Business engagement is a tool through which donors can better achieve their existing objectives. This paper lays out types of business, modalities of engagement and some approaches to donors-business interaction.

Community policing has gained popularity amongst donors, governments, police departments and communities as a mechanism for achieving a diverse range of goals – from crime reduction to improved state-society relations. Yet while community policing initiatives are widespread across the globe, there is little consensus on its definition, objectives or models. Given the ambiguity surrounding its precise meaning, this paper maps the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of community policing, setting out what it means and hopes to achieve, and how it manifests and is shaped by factors such as histories of state-society relations.

A report on the 'EU Change-makers' conference that took place at ODI on 24 & 25 June 2013.

We have been collecting proposals for goals and targets in a post-2015 agreement into a single database. This briefing is based on that database, and summarises the main areas of consensus and difference between the proposals in a range of specific areas.