While substantial progress has been achieved for women across education and health women and girls are suffering from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene.

How the Africa Technology and Innovation Partnership (ATIP) is strengthening STI ecosystems in Africa and shaping future innovation interventions.

The Brief explores how governance challenges in Africa constrain innovation, and where practical responses are emerging.

These cards are intended to illuminate and inspire – to show both the complexity and continuity of our struggles.

Brazil's federal bureaucracy is a dynamic policy advisory system with civil servants acting as key brokers who interpret and translate diverse sources of knowledge ...

This report provides the most comprehensive account to date of smart city surveillance in Africa. Expert researchers draw on their contextual experience of their own countries in detailed reports on ...

This report distils six years of collaborative research (from late 2019 to early 2026) from the IDS-led Countering Backlash programme.

In keeping with its polarised politics, Brazil’s food system is a complicated picture: highly industrialised production on ...

People with disabilities are often excluded from development research and programmes. A new issue of the IDS Bulletin has been launched focusing on disability inclusive development.

This new issue of the IDS Bulletin looks at building disability-inclusive futures edited by Stephen Thompson, Brigitte Rohwerder, Claire Walsh and Gayatri Sekar.

Trade policy is often assumed to be gender neutral. In practice, it is not. Women and men experience trade systems differently. On International Women’s Day 2026, as policymakers reflect on progress ...