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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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Flagship Initiative
In November 2022, the then Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Martin Griffiths proposed an “initiative to pilot a people-centred,...
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Food Systems for Food Security (FS4FS)
To date, global food system transformation has failed to accrue benefits to those living in extreme poverty. One potential reason for...
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CEDCA Panel Discussion: Opposition and resistance to clean energy transition
While switching from fossil fuels to clean energy addresses the climate crisis and offers development opportunities, opposition to the...
Working Paper
24 April 2024
The Great Green Wall as a Social-Technical Imaginary
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
From a pan-African environmental movement to a mosaic of locally managed projects to its considerable funding from the international community, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI) is now seen as a ‘megaproject’. While this megaproject has been primarily studied along the lines of political ecology and critical development studies, both showing the material limits and effectiveness of the initiative, its impact on the ground remains important in that the Sahelian landscape is shaped by donor and development actors’ discourses and imaginaries.
Working Paper
13 December 2023
Targeting in Protracted Crises: Niger Case Study
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Targeting social assistance in situations of protracted conflict, displacement or recurrent climate shocks so that it reaches those most...
Working Paper
26 July 2023
Shock-Responsive Social Protection in the Sahel: Niger, Mauritania, and Senegal
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In the face of shocks that are recurrent, predictable, interrelated, and multi-annual, governments and the international community are increasingly looking to the potential of shock-responsive and adaptive social protection to address multidimensional risk in a sustainable and integrated manner. This is the case in the West African Sahel, where social protection systems are being strengthened and an array of new delivery approaches are underway to coordinate efforts and address shocks related primarily to food security arising out of climate and conflict-related shocks and displacement.
Opinion
13 July 2023
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Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) is a network of researchers, policy makers and practitioners across 17 low- and...
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Clean Energy for Development: Knowledge Translation and Communications Support
IDS is providing 12 IDRC-funded research projects on Clean Energy for Development with knowledge translation and communications support.