Combined with the severe cuts to USAID, there is also concern about what impact the high tariffs will have on lower—middle-income country economies and in turn, the investment available for ...

In early 2024 the UK government introduced legislation requiring that when housing or infrastructure development occurs in ...

Young people’s urban lives are often riddled with inequalities and everyday obstacles inhibiting their full societal participation, to negatively affect their health and wellbeing. Findings from a ...

Programme emerged as a response to the global learning crisis. Launched in 2014 as a strategic partnership between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Economic and ...

This paper examines how communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict local people have relied on their own means of governance and mutual support to ...

organisations of people with disabilities, understanding power dynamics, engage in policy influencing, ethics and feedback mechanisms.

Those working in humanitarian aid need to build and advance humanitarian diplomacy; reconnect with human rights; use legal ...

In this podcast Martin Griffiths presents his own definition of the concept of humanitarian diplomacy which includes independent and principled mediation to end conflicts.

When we last explored what was happening to young people across our field sites in 2016, the experience of ‘waithood’ was very evident (see our ROAPE paper for a discussion). This is a period between ...

Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and ...