Evaluating the impact of policies and interventions in a way that focuses on the linkages between environment and development is complicated, as different time horizons, geographical scales, actors and stakeholders need to be taken into account. Rob D. van den Bergfrom the Global Environment Facility in Washington, DC. will be introducing the GEF's mainstreaming approach and it's implications for evaluation.

Local people can generate their own numbers – and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy.

This 3 day conference will bring together policy-makers, practitioners and researchers, to review the state of knowledge and thinking on graduation and to explore how social protection can contribute to building resilient livelihoods for poor, vulnerable and food insecure people across the world.

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the prestigious RM Phillips chair in the Economics of Innovation at SPRU in the University of Sussex. She was recently Scientific Coordinator of a 3 year European Commission funded FP7 project on Finance, Innovation and Growth (FINNOV), and is currently working on two new research projects on finance and innovation, one funded by the Ford Foundation, and the other by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

This Learning Retreat will explore current thinking, practice and lessons learned in supporting meaningful civic engagement in local governance and policy processes, and in enabling socially inclusive and responsive service delivery in developing countries.

This Learning Retreat will explore current thinking and practice on public financial management (PFM) in developing countries, with a focus on decentralisation. Both expenditure and revenue sides of the budget process will be covered, with particular attention on tax revenue mobilisation which is becoming a central issue in the international policy debate.

This course is open to a wide audience of policy makers, practitioners, researchers and project managers who are already or will be working in the area of social protection. To those who are new to social protection, the course offers an opportunity to come to grips with this area of work.

The course's premise is that an acceleration of undernutrition reduction requires a transformation in the way we think about undernutrition in order to change the ways in which we address it. This 5 day course takes the participant through new ways of thinking about undernutrition and what to do about it.