IDS in partnership with the University of Sussex, (IDS), has today (Wednesday 25 March 2026) been ranked first in the world for Development Studies in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, ...

Rural livelihoods in west Africa are changing in new ways as well as those that remain longstanding, and no mode of change is linear. This was the message emerging from a recent colloquium on long ...

Cornwall, A. (2002) Making spaces, changing places : situating participation in development. Working paper series, 170. Brighton: IDS.

Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

How the Africa Technology and Innovation Partnership (ATIP) is strengthening STI ecosystems in Africa and shaping future innovation interventions.

While substantial progress has been achieved for women across education and health women and girls are suffering from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene.

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, ...

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 ...

The Brief explores how governance challenges in Africa constrain innovation, and where practical responses are emerging.

These cards are intended to illuminate and inspire – to show both the complexity and continuity of our struggles.