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 ...

As climate shocks intensify in the global South, social protection systems face growing challenges. In Pakistan’s Chitral district, where climate vulnerability intersects with poverty and displacement ...

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 ...

A new self-paced course, Social Protection: Conflict, Fragility and Displacement, has launched to coincide with an IDS-hosted conference organised by the BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) Research ...

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 ...

On 30 May 2025, IDS Honorary Associate and former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide. Alongside IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot, here he calls for ...

Mutual aid has been a lifeline for many in Sudan’s conflict. This study explores how mechanisms of social solidarity have been shaped by the war as well as by their ...

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 ...

The UN human rights treaties separate rights into categories, misrepresenting the reality of some cases of discrimination. There are cases where Indigenous people have sought justice for states ...

How might evaluation research respond to the complex and emergent nature of holistic community-led development? What does an equitable living partnership between evaluators and researchers, funders ...