Programme projects, networks and partnerships

This project will establish a library of stories illustrating ‘Progress in Development’ with three goals: (1) support advocacy for more effective development spending; (2) stimulate research into progress and its contributing factors; and (3) to draw lessons on how development can be achieved and supported.

The Joint Train4Dev/Povnet Learning Programme (JLP) on Pro-Poor Growth, is a multi donor initiative, bringing together participants from the DAC Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET) and those members of Train4Dev willing to contribute to and jointly finance the JLP. ODI in partnership with ITAD, has been contracted to conceptualise, prepare for and conduct the JLP, both pedagogically and logistically, and to act as facilitator during its implementation.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty Theme is a core research theme of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. It promotes research and discussion on the drivers, maintainers and interrupters of life course and intergenerational poverty. It does this through theoretical and empirical research by the core research team, the commissioning of work by international experts and a range of dissemination and policy engagement activities.

The objective of this project is to provide advice on how Aid for Trade can support developing countries to maximise the inclusive growth and poverty reduction impacts of trade. It is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and commissioned on behalf of European Union (EU) Member States, to strengthen the inclusive growth and poverty reduction focus of the roll out of the EU Aid for Trade Strategy.

A conference to facilitate dialogue across the social and biomedical sciences that will extend conceptions of the role of ‘the social’ in the HIV/AIDS research field and, in doing so, enable new forms of collaborative research and programme development.

Macro-level country analysis to input into decisions about potential SDC cooperation in Mynmar.

The aim of this project is to pilot the collection of comparative life histories in two countries (India and Kenya). The data collected using life history interviews and a number of other qualitative techniques will be complemented by the analysis of panel data. The first stage of the project will involve the analysis of a household panel survey in each country. After this, a medium-N sample of households will be selected (clustered in a limited number of communities) for follow up interviews using the life history approach. In each community a range of focus group discussions, key informant interviews and participatory research exercises will be conducted to provide a contextual understanding of the community. The full data set will be explored for country level and cross country understanding of the determinants of exit from chronic and intergenerational poverty. It is hoped that the pilot will result in the refinement of the research instruments to enable additional countries to be added to the dataset, increasing the possibility of multi-country cross-country analysis.

Inequality, Globalisation and the Financial Crisis: Trends, Transmission Channels and Policy Measures