Institute of Development Studies
IDS News - March 2010
Peri-urban Futures and Sustainability
Published: 31 Mar 2010
The rapid expansion of peri-urban areas presents opportunities and challenges for urban and rural sustainability. The STEPS centre has presented research on pre-urban localities in Delhi and neighbouring Ghaziabad.
IDS Partner, Pink Space featured in The Economist and major Chinese newspaper
Published: 26 Mar 2010IDS Sexuality and Development Programme Partner, Pink Space Sexuality Research Group, China has been cited in the Economist and in Reference News, a Chinese national newspaper.
Man Trouble? Working with men on gender, power and violence
Published: 25 Mar 2010
What role do men have in challenging violence against women and girls?
Complex Crises: The challenge of finding and sharing evidence
Published: 24 Mar 2010
For the world’s poorest people the repercussions of 2008’s global financial crisis are just one of a recent series of severe and sustained shocks.
Members of Parliament back 0.7 per cent target for UK Aid
Published: 23 Mar 2010
The UK’s commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income as Official Development Assistance by 2013 must be met says the International Development Select Committee.
The Millennium Development Goals: Moving towards a post 2015 agenda
Published: 23 Mar 2010
As IDS co-hosts a symposium on the Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights at Harvard this week, IDS Fellow Andy Sumner argues that despite caution, it’s time to start thinking beyond the 2015 deadline.
New ESRC Rising Powers network on China
Published: 22 Mar 2010
Rising Powers Network is a new network that will place China as the new 'shaper' of global development under the ESRC’s Rising Power’s Programme.
One-month Postdoctoral Fellowships with the STEPS Centre
Published: 19 Mar 2010
New opportunity for postdoctoral researchers to engage with the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre during a one month period based in Sussex.
The social and economic earthquakes of Chile and Haiti
Published: 17 Mar 2010
With only a few weeks apart, both the richest and poorest countries in Latin America have been hit by two devastating earthquakes, leaving behind human, social and economic tragedies that will be felt for years to come.
Unlocking Bangladesh’s Latent Capacity
Published: 15 Mar 2010
A new report from the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee – drawing heavily on IDS research – suggests that it will take concerted efforts to tackle corruption and climate change in Bangladesh.
DFID Launch First Nutrition Strategy
Published: 15 Mar 2010
The UK Department for International Development has just launched its first ever nutrition strategy with expert support from IDS.
Undernutrition in Today’s World is an Unforgivable Crime
Published: 12 Mar 2010
IDS Director, Lawrence Haddad, on why we must not be accomplices to the crime of child undernutrition
In search of transformative processes at the Commision on the Status of Women
Published: 9 Mar 2010
How transformatory is the Commission on the Status of Women in reality? And what have participants been doing to re-invigorate development and gender equality debates, thinking and processes?
Science, Technology and Innovation is central to Social and Economic Progress
Published: 9 Mar 2010
A major project from the ESRC STEPS Centre is focusing on new ways of linking science and innovation to development for a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future.
Women's Empowerment: a journey not a destination
Published: 8 Mar 2010
On International Women’s Day, we call for much more attention to be paid to changing representations and narratives that portray women as victims to be rescued or heroines who will single-handedly uplift their countries and communities.
Reflections from the 2010 Commission on the Status of Women
Published: 3 Mar 2010
This year’s Commission on the Status of Women reviews the link between progress towards gender equality, the Millennium Development Goals and the Beijing Platform for Action. IDS staff attending the conference share their reflections and invite your views.
Reimagining Development in the early 21st Century
Published: 2 Mar 2010
Recent crises should make us take a hard look at our models of international development. Are they still fit for purpose or are better ideas emerging?
Roadmap for Community Based Adaptation (CBA)
Published: 2 Mar 2010
The 4th International Community Based Adaptation (CBA) conference drew to a close on Saturday, setting a roadmap for further theory-building and knowledge sharing in this nascent but extremely promising field for the year to come.
The Big Question for Development, IDS Podcast March 2010
Published: 1 Mar 2010
The IDS podcast finds out about Reimagining Development, a new initiative aiming to identify emerging thoughts and ideas on international development and alternative pathways out of poverty.
