Reflection on how social protection in protracted crises can be reimagined through better coordination, national leadership ...

This is the second of two papers (and accompanying technical Annexes) from the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research Ethiopia country case study. Using five waves of Ethiopian Socioeconomic ...

To avoid this harm, governments and investors must include front-line communities in decision making rather than tokenistic consultation.

Shifting humanitarian practice begins with the courage to question the ethics of what we have been doing. This was the call made by Patrick Gathara of the New Humanitarian at a global roundtable ...

The articles in this IDS Bulletin highlight cases of advocacy being used to strengthen community voices to make the processes of consultation more inclusive and empowering of marginalised perspectives ...

This technical annexe accompanies two papers that together form the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research targeting case study for Ethiopia (Merttens et ‍al. 2025a, 2025b). It contains ...

This is the first of two papers (and accompanying technical Annexes) from the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research Ethiopia country case study. It provides a detailed description of the ...

Esteve Corbera (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, ICTA-UAB), Ian Scoones (Institute of Development Studies) ...

Front-line communities yet to see justice in the energy transition As world leaders meet for COP30 in Brazil, new IDS research reveals that the green energy transition is far from just and inclusive.

The introduction of wealth taxes would be welcome but it will also take a lot of time and investment of significant political capital.