For the second year in a row, social protection, loss and damage and debt relief are the hot topics in IIED’s 10 most ...

As 2024 draws to a close, we're showcasing some of the content we've published during the last 12 months. Our insights offer ...

Crisis narratives, as defined by Emery Roe, are simplified cause-effect stories that policymakers and donors rely on to ...

The paper calls for Member States to develop a roadmap to support collective, non-speculative forms of housing and tenure ...

A majority of the world’s estimated cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with 10-30% of its annual production mined artisanally (Photo: Fairphone, via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) ...

In early December, donor governments met in Korea to agree the replenishment of the International Development Association ...

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South Fishing community slum of Sai Baba Sahi ...

This paper engages with the global debate about the meaningfulness, validity and reliability of the poverty-line approach by examining the Egyptian poverty lines in relation to the reality of the ...

This paper was prepared as an informal background briefing for the first session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert ...

Some of the world’s poorest countries are being trapped in a vicious cycle of debt because of a credit rating system that punishes disaster-linked debt relief and fails to adequately measure ...