Humanitarian action is essential to support people facing crisis, save lives, assist their recovery, maintain their dignity, ...

Stephen D. Biggs, who has recently died, was at IDS from 1969 to 1973 and was part of a group who went on to make ...

Gaining access to land for the next generation is a struggle in Zimbabwe. There is huge demand as the last blog discussed, but there are very few simple options. Many young people have to cobble ...

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 ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

Peter Taylor, IDS Director, calls UK aid budget cuts to fund increase in defence spending as a devastating blow.

The National Policy for Children 2013 adopted by the Government of India in April 2013, adheres to the Constitutional mandate and guiding principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of ...

The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) provides important lessons on Right to Food for ...

Amid geopolitical risks there is a rise in trade protection, and the threat of Trump’s tariffs have only escalated the ...

At least 15 million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live ...

Notions of ‘progress’ pervade the modern world. Yet, ‘north’ and ‘south’ alike, policymaking for progress in innovation, sustainability and development tends to be ambiguous. Politicians speak of “the ...

In a rapidly evolving global trade and development landscape, addressing trade-related challenges through aid for trade (AfT) remains highly relevant.