Young people’s urban lives are often riddled with inequalities and everyday obstacles inhibiting their full societal participation, to negatively affect their health and wellbeing. Findings from a ...

In early 2024 the UK government introduced legislation requiring that when housing or infrastructure development occurs in ...

This paper examines how communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict local people have relied on their own means of governance and mutual support to ...

organisations of people with disabilities, understanding power dynamics, engage in policy influencing, ethics and feedback mechanisms.

This report details the findings and recommendations associated with an inclusive participatory learning process that was facilitated with disability-inclusive, development-focused research networks ...

In this podcast Martin Griffiths presents his own definition of the concept of humanitarian diplomacy which includes independent and principled mediation to end conflicts.

Institute of Development Studies IDS Room 221 and online on Zoom. In the highly insecure borderlands of Somalia and North-Eastern Kenya, communities are driving their own governance and resilience, ...

When we last explored what was happening to young people across our field sites in 2016, the experience of ‘waithood’ was very evident (see our ROAPE paper for a discussion). This is a period between ...

Those working in humanitarian aid need to build and advance humanitarian diplomacy; reconnect with human rights; use legal ...

Mpox was perceived to be a mild disease which had implications on the study population’s behavioural practices affecting ...

Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and ...