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Informal Workers Organization & Social Protection (Spiwork) Project - Kisumu Policy Dialogue

Kisumu Campus hosted the institute for Development Studies (IDS), and informal worker’s organization and social protection (SPIWORK) project on social protection and informal economy research project for the period 2017-2020 being implemented by the IDS in collaboration with Roskilde University in Denmark and Mzumbe University in Tanzania.

IDS and Collaborators to Launch Project on Diaspora Humanitarianism in Complex Crises (D-Hum)

The Institute for Development Studies (IDS), the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), the Rift Valley Institute (RVI), and Rako Research and Communication Centre based in Hargeisa, Somaliland, will launch a collaborative research project on Diaspora Humanitarianism in Complex Crises (D-Hum).

Kenyans Air Their Views on the State of the Economy

According to the Afrobarometer Round 8 Survey, Kenyans are divided over their assessments of the economy but are generally not happy with the country’s performance.

Are We Headed in the Right Direction Politically and Economically?

By Otuma Ongalo

This is the big question that the first Institute for Development Studies (IDS) seminar in the new year ,2020, will address, based on the Afrobarometer survey conducted in September last year.

Kenyan Youth Are More Optimistic about the Economy.

Young people aged 18-35 years are more optimistic about the future of Kenya compared to the elderly people who are aged 51 years and above. This is the findings by Afrobarometer, an organization that closely works with the University of Nairobi research think-tank Institute of Development Studies.