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Working Paper

21 May 2025

Grass-roots Innovation for Justice in Urban Food Provisioning

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This paper draws on an international research collaboration to examine grass-roots innovations in food provisioning in five urban locations: Brighton & Hove, UK; Toronto, Canada; Montpellier, France; São Paulo, Brazil; and Cape Town, South Africa. It examines the innovative features of these experiences, their comparison to conventional food banks, and their transformative impact on existing food aid narratives and practices.

Lídia Cabral
Lídia Cabral & 7 others
Building Back Better from Below(B4): Harnessing Innovations in Community Response and Intersectoral Collaboration for Health and Food Justice Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic Brazil Canada France Latin America North America OECD Europe South Africa Sub Saharan Africa United Kingdom
Brief

16 April 2025

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Nigeria

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Nigeria’s socio-political and economic environment presents significant challenges for women’s rights and for LGBTQI+ rights. Women also face discriminatory practices, such as in the northern Kano state, where civil service rules penalise women for pregnancy-related training interruptions.

Siju Yusuf
Nigeria Sub Saharan Africa
Brief

16 April 2025

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Kenya

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.

Siju Yusuf
Kenya Sub Saharan Africa
Brief

16 April 2025

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Ghana

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In recent years, Ghana has faced significant pushback against LGBTQI+ rights, marked by stricter legal restrictions and widespread societal opposition. Similarly, progress on women’s rights has been slow, with inadequate policy implementation.

Siju Yusuf
Ghana Sub Saharan Africa
Report

16 April 2025

Skills Development of Early Career Researchers Involved in Disability-Inclusive Arts and Humanities Research

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This report details a skills development process for early career researchers associated with ten Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research networks that focus on disability-inclusive development. The process involved both the formation of an ECR peer support group and a face-to-face workshop.

Stephen Thompson
Stephen Thompson
Coordination of the Disability Inclusive Development Networks South Africa Sub Saharan Africa
Publication

7 April 2025

Powering Change: The Critical Role of Women and Youth in Sustainable Energy Transformation

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'.

Bipasha Baruah & 9 others
Clean Energy for Development: Knowledge Translation and Communications Support Kenya Middle East and North Africa Senegal Sub Saharan Africa
Working Paper

2 April 2025

Navigating Violence and Negotiating Order in the Somalia–Kenya Borderlands

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.

Patta Scott-Villiers
Patta Scott-Villiers & 2 others
Kenya Somalia Sub Saharan Africa
Brief

24 March 2025

Local Self-Governance on the Somalia–Kenya Border

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.

Patta Scott-Villiers
Patta Scott-Villiers
Kenya Somalia Sub Saharan Africa
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