Frontline workers keep essential services running in conflict. Evidence shows better pay and support strengthens resilience.

Across southern Somalia, when the Gu and Deyr rains failed, the land hardened. Grass yellowed. Riverbanks receded. Wells whispered before they fell silent. And long before the crisis was declared, ...

IDS researcher argues for progressives to come back to the table on trade policy in the light of President Trump's actions on tariffs.

This study uses Q ‍methodology to explore displacement-affected people’s perceptions of state and non-state responses to climate-induced displacement.

In a talk at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, I made the case that a core focus must be on land redistribution, as a ...

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, ...

Governments around the world are starting to realise that engaging their citizens more in shaping the decisions that affect their everyday lives improves both legitimacy and the quality of public ...

Unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls’ uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these ...

Cornwall, A. (2002) Making spaces, changing places : situating participation in development. Working paper series, 170. Brighton: IDS.

This analysis uses panel data from thirty-five departments over the period 2001-2011 to analyse the effect of grants from central government on local revenue mobilisation in Côte d’Ivoire. The study ...

Camila reflects on the uncertainty that accompanied that decision, the experience of preparing for the Chevening interview, ...