International development is at a crossroads. The closure of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the ...

This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for ...

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The global transition to clean energy is reshaping not only how communities produce and consume power, but also how households organise care work and manage daily subsistence tasks. Clean energy ...

This paper examines the political economy of the agricultural policy processes in Malawi through the lenses of the fertilizer subsidy programme that has raised the profile of the country on the ...

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 IDS Researcher Ian Scoones who talks about what happens when Zimbabweans flee xenophobic violence in South Africa.

IDS becomes a member of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, launched at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.

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

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 ...

The backlash against the gains won by feminist and LGBTQIA+ movements are manifesting in digital spaces through a complex array of socio-technical-political mechanisms involving political actors, ...