Please find below a list of recent events and workshops. Click on an event for more information and options or use the search on the right to find events in our archive.
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Christopher Coles delivered a presentation at a seminar for the London Masters of Business Administration Club, a networking organisation for Japanese business professionals in London, in which he demonstrate that, using internal and external expertise, Japanese companies are in a very strong position to leverage their traditional values of business excellence to lead their industries in incorporating sustainability into their core and meeting the challenges of a changing world.
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This event launches two recent reports that discuss the role of the infrastructure sector in meeting the challenge of climate change in the developing world: ‘Climate compatible development in the infrastructure sector’ and 'Climate change and WASH [Water, Sanitation and Hygiene]: A Scoping Study.
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Speakers:
Lily Ryan-Collins -Infrastructure Advisor, DFID and former Programme Officer, EAP during report authorship.
Dr Alexis Nzahabwanimana - Minister of State in Charge of Transport, Rwandan Government (by video conference)
Roger Calow - Head of Programme, Water Policy, ODI Discussant:
Peter Newborne - Research Associate, ODI
Chair:
Karen Ellis - Head of Programme, Private Sector and Markets, ODI
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An ODI public event.
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Speakers:
Lindsey Napier - Private Sector Advisor, DFID
Jonathan Mitchell - Head of Programme, Private Sector and Markets, ODI
Chris Coles - Research Officer, Private Sector and Markets ODI
Chair:
Jo Confino - Head of Sustainable Business and Executive Editor for Sustainability, The Guardian.
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An ODI public event.
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Traditional approaches to development have not always managed to build effective or sustainable partnerships with the corporate sector. This event will showcase forthcoming work from ODI’s Private Sector and Markets team which suggests that by sidelining the corporate voice from development debates, we stymie our ability to influence the impact of large investments into the world’s poorest countries. Incorporating senior voices from major multi-national businesses, this event will look at the facts and figures behind corporate involvement in developing countries and encourage discussion about how the development and corporate sectors can better integrate their approaches to achieve pro-poor outcomes.
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Speakers:
Peter Davis - Research Fellow, Private Sector and Markets, ODI
Charlotte Wolff - Head of Corporate Social Responsiblity, Arecelor Mittal
Anton Mifsud Bonnici - Strategy and Policy at BP Group
Karen Luyckx - Lead Analyst on Corruption and Transparency, CAFOD
John Morrison - Executive Director, Institute for Human Rights and Business
Chair:
David Laws MP - Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development
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Audio / video
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An ODI public event.
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Also known as ‘social urbanism’, the city of Medellin has pioneered important new city-driven policies and programmes that, among other things, have helped to promote local economic development through an expanded and upgraded enterprise sector. This ODI event will analyse this emerging local policy framework and explore where it has worked and where it remains a ‘work in progress’.
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Chair: Jonathan Glennie - Research Fellow, ODI Speakers: Milford Bateman - Research Fellow, ODI Kate Maclean - Lecturer in Geography and Development, Kings College London Discussants:HE Mr Mauricio Rodriguez Munera - Colombian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alan Gilbert - Professor of Geography , UCL, London
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An ODI public event.
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Mobilizing the scale of investments needed in developing countries to build a low-carbon and climate-resilient future will require significant flows from the private sector. This public meeting aims to draw out the major lessons from current practices and proposals to leverage private finance through public sector interventions, with discussions focused around particular successes and failures.
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Speakers: Dirk Willem te Velde, ODI Andre Laude, IFC Tamsin Ballard, DECC Giedre Kaminskaite-Salters, DFID
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An ODI public event
in the Climate finance effectiveness
series.
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At this meeting we will hear from four leaders, representing government, business, the development community and civil society, on what they have been learning from both successes and failures, and what needs to be done differently to sustain momentum in support of business-led solutions to poverty. What new models of collaboration are emerging and what more can we do to strengthen our capacity for collective action?
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Opening Remarks: Clare Woodcraft - Deputy Director, Shell Foundation
Speakers:
DFID Minister (tbc)
William Asiko - President, Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and Chair, Business Action for Africa
Dame Barbara Stocking - Chief Executive, Oxfam GB
Natalie Africa - Executive Director, Business Call to Action
Chair: Myles Wickstead CBE - Head of Secretariat to the Commission for Africa
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A public event.
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Why have both business and the development community become increasingly interested in developing tools to measure the impact of business on development? What approaches have been used or proposed, and what are the limitations of existing tools and the conceptual and practical challenges associated with measurement?
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Documents and resources
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A public event.
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