Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Latest projects

Innovation - Social enterprise: challenges and opportunities

Projects - March 2013 to March 2014

This project will examine the objectives, practices and challenges faced by social enterprises and consider opportunities for new ways of working. The research will be carried out in two diverse, developing country contexts with vibrant social enterprise sectors: Kenya and Vietnam.

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Innovation - Providing global public goods in a rapidly changing world

Projects - March 2013 to December 2013

Innovative ways of making progress on global economic and environmental governance

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Mauritanian herder seeks pasture during 2012 Sahel food security crisis

HPG Integrated Programme 2013-15

Projects - March 2013 to March 2015

This is the eleventh Integrated Programme (IP) of work proposed for funding by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG). The projects constitute the core of HPG’s research work in 2013–15, combining policy-relevant research and engagement, humanitarian practice, academic engagement and a vigorous and extensive public affairs programme of events, conferences and media work.

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Development of operational guidance and SOPs for cash-based interventions

Projects - March 2013 to December 2013

This project seeks to develop multi-sectoral, operational guidance for UNHCR on setting up and achieving protection and assistance goals through cash-based interventions in displacement settings. It also seeks to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for UNHCR for cash-based interventions.

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Woman in front of a tank, southern Sudan

Assessment of the evidence of links between gender equality, statebuillding and peacebuilding

Projects - February 2013 to October 2013

This project will assess the evidence of links between gender equality, statebuillding and peacebuilding drawing previous research into this area together to provide a baseline against which to move forward both in policy and research. It will also develop a policy approach and theory of change for the inclusion of gender within peacebuilding statebuilding. This work will inform DFID’s longer-term, more detailed research on this area as well as provide the analytical basis for current policy development and immediate programming.

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Youth and international development policy: prospects and challenges

Projects - February 2013 to March 2013

This project aims to highlight the need for international development agencies to invest in youth and view their development policies through a youth-lens.

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Vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana

Groundwater resources in the Indo-Gangetic basin

Projects - February 2013 to May 2014

The overall objective of this work is to provide an authoritative overview of the occurrence and status of groundwater resources in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (IGB) and to strengthen the evidence base linking groundwater, climate population and abstraction – collating and systemising existing data for policy and national planning and future research programmes.

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MY World

Projects - January 2013 to August 2015

What is it that people most want in life? The answers are to be found in the United Nations MY World survey, brainchild of Claire Melamed, Head of ODI’s Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme, and Paul Ladd, Senior Advisor and Head of Post-2015 at UNDP. MY World captures people’s voices, priorities and views, so that global leaders can be informed as they begin the process of defining the new development agenda for the world. More than 1 million people have participated so far, making this one of the biggest surveys ever carried out.

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Review and analyse potential challenges of support to strengthen resilience to improve connectedness strategies in transitional settings

Projects - December 2012 to December 2013

GiZ has expressed an intention to review and analyse the potential challenges of support to strengthen resilience to improve the connectedness in transitional settings GiZ and HPG are interested in building on a successful cooperation to initiate research work on reviewing and analysising the potential challenges involved in assisting and improving resilience

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Mary Muntari collects water from a stream in Kachia, in Kaduna State Nigeria

Climate risk screening for rural water supply in Ethiopia

Projects - December 2012 to April 2013

The aim of this project is to develop a risk assessment methodology that can be used to assess the threat posed by climate change on rural water supplies, and suggest steps to minimise or mitigate such risks.

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