Gendered disinformation is being used across Africa as a tactic to silence critics and exclude women from online civic discourses, new research shows. A new book ‘Digital Disinformation in Africa: ...

Protests are a feature of both democratic and non-democratic regimes. However, protests in non-democratic regimes have received insufficient academic attention. The nature of protest grievances, ...

This report examines digital innovations across essential public services in Bangladesh, particularly those spurred on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Amidst what is increasingly viewed as a time of crisis in development and in development studies itself, IDS is working with the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes ...

Working with partners has been central to our work on pandemics, from research partnerships in countries such as Uganda and Sierra Leone to bringing together evidence from around the world to support ...

In 2021, as the world was facing COVID lockdowns, anxieties and isolation, a group of us from varied learning and evaluation backgrounds—academics, practitioners, peacebuilders—connected with each ...

As ballots are cast in India’s 2024 elections, IDS researchers take a critical look at how women in India are treated, and ...

The Geita region in Tanzania is rich in gold deposits, which have attracted a lot of small-scale (and a few large) mining companies. In the past, the relationship between mining companies and local ...

Many countries around the world introduced new social protection measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Bangladesh, innovations included emergency schemes such as cash support for informal ...

Climate disruption, environmental change and resource scarcity have become the subject of growing policy attention, academic debate and popular political mobilization in recent years. These issues are ...