Calls are mounting to shift towards a good enough approach for targeting social assistance in situations of protracted crises ...

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) announces today that Professor Anuradha Joshi has been appointed as its new ...

This year is the United Nations International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. This is an important moment to celebrate the role of pastoralists across the world, recognising their unique ...

This seminar shares findings about gender, equity, and social inclusion (GESI) in social protection, in protracted crisis contexts from BASIC Research.

Millions of citizens in Africa are unable to obtain essential services that they are entitled to as new digital ID systems continue being imposed across the continent, requiring them to provide ...

IDS staff and students have put together an essential reading and listening list for the year so far. Image: Olena Illustrations/Shutterstock. These books and ...

At a time of substantial uncertainty for global development, three things are clear. First, aid is retreating substantially, and probably permanently. Second, lower-income countries’ debt servicing ...

Back at the start of the year, there was a flurry of questions: where would the axe fall, and how deep, and how badly would the blow be compounded by other donors? We’d just finished writing our study ...

This research examines the challenges and prospects of financing social protection in protracted crisis countries (PCCs), where political instability and complex emergencies intersect with ...

Since 2018, IDS has collaborated with partners on multiple major research projects focused on disability inclusive development. IDS also has a rich history of working on exclusion relating to climate ...

Stuart Gillespie – a veteran of four decades at the frontline of global food policy – exposes how malnutrition is enmeshed with other crises and what we can all do to turn things around. Food is life ...

On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, a country going through a civil war and an already worsening humanitarian crisis under the military junta. Emergency alert triggered ...