In her new book, "The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy", Ayesha Khan argues that women's movements' demands for their rights and a secular state are both integral to the project of building a democratic and inclusive Pakistan, even though social norms have evolved to curb this discourse today.

This seminar will focus on recent technology changes in African agriculture and specifically the emphasis on mechanisation as a vehicle for modernisation and structural transformation. The renewed interest in mechanisation echoes the rise of agriculture in the policy agenda and the quest for an African Green Revolution. 

Drawing on his more than 25 years of experience working on HIV/AIDS, Professor Peter Piot will discuss the interrelated relationship between HIV/AIDS and development. 

This professional development course equips development policymakers and practitioners with the knowledge and skills to more effectively design, improve and implement strategic approaches to address nutrition issues at regional, national and global levels.  

The Government of Ghana, the Institute of Development Studies and the University of Sussex invite you to a Side Event at the UN High-level Political Forum on building on synergies and exploring financing options for effective implementation of the SDGs

This course enables participants to expand their knowledge base of approaches to social protection, develop an understanding of the challenges in designing and implementing social protection programmes, and critically assess current evidence of what works in social protection.

Learn how to use participatory video to drive and mediate participatory and community-led change, in an ethical and contextualized way. 

Do trade shocks affect conflict? The evidence on this question has so far focused mainly on commodity price shocks. This seminar moves beyond this focus and uses data from the entire export and import baskets to examine whether changes in Palestinian trade in the second half of the 1990s affected the intensity of the subsequent Palestinian uprising (‘second Intifada’).

The Innovation for UHC Conclave at the GE Healthcare, Bangalore, India will bring together those who have been involved in the design and implementation of health care innovations, which have the potential to be taken to scale and transferred between regions and countries. 

Sustainable food systems are a pressing and undisputed goal – but what barriers are preventing the vision from becoming a reality?