In 2021, as the world was facing COVID lockdowns, anxieties and isolation, a group of us from varied learning and evaluation backgrounds—academics, practitioners, peacebuilders—connected with each ...

As ballots are cast in India’s 2024 elections, IDS researchers take a critical look at how women in India are treated, and ...

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

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

Yemen has sometimes been held up as an impressive example of how existing social protection systems and capacities can be maintained and supported even during a prolonged war. While providing support ...

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 ...

Many countries around the world introduced new social protection measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Bangladesh, innovations included emergency schemes such as cash support for informal ...

The European Commission has recently renewed its commitment to promoting and investing in the bioeconomy as a key policy to achieve the European Green Deal objectives. In February 2023 the Swedish EU ...

Our food system is broken, and our food value chains – comprising those people, institutions, and businesses that bring food from farm to table – are part of the problem. Our food system fails to ...