There was a period in the late 19th and 20th centuries when the worlds of art and science were seen as opposed to one another ...

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) programme, supporting the UK ...

How to respond to and prepare for pandemics is a top policy priority, but there are many uncertainties. In the fifth chapter of the book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent ...

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, ...

Humanitarian actors in Ugandan refugee settlements face the dual challenge of preparing for and responding to epidemics, while providing essential humanitarian assistance. They must balance their ...

Humanitarian crises affect diverse populations in complex ways, often exacerbating pre-existing vulnerabilities and inequalities. Among those disproportionately impacted are LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, ...

Participation is a right held by all people to engage in society and in the decisions that impact their lives. Participation is thus a political endeavour that challenges oppression and discrimination ...

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 ...

The concept of brown gold highlights the scale of the economic benefits if we're able to recover all the hidden resources by ...

Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme uses Action Research (AR) to understand the dynamics which drive the worst forms of child labour (WFCL), and to generate ...

Nicholas Nisbett is Professorial Fellow at IDS and a Professor of Global Public Policy, Nutrition and Health Equity at the University of Sussex. With over 20 years of international development ...

The reduction of absolute poverty has become a central goal of the international community including the governments of many developing countries. However, the appropriate strategy for achieving ...