AI is ready to significantly improve the speed and accessibility of evidence synthesis for decision-makers.

As we navigate a deeply uncertain global environment, the stakes have never been higher for taking an evidence-informed approach to policy.

Apple has been getting hammered in tech and financial media for its uncharacteristically messy foray into artificial intelligence. After a June event heralding a new AI-powered Siri, the company has d...

Driving up intensified farming in lower income countries will not make them immune from bird flu, as the USA and UK shows.

During a recent meeting in Kenya that celebrated the ESRC FCDO Raising Learning Outcomes Research programme (RLO)

Now is the time to make a case for a collectivised, programme level approach to knowledge brokering and impact. The increasing calls for policy to “follow the science”, pressures created by ODA cuts a...

In response to the Prime Minister’s announcement to cut the overseas development assistance from 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent of GNI by 2027 to fund the increased defence budget, Professor Peter Taylor,...

About GRTD Funding Research News X Global Research and Technology Development Your starting point for the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) funded research and develo...

Despite ambitious policies and well-intended programmes, food security and nutrition challenges persist around the world and are becoming more complex.

This report aims to contribute to the evolving conversation around equity in research partnerships. with a specific focus on how equity is understood and experienced by research funders in Low- and Mi...

The stop order on USAID is damaging critical humanitarian and development work around the world, says Peter Taylor, Director at IDS.

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Confidence in all types of vaccination has taken a hit. The question is why, and what can be done about it?

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Head of Communications and Impact, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (Part Time, Fixed Term) in the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

Last week, researchers from the ESRC FCDO funded Raising Learning Outcomes programme (RLO) gathered in Nairobi to discuss the implications of a decade’s research produced by global South and North par...

In this blog written from a meeting of thousands of knowledge brokers and scientists at the Global Evidence Summit, I ask how are we going to put the rapid into rapid evidence reviews? I was excited t...

This synthesis paper brings together perspectives from across the Global South and North to explore the complexities and challenges of promoting equity in research. Drawing on separate inquiry tracks ...

IDS is thrilled to announce that we will be attending the Global Evidence Summit (GES) as a programme partner for the first time this year.