This project will deliver urgently needed evidence that helps identify how to improve the social and ecological sustainability of food value chains.
Environmental trade protection is being increasingly integrated in regulatory regimes across countries. No clear consensus on how businesses perceive such strict regulations.
This project explores how and whether nutrition interventions at workplaces – or workforce nutrition programmes – lead to improved business outcomes for the implementing businesses.
The project will contribute to arresting democratic regression by identifying, documenting and analysing existing and newly emerging elements of digital authoritarianism and the practices of digital citizenship that work best to mitigate or overcome them.
In partnership with the Government of Meghalaya, the Sanitation Learning Hub is working on a series of strategic engagement events between the state and district governments (including block and village level actors), rights holder organisations and development partners in Meghalaya,...
Food is more than a source of nutrients and energy; it plays a significant part in all aspects of human life, including in social interactions, emotions and psychological processes. Food has long been recognised as a powerful vehicle to express one’s identity, culture and lifestyle choices....
Social Accountability for Place Based Nature Recovery is a consultancy project for Natural England (NE). The aim is to provide Natural England with new insights into how social accountability approaches can support place-based nature recovery, and how they might be strengthened in order to...
IDS is working with the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) to integrate an accompanied learning partnership as part of their GIZ-funded “Country Economic Transformation Outlook” (CETO) pilot in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. The learning collaboration aims to strengthen partnership...
IDS is providing 12 IDRC-funded research projects on Clean Energy for Development with knowledge translation and communications support.
The necessity to address the challenges of climate change and environmental degradation is usually expressed in terms of visions of desirable futures, which are implemented through large-scale green transformation programmes. This research project aims to explore high-end conceptualisations of...
Our Implementation research work maps the process of design and delivery of project interventions using methods such as social network analysis, behavioural change assessments and political risk analysis. It works with a theory of change to identify and analyse areas for strengthening of...
Against the backdrop of a mass exodus of religious minorities from the Middle East, there is an urgency to empower the youth from the communities left behind to find opportunities for professional development and income generation through the preservation of their heritage. With the breakdown in...
