To mark the UN’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, IDS is involved in a series of events around gender equality. With gender and sexual rights increasingly under threat from a global ...

The demand for land in Zimbabwe was not resolved by the major land reform in 2000. Far from it. Many people missed out, and new generations too young to benefit from allocations nearly 25 years ago ...

Rural areas in the Global South are evolving, as are the challenges and opportunities facing people in these areas.

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

Nutrition surveillance – or the systematic and periodic collection of information on nutrition – is vital to the capacity of governments and other agencies to track their progress towards reducing ...

This article outlines a pathway to develop the business case for One Health. It describes the origin and development of One Health and then identifies five potential areas where One Health can add ...

This podcast looks at what needs to be prioritised to ensure that we do not lose momentum on increasing social protection coverage globally?

Our research partnerships examine how to tackle deeply entrenched inequalities that lead to social and economic injustices.

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, ...

How will greater gender equality contribute to better child health and nutrition in Northern Nigeria? Using ORIE data collected in Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi and Zamfara this infographic makes a ...

Policy making is a messy business. While rationality and certainty are often viewed as desirable traits, the reality is that policy processes in the vast majority of contexts involve multiple actors, ...