In an unprecedented year for elections in Africa, the increasing use of digital disinformation poses a rising threat to ...

The Geita region in Tanzania is rich in gold deposits, which have attracted a lot of small-scale (and a few large) mining companies. In the past, the relationship between mining companies and local ...

The year 2024 presents a global surge in democratic engagement and political participation as 76 countries hold presidential ...

The EU defines bioeconomy in a broad manner to include: all sectors and systems that rely on biological “resources” (animals, plants, micro-organisms, and derived biomass, including organic waste), ...

Reshma Sekhar studied MA Governance, Development and Public Policy at IDS, graduating in 2023 and is co-founder of the poli performance platform.

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 ...

Somalia is consistently among one of the most challenging environments for aid agencies and government entities to provide ...

In this special episode of the IDS Between the Lines podcast Andy Sumner, President of the European Association of ...

The time seems right for a “recasting” of development and development studies that is underpinned by the centrality ...

Two of ICTD’s PhD students, Adienne Lees and Sripriya Srivatsa, recently spent three days at Gladstone’s Library in North ...

Amidst important debates about decolonising development and development studies, renewed conversations are picking up with ...

Zimbabwe is presenting itself as the new carbon frontier – the investment destination of choice, with huge areas of forest land to trade on international markets in exchange for carbon credits. But is ...