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16 April 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Kenya’s socio-political environment presents significant challenges for women’s and LGBTQI+ rights. Conservative social attitudes – deeply influenced by religious beliefs, political leaders, and traditional norms – exacerbate these challenges.
16 April 2025
The Institute of Development Studies is pleased to announce the official launch of the new HeatNexus website — a central platform for...
7 April 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
How do we build economic systems that recognise and work within the biophysical limits of our finite planet while simultaneously reducing poverty and inequality? This has become a defining question of our time, and the global transition to clean energy is increasingly considered an important vehicle via which we might address this ‘trilemma'.
2 April 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This working paper examines how communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict – including civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency – local people have relied on their own means of governance and mutual support to repair the damage and maintain life and livelihood.
In the highly insecure borderlands of Somalia and North-Eastern Kenya, communities are driving their own governance and resilience,...
26 March 2025
24 March 2025
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Thirty years of civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in Somalia and neighbouring northeastern Kenya have hollowed out state services and left borderland communities beleaguered. Yet in this apparently ‘ungoverned’ space, local self-governance persists. Citizen-led reflection shows how communities are repairing the social and physical damage wrought by violence, organising basic services, and providing public goods.
10 January 2025
As part of this global effort, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is leading the HeatNexus Network Support Programme, which will accompany the nine HeatNexus research projects, supporting them as they plan and deliver their projects using a participatory and reflective approach.
This project involves the coordination of a cohort of ten research networks that are funded under the AHRC International Networks for...
16 December 2024
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Strong civic culture makes for inclusive, participatory, and adaptive democracies. This report presents the results of an appreciative inquiry with seven inspiring civic catalysts from Brazil, Haiti, India, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Poland, and the United Kingdom, which explored the relevance of five strategies for building civic culture in a global context.
