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Five lessons for a successful research communications campaign

Reaching and engaging your audience is more difficult than ever in today’s world of information overload. As communications specialists, we have to come to grips with constant and confusing changes to social media platforms. Therefore, making your messages stand out requires more than just...

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Eve McKeown

5 June 2024

Opinion

The World Bank and land: some questions

The World Bank’s land conference returned this year in May after a gap since 2019. It is the go-to venue for mainstream (economic) debate about land. To a room full of suits, the conference was opened by a keynote from Andrew Steer, now President and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund (and formerly...

Ian Scoones

3 June 2024

Opinion

Learning lessons on land grabbing and agrarian reform in Colombia

This blogpost shares some commentaries emerging from the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing held in Bogota in March (see this IDS news article). All have relevance to the wider debate about land and agrarian reform, including in Zimbabwe. I start with an article I wrote with...

Ian Scoones

28 May 2024

Opinion

China and Tax Administration Revelations: book review by Mick Moore

I have come to expect that good research into how China’s government organisations actually function is likely to tell us that: Compared to the rest of the world, many things are organised differently in China. Chinese arrangements often work quite well, such that the...

Mick Moore

24 May 2024

Opinion

Double Disaster: Flood fallout and state eviction in Nairobi & Karachi

In 2024, Nairobi, Kenya, was ravaged by floods, exposing the vulnerability of urban low-income neighbourhoods. This was compounded by a brutal response from authorities. In 2018 and then 2022, Karachi, Pakistan, experienced unprecedented and devastating flooding. This also elicited a top-down...

Mathews Wakhungu & 8 others

23 May 2024

Opinion

What to do with a global majority: making the most of a UN tax convention

The negotiations on ‘Pillar One’ at the G20/OECD Inclusive Framework have shown quite how much effort governments are willing to devote to a negotiation the outcome of which may never come into effect. After attending negotiations on the United Nations Framework Convention on Tax earlier...

Martin Hearson

22 May 2024

Opinion

South Africa decides 2024 part 2: the state of the parties

True or false? First, one country holding elections this year has 350 registered political parties, 52 of which will appear on its national ballot. Second, one of the 350 is named ‘Basic Income Grant’ and promises to give every adult citizen free cash transfers every month. Or third, this...

Stephen Devereux

22 May 2024

Opinion

Visual methods and working with migrant people in an urban setting

Inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems in off-grid towns are an emerging area of concern as worldwide trends point towards a rapid movement of vulnerable rural populations migrating to towns. WASH systems for vulnerable populations migrating to the cities have always been a...

Prakash Ransing & 3 others

21 May 2024

Opinion

Towards a conflict-sensitive role for grassroot organisations in social protection in Sudan

A year of conflict has deepened the dire humanitarian crisis in Sudan. This crisis is deeply rooted in the poor governance of Sudan characterised by concentration of power and resources amongst a network of military, private and political elites. It is a political crisis with roots in a long...

Hassan-Alattar Satti

20 May 2024

Opinion

Economic democratising, environmental crisis and just transitions

Our blog series on ‘Democratising the economy for justice and legitimacy’, launched last year, discussed how the processes of environmental decay, social deprivation and economic and political concentration were both generating discontent and creating growing interest for democratising the...

Anabel Marín

Jodie Thorpe

16 May 2024

Student Opinion

Advocating for diversity and accessibility: reflections on a podcast

Jigyasa Agarwal, class of 2023 (Master’s in Governance, Development and Public Policy) guest-edited two episodes of IDS’ Between the Lines podcast. In the episode ‘Intersections in Education: Disability, Development, and Gender’ she interviewed three students from IDS and the...

Jigyasa Agarwal

16 May 2024

Student Opinion

IDS student with invisible disabilities reflects on accessibility

Ana Palma Garcia, graduate of the IDS MA Power, Participation & Social Change, won the DSA’s Masters Dissertation Prize 2024 for her work entitled: “Co-constructing notions of inclusion with Deaf women in Colombia throughout cooperative inquiry”. To celebrate Global Accessibility...

Ana Palma Garcia (IDS Alum)

16 May 2024

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Five lessons for a successful research communications campaign

The World Bank and land: some questions

Learning lessons on land grabbing and agrarian reform in Colombia

China and Tax Administration Revelations: book review by Mick Moore

Double Disaster: Flood fallout and state eviction in Nairobi & Karachi

What to do with a global majority: making the most of a UN tax convention

South Africa decides 2024 part 2: the state of the parties

Visual methods and working with migrant people in an urban setting

Towards a conflict-sensitive role for grassroot organisations in social protection in Sudan

Economic democratising, environmental crisis and just transitions

Advocating for diversity and accessibility: reflections on a podcast

IDS student with invisible disabilities reflects on accessibility

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