This paper reviews the evidence and concludes that, whether or not a ‘technical’ famine occurred, Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza caused avoidable hunger and ...

The IDS Participation, Inclusion and Social Change cluster is excited to announce the launch of the newly revamped ‘Participatory Methods’ website. The relaunch brings an array of new features and ...

Climate change is causing shifts in rainfall patterns across the world, damaging agriculture and livelihoods and impacting ...

There is growing debate on the need for transformational approaches to tackle the challenges facing development in the face of climate change. If current incremental approaches to preventing dangerous ...

Accountability is now a buzzword in contemporary development debates. It is central to development policy, whether government accountability (as a central component of good governance), corporate ...

Focusing on contributions from social psychology to better understand what motivates, influences or steers the behaviour of individuals, this paper seeks to introduce disaster risk managers to new ...

Tax specialists have a great deal to say about how African tax collectors could work better but rarely seem to ask the tax ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. It is recognised as a severe ...

This issue of the IDS Bulletin reflects on the role social protection plays in a shifting, uncertain, and volatile global ...

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 aim of this report is to improve understanding of the risks and benefits of the use of digital technologies to support cash and voucher assistance programming in North East Nigeria from the ...

This brief explores the humanitarian needs of forced rural area-to-city migrants in the north-west of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with an emphasis on their vulnerability to mental health ...