A senior delegation of IMF staff are taking part in a one-week visit to Europe where they intend to gather input for a paper on exit strategies for LICs after the crisis, the post-crisis financial architecture and development challenges.
On 4th June, the ODI hosted a Roundtable discussion on 'Re-thinking aid policy in response to Zimbabwe's protracted crisis'. The aim was to bring together people with a knowledge of human rights, humanitarian responses, the political economy of fragile states, vulnerability, poverty and livelihoods to discuss the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe, current aid modalities and programmatic design.
A roundtable discussion hosted by the Humanitarian Policy Group, which aim of the event was to draw together senior protection practitioners and analysts to discuss key themes emerging from a body of research currently conducted at HPG on field-based strategies employed by humanitarian actors to protect civilians in insecure environments and complex emergencies.
The aim of this event was to draw together senior protection analysts and practitioners to discuss key themes emerging from a body of research conducted at HPG on the protection of civilians in complex emergencies.
The aim of this event was to draw together senior protection practitioners and analysts to discuss key themes emerging from a body of research currently underway at HPG on field-based strategies employed by humanitarian actors to protect civilians in insecure environments.
A roundtable of researchers, policy activists and young people, all with a passionate concern about young lives lived well looking at whether the research and policy community is prepared for the 1.3 billion youth in developing countries.
This roundtable brought together practitioners working to strengthen civic engagement in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Discussants tabled and compared alternative instruments for support to civic engagement with the state and drawing on the models presented, a number of lessons essential to the design and delivery of civil society support were identified.
The aim of the workshop was to identify areas of agreement and consensus between the three reports in relation to three broad questions: Should equity be a goal of development policy, and if so which particular conception of equity should be used? Is there a distinct equity policy agenda, different from existing policy agendas? How can the equity policy agenda be implemented?"
The second national seminar of ODI's new Civil Society Partnerships Programme's (CSPP) Regional Consultation in Southern Africa was held in Maputo, Mozambique, in collaboration with the Cruzeiro do Sul