I consider IDS as the best Institute to gain knowledge and understanding of the Development discourse. Personally, I have become more functionally relevant at work applying all that I learnt at IDS. I consider the Institute "the basket where professionalism in the development sector is bread."
At IDS they make you earn your degree, there are no shortcuts, and I am all the better for it! I benefited a great deal from IDS' seminar-style mode of teaching and the close mentorship and friendship of my research supervisors. I acquired key learning, literacy and life skills from my time at IDS that I apply every day in both professional and non-professional contexts. Having an IDS degree has opened doors for me and allowed me to advance in my career.
Environmental, social and governance concerns from stakeholders continue to pose risks to development projects such as lose of social licence to operate, reputational risks and loss of investors consequently leading to project delays and loss of jobs. ESG and sustainability are at the core of IDS which has equipped me with requisite skills and knowledge on holistically assessing infrastructure projects across Africa from an environmental, social and economic point of view and coming up with safeguard policies and strategies on how to manage the risks.
Governments and non-governmental organizations around the world have embraced community or complementary currencies (CCs) as tools of poverty reduction, environmental protection and promotion of social solidarity. Community Currencies are best viewed as a financial innovation to assist local-level development and are seen as a new age poverty-reduction strategy. Popular CCs include: FureaiKippu (Japan), Red De Turque (Argentina), Ithaca Hours (United States), Bristol Pounds (United Kingdom) and Chiemgauer (Germany).
The Kenyan legal framework obligates the national and county governments to involve the
people in the decision making process. To achieve this ideal, county governments are required
to establish structures to facilitate citizen participation in their operations. This policy brief sheds
light on some of the issues that counties should focus on so as to institutionalize and strengthen
systems for public participation in county decision making processes.
To track progress in service delivery and inform decision making, counties are required to
create systems for monitoring, evaluation and reporting. This policy brief sheds light on some
issues that counties should focus on to strengthen their monitoring, evaluation and reporting
systems.
