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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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Sustainable Development Goals - Feasible, desirable or a leap too far?

Event - Public event - 8 May 2012 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

This summer’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will centre on the ambition to create a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS). However many questions remain unanswered about how these goals would work in practice.

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Separated at birth, reunited in Rio? A roadmap to bring environment and development back together

Publication - Discussion papers - 8 May 2012

ODI Background Notes

Claire Melamed, Andrew Scott and Tom Mitchell

Linking development and environmental objectives through policy initiatives is not an easy task. This Background Note sets out to explain why reconciling the two agendas has been so difficult at a practical level, and suggests how Rio+20 could start to bridge the gaps between the two.

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Understanding poverty and wellbeing: a note with implications for research and policy

Publication - Research reports and studies - 8 May 2012

Poverty Analysis Discussion Group - Sabina Alkire, Jo Boyden, John Hammock, David Hulme, Claire Melamed, Allister McGregor, Diana Mitlin, Andrew Norton, Andrew Shepherd, Frances Stewart, Andy Sumner, Gaston Yalonetzky

This note takes stock of poverty research to date, proposes a set of ‘building blocks’ or lessons learnt in terms of poverty policy analysis and research, and identifies challenges and future directions for research.

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A rough guide to post-2015 frameworks

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 25 April 2012

'My handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the three possible post-2015 frameworks which seem to be implied by current discussions'

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Time to gamble on development goals

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 10 April 2012

Every global movement starts when a group of people decide to take a gamble – a gamble that an issue will become big, a gamble that they can move the politics their way, a gamble that events will be helpful in moving their agenda on. Every campaign – to drop the debt, against the slave trade, in favour of women’s suffrage, started with someone, or a group of people, betting on optimism and winning in the face of apathy or hostility.

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