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 ...

Experts are raising the alarm that women’s and LGBTQI+ rights that are increasingly being eroded around the world, as they ...

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, ...

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

Join us at the University of Sussex’s online Master’s Open Day on Saturday 23 November. The event starts at 10.30am, and ...

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 ...

Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is proud to share that Lídia Cabral, Research Fellow and founding member of the Food ...

The recommendations are detailed in new policy briefs produced as part of the T20, which is the official G20 engagement group ...

IDS has been recognised as a Care Champion at the 2024 Asia-Pacific Care Champions Special Event, which took place on 21 November as part of the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 ...

To mark the UN’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, IDS is involved in a series of events around gender ...

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

The National Policy for Children 2013 adopted by the Government of India in April 2013, adheres to the Constitutional mandate and guiding principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of ...