CDI webinar series on methods for theory-based evaluation
This CDI seminar will introduce the emerging causal pathways network which seeks to help philanthropy and other funders to open up the black box of strategy and systems change by building awareness, will, and skills to use evaluation approaches that can make sense of causal relationships without...
Over the past 12 months, colleagues from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) have run a series of events reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the Limits to Growth. In 1973 a SPRU research team criticised the MIT group’s modelling of global resources and futures, reclaimed...
White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences. There is a growing interest in understanding the meaning, manifestations, analysis and implications of racism in North/South relations. White Saviorism in International development seeks to remedy the...
This Sussex Development Lecture will discuss the evolution of a road beside a Communal Reserve in Peruvian Amazonia. It will consider the use and narrative power of the concept of ‘sustainable development’ within local, national, and international cultures and discourses. Does the concept...
In this Participation, Inclusion and Social Change cluster Seminar we are celebrating our new partnership with Fundacion Paraguaya (the developers of the Poverty Stoplight) and will discuss and share how we develop understandings of participatory processes to work to generate change through...
CDI webinar series on methods for theory-based evaluation
In this Centre for Development Impact (CDI) seminar we will launch the Special Issue in the European Journal of Development Research on Evaluating Research for Development: Innovation to Navigate Complexity. Large publicly funded programmes of research continue to receive increased investment...
Compassion in World Farming is hosting a two-day international conference to share solutions on global food system transformation with partners including the Institute of Development Studies, IPES-Food, Birdlife International and others. The Extinction or Regeneration conference, to be held...
Postponed from March 15 to May 24 We are living in an era of ‘polycrisis’, of turbulence, and interconnected, wicked global challenges. Responding to such challenges requires collective action – on issues as diverse as climate, global public health, debt and digital governance. The...
Each year we invite a prominent speaker on international development to give the IDS Annual Lecture. These events are open to the public and available to attend in person and watch online. Past speakers include the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, world-renown...
The Sussex Development Lecture series is an opportunity to hear from leading global thinkers on development. It is jointly run by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the School of Global Studies , the Science Policy and Research Unit (SPRU) and the Centre for International Education...
The IDS Conflict, Violence and Development seminar series focuses on mass violent conflicts as well as every day forms of insecurity, looking at their relationship with poverty and development. It provides a forum to discuss the Institute's work in this area, as well as some exciting work on...
The Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development (CRPD) conducts and facilitates research on: the impact of the BRICS and other rapidly-changing and increasingly influential middle-income countries on low-income countries the need for the restructuring of global development...
This event examines the progress and challenges that have shaped water and development from Mar-del- Plata (1977) to the upcoming UN Water Conference in New York City (2023). Speakers will focus on key achievements and missed opportunities, and reflect on what’s proposed at New York in terms...
Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Professor Nick Mirzoeff (New York University) and Olu Jenzen (University of Brighton) about the recent publication of Nick Mirzoeff's White Sight: The Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (2023). Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual activist,...
Healing Justice is an emerging political organising framework that addresses the systemic injustice and intergenerational harm experienced by oppressed and marginalised peoples. This seminar presents insights from research that explored its relevance for feminist movement-building in different...
The military coup of February 1st, 2021, shook Myanmar, and intensified a long-standing situation of conflict-induced displacement, with a resulting dramatic increase of people seeking shelter away from their hometowns and villages. In this context, existing networks of informal support become...
Gender-progressive policies around the world are facing significant backlash. Gender justice activists and women’s rights organisations are having to mobilise quickly to counter these attacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYMF3Ga_dZg The rise of racist, misogynist, populist and...
In this online event, we will highlight the policy and practice implications emerging from the discussions at a three-day workshop on ‘Pastoralism, Development and Policy’. These will be discussed by a panel of commentators from different regions of the world, and including policymakers,...
This panel session will highlight a new perspective on extensive livestock systems that embraces ‘uncertainty,’ challenges conventional policy ideas and introduces new thinking on livestock and climate change, biodiversity protection and pastoral development. The opening talk will be...
In parallel to the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), this roundtable discusses the importance of enhancing the participation of LDCs in Global Value Chains (GVCs). The roundtable is the seventh in the seminar series on inclusive trade, and builds on from the...