Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
In this seminar, Osmany Porto de Oliveira will address the International Diffusion of Participatory Budgeting, which is the theme of his book just released by Palgrave McMillan.
Development aid often gets bad press because it is seen as ineffective in lifting countries out of poverty. In The Aid Lab, Naomi Hossain argues that aid can work, even in extremely unpromising contexts. The Aid Lab examines the extraordinary case of Bangladesh.
A Sussex Development Lecture with Magnus Marsden, Professor Of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex.
This Tearfund and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) parliamentary event, hosted by Jeremy Lefroy MP, will examine how investing in a circular economy in the developing world has the potential to create jobs, reduce pollution and improve lives for the world’s poorest.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
This talk explores how disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) activities in South Sudan have been instrumentalised and repurposed by the ruling factions steering South Sudan’s post-conflict statebuilding process, and unpacks the ways in which they...
NGO Forum event at the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
This consultation will explore how gender transformative approaches engaging men and boys can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and targets.
Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), on The Corruption of Capitalism: Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay.
This interactive event, taking place alongside CSW61, brings together young women activists, researchers, feminists and social justice organisations to talk about care dynamics, their implications for women's economic participation and gender responsive public services as a pathway towards ...
The inaugural Digital Development Summit will explore the pressing challenge of how to ensure decent work for all in a rapidly digitising world.
Derick Brinkerhoff and Jana Hertz will speak about a recent publication Governance and Service Delivery: Practical Applications of Social Accountability across Sectors, which considers a number of questions.
This event will take the launch of the special issue of Gender & Development, entitled Working on Gender Equality in Fragile Contexts, as a an opportunity to discuss (and debate) what a gendered lens onto fragility looks like.
