Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage

Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:02:00 GMT

The political economy of mechanising African agriculture: insights from Ghana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:41:00 GMT

This seminar will focus on recent technology changes in African agriculture and specifically the emphasis on mechanisation as a vehicle for modernisation and structural transformation. The renewed interest in mechanisation echoes the rise of agriculture in the policy agenda and the quest for

The Dynamics of Agricultural Commercialisation, Diversification and Rural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:49:00 GMT

A half-day public seminar with researchers from the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC)

Book launch: The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:21:00 GMT

In her new book, "The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy", Ayesha Khan argues that women's movements' demands for their rights and a secular state are both integral to the project of building a democratic and inclusive Pakistan, even though social norms have evol

Using Participatory Action Research to Improve Development Practice

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 11:38:00 GMT

Develop your knowledge and skills in a range of participatory action research (PAR) methods for social change.

Contribution Analysis for Impact Evaluation

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:12:00 GMT

Gain the skills and knowledge to more effectively design impact evaluations using a contribution analysis framing.

Building on synergies and exploring financing options for effective implementation of the SDGs

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:12:00 GMT

The Government of Ghana, the Institute of Development Studies and the University of Sussex invite you to a Side Event at the UN High-level Political Forum on building on synergies and exploring financing options for effective implementation of the SDGs

Engaging evidence and policy for social change

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:10:00 GMT

Gain the concepts, skills and competencies required to operate effectively at the interface between policy and evidence.

Report from Rojava: Revolution at a Crossroads

Tue, 22 May 2018 16:52:00 GMT

This free public event features panellists Lloyd Russell-Moyle (MP, Kemptown Brighton), Elif Sarican (Kurdistan Students Union UK), Simon Dubbins (UNITE the union) and Janet Biehl (writer and artist, translator of 'Revolution in Rojava' and 'Sara: My Whole Life Was a Struggle').

Roundtable discussion: A closer look to the forthcoming elections in Latin America

Mon, 14 May 2018 15:07:00 GMT

In 2018, the three biggest countries in Latin America – Mexico, Colombia and Brazil - will hold elections to elect new presidents. These elections are occurring in the context of political and social turmoil in each case, where the people who have felt left behind under the current

Should I trade or should I go (to war)? Lessons from the Second Intifada

Tue, 08 May 2018 17:10:00 GMT

Do trade shocks affect conflict? The evidence on this question has so far focused mainly on commodity price shocks. This seminar moves beyond this focus and uses data from the entire export and import baskets to examine whether changes in Palestinian trade in the second half of the 1990s

IDS Annual Lecture with Peter Piot

Tue, 08 May 2018 13:38:00 GMT

Drawing on his more than 25 years of experience working on HIV/AIDS, Professor Peter Piot will discuss the interrelated relationship between HIV/AIDS and development.

The myth of ‘community’: fake concepts and distracted knowledge in humanitarian and development action

Thu, 03 May 2018 16:06:00 GMT

The default language in talking about disasters, climate change and development and the local level is now ‘community’. It is rare for the word ‘people’ or ‘locality’ to be used.

Beyond the traditional humanitarian aid model

Thu, 03 May 2018 13:20:00 GMT

In this Sussex Development Lecture Thea Hilhorst will discuss these paradigms and the different images they evoke about crises, local institutions and the recipients of aid.

Accountability for Health Equity Webinar

Thu, 03 May 2018 11:01:00 GMT

To mark the launch of the IDS Bulletin Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage, and to consider the key learning and implications for actions to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), UHC2030 and IDS are pleased to host a webinar

Building sustainable food futures

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:35:00 GMT

Sustainable food systems are a pressing and undisputed goal – but what barriers are preventing the vision from becoming a reality?

Kate Osamor MP Sussex Development Lecture

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:48:00 GMT

Kate Osamor MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, will give a Sussex Development Lecture as part of the Spring 2018 series on humanitarian aid development.

Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 2018

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:44:00 GMT

The Fifth Global Symposium will focus on “Advancing Health Systems for All in the SDG Era” and will facilitate conversations and collaborations on new ways of financing health; delivering services; and engaging th

Economics as if we wanted to survive the 21st century

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:35:00 GMT

The economist Kate Raworth, author of the bestselling book Doughnut Economics, will give the 2018 STEPS Annual Lecture at the University of Sussex. This is the only public event of the STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Susta

‘We are like slaves’: strict encampment policies and refugee economies in North-Western Tanzania

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:53:00 GMT

As part of the Conversations about Conflict and Violence seminar series, this presentation will review the (early) findings of new fieldwork conducted in Nyarugusu, Mtendeli, and Nduta refugee camps in February 2018.

Building a Just Future: Leadership and Transformational Change.

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:23:00 GMT

Simplexity2 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Complexity in Development

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:54:00 GMT

This seminar is the fifth in a series that aims to share cutting edge thinking and research being done at IDS and the University of Sussex around how we practically capture and account for complexity across a variety of sustainable development contexts.

Disaster Development: Fighting for Visibility in Sierra Leone’s Borderlands

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:27:00 GMT

Based on extensive ethnographic research in Northern Sierra Leone, this seminar considers the implications of the securitisation of Ebola for populations affected by the epidemic.

Innovations for Universal Health Coverage - 2018

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:20:00 GMT

The Innovation for UHC Conclave at the GE Healthcare, Bangalore, India will bring together those who have been involved in the design and implementation of health care innovations, which have the potential to be taken to scale and transferred between regions and countries.

Rural Futures Cluster Colloquium: Affordances and Opportunity Landscapes

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 11:36:00 GMT

This Rural Futures colloquium will create a space for a conversation about the relationship between agency and opportunity, and how this relationship may be explored through the relational, interactional concept of ‘affordance’.

Impact of Community-Based Health Insurance on Child Health Outcomes: Evidence on Stunting from Rural Uganda

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:42:00 GMT

Bridging the Humanitarian-Development Divide

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:40:00 GMT

How can humanitarian aid workers and development actors work better together to achieve the SDGs?

How can we improve the life choices for women in rural Africa? Side event at the 62nd Commission for the Status of Women

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 22:01:00 GMT

Chaired by Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director, Social Development Policy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, this side event at the 62nd Commission for the Status of Women, will how host a panel of researchers and NGOs to propose policies ideas for improving life choices for women

Humanitarianism under stress – meeting the challenge, strengthening the architecture and reviving the rules

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:14:00 GMT

The international humanitarian system plays a critical role in development – but the system is operating under unprecedented stress. Armed conflict, climate risk, and insecurity have contributed to record levels of displacement.

A post-imperial lens on displacement and development in the Middle East

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:53:00 GMT

Imperial encounters with multiculturalism and ethnic diversity characterized the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires as well as the colonies that were ruled by European empires

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