The geopolitical consensus that prioritised the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is shifting amid political and economic turbulence, nationalism, precarity and polarisation.

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 ...

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

IDS student Aya shares how she stepped out of her comfort zone, what she learned in the process and how studying at IDS is ...

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

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

The people that digital technologies are designed to serve are absent from the governance architecture. Accountability is ...

The research study identifies five enabling conditions that create openings for transformation in South Africa's social grant system.

This paper explores the intersection of climate change and extremes, conflict, and social protection in Ethiopia. It examines the long-term, 40-year history of climate extremes over Ethiopia and ...

The humanitarian sector is losing its memory. Funding cuts, closures, and the slow decay of digital infrastructure are all ...

How does this contribute to well-being, social cohesion and the ability to live happily in land reform areas? These are questions not often asked in studies of land reform, but whether people are ...