Extractivism, Developmentalism, and the Quest for a Just Transition
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This Working Paper explores the multifaceted Chinese engagement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) copper and cobalt mining sector.
