A large outbreak of the Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) was first identified in the Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in May 2026. This marked the DRC’s 17th Ebola outbreak ...

degeopoliticisation critical minerals and extraction - problems rooted partly in unequal relationships reframed as problems ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

In this paper we analyse how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance and how the domain of food system governance transforms as a result. Specifically, we focus ...

What have we learned from our study, 25 years after land reform in Zimbabwe? Drawing on the research that we have been doing since the early 2000s, we wanted to highlight some of the key findings.

The sudden collapse of USAID in 2025 sent shockwaves through Uganda’s HIV response and the people hardest hit are those the ...

IDS researcher Prof Lyla Mehta argues that the Nepal-Tibet flood calls for urgent global action against climate change.

This brief updates previous analyses from the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP),5–7 and builds on consultations with co-authors and reviewers, web searches and reviews of ...

The aim of this brief is to synthesise existing social and behavioural science (SBS) evidence from the current and previous outbreaks on key socioeconomic and political dynamics in the Uganda-DRC ...

Juba Foundation, Trócaire and ACF on the Humanitarian Access Initiative (HAI) operate across six districts of southern Somalia: Wajid, Luuq, Dollow, Afmadow, Jamame and Kismayo. Their number is ...