ODI is Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

Programmes

World-class research and advisory services

ODI Programmes are responsible for delivering on our mission of "locking together high quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate."

Agriculture

 

Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure (CAPE)

 

Climate Change, Environment and Forests

Woman collecting firewood along the road between Addis Ababa and Harer, Ethiopia	Flickr	Ahron de Leeuw	http://flickr.com/photos/ahron/Supporting effective policies and programmes on agriculture and other issues at the rural-urban interface.

 

Cash transfers in the Oxfam Cash Programme, Somalia		© Oxfam GBShaping and driving the agenda for effective international development assistance and public spending for development at country level.

 

Tree stump chopped down on the Playa de Champerico in Guatemala	Flickr	Pati's Moment in Time	http://www.flickr.com/photos/patis-moment-in-time/369131875/ Informing policy change in ways which improve the livelihoods and well-being of the poor, whilst securing the future of global resources.

Communications

 

Growth, Poverty and Inequality

 

Investment and Growth

Boy from Congo holding a radio	Flickr	verhoogen.be 	http://www.flickr.com/photos/quareba/

Enhancing the impact of ODI's research through efficient and effective internal and external communication.
 

Preparing a market stall - Abidjan, Ivory Coast 	Flickr	babasteve	http://flickr.com/photos/babasteve/How can economic growth and the changes it brings deliver the maximum benefits for poor people?

 

Factory smoke chokes Mumbai early one morning.	Flickr	Tawheed Manzoor	http://flickr.com/photos/tawheedmanzoor/Researching what drives growth and investment and how the public sector or donors can actively support growth.

Humanitarian Policy Group

 

Politics and Governance

 

Private Sector and Markets

Palestinian girls, who fled their homes with their families during Israel's offensive, look out of a window at a U.N. school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 12, 2009.	Reuters	Mohammed Salem (GAZA)Dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice through high-quality analysis, dialogue and debate.

 

A woman is helped by a member of the polling staff to cast her vote at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone, 11 August 2007. Sierra Leone's elections were the first to be organised internally since UN peacekeepers pulled out in 2005.	IRIN	© Tugela Ridley

A centre for research and policy engagement on political and governance issues in development.
 

Silk workers in China. The role of the private sector has been crucial to China's leap forward in development	Flickr	adpowers	http://flickr.com/photos/adpowers/Focusing on issues which affect the development impact of business, and economic incentives for firms to improve their development impact.

Research and Policy in Development (RAPID)

 

Social Development

 

Social Protection

The Atomium in Brussels	Flickr	Gertrud K.	http://www.flickr.com/photos/gertrudk/

Improving the use of research and evidence in development policy and practice through research, advice and debate.
 

Group of girls looking out from the window of a primary school in Siem Reap, Cambodia	Flickr	tajai	http://www.flickr.com/photos/cayce/99917287/Exploring the role of social norms and relationships in maintaining the cycle of poverty and exclusion.

 

Working out the hungry months with Productive Safety Net Programme beneficiaries in Ethiopia	ODI	Rachel Slater and Rebecca HolmesSupporting the design and implementation of effective social protection policy and programming in poor countries.

Trade

 

Water Policy

 

Containers near the port of Zanzibar, Tanzania	Flickr	twocentsworth	http://flickr.com/photos/seeingthings/A centre for research, policy advice and engagement on trade and development.

 

Man washing an irrigation tank for paddy in Hambantota region of Sri Lanka	ODI	Andy JohnstoneLinking high quality research with practical policy advice on water issues with a bearing on poverty.