2024 was a year of significant transitions – characterised by rapid technological progress, shifting geopolitical landscapes, ...

On the eve of the UN's Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) Tumasie Blair, Simona Marinescu and RESI Directors Matt Bishop and Emily Wilkinson argue that small ...

One of the primary objectives of social protection is to help households cope with adverse events. These include shocks that affect entire communities, or large parts of the population at the same ...

In 2022, the countries that are Party to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity - the main multilateral governance entity for biodiversity - adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity ...

Established in 1963, the ODI fellowship scheme matches early career economists with government placements around the world. The first three ODI Fellows began their work in 1963. Since then, over 1,300 ...

This report is concerned with how the impact of humanitarian aid can be measured, why this is increasingly being demanded and whether it is possible to do it better. It also explores the benefits, ...

Combating disasters in contexts affected by conflict and violence should be a priority for national governments and the international community. 58% of deaths from natural-hazard related disasters ...

As the dust begins to settle on the fall of a 54-year-long dictatorship, a haunting reality lingers over the issue of forcibly disappeared persons and detainees.

Youth Forward aims to improve the capacity of young people in Ghana and Uganda to get jobs, grow their businesses and access finance to expand opportunities available to them. The initiative is a ...

This project aims to encourage and support better understanding and more proactive engagement of the policy and business community in the politically challenging but manageable reality of global human ...

The Global Learning for Adaptive Management (GLAM) initiative, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is a ...