The A2 farms in Matobo are in some of the most remote parts of the district. These are predominantly livestock farming areas, with cattle being the dominant livestock type. Getting to these areas in ...

This report explores effective civil society networks, how such networks can improve advocacy and social accountability.

Reflection on how social protection in protracted crises can be reimagined through better coordination, national leadership ...

During COP30, IDS is co-hosting a side event on The Central Role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Just Energy ...

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, ...

Accountability is now a buzzword in contemporary development debates. It is central to development policy, whether government accountability (as a central component of good governance), corporate ...

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

The articles in this IDS Bulletin highlight cases of advocacy being used to strengthen community voices to make the processes of consultation more inclusive and empowering of marginalised perspectives ...

This is the second of two papers (and accompanying technical Annexes) from the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research Ethiopia country case study. Using five waves of Ethiopian Socioeconomic ...

The introduction of wealth taxes would be welcome but it will also take a lot of time and investment of significant political capital.

This technical annexe accompanies two papers that together form the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research targeting case study for Ethiopia (Merttens et ‍al. 2025a, 2025b). It contains ...

To avoid this harm, governments and investors must include front-line communities in decision making rather than tokenistic consultation.