The global transition to clean energy is reshaping not only how communities produce and consume power, but also how households organise care work and manage daily subsistence tasks. Clean energy ...

IDS becomes a member of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, launched at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.

Read the new blog by IDS Researcher Ian Scoones who talks about what happens when Zimbabweans flee xenophobic violence in South Africa.

Expert research view on whether countries should follow the policies of Indonesia that led to its success with nickel mining.

The backlash against the gains won by feminist and LGBTQIA+ movements are manifesting in digital spaces through a complex array of socio-technical-political mechanisms involving political actors, ...

This report reflects what ICTD, based at IDS, has learned through its research collaborations with partners over the past 15 years.

When Mpox was confirmed in Sierra Leone in January 2025, the country was not starting from zero. Ebola and COVID-19 had left ...

The Humanitarian Access Initiative (HAI) has been promoting community-led humanitarian action across southern Somalia since late 2024. Now, it is time to assess what the project has learned about ...

An IDS alumni asks why the politics of fear strategy works so much better for some population targets than others?

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