Counters critiques of theories of change and outlines principles for good theory of change practice to strengthen use in most ...

IDS student Aya shares how she stepped out of her comfort zone, what she learned in the process and how studying at IDS is ...

A recent event in London saw participants identify ways that democracy can be strengthened through greater citizen ...

The research study identifies five enabling conditions that create openings for transformation in South Africa's social grant system.

The people that digital technologies are designed to serve are absent from the governance architecture. Accountability is ...

Destruction of datacentres in war expose a new vulnerability. The focus should not be on who controls data but if it can be used.

This paper explores the intersection of climate change and extremes, conflict, and social protection in Ethiopia. It examines the long-term, 40-year history of climate extremes over Ethiopia and ...

The humanitarian sector is losing its memory. Funding cuts, closures, and the slow decay of digital infrastructure are all ...

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, ...