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

Researchers call for a new shared, international commitment to tackle antimicrobial resistance as a global public good.

There is a growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings. Drawing lessons from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...