Next week we’re delighted to welcome the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, to mark the 60th anniversary of IDS. Sri Lanka offers a positive story about democratic renewal, which in ...

The death of Dr Kamal Kar, pioneer of Community-Led Total Sanitation, on May 3 has been devastating for all the people around ...

To make Responsible Business Conduct effective in low- and middle-income countries targeted investment and sector-specific ...

This paper examines the political economy of the agricultural policy processes in Malawi through the lenses of the fertilizer subsidy programme that has raised the profile of the country on the ...

This blog post was written collectively by Bengali and South Asian students at the Institute of Development Studies, to mark ...

IDS alum Aimen Bucha recently visited IDS and delivered a guest lecture sharing insights from her SuPWR research and her ...

A recent event in London saw participants identify ways that democracy can be strengthened through greater citizen ...

International trade is one of the most powerful systems that influences how economies are structured, how labour markets ...

The geopolitical consensus that prioritised the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is shifting amid political and economic ...

Gender roles are not only changing within the household but within the wider community and in leadership positions in the ruling party, ZANU-PF. Many women in our sample across sites hold leadership ...

Counters critiques of theories of change and outlines principles for good theory of change practice to strengthen use in most situations ...