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Events: Event series

ODI regularly hosts events series, which take an in-depth look at key development and humanitarian issues.

Dialogue with an opposition group and community in Darfur

Humanitarian negotiations: engaging with state and non-state actors in the midst of conflict

Event - Public event - 5 September - 6 November 2013

This event series will examine the challenges and compromises involved in humanitarian negotiations with state and non-state armed actors, how engagement affects access to populations, and what lessons can be learned.

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BetterEvaluation coffee break webinars

Event - Webinar - 3 May 2013

This eight part series of webinars, hosted by the American Evaluation Association, presents the BetterEvaluation rainbow framework for evaluation and how to use it.

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Developments in public finance: evidence, theory and practice

Event - Public event - 20 June - 31 December 2012

This event series delivered by the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure (CAPE) explored pertinent issues in public finance in developing countries and fragile states. By convening a range of specialists – including researchers, policy-makers and practitioners – the series aimed to share evidence, ideas and innovations to spur improvements in practice and to drive forward the research agenda.

For more information about the series and to register interest in future seminars, please contact Rebecca Simson (r.simson@odi.org.uk).

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Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF) series: ‘Demanding accountability from the bottom-up: examining what works, what does not work, and why'

Event - Public event - 21 March 2012 - 31 January 2013

This series comprises six discussions around the theme of ‘Demanding accountability from the bottom-up: examining what works, what does not work, and why'. The series reflects on the four years of implementing Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF) programmes such as Mwananchi in various parts of the world.

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Advanced course on conflict, crisis and transitions

Event - Course - 9 November 2011

The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute and the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) at the University of York are partnering to offer a yearly ‘Advanced Course on Conflict, Crisis and Transitions’, a week-long programme targeting mid-career and senior professionals.

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Busan and beyond: aid effectiveness in a new era

Event - Public event - 7 July - 30 October 2011

Aid effectiveness is again at the top of the development agenda. As the aid community prepares to meet at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in November 2011, this ODI event series examines some of the most pressing issues that need to be addressed by the policymaking community.

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Climate finance effectiveness

Event - Public event - 24 March - 30 May 2011

2011 is an important year for climate finance. With the 17th COP meeting of the UNFCCC planned for the end of the year in Durban, South Africa, strong progress on climate finance is necessary for the success of the international negotiations.

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Long-term research perspectives on budget support

Event - Workshop - 22 March - 19 October 2011

The purpose of this series of closed events is to allow prominent researchers and policy advisors more time to think through and discuss what are considered to be some of the key questions and themes surrounding budget support today.

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After 2015: new challenges in development

Event - Public event - 10 March - 30 April 2011

Things are getting better. That’s the message from a number of recent studies, showing amazing progress on a range of issues, from income poverty, to health to education.

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City limits: urbanisation and vulnerability in Sudan

Event - Public event - 25 January - 26 February 2011

Presenting case studies from Khartoum, Juba, Nyala and Port Sudan, this meeting series by the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute explores the phenomenon of urbanisation and its drivers in different parts of Sudan, and analyses its social, environmental and economic consequences, with particular attention to urban livelihoods, as well as infrastructure and the provision of basic services.

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