Watch now https://youtu.be/unPN93hiVtE Just over a year out from the COP30 climate conference in Belém, unprecedented drought and devastating fires have reminded the world that the Amazon rainforest is still critically threatened, despite recent efforts by the Brazilian government to curb...
In this talk, Ian Scoones will introduces his new book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World (Polity Books, 2024). Watch now https://www.youtube.com/live/1fT6IjZgojo?si=c5fd6TuZdYe272Fj&t=81 Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial...
Extreme heat, altered rain patterns, and flooding events, amplified by climate change, are changing the nature of 24-hour risk cycles faced by low-income neighbourhoods and informal settlements in the urban global South. In cities such as Karachi (Pakistan) and Nairobi (Kenya), climatic changes...
This paper applies an everyday political economy approach to examine the differentiated experiences of food insecurity and diet in a rural village in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone. Utilising a mixed-methods approach that incorporates food security and dietary diversity indexes, household...
Sanitation is one of the most off-track Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the WHO and UNICEF reporting that 3.8 billion people still lacking access to safely managed sanitation. In many low- and middle-income countries, centralised and capital-intensive sanitation and waste...
Mega-Infrastructure Projects (MIPs) represent a central element of globalized development. MIPs like the Chinese driven ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) include large-scale agrarian, road, rail, port and energy networks. They are complex ventures involving international capital and multiple...
Access to water and decent sanitation service is a human right, however, its realisation has always been fraught with challenges and is likely to get magnified as structural injustices intersect with the impacts of global warming. For instance, extreme weather events such as droughts, floods...
https://youtu.be/1Ne2KVL_ueo The purpose of the webinar is to share emerging mixed methods insights on the relationship between complex crises (namely armed conflict, displacement, climate shocks and stressors, and Covid-19), poverty dynamics and social assistance in Nigeria. Nigeria...
Funding from development agencies for research projects is integral for trying to reduce global poverty, but often short-term funding produces short-term results which are hard to track in the terms of a positive impact. But what are the benefits of long-term funding of a long...
Following last year’s historic vote supporting the establishment of a new UN Framework Tax Convention, a UN Ad Hoc Group has now been convened and a zero draft terms of reference (TOR) for a future UN Framework Tax Convention has been published. An amended version of the TOR is set to be...
Participatory approaches to complex social issues like child labour
This seminar critically reflects on the praxis of children’s participation in a five-year programme tackling the worst forms of child labour in Nepal and Bangladesh. Posed as a conversation between theory and practice, the speakers share what they had to learn (and unlearn) to work effectively...
Participatory approaches to complex social issues like child labour
CLARISSA responded to the complex challenge of child labour through a deliberate and participatory approach to adaptive management. But what does it really mean to implement such an approach in practice? And what evidence do we have of how it worked? In this webinar we will reflect on our...
