Bina Agarwal: Don’t follow the fashion. Challenge it.
In the last year, Professor Bina Agarwal has won three major international prizes for her work on gender, agriculture and development: the Agropolis Fondation Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize, the French Ordre du Mérite Agricole, and finally the Balzan...
Voices from Accra
Introducing Old Fadama This article is based on Laura v. Puttkamer’s Master’s dissertation from August 2017, with a summary of research results, drawing on interviews with local experts, who at their wish remain anonymous. Old Fadama or ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’, as...
In conversation: Pablo Yanguas and Diana Mitlin
Listen to Diana Mitlin interview Pablo Yanguas about his new book Why We Lie About Aid which is out now on Zed books. They discuss the aid sector, accountability and the Department for International Development. For more on Pablo Yanguas: Pablo Yanguas Effective...
How I marvelled at Black Panther’s reimagining of Africa
Edward Ademolu, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute Watching Marvel’s highly anticipated comic-book film adaptation, Black Panther, was no ordinary tried and tested cinematic experience. Much like the unapologetic showmanship, flamboyance and atmospheric...
Why We Lie About Aid – in defence of hopeful pragmatism
Pablo Yanguas, Research Fellow, Effective States and Inclusive Development Why We Lie About Aid is a book born out of bafflement, and not a little bit of frustration. For a long time now I have been baffled about the apparent disconnect between how we – the...
DSA Call for papers: Development Studies Association conference 27-29th June 2018
Academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene a number of panels at the annual Development Studies Association conference taking place 27-29th June at The University of Manchester. This year’s theme will be Global Inequalities and will...
In Conversation: Nicola Banks, Fikiri Elias and Sadala Ismail
Listen to Nicola Banks, Global Development Institute, in conversation with Fikiri Elias and Sadala Ismail of the youth participatory development NGO Tamasha Vijana. For more on Tamasha Vijana: Tamasha Vijana For more on Nicola Banks: Nicola Banks Urban youth, poverty...
NUST hosts community lecture: channelling participatory upgrading experiences into university lecture rooms
George Masimba Nyama, Dialogue on Shelter Months after starting the partnership project on upscaling participatory planning, the Bulawayo partnership has already begun a process of making sure that the community experiences start to filter into the academic sphere and...