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30 August 2018
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The purpose of this briefing note is to add to SDC’s understanding of Theory of Change (ToC), drawing on the literature and practice...
Human beings and our societies are complex systems. Cities are complex systems. The development sector is a complex system. While...
The Centre for Development Impact (CDI) contributes to learning and innovation in the field of impact evaluation. The Centre aims to improve the assessment of impact on the poor, particularly through the use of appropriate, mixed method, and robust evaluation designs.
The ESRC STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement centre.
Climate disruption, environmental change and resource scarcity have become the subject of growing policy attention, academic debate and...
Participation is a right held by all people to engage in society and in the decisions that impact their lives. Participation is thus a...
12 June 2018
Published by: IDS
This primer is designed to help programmes that aim to build participation into economic decision-making to better understand what ‘participation’ means.
22 March 2018
27 November 2017
Published by: IDS
A significant portion of the world’s remaining biodiversity and agrobiodiversity is in the hands of local and indigenous communities who tend to be politically marginalised and thus excluded from formal environmental governance schemes.
Complexity and Development Seminar Series
Starting with definitions of terms, this seminar will contrast two paradigms for learning and acting: a neo-Newtonian paradigm more fitting for standardised and predictable physical things and a complexity paradigm more fitting for diverse, emergent and unpredictable people and social processes.