New open access report by Sara Stevano on The Devaluation of Essential Work: An Assessment of the 2023 ILO Report.
Sara Stevano’s assessment of the ILO 2023 report on ‘The value of essential work’ is now published. The report centres the problem of devaluation of essential work and provides a wealth of useful data. Yet, it fails to recognise the contested nature of the essential work category and to offer an explanation for the devaluation of essential work. Sara provides some reflections on how the devaluation of social reproduction may be implicated in the poor working conditions of essential workers.

SOAS’s Fola Aina and his co-author Al Chukwuma Okoli on the release of their book, “Contemporary Security Governance in Nigeria: Themes and Perspectives“. This insightful work tackles some of the key governance and security challenges that Nigeria is confronted with. A must read for both researchers and policy makers working in the field.

‘New and additional’: why funding climate finance from aid budgets is a problem. Michael Jennings argues that donors have failed to provide the promised new and additional funding, which risks undermining action on climate and poverty.

In this RIS journal article, Burak Tansel & Lisa Tilley critique the accumulation-oriented trajectory of the green transition & take inspiration from the “stubborn reproduction of socio-ecological life through various grounded projects across the world.

Naomi Hossain shares her perspectives with Deutsche Welle on the challenges facing Bangladesh’s interim government in restoring law and order following last month’s ousting of the prime minister. Is Bangladesh’s interim government up for the task? Naomi Hossain also spoke with Ibrahim Sabidin at Bonik Barta about Bangladesh’s exciting interregnum. “Changing parties is not enough: political power must be dispersed to people“.

“The Drugs & (dis)order research programme, based at SOAS Development Studies, was featured in a recent Colombian Constitutional Court ruling on the National Illicit Crop Substitution Program. The research provided critical evidence highlighting the Colombian government’s systematic failure to meet its commitments under point 4 of the Peace Accords. Frances Thomson, an associate with the programme, offers further insights.

Student Taylor Rockhill writes: How the rise of a digital Nigeria is shaping the economy.

In The Conversation, Awino Okech writes that Kenya’s femicide cases need national action: declare a crisis now!