In this podcast, Philip Proudfoot, interviews Haneen Sayed, Lebanon’s Minister of social affairs who talks about her ...

Local organisations deliver most social assistance in KRI and Iraq, yet remain excluded from reform. New research highlights legal gaps and paths for change.

The relationships between energy and development are complex, compounded by increasingly differentiated situations amongst developing countries and within them. Moreover, the manner in which energy ...

BASIC Research shows social protection can be sustained in conflict and crises. IDS shares key lessons and future priorities ...

Supporting social protection systems and providing social assistance in protracted crises is difficult. Access is often constrained; violence and insecurity make delivery dangerous; and governments ...

As climate shocks intensify in the global South, social protection systems face growing challenges. In Pakistan’s Chitral district, where climate vulnerability intersects with poverty and displacement ...

This paper provides the first estimate of the cost effectiveness of a presumptive tax in a lower-income country, using Ghana as a case study.

This year, the 16 Days of Activism calls on us to confront the violence we don’t always see- the kind that hides behind screens. Technology-facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TfGBV) is no longer a ...

As noted in the previous blog, there are a number of new land arrangements emerging on A2 farms under the (very) broad label of ‘joint ventures’. Some 2500 joint ventures have been formally registered ...

Our research partnerships examine how to tackle deeply entrenched inequalities that lead to social and economic injustices. Our work draws attention to the needs of people living in chronic poverty, ...

This paper examines the political economy of the agricultural policy processes in Malawi through the lenses of the fertilizer subsidy programme that has raised the profile of the country on the ...