The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence serves as a global campaign to amplify voices, movements, strengths and ...

Across Southern Africa, rangelands support a large amount of small-scale, communal livestock farming. A new IDS-led project, with partners in South Africa and the UK, explores the potential and ...

As has become the tradition at this time of year, this week I am sharing a list of top posts for the year. This time it’s not just ones published this year, but any post viewed by the 27.7k visitors ...

After 13 years of conflict, it took only 12 days for the Assad regime in Syria to fall. From the small region that remained ...

The Institute of Development Studies has a long history of challenging traditional narratives. It has also led research ...

This paper explores the accountability of social assistance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), focusing on the roles of frontline staff of local and international organisations since ...

This Policy Briefing looks at the different drivers of digitisation from the perspectives of aid recipients, humanitarian, and government actors in North East Nigeria.

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...

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 ...