Read the new blog by IDS Researcher Ian Scoones who talks about what happens when Zimbabweans flee xenophobic violence in South Africa.

The Humanitarian Access Initiative (HAI) has been promoting community-led humanitarian action across southern Somalia since late 2024. Now, it is time to assess what the project has learned about ...

This report reflects what ICTD, based at IDS, has learned through its research collaborations with partners over the past 15 years.

Drawing on country-level research from the Countering Backlash programme, this paper shows how three backlash mechanisms are mirrored online ...

Expert research view on whether countries should follow the policies of Indonesia that led to its success with nickel mining.

When Mpox was confirmed in Sierra Leone in January 2025, the country was not starting from zero. Ebola and COVID-19 had left ...

Read the new blog by Ian Scoones, 'Reflections by land reform farmers in Zimbabwe: a series of short video interviews'.

An IDS alumni asks why the politics of fear strategy works so much better for some population targets than others?

In this blog post, IDS student Zarak shares some top tips for finding a dissertation supervisor while doing your master’s at IDS.

This is the third blog in our reflective series on co-designing evaluation of holistic Community-Led Development (CLD) for the Full Spectrum Evidence and Learning Initiative (partnering with Tostan ...