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International Development Research teams at IDS
The development research programmes at IDS are organised in six closely linked multidisciplinary teams.
Climate Change Team
Research on how climate change affects poor people and how policies for adaptation and low-carbon development are shaped by economic and political power.
Globalisation Team
Asian drivers of global change, China and India, regionalism, value chains and standards, putting enterprises and growth back onto the poverty agenda.
Governance Team
State capacity, collective action and public policy, politics, law and rights, security, conflict and fragile states.
Knowledge, Technology and Society Team
Health, agriculture, environment, making technologies work for the poor, science and citizenship.
Participation, Power and Social Change Team
Participation in politics and governance, institutional learning and change, the theory and practice of participation.
Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team
Social protection, conflict, ICTs, post MDGs, microfinance, food and agriculture, wellbeing, pro-poor policy processes.
- A Global Solution to Protect Water by Transforming Waste - This EPSRC project focuses on the 'peri-urban' environment, which includes areas outside cities that are characterised by poor infrastructure, and poor access to formal water and sanitation services. (Ongoing)
- A Study of Effective Referral Mechanisms to Strengthen Child and Social Protection in ESAR - (Ongoing)
- Academic Partnership in Support of Teaching Development Aid Curriculum in Russia - IDS was commissioned by the World Bank to provide input into the implementation of the 'Russia as a Donor Initiative' (RDI) programme. (2010 - 2011)
- Accelerating Progress in Reducing Hunger and Undernutrition - This programme will focus on how agriculture can deliver better nutrition outcomes by developing evidence-based policy options and tools for businesses, governments, NGOs and donors. (Ongoing)
- Adaptation screening tools for development cooperation: Piloting ORCHID and other approaches - IDS is involved in a range initiatives to develop, test, discuss and disseminate tools for screening and assessment of climate and disaster risk. (2006 - 2009)
- Adaptive Social Protection - The ASP programme uses evidence to link climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection (SP). (Ongoing)
- Addressing and Mitigating Violence - This programme will generate practical policy options for states and citizens so they can better address and mitigate violence in both rural and urban settings. (Ongoing)
- AfricaAdapt - The Network facilitates the flow of climate change adaptation knowledge for sustainable livelihoods between researchers, policy makers, civil society organisations and communities who are vulnerable to climate variability and change across the continent. (2008 - 2011)
- Agency and Governance in Contexts of Civil Conflict - analysing how the relationship between populations living in contexts of violence and armed non-state actors controlling or contesting those areas results in forms of local governance and order, and how this affects people's livelihoods. (Ongoing)
- Agricultural Biotechnology & Policy Processes in Developing Countries - (Ongoing)
- Aid for AIDS: How do community groups negotiate the new financial architecture? - What is the overall impact of current major vertical and bilateral international financing structures for HIV and AIDS on local and district-level responses? (Ongoing)
- Aid for Nutrition - How Much is Being Invested? - (2011 - 2011)
- ALINe - There is a new and widespread commitment within the development community to invest in agriculture as a way of reducing poverty and hunger. Three quarters of the one billion people surviving on less than $1 a day live and work in rural areas, and most rely on agriculture for their food and income. Investing in agriculture is key to lifting the world's poor out of hunger and poverty. (Ongoing)
- Analysing Nutrition Governance - The project examines what factors enable governments to commit to national nutrition strategies and deliver appropriate nutrition policies in the long run. (Ongoing)
- Analysing the Effects from Non Tariff Measures (NTM) in the Global Agri-Food Trade - The project's objective is to collect and analyse new data on non-tariff measures, particularly on governmental standards and regulations that prescribe the conditions for importing agri-food products into the EU market and into the markets of the main competing players. (2009 - 2011)
- ARCADE HSSR: African Regional Capacity Development for Health Systems and Services Research - (Ongoing)
- ARCADE RSDH: Asian Regional Capacity Development for Research on Social Determinants of Health - (Ongoing)
- Asbestos Diseases - (2005 - 2007)
- Assessing Social Change - Exploring the opportunities and challenges for assessing and learning about social change (2005 - 2006)
- Assessing the Political Feasibility of Policy Reform in the Horn of Africa - The project investigated the ways in which local political organisation, interest group power, and institutional proclivities and capacities shape the reform initiatives that are most likely to be successful. (2006 - 2007)
