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Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash

Significant progress on gender equality has been made in past decades, but in recent years gender and sexual rights are increasingly under threat from a global wave of gender backlash. This is not new. Feminists have long faced resistance while building strategic steps towards greater gender...

Chung-Ah Baek & 8 others

21 November 2024

Brief

Key Considerations: Post-Trauma Impacts in Conflict-Affected Communities in Northern Nigeria

SSHAP Briefing

Since 2009, the Boko Haram insurgency has become the most prominent source of violence in northern Nigeria, particularly affecting the north-east. The group’s activities, including bombings, assassinations, and mass abductions, have resulted in over two million people being displaced and a...

Ayodele Samuel Jegede & 2 others

8 November 2024

Working Paper

Was There a Famine in Gaza in 2024?

IDS Working Paper 613

This paper assesses the extent to which a famine occurred in Gaza. It concludes that, whilst the answer depends on which definition of famine is used, Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza caused avoidable hunger and starvation deaths, and almost certainly...

5 November 2024

Brief

SSHAP West Africa Hub: Addressing the Kush Epidemic in Sierra Leone

SSHAP Briefing

Sierra Leone has seen a sharp rise in the use of ‘kush’ – a relatively new drug formed through mixing several constituent drugs, including opioids, which is proving highly addictive and is having serious negative health and social consequences. In April 2024, the government declared a...

4 November 2024

Brief

Key Considerations: Female Genital Mutilation Among Sudanese Displaced Populations in Egypt

SSHAP Briefing

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 violation of human rights. Worldwide, four million girls are subjected to this practice each...

Meral Marouf

31 October 2024

Brief

Fellow’s Brief: Addressing the Humanitarian Needs of Forced Rural-to-City Migrants in North-West Nigeria with a Focus on Mental Health Vulnerability

SSHAP Briefing

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 challenges. The brief presents key considerations in addressing the humanitarian needs and...

31 October 2024

Brief

Global Clean Energy Policy and the Inclusion of Women and Youth

CEDCA Clean Energy Brief 1

This Clean Energy Brief assesses the available evidence, opportunities, and challenges for the inclusion of women and youth, through micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), for global clean energy policy innovations. In this context, policy innovations are understood to be the...

31 October 2024

Working Paper

Social Assistance and Coping With Crises in Borno, Nigeria

BASIC Research Working Paper 31

This paper examines the relationship between social assistance, violent conflict, and intersecting crises, and considers how social assistance can help offset erosive forms of coping that could otherwise drive poverty and food insecurity.

Vidya Diwakar
Vidya Diwakar & 4 others

31 October 2024

Journal

Reimagining Social Protection

IDS Bulletin 55.2

Social protection features in numerous country policies and development agency strategies, as well as in several Sustainable Development Goals. However, following more than two decades of considerable expansion in policies, programmes, and research, the sector finds itself at a...

29 October 2024

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