Conflict, Fragility and Displacement, has launched to coincide with the IDS-hosted conference, organised by the  BASIC ...

With the window for applying for the Chevening Scholarship closing next month, we reached out to some IDS graduates who were ...

Zimbabwe’s national statistical agency, ZimStat, recently reported that 76% of the national economy is informal. This should be of no surprise to anyone, but what to do about it is the big question ...

Mamdani’s campaign reminds us that democracy isn’t merely about elections, it is about how power is distributed and claimed.

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

This Research Briefing explores PSNP effectiveness by evaluating whether households leaving, or “graduating”, are (1) Better off than when they first entered; (2) Better off than those remaining; and ...

As the world experiences a decline in democracy, nearly three out of four people now live in countries with autocratic ...

Investment in global development – whatever we call it – needs to be accountable, and meaningful for those who count on it the most, as well as for those who contribute to investing in it – whether ...

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

The existing wisdom on efforts to promote accountability highlights the importance of ‘thinking and working politically’ and moving from confrontational to collaborative approaches. This is ...