by Global Development Institute | May 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Professor Diana Mitlin Professor of Global Urbanism and Managing Director of the Global Development Institute. The romance of the barricades features in Les Misérables, but it also figures heavily in academic texts. Many academics, professionals and political...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Edgar Pieterse, DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, Director the African Centre for Cities and Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, all at the University of Cape Town, discuss his forthcoming book...
by Global Development Institute | May 6, 2019 | Research Findings
Giving local communities in Nepal the opportunity to manage their forests has simultaneously reduced deforestation and poverty in the region, new research has shown. In the largest study of its kind, an international team of experts led by The University of Manchester...
by Global Development Institute | May 2, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Genevieve Le Baron, Co-Director, Sheffield Political Economy Research Intitute (SPERI), The University of Sheffield, discuss the business of forced labour in global agricultural supply chains You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Chris Jordan, Communications and Impact Manager [Visit the NGO explorer site here] After setting out to better understand the UK’s development NGO sector, Dan Brockington and Nicola Banks soon realised that pulling together the data on thousands of charities would be...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 23, 2019 | Comment
Oliver Bakewell focuses on the intersections between migration and mobility and processes of development and change, with an empirical focus on migration within Africa. In this short video, he talks about how academics research can challenge and inform policy and the...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Hrishipara Daily Diary Project tracks the daily money transactions of households in central Bangladesh. This is the third in our series ‘Tracking Transactions, Understanding Lives’, which focuses on individual diarists, creating pictures that give a sense of what...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 2, 2019 | Comment
Dr Tanja Müller, Reader/Associate Professor in Development Studies, Global Development Institute Since January 2019, Sudan has seen protests in different parts of the country that quickly moved from anger at worsening economic and social conditions to the demand of...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 28, 2019 | Comment
In this episode, Diana Mitlin talks to former Egyptian Minister Laila Iskander about recycling and informal settlements in Egypt. Laila Iskander served as Minister for the Environment and Minister for Urban Renewal and Informal Settlements in Egypt. She has worked as...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 28, 2019 | Events
Professor Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute How can participation be scaled up to make an impact that has relevance at the scale required? What are the challenges that must be tackled in terms of exclusion of those who have the...
