Shafqat reflects on how his experience in policy practice shaped his understanding of development and how his time at IDS has ...

Care for children, the sick, infirm and dying is at the core of social reproductive labour, very often carried out by women. In our interviews in A1 land reform areas, women frequently emphasised the ...

Shafqat reflects on how his experience in policy practice shaped his understanding of development and how his time at IDS has ...

This study investigates the challenges and opportunities in coordination between Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), a programme that provides social assistance to severely poor ...

Ian Scoones new blog on cultural changes around marriage, divorce and inheritance in Zimbabwe’s land reform farms./ ...

International students from Lebanon describe studying while there is a crisis at home and share tips for coping.

an important driver of democratic decline is political exclusion and inequality and when citizens are excluded from a role in policy and decision-making spaces ...

The Coptic Cultural Heritage Protection and Revival Conference brought together partners from Egypt, Iraq, and Syria, to ...

Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, which are creating significant uncertainties for local communities as well as private and public agencies ...

Two new books contribute to the safeguarding of the Syrian Christian and Coptic Christian heritage for future generations.

Across generations, changes in attitudes have led to shifting roles, with women taking on more activities. This has empowering effects, as many of our informants explained, but it can also mean more ...

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 ...