The Israeli parliament voted 92-10 to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the single largest provider of humanitarian aid in occupied Palestine. The ban, if implemented, risks halt ...

Each year the Economic and Social Research Council funds a number of scholarships for research in the social sciences.

This paper reviews the evidence and concludes that, whether or not a ‘technical’ famine occurred, Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza caused avoidable hunger and ...

Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

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 ...

Tax specialists have a great deal to say about how African tax collectors could work better but rarely seem to ask the tax ...

The aim of this report is to improve understanding of the risks and benefits of the use of digital technologies to support cash and voucher assistance programming in North East Nigeria from the ...

This issue of the IDS Bulletin reflects on the role social protection plays in a shifting, uncertain, and volatile global ...

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 ...

The IDS Participation, Inclusion and Social Change cluster is excited to announce the launch of the newly revamped ‘Participatory Methods’ website. The relaunch brings an array of new features and ...

Following a quarter of a century of remarkable expansion in policies, programmes and research, the social protection sector ...