IDS student Yasara Kannagara reflects on her unconventional path to pursuing the MA Poverty, Policy & Development Practice at ...
A blog by IDS alum and Chevening scholar Joydeep Sinha Roy, the Country Director of BRAC Tanzania, who studied at IDS.
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 ...
has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...
As part of our analysis of the story of land reform over 25 years, we have also been looking at communal areas that are nearby our A1 sites. These are where many people who invaded the farms and were ...
In this blog, we share how the K4DD programme is managing the transformation in the rapidly changing demand for evidence.
Accountability is now a buzzword in contemporary development debates. It is central to development policy, whether government accountability (as a central component of good governance), corporate ...
Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics ...
The relationships between energy and development are complex, compounded by increasingly differentiated situations amongst developing countries and within them. Moreover, the manner in which energy ...
After decades of export-focused economic policy, Mexico is looking back at its domestic market. Last year, the government ...
In this IDS Sparks event, we have selected four bold ideas which offer possibilities for tackling some of the biggest issues of 2026 ...