On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, a country going through a civil war and an already worsening humanitarian crisis under the military junta. The earthquake was the most ...

Calls for action to acknowledge and address caste power dynamics and prejudice based on caste in Higher Education.

In this first blog, we introduce the work of the Full Spectrum Coalition evidence and learning group and the challenge it responds to.

With limited assets and multiple constraints to access to land, accumulation by young people in our A1 land reform sites is challenging. This blog looks at the multiple pathways followed, highlighting ...

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 ...

Dr. Ben Cislaghi is an international development scholar and practitioner specializing in gender norms, social justice, and community-led development. Ben has led and contributed to major research ...

The changing geo-political landscape has shifted focus from generalised normative preferences in trade policy towards more realist goals that seek to create the best advantage for a country under ...

Moinul Zaber is a Research Fellow in the Digital and Technology Cluster at IDS and a computational social scientist with over 19 years of interdisciplinary experience in artificial intelligence, ...

The cuts to ODA budgets have severe consequences for climate change projects around the world, warns experts at IDS.

Urban areas are critical for human development. They are often viewed as key places for the pursuit of economic growth, for addressing epidemics, for modern day warfare, or for adapting to and ...