Organisation
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
UK based research centre
ODI is an independent non-governmental centre for development research and a forum for discussion of the problems facing developing countries. The research programme is oriented towards improving policies and their implementation both within developing countries and at the British and international level.
Research programmes include: four specialist agricultural networks (on Agricultural Research and Extension, Water Resources, Pastoral Development and Rural Development Forestry); The Humanitarian Practice Network, HPN, (formerly the Relief and Rehabilitation Network) see separate entry; aid policy; trade policy; structural adjustment; conditionality; NGOs; UK Parliament research support and advice to Parliamentary Select Committees, MPs and Peers.
ODI also manages the ODI Fellowship Scheme for young post-graduate economists.
Published Documents
- Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
- S. Wiggins; S. Keats / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?" Potentially, smallholder agricultur...
- Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators
- T. Mitchell / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Disasters can hamper economic growth, affect poverty levels and cause human suffering. This paper argues that including measures to promote disaster risk management (DRM) in the post-2015 development goals is needed to incentivise inv...
- Framework for assessing the effectiveness of national institutions to deliver climate finance
- N. Bird; H. Tilley; N. C. Trujillo / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- This paper presents a framework for measuring the effectiveness of national systems that deliver public climate finance; an approach that incorporates the policy environment, institutional architecture and the public financial system ...
- When does Aid for Trade work best?
- Y. Basnett; J. Engel; J. Kennan; C. Kingombe; I. Massa; D.W. te Velde / Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- Aid for Trade has emerged as an important vehicle for assisting developing countries to improve their trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets. But any optimism on the volume of Aid for Trade flows is punctua...
- How to make Trade for Aid successful
- Y. Basnett; J. Engle / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Aid for Trade (AfT) has emerged as an important vehicle to help the private sector in developing countries to improve its trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets, which would allow for economic growth and jo...
- New approaches to promoting flexible and forward-looking decision making: insights from complexity science, climate change adaptation and ‘serious gaming’
- L. Jones (ed); E. Ludi (ed); P. Beautement (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Policy-makers are often tasked with making difficult decisions in the face of an uncertain future outlook. Will infrastructural investments still be relevant in 25 years? What new markets are likely to emerge in the medium term? How w...
- When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
- K. Harris; D. Keen; T. Mitchell / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- This paper by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) argues for increased focus on the conflict-disaster nexus in fragile and conflict-affected states. It is based on a study assessing the evidence base on the ways in which natural ...
- Building blocks for equitable growth: lessons from the BRICS
- M. Vandemoortele; K. Bird; A. Du Toit; M. Liu; K. Sen; F. Veras Soares / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- The BRICS countries have been lauded for their economic growth and resilience through the 2008/09 financial crisis; they are becoming models of development for development practitioners, researchers and other emerging economies. But m...
- Growth and livelihoods in fragile and conflict-affected situations
- Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- This paper explores the evidence on growth, economic activity and livelihoods in fragile and conflict-affected situations. It discusses the impacts of conflict and growth and livelihoods, the effectiveness of aid programming, and the ...
- Brazilian technical cooperation for development: drivers, mechanics and future prospects
- L. Cabral / Overseas Development Institute, 2010
- This study focuses on Brazilian technical cooperation with developing countries and analyses its policy framework, institutional set-up and implementation modalities, and discusses options for the future. The study was produced agains...
