While substantial progress has been achieved for women across education and health women and girls are suffering from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene.

Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

How the Africa Technology and Innovation Partnership (ATIP) is strengthening STI ecosystems in Africa and shaping future innovation interventions.

In this paper we analyse how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance and how the domain of food system governance transforms as a result. Specifically, we focus ...

This report distils six years of collaborative research (from late 2019 to early 2026) from the IDS-led Countering Backlash programme.

The Brief explores how governance challenges in Africa constrain innovation, and where practical responses are emerging.

These cards are intended to illuminate and inspire – to show both the complexity and continuity of our struggles.

In keeping with its polarised politics, Brazil’s food system is a complicated picture: highly industrialised production on ...

Brazil's federal bureaucracy is a dynamic policy advisory system with civil servants acting as key brokers who interpret and translate diverse sources of knowledge ...

People with disabilities are often excluded from development research and programmes. A new issue of the IDS Bulletin has been launched focusing on disability inclusive development.

This new issue of the IDS Bulletin looks at building disability-inclusive futures edited by Stephen Thompson, Brigitte Rohwerder, Claire Walsh and Gayatri Sekar.