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Coping with Covid‑19 and Coterminous Shocks: Ethiopia Country Case Study Annexes
No full textThis technical annexe accompanies two papers that together form the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research targeting case study for Ethiopia (Merttens et al. 2025a, 2025b). It contains supplementary detail on data and methods (Annexe A, Annexe B, and Annexe C), as well as a bespoke set of welfare analyses (Annexe D), plus supplementary material (Annexe E), which underpin and support the analysis and findings presented in the two papers.</p
Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Voices from the Front Lines
No full textA critical issue of our time is how the world can transition from a development model based on the extraction and use of fossil fuels to one based on cleaner sources of energy, and how it does so in a just and inclusive way. Central to this issue of the IDS Bulletin is the recognition that to be just, any transition must include consideration of the voices, knowledges, and realities of communities most affected. By bringing together authors from both the global South and the global North, covering a wide range of communities affected by different dimensions of the energy transition, we find long histories of action and resistance developed around encounters with earlier transitions. The articles in this IDS Bulletin highlight cases of advocacy being used to strengthen community voices to make the processes of consultation more inclusive and empowering of marginalised perspectives. In doing so they also address a less well documented citizen-led pathway that focuses on bottom-up forms of action through grass-roots innovation and social movements. Given the multiple historical forms of injustice which surround energy production, struggles for just transition must ultimately involve multiple forms of justice – be they distributive, recognitional, procedural, restorative, or reparative.</p
Notes on Contributors: Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Voices from the Front Lines
No full textThis is the Notes on Contributors for IDS Bulletin 56.2, 'Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Voices from the Front Lines'.</p
Resistencias civiles a la minería: impulsando transiciones energéticas justas en Argentina y Chile
No full textArgentina y Chile se han consolidado como proveedores clave de minerales críticos esenciales para la transición energética global. Sin embargo, la expansión de la actividad minera en ambos países ha generado amplios conflictos socioambientales. Este artículo analiza la escala, las causas y los resultados de la resistencia de la sociedad civil a la minería, a partir de una revisión de más de 180 fuentes y un mapeo de 36 casos de conflicto. Sostiene que estos conflictos no son episodios aislados, sino fenómenos generalizados, políticamente significativos y cada vez más influyentes en la configuración de estrategias para una transición justa. Lideradas por actores diversos —comunidades indígenas, asambleas locales, organizaciones no gubernamentales y gobiernos municipales—, estas resistencias han logrado en muchos casos frenar proyectos, impulsar reformas legales y generar innovaciones desde abajo. Si bien estas resistencias ponen en evidencia las fallas de los modelos de gobernanza actuales, también proponen estrategias alternativas basadas en la justicia territorial y la participación democrática. Se propone por lo tanto que las mismas no deben entenderse como un obstáculo, sino como un posible catalizador de transformaciones institucionales y políticas.</p
دعم العون التكافلي في السودان: مناهج إدارة المخاطر والمساءلة الحساسة للنزاعات
No full textظل العون التكافلي يمثل شريان حياة للعديد من السودانيين خلال فترة النزاع. تستكشف هذه الدراسة الكيفية التي أثرت بها الحرب و كذلك التفاعل مع الممولين الخارجيين على بنية آليات التضامن. تضيف هذه الدراسة إلى الأساس البراهيني حول الاستجابة التي يقودها المجتمع المحلي خلال الأزمات الممتدة وحول حساسية النزاع، وتدرس الكيفية التي يمكن للجهات الدولية الفاعلة من خلالها تعزيز جودة شراكتها مع الهيئات الشعبية عبر إعادة النظر في المناهج المتبعة في التعامل مع المخاطر والمساءلة.</p
Women and Girls’ Political Empowerment
No full textThis rapid literature review explores the evidence about the approaches have been used to support girls’ and women political empowerment (WPE), focussing on their effectiveness and constraints. It particularly explores women’s political leadership and quotas in low- and middle-income countries.</p
Informal Civil Society Organisations in Low and Middle-Income Countries and their Contribution to Development
No full textThis rapid evidence review examines informal Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in low and middle-income countries and their contribution to development. The evidence review also explores how these groupings relate to each other as well as to formal civil society organisations. Informal civil society plays an important role in contributing to development goals in developing countries. While there is no one typology to categorise informal CSO organisations, the literature suggests that some broad categories do exist. These are highlighted in this review.</p
Can Civil Society Sustain Democratic Governance in Africa?
No full textDemocracy in Africa has experienced a turbulent trajectory over the past three decades. Activists celebrated a wave of transitions to multi-party democracy and the end of military rule across much of the continent in the 1990s. This gained fresh momentum with the Arab Spring in the early 2010s when popular protests ejected authoritarian rulers across much of North Africa. But this wave of democratic transitions has not been sustained. A return to authoritarian rule over the past decade has curbed the optimism of democracy activists and external actors. Civic space is increasingly constrained in many countries, including those which continue to hold elections. Governance reforms have faltered as democracy has stalled. Violent conflict has resurfaced in the Horn of Africa, along with jihadist insurgencies in the Sahel. This article considers how far civil society can play a constitutive role in sustaining democratic institutions and preserving civic space in the face of enduring threats to democracy and governance in Africa.</p
Climate Change, Conflict, Food Security and Social Protection in Niger
No full textNiger, like much of West Africa, faces interconnected short- and long-term challenges, particularly around food insecurity, conflict, and climatic extremes. Although hazards such as droughts and floods are not the only drivers of food insecurity, they can worsen vulnerabilities and worsen humanitarian impacts. This Research Briefing introduces the concept of opportunity storylines to explore the impacts of plausible climate futures and identify which social protection systems could be used to reduce hunger and protect livelihoods. It draws on findings from a workshop attended by climate and technical experts from Niger and the wider Sahel. The event drew on research led by the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme in partnership with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and regional climate specialists examining the links between climate change, conflict, food security, and social protection.</p