The third debate in the LIDC and The Guardian Development Debate Series will take place on Monday 27th February. The theme of the debate will be public private partnerships in international development and will ask 'How Effective are Public Private Partnerships?' with Dr. Elisa Van Waeyenberge of SOAS, Professor Elaine Unterhalter of UCL's Institute of Education and Neil Jeffery, CEO at Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP). The fourth panellist is TBC. To register for a free ticket for the event please follow the linkhere.
Please note: non LIDC members will be charged to attend this event and we will be checking all registrations against our membership database. Non members can buy a ticket here.
Join us on for the third LIDC Biennial Conference, to celebrate our work to date and to look to the future. The theme of this year's conference will be 'Interdisciplinary Approaches to Inequality.' The keynote speakers are Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester) and Alex Prats (Oxfam).
The LIDC-DTC seminar on public-private partnerships (PPPs) has been cancelled. If you wish to still hear information on PPPs, there is a debate on the same topic that will take place on Monday 27th February. For more details on the debate click here.
Excess Deaths in 2015 may be Linked to Failures in Health and Social Care
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, went on to look in more detail at the January 2015 spike in mortality and tested possible explanations. They found a substantial increase in mortality in England and Wales in 2015 could be linked to failures in the health and social care system according to an analysis published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
SOAS Research Impact on EU Programming for the Horn of Africa
During July and August 2016, the Research and Evidence Facility conducted field research in the three cross-border areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan, centred on migration and instability, as well as sources of vulnerability. The objective was to help the EU Trust Fund to gain a better understanding of the political, social, environmental and economic dynamics in those areas, in order to be in a position to design an evidence-based project on the ground.
The Angela W. Little Collection of Education in Sri Lanka
Professor Emerita Little, professor at UCL IOE, writes about her work in Sri Lanka and how she came to collect the materials which are now in the Newsam Library and accessible to researchers working in this area.
Country Director (Medaid)
Closing date: Until filled
Location: Kabul, Afganistan
Head of Programs (War Child Canada)
Closing date: 2nd March
Location: Kampala, Uganda
LIDC is a consortium of five Bloomsbury Colleges of the University of London (Birkbeck, Institute of Education, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Royal Veterinary College, and SOAS). LIDC develops interdisciplinary research and training programmes to address complex international development challenges.