Unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls’ uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these ...

As ballots are cast in India’s 2024 elections, IDS researchers take a critical look at how women in India are treated, and ...

The National Policy for Children 2013 adopted by the Government of India in April 2013, adheres to the Constitutional mandate and guiding principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of ...

Many countries around the world introduced new social protection measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Bangladesh, innovations included emergency schemes such as cash support for informal ...

Yemen has sometimes been held up as an impressive example of how existing social protection systems and capacities can be maintained and supported even during a prolonged war. While providing support ...

In an unprecedented year for elections in Africa, the increasing use of digital disinformation poses a rising threat to ...

The year 2024 presents a global surge in democratic engagement and political participation as 76 countries hold presidential ...

Our food system is broken, and our food value chains – comprising those people, institutions, and businesses that bring food from farm to table – are part of the problem. Our food system fails to ...

The Geita region in Tanzania is rich in gold deposits, which have attracted a lot of small-scale (and a few large) mining companies. In the past, the relationship between mining companies and local ...

Shreya is a research officer with the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) programme, specialising in Developmental Economics and Privatisation. As a research officer in this field, she is ...

Zimbabwe is presenting itself as the new carbon frontier – the investment destination of choice, with huge areas of forest land to trade on international markets in exchange for carbon credits. But is ...