A new animation: Children can do a lot
The Rejuvenate project share an animation designed to challenge preconceived ideas and start conversations about what children are capable of.
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Redressing religious inequalities essential for development to be truly inclusive
The Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development has just published a new, free e-Book.
Register: Gender in child and youth rights
Join the Rejuvenate project for a virtual event to discuss, how does gender intersect with child/youth rights and participation?
Contribute to emerging discussions on social protection in crises
Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research is collaborating with socialprotection.org throughout June to deliver an interactive e-discussion series on delivering social assistance in crises contexts.
Call: Sanitation, hygiene and gender equality and social inclusion research grant
A large part of the Sanitation Learning Hub’s (SLH) work is around research and learning to support gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in sanitation and hygiene programming. This includes using and promoting gender transformative sanitation approaches and ‘Leave No One Behind’ policies and programmes: this keeps the focus on the poorest, most marginalised and hardest to reach households and communities.
Register: Child rights: through Covid and into recovery – new and changing norms
Has the pandemic allowed for more participation in important spaces by children and youth?
Or have those spaces become less participatory with digital, financial, and geographical divides?
Webinar: Sanitation, hygiene and environmental cleanliness for child development outcomes
Click here to register for the webinar
It has been a long-standing goal of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) professionals to improve the health and lives of children. The health consequences from insufficient access to WASH are wide reaching and impact a range of diseases, infections and other concerns. It is well accepted that WASH is a critical determinant of child health and development.
Amplifying sanitation and hygiene practitioner voices
The Sanitation Learning Hub is looking to capture country level and regional experiences, ideas, challenges and innovations from sanitation and hygiene practitioners through a series of blogs or short recordings.
Register for webinar: Rural sanitation and climate change
Join the Sanitation Learning Hub for a webinar on climate change and rural sanitation – putting ideas into practice.
Climate change risks flushing away global progress on sanitation
Researchers from the Sanitation Learning Hub have published a new report providing evidence and practical guidance for adapting projects to make them sustainable for the future.
Living archive aims to rejuvenate child and youth rights and participation
“I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you.”
Severn Cullis-Suzuki, 12 years old, Rio Earth Summit, 1992
Learn about shaping policy with evidence
Gain the skills and knowledge to more effectively shape policy with evidence with IDS's online short course.
Beyond #MeToo – learning from anti-sexual harassment activisms globally
A new IDS Bulletin examines the experiences of female-led activisms against sexual harassment in articles that cover 11 countries around the world, including Egypt, the Philippines and India.
Free online course: Pastoralism and uncertainty
Gain an introduction to to pastoralism, uncertainty and resilience, with lessons for global change.
During this free online course, you’ll explore key concepts, case studies and questions for debate.
Join IDS as a Research Fellow
Having the right mix of talented, committed individuals is vital to achieving IDS's vision of a more equitable and sustainable world, where people everywhere can live their lives free from poverty and injustice.
World Water Week Online: Accelerating water and climate action at COP26
The climate crisis is a water crisis, and broad partnerships are needed to tackle both. To help bridge the gap between the 2019 and 2021 World Water Weeks, WWWeek At Home will bring together convenor-hosted, virtual adaptations of sessions on water and climate change originally destined for World Water Week 2020.
With water and climate both being high on the UK’s agenda, this event will highlight the global water crisis and the UK's response in the context of climate change and Covid-19.
Mobile money taxation in Africa: Causes and consequences (Webinar)
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, cash-strapped governments across Africa will be looking for ways to fill revenue gaps. Having long faced challenges in taxing large multinational corporations and significant informal economic activities, they may be tempted to raise much-needed revenue relatively easily by imposing taxes on rapidly growing digital financial services, particularly mobile money. However, increasing mobile money usage across the continent has the potential to expand financial inclusion.
Call for project proposals on climate change in sub-Saharan Africa
The Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) has launched a new call for project proposals on the theme of Climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: The impacts and responses for women and girls.
This initiative aims to produce the evidence that local and national policymakers need to inform specific policy interventions for:
How can we address religious inequalities in post‑COVID-19 transition?
Join the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) online to hear from UK Special Envoy on FoRB and our international panel of experts discuss religious inequalities and Covid-19.
Global investment, local struggles
Following the global commodities boom, investment has poured into large-scale extractive, green energy and other resource development projects around the world. Many of these are in the rural margins – places geographically but also politically distant from the centres of economic power.
In many places, tensions, struggles and conflicts have arisen around land ‘grabs’, compensation mechanisms, contracts and work opportunities, as well as environmental damage and social changes associated with large-scale resource developments.