Policy making is a messy business. While rationality and certainty are often viewed as desirable traits, the reality is that policy processes in the vast majority of contexts involve multiple actors, ...

Social and Humanitarian Assistance in Crises: agendas, ambitions and aspirations for more effective intervention.

Over the past five years, colleagues from the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – a joint initiative between the Institute of Development Studies, Itad and University of East Anglia – have been ...

The famed self-trained historian Pathisa Nyathi has died aged 73 as a result of complications with diabetes. He has been described by many as a brilliant historian, a living library, an archive of ...

The blockade that Israel imposed on the Gaza Strip, after the attack by Hamas on 7 October 2023, drastically reduced commercial and humanitarian deliveries of food. Together with heavy bombing that ...

The American election result is a surprising and significant blow to those of us who believe in equitable and sustainable development globally. It tells us that the argument made for progressive ...

Heat adaptation interventions are essential for managing the health impacts of a changing climate. IDS is supporting HeatNexus (Heat Adaptation Nexus for Collaborative Research and Action), a cohort ...

Since 2009, the Boko Haram insurgency has become the most prominent source of violence in northern Nigeria, particularly affecting the north-east. The group’s activities, including bombings, ...

Each year the Economic and Social Research Council funds a number of scholarships for research in the social sciences.

The Israeli parliament voted 92-10 to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the single largest provider of humanitarian aid in occupied Palestine. The ban, if implemented, risks halt ...

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...