A large outbreak of the Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) was first identified in the Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in May 2026. This marked the DRC’s 17th Ebola outbreak ...

The sudden collapse of USAID in 2025 sent shockwaves through Uganda’s HIV response and the people hardest hit are those the system was already failing. Listen to this episode on your favourite podcast ...

degeopoliticisation critical minerals and extraction - problems rooted partly in unequal relationships reframed as problems ...

What have we learned from our study, 25 years after land reform in Zimbabwe? Drawing on the research that we have been doing since the early 2000s, we wanted to highlight some of the key findings.

The sudden collapse of USAID in 2025 sent shockwaves through Uganda’s HIV response and the people hardest hit are those the ...

IDS researcher Prof Lyla Mehta argues that the Nepal-Tibet flood calls for urgent global action against climate change.

This brief updates previous analyses from the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP),5–7 and builds on consultations with co-authors and reviewers, web searches and reviews of ...

Juba Foundation, Trócaire and ACF on the Humanitarian Access Initiative (HAI) operate across six districts of southern Somalia: Wajid, Luuq, Dollow, Afmadow, Jamame and Kismayo. Their number is ...

The aim of this brief is to synthesise existing social and behavioural science (SBS) evidence from the current and previous outbreaks on key socioeconomic and political dynamics in the Uganda-DRC ...

This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for ...

There has been a growing interest in China’s rapid economic growth, particularly agriculture-led growth and poverty reduction. In fact, China and Africa have developed their agriculture under ...