Odi Live Events Podcast

Disasters Conference- Afternoon Panel by Overseas Development Institute

Disasters Conference- Afternoon Keynote by Overseas Development Institute

Former secretaries of state reflect on the history and future of the UK's Department for International Development.

This event presents a new narrative to broaden the debate around economic development, and the ways in which traditional aid delivery helps or hinders it.

This event, drawing on the World Food Programme's (WFP) 2017 global stocktake of food assistance, brings together voices from across academic, NGO and donor communities. Our experts debate and discuss what we are already doing and, critically, what we need to do as a community to meet the global demand for food assistance and realise food security for all.

President of the Rockefeller Foundation and former Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Rajiv Shah, joins ODI in conversation on the major global challenges of our time – and his vision of how we can tackle them.

What are the risks health workers face when responding to crises? What needs to be done in the future to better protect them? Ahead of World Humanitarian Day and the memorial event for humanitarian aid workers at Westminster Abbey, join us to discuss how we can better address this issue.

This event features the launch of Future Fragmentation, a major publication from the Commonwealth Secretariat with contributions from ODI, that explores the changing nature of global trade in global value chains and the relative position of Commonwealth small states.

At this event the Canadian Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, Marie-Claude Bibeau delivers a keynote speech, offering her reflections on Canada’s new Feminist International Assistance Policy to promote gender equality and help empower all women and girls.

At this event hosted by CDKN and ODI, experts discuss progress in planning for NDC implementation across seven countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Critically, the discussion focuses on how the NDCs are being mainstreamed into national development processes – so that climate change is not an isolated concern of environment ministries but owned across governments and beyond.

This event, co-hosted by ODI and the United States Institute of Peace, launches a new roadmap for political stability in Afghanistan. Find out more at www.odi.org

At this event co-hosted by CDC and ODI, representatives from both organisations as well as DFID and other leading experts discuss the role of development finance and the private sector in supporting economic transformation and achieving the UN Global Goals.

An expert panel discusses how to strengthen entrepreneurship and successfully develop market-based sectors that can help to industrialise and transform economies, generating returns for the whole of society, not just those at the top.

This event explores the latest debates, evidence and practice on social accountability, civil society advocacy and local government service delivery.  It considers how current policy and assumptions could be revised to more effectively address critical blockages in public service delivery.

This event considers the implications of new research on the nature, scale and distribution of risk in sub-Saharan Africa for urban policies and governance.

International experts on refugee policy and livelihoods explore ways to better support refugees in long-term displacement and respond to their needs – from access to employment, to better education and healthcare services, to expanded social networks.

In the aftermath of the G7 Summit in Italy, and the US decision to withdraw from the accord, ODI convenes a global panel of experts to assess the future of the Paris climate agreement.

In the run-up to the 2017 UK general election, ODI and Bond convene a debate between the main parliamentary parties to explore their vision and priorities for international development and the UK’s role in the world.

How can we improve refugees’ ability to access decent work – without shifting the focus away from protecting those fleeing conflict and persecution?

Experts supporting both sides of the debate explore whether now is the time to introduce a universal basic income.