Since 2009, the Boko Haram insurgency has become the most prominent source of violence in northern Nigeria, particularly affecting the north-east. The group’s activities, including bombings, ...

The American election result is a surprising and significant blow to those of us who believe in equitable and sustainable development globally. It tells us that the argument made for progressive ...

The blockade that Israel imposed on the Gaza Strip, after the attack by Hamas on 7 October 2023, drastically reduced commercial and humanitarian deliveries of food. Together with heavy bombing that ...

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

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 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 ...

Sierra Leone has seen a sharp rise in the use of ‘kush’ – a relatively new drug formed through mixing several constituent drugs, including opioids, which is proving highly addictive and is having ...

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