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| Marta Foresti, Research Fellow (PPPG) m.foresti@odi.org.uk Marta manages the Rights in Action Programme. She has a background in development policy, human rights and social research methodology. Her current research interest include: the implementation and feasibility of economic, social and cultural rights; accountability and governance of development and human rights agencies; social exclusion and inequality. Marta has a particular interest in the methodological dimensions of development and human rights research. She was responsible for developing impact assessment frameworks for Save the Children UK and Amnesty International and has undertaken research and evaluation studies of several UK and European social policies and programmes. go to profile and CV |
Tim Braunholtz-Speight, Research Officer (PPPG) Tim joined PPPG from Leeds Metropolitan University, where he was engaged in research on regional and local economic and social policy issues, and has previously worked for the Western Sahara Campaign and the University of Leeds on the COPE programme. At ODI he works as a policy analyst in the DFID funded Chronic Poverty Research Centre, looking in particular at issues of discrimination. Further research interests include the political economy of natural resources and "sustainable development", and conflict and the state. go to profile and CV |
David Brown, Research Fellow (RPGG) David Brown specialises in work on tropical forest policy, particularly the institutional dimensions of community-based forest management and biodiversity conservation, and issues in environmental governance. His recent work has included research and advisory work on the integration of environmental sustainability and poverty reduction. He has a particular interest in wildlife management and the bushmeat trade, and was co-author of the UK Government’s submission to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora [CITES] on the theme of ‘Bushmeat as a Trade and Wildlife Management Issue’. go to profile and CV |
| Diana Camack, Research Fellow (PPPG) d.cammack@odi.org.uk Diana is leader of the Politics and Rights Cluster of the Poverty and Public Policy Group. Originally a social historian specialising in South Africa (The Rand at War, 1990), her experience of the aid regime in Africa and Asia led to her re-training in human rights and the politics of aid while an SSRC MacArthur Fellow on Peace and Conflict in a Changing World at St Anthony’s College, Oxford. Working as an independent consultant in recent years she has focused on the operationalisation of human rights in relief and development situations, and on the linkages between governance and development. Her current research interests include neopatrimonialism and political-economic change as well as the relationship between politics, underdevelopment and aid effectiveness. go to profile and CV |
| James Darcy, Research Fellow (HPG) j.darcy@odi.org.uk An international lawyer with extensive programme experience with Oxfam as co-ordinator for Central Africa, the Balkans and South and East Asia. James was responsible for developing Oxfam's policy with regard to protection, and played a key role in conceiving and drafting the Sphere Humanitarian Charter. go to profile |
| Ursula Grant, Research Officer (PPPG) u.grant@odi.org.uk Ursula joined PPPG from her position as Research Fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham, where she worked on urban poverty, local governance and citizen participation in policy-making. She is currently working with the DFID funded Chronic Poverty Research Centre, and is co-author of the 2004/05 Chronic Poverty Report. go to profile and CV |
Alan Hudson, Research Fellow (PPPG) Alan is a political economist with expertise in the areas of governance, accountability, the roles of parliaments and civil society organisations, aid/development effectiveness, and policy coherence for development. He is particularly interested in the ways in which global and international policies, processes and rules relate to (shape, constrain, enable) domestic policies, processes, rules and development outcomes. And conversely, he is interested in understanding whether and how domestic developing country concerns and voice feed into, and are influential in, the global/international policy arena. go to profile and CV |
Nicola Jones, Research Fellow (RAPID) Nicola is a political scientist by training, whose research interests include the knowledge/politics/ activism nexus, comparative policy processes, poverty reduction and intra-household dynamics, and gender relations. Before joining ODI in January 2007 as a Research Fellow, she was the Policy Research Manager for Young Lives, a DFID-funded longitudinal research initiative on childhood poverty in developing countries (Vietnam, India, Peru and Ethiopia) led by the University of Oxford and Save the Children UK. go to profile |
| Cecilia Luttrell, Research Fellow (RPGG) c.luttrell@odi.org.uk Cecilia’s main areas of research interest focus on access rights to natural resources, issues of livelihood vulnerability, poverty and adaptation, common property situations and the impacts of policy change on natural resource management and equity. In recent years she has been involved in the development of management and planning systems for land and forest use in Vietnam and Ghana. Cecilia previously worked at the Centre for Economic Research into the Global Environment at the University of East Anglia, the Forestry Planning Department in Ghana, Wetlands International in Indonesia and various conservation and participatory community development projects in Ghana, Indonesia, the Cook Islands and Tanzania. go to profile and CV |
Alina Rocha Menocal, Research Fellow (PPPG) Alina has done extensive research on democratisation and decentralisation processes in comparative perspective, with special emphasis on Latin America. Originally from Mexico , Alina joined PPPG after working as Deputy Editor of Development in Practice, a scholarly journal affiliated with Oxfam GB that provides a forum for debate among practitioners, policy makers, and academics. At ODI, she has been involved in numerous projects on the international aid system and how it could be reformed, including one that focused on capturing the views of Southern civil society organisations about how the international aid system currently works and their proposals on how to reform it. She is currently working on the developmental state: what it is, how it can be strengthened, and what the international aid community can (and cannot) do to assist the process. Her interests include governance; developmental states;democratisation processes and hybrid regimes; politicaleconomy of social policies; institution building; aid effectiveness and Latin America in comparative perspective. go to profile and CV |
Peter Newbourne, Research Associate (RPGG) Peter has a background in law and socio-economics. He specialises in water issues, particularly legal, institutional and social aspects of water management - in Europe, the OECD and developing countries. His interest in rights focuses on rights of access to water resources and to receipt of water supply for drinking and other household use: in what form such rights are established or subsist, how they operate in practice, and who benefits from them. go to profile and CV |
| Tammie O'Neil, Research Officer (PPPG) t.oneil@odi.org.uk Tammie has a MA in International Studies from the University of Warwick. She has been working on rights-based approaches to development, including assessing the utility of a rights-based approach for tackling discrimination and providing social protection, and reviewing donor approaches to using human rights in their work. go to profile and CV |
Sara Pantuliano, Research Fellow (HPG) Sara is a political scientist with extensive experience in programming in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Current research focuses on strengthening livelihoods security in complex emergencies, particularly around land tenure issues. Prior to joining HPG she led UNDP Sudan’s Peace Building Unit, developed and managed an innovative UN/NGO aid response in the Nuba Mountains, was a delegate at the IGAD Sudan peace process and lectured at the University of Dar es Salaam. go to profile |
| Bhavna Sharma, Research Officer (PPPG)
Bhavna's research interests are China in Africa, politics and governance, rights and development (particularly economic and social rights) and voice and accountability. Prior to working at ODI, she was a Research and Advocacy Officer for Anti-Slavery International for two years. Her research role involved initiating new research in the areas of gender, Latin America and examining the link between human rights (specifically slavery) and development. Before Anti-Slavery International, she worked for UNIFEM’s Andean regional office in Quito, Ecuador for a year. She was the projects officer responsible for the politics and governance programme, primarily working with indigenous and minority women’s groups to increase their participation in local political processes. go to profile and CV |
| Rachel Slater, Research Fellow (RPGG) r.slater@odi.org.uk Specialising in food security, social protection and rural and agricultural development, Rachel has particular expertise in Southern Africa (especially Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa and Zambia) and has also worked in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. Her most recent work, has included strengthening food staples and fertiliser markets in sub-saharan africa, addressing chronic food insecurity and HIV/AIDS, developing innovative social protection instruments, and understanding linkages between agricultural growth and social protection. go to profile and CV |
Fletcher Tembo, Research Fellow (RAPID) Fletcher is a Research Fellow in the RAPID group, playing a role in the Civil Society Partnerships Programme and several other governance related projects. His theoretical orientation and interests are in political economy, social anthropology, sociology and politics. He has more recently been developing expertise in constructing social accountability tools for change in policy and practice at community and national levels around essential services such as health and education, citizenship and governance. He previously spent seven years working on development programmes for World Vision in Malawi. go to profile |
| Adrian Wells, Research Officer (RPGG) a.wells@odi.org.uk Adrian has been developing a number of research areas on environmental governance. He is currently involved in projects on forest law enforcement, and on the links between forests, poverty and decentralisation. Adrian has a background in law and geography, and a Masters in International Environmental Law and IPRs. Before joining ODI, Adrian worked with the Conventions and Policy Section at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, providing policy advice on implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This included work on national biodiversity strategies, as well as on law and policy governing the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources. go to profile and CV |
| Claire Avery , Rights in Action Project Administrator (PPPG) c.avery@odi.org.uk |
