Events archive: 2011
Linda Norgrove memorial lecture by Professor Bill Adams:
Conservation and development: still a dialogue of the deaf?
20 October 2011, University of Manchester, UK.
Download the event poster (PDF 323KB).
Book launch: History, historians and development policy: A necessary dialogue.
29 September 2011, University of Manchester, UK.
Download the event poster (PDF 102KB).Making Markets Work for Smallholders or Wage Labour?
Provocation Seminar
The University of Manchester, UK - University Place, Room 5.204
25 May 2011, 12:00-16.30
BWPI, together with IDPM and Capturing the Gains, hosted a seminar initiated by the IIED/HIVOS Knowledge Programme: Small Producer Agency in Globalised Markets.
The fourth in a series of six provocation seminars, it brought together policymakers, academics and practitioners working at the interface between small-scale production, markets and development to contest the benefits of smallholders and commercial agriculture as targets of efforts to make markets work for the rural poor.
Download event poster, in English (PDF 531KB) or in Spanish (PDF 539KB).
ESID - Effective States and Inclusive Development
Launch Event
The University of Manchester, UK - University Place, Room 1.218
7 April 2011, 16:00
ESID is a new research centre based at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) and the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) of the University of Manchester.
The centre will study the political determinants of development, with a particular focus on identifying practical ways in which developmental forms of state legitimacy and state-society relations can be strengthened. Download more information on ESID's research agenda (PDF 74KB).
ESID is funded by the UK government’s Department for International Development (DfID) and involves research partners across the globe, including India, Bangladesh, Malawi, Ghana, Uganda and the United States.
Download event programme (PDF 15KB).
Perspectives on Global Development 2011 – Is Social Cohesion at Risk?
The University of Manchester, UK - Humanities Bridgeford Street, Cordingley Lecture Theatre
30 March 2011, 15:00 to 17:00
A panel discussion hosted by BWPI and IDPM's Development Economics and Public Policy group, University of Manchester. The discussion was chaired by Khalid Nadvi, and featured Andy Mold, Johaness Jutting and Juan de la Iglesia from the OECD Development Centre.
Download event poster (PDF 395KB).
Perspectives on Global Development is a new series of publications from the OECD Development Centre.
Perspectives on Global Development 2010 - Shifting Wealth examines the impact of the rise of large emerging economies on development, poverty and inequality.
Creating Useful Knowledge for Africa’s Development
Kampala, Makerere University – Faculty of Technology, Conference Hall
14 January 2011, 09:30 to 16:00
Creating useful knowledge and making it work for poverty alleviation is a critical challenge for Africa. Knowledge becomes useful when it contributes to solving problems. This is possible when it is contextual, internally driven and evolves through application and critique.
This conference reviewed experiences from different sectors of development in order to provide better understanding of the processes and challenges of useful knowledge creation in the context of Africa, with an emphasis on Uganda. The conference also attempted to explore how knowledge transfer and translation between the developing countries can be further strengthened.
BRAC Uganda organised the conference in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation and Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, in association with the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Government of Uganda, Economic Policy Research Centre at the Makarere University, and UNICEF.
Participants included policymakers, practitioners and researchers representing diverse development partners, including government, academia, civil society, donor community and private sector.
Global Poverty Summit
Johannesburg, South Africa, 16-19 January 2011
BWPI and the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Foundation hosted the inaugural Global Poverty Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, 16 to 19 January 2011. The Summit brought together over 50 leading thinkers to debate the role of global institutions in poverty reduction.
They issued two statements on international public policy initiatives - the Johannesburg Statement on the Millennium Development Goals (PDF 317KB), and the Johannesburg Statement on the Doha Development Agenda (PDF 318KB).
On the final Public Events day, delegates were joined by over 200 government, business, practitioner, civil society, media and activist participants.
The Summit was the venue for the launch of the United Nations' World Economic Situation and Prospects Report.
A web portal hosted at www.povertydialogue.org is designed to house all of the output from the Summit.
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