Humanitarian agencies and donors are increasingly advocating for the use of cash-based assistance (CBA), recognising its flexibility and potential to empower affected communities. Both the Grand ...

Mpox is a public health emergency of international concern, and there has been an increase in mpox cases in Africa. The issue of transmission of mpox through sexual contact is an important area of ...

We know climate change is happening, but it’s uncertain as to how the impacts will play out, to what extent, where, affecting whom. In the sixth chapter of Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking ...

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 ...

Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

How do we make sense of what voters have been doing in this year of elections? Too often we think of the results of elections ...

Food and nutrition insecurity is a reality for a large number of people in India. Social safety nets to ensure food security of the poor and vulnerable become important in such a scenario. The Public ...

has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for ...

There was a period in the late 19th and 20th centuries when the worlds of art and science were seen as opposed to one another ...