The research study identifies five enabling conditions that create openings for transformation in South Africa's social grant system.

The people that digital technologies are designed to serve are absent from the governance architecture. Accountability is ...

Ahead of the Global Partnerships Conference, IDS researchers look at what needs to be addressed to tackle global challenges.

This paper explores the intersection of climate change and extremes, conflict, and social protection in Ethiopia. It examines the long-term, 40-year history of climate extremes over Ethiopia and ...

The humanitarian sector is losing its memory. Funding cuts, closures, and the slow decay of digital infrastructure are all ...

How does this contribute to well-being, social cohesion and the ability to live happily in land reform areas? These are questions not often asked in studies of land reform, but whether people are ...

In an era of shrinking aid budgets and closing civic space, how external funders support CSO networks matters.

A new phase in international climate cooperation is set to take shape later this month, as Colombia and the Netherlands ...

In this episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast, researchers shed fresh light on the urgent need for ...

After being drawn into a scene onstage at a participatory play in London’s West End, Riya Behl, MA Power Participation & Social Change (class of 2024-25), reflects on the role of theatre in ...

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