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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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Youth entrepreneur - bicycle repair station, India.
Youth entrepreneur - bicycle repair station, India.

Youth entrpreneur - bicycle repair station, India.
License: Creative Commons
Credit: anaxila
Source: Flickr

Green growth: analysis of design, implementation and impacts of economic policy instruments

Projects - November 2012 to August 2013
This project will share lessons on green growth policy design and implementation with think tanks, and other relevant institutions of other emerging economies, to better support informed macro-economic policy making and reform processes at the national level.
Fresh water being poured into a jerrycan. Harshin district, in the eastern Somali region of Ethiopia
Fresh water being poured into a jerrycan. Harshin district, in the eastern Somali region of Ethiopia

License: ODI given rights
Credit: Siegfried Modola
Source: IRIN

Scoping study on social vulnerability in three climate change hotspots for the CARIAA programme

Projects - November 2012 to October 2013
The Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) aims to build the resilience of vulnerable populations and their livelihoods in these three hot spots by supporting collaborative research to inform adaptation policy and practice.
Chinese agriculture. Zhenyuan, on the Wuyang River - China
Chinese agriculture. Zhenyuan, on the Wuyang River - China

License: Creative Commons
Credit: lacitadelle
Source: Flickr

Future Agricultures Consortium: China and Brazil in African agriculture

Projects - October 2012 to September 2015
Africa is a major destination of the Brazil and China's diplomatic and economic ventures, and agriculture a leading topic for development cooperation activities across the continent. This project investigates the impacts of these changes on African agriculture.
Farmers, Mabalane, Lesotho
Farmers, Mabalane, Lesotho

Moorosi Nchejana is one of 40 farmers in the village of Mabalane in Lesotho’s Mohale’s Hoek district who participated in a pilot programme by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization to strengthen farmers’ capacity to adapt to climate change
License: Creative Commons
Credit: Mujahid Safodien/IRIN
Source: IRIN

China and Brazil in African agriculture (CBAA)

Projects - September 2012 to September 2014
The question of how Brazil, China and other 'rising powers' may change African agricultural development is critical and timely. ODI are working with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and The Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) investigating the impacts of Brazil and Chinese investment on African agriculture.
Mural showing women and children in El Salvador highlighting the role of the law
Mural showing women and children in El Salvador highlighting the role of the law

License: Creative Commons
Credit: alison.mckellar
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Women’s leadership and participation in peace and security and humanitarian response

Projects - September 2012 to June 2013
This project evaluates the contribution of UN Women to increase women’s leadership and participation in peace and security, extracting the results achieved and lessons learned by the predecessor entities and examining these in the context of the new Strategic Plan and its aspirations in this area. It will also assess the coherence of the design of the humanitarian response area in the context of UN Women’s mandate to provide forward looking recommendations.
Women carrying cartons of oil, IDP camp, Uganda
Women carrying cartons of oil, IDP camp, Uganda

Women carrying cartons of oil to the distribution site at Oromi IDP camp, Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 18 May 2007. WFP is to maintain the 40 percent ration for 1.28 million displaced in northern Uganda its food supplies are normalized.
License: ODI given rights
Credit: Manoocher Deghati
Source: IRIN

DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme

Projects - September 2012 to August 2016
ODI is leading the Evidence and Policy Group for the DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme, which seeks to generate high quality evidence on economic growth in low income countries

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