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Claire Melamed

Head of Programme, Growth, Poverty and Inequality

Claire Melamed is the Head of the Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme at ODI. She was previously the Head of Policy at ActionAid UK. She has also worked for Christian Aid, the United Nations in Mozambique, and taught at the University of London and the Open University.

Claire's current research interests are on the MDGs and the development of a post-MDG international agreement on development, on how an analysis of equity can improve our understanding of poverty and how to end it, on how to design policies to ensure that the benefits of growth are distributed to poor people, and on how to make inequality visible to policy makers through better data.

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David Cameron, beware: the post-2015 aid agenda is an MDG minefield

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 31 October 2012

'A good agreement on a post-2015 development agenda will be simple (not too many issues), specific (some numbers), and symmetrical (with obligations and commitments for all countries).'

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Post-2015: the road ahead

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 October 2012

Claire Melamed

This paper looks first at progress on the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to draw some lessons on how a new agreement should aim to finish the job started in 2000.

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Business, the MDGs and beyond

Event - Panel - 25 September 2012 14:00 - 17:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

As the world starts to explore what framework might replace the Millennium Development Goals, the question remains how to best harness business as an engine for development.

On 25 September in New York, a high-profile one-day event was organised by a coalition of leading international business and development organisations, led by the Business Call to Action, Business Fights Poverty, the Overseas Development Institute and the United Nations Development Programme.

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And they’re off…

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 25 September 2012

'The panel’s job is to prioritise between the 101 good ideas that are out there, and to tell a story explaining the decisions they have made which is convincing enough to persuade others that it’s the right way to go. One way to do that might be to go back to thinking about what a new agreement might be for.'

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Flooding in Pakistan: a submerged street near Nowshera, Kyhber-Pakhtunkhwa province

Disaster risk management in the post-2015 international policy landscape

Event - Workshop - 3 July 2012 09:30 - 16:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

The workshop is designed to bring together different stakeholders – from development and humanitarian agencies, government departments, research organisations and from the private sector bodies and foundations – to discuss the opportunities, structures and strategies for effectively managing disaster risk in the post-2015 international policy landscape.

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