by Global Development Institute | Oct 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Open Access week for 2018 runs from 22-28th of October. To celebrate you can find a selection of our Open Access publications from the last academic year below. Open Access is a core value at the Global Development Institute, as Diana Mitlin, Managing Director of...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dr Joanne Jordan, Honorary Research Fellow, Global Development Institute Academics in the UK are now working in a context in which doing research that has societal ‘impact’ is an increasingly important requirement for funders, institutions and scientific bodies. But,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 11, 2018 | Comment
Since May 2015 we have been conducting a ‘financial diary’ research project in central Bangladesh in which we record, each day, all the transactions made that day by our ‘diarists’ (as we call our volunteer respondents). You can read more about the project on its...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 24, 2018 | Comment
Dr Nicola Banks, Lecturer in Urban Development, Global Development Institute An opportunity arose to pilot an innovative and sustainable revolving savings fund with young motorcycle taxi drivers in Arusha. It didn’t work, but there are important lessons to be learned....
by Global Development Institute | Sep 12, 2018 | Comment
Dr Sally Cawood, a PhD Alumna of the Global Development Institute recently returned to Bangladesh to feedback her PhD findings on Community Based Organisations (CBOs), water and sanitation in Dhaka’s low-income settlements. This blog shares some reflections on...
