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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

This analysis uses panel data from thirty-five departments over the period 2001-2011 to analyse the effect of grants from central government on local revenue mobilisation in Côte d’Ivoire. The study ...

has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...

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

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 ...

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

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