The Spending Review announced more funding for research and development but experts are concerned about the government’s lack ...

The Ugandan economy is heavily reliant on SMEs for employment and growth but they struggle to navigate an increasingly ...

Sophia Swithern: independent consultant. Lead author of BASIC study ‘Financing Social Protection in Protracted Crises. These turbulent times strengthen the case for social protection – when there’s so ...

IDS Honorary Associate and former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide.

Yolani Fernando, MA Governance, Development & Public Policy, Class of 2022-23, is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of ...

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, ...

Resilience is a term that is widely used by scholars from different disciplines who promote action research between science and policy. This paper is largely concerned with how resilience approaches ...

There are many different versions of ‘success’ in Zimbabwe’s A1 land reform areas as we found out across 11 different ‘success ranking’ exercises in our sites in Mazowe, Gutu, Masvingo and Matobo ...

This report attempts to provide an overview of philanthropy and the ‘philanthropic eco‐system’ that has evolved over the recent decade. Special focus of the report is on overseas philanthropy and ...

The Bellagio Initiative was developed by The Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Resource Alliance to contribute to the development of a new framework for ...

Governments around the world are starting to realise that engaging their citizens more in shaping the decisions that affect their everyday lives improves both legitimacy and the quality of public ...