The research component of the project was led by the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, in partnership with Marakuja Kivu Research. The working paper focuses on violence ...

How the Africa Technology and Innovation Partnership is strengthening STI ecosystems through collaboration, digital innovation, and systems change.

This seminar shares findings about gender, equity, and social inclusion (GESI) in social protection, in protracted crisis contexts from BASIC Research.

Millions of citizens in Africa are unable to obtain essential services that they are entitled to as new digital ID systems continue being imposed across the continent, requiring them to provide ...

Caste-based discrimination is not just an ‘Indian social issue’. It is a global phenomenon, seen ‘from Britain to Bahrain, Canada to South Africa.’ Join us at this Sussex Development Lecture to hear ...

At a time of substantial uncertainty for global development, three things are clear. First, aid is retreating substantially, and probably permanently. Second, lower-income countries’ debt servicing ...

Mutual aid has been a lifeline for many in Sudan’s conflict. This study explores how mechanisms of social solidarity have been shaped by the war as well as by their ...

On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, a country going through a civil war and an already worsening humanitarian crisis under the military junta. Emergency alert triggered ...

Two hundred children were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in just 72 hours last week, while all life-saving aid supplies, and water has been cut off. Progress on a ceasefire in Ukraine is hitting ...

The UK Prime Minister has announced that the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget will be cut from 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent of GNI by 2027, in order to fund an increase to the defence ...

The introduction of ‘digital-by-default’ welfare and social protection systems in the UK and beyond has delivered efficiencies and cost savings for governments and can be convenient for recipients.

Strong civic culture makes for inclusive, participatory, and adaptive democracies. Citizen University is a non-profit that engages with civic catalysts to build civic culture across the United States.