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Research Teams

The research programmes at IDS are organised in five closely linked multidisciplinary teams.

Globalisation Team
Asian drivers of global change, China and India, regionalism, value chains and standards, putting enterprises and growth back onto the poverty agenda.

Governance Team
State capacity, collective action and public policy, politics, law and rights, security, conflict and fragile states.

KNOTS Team
Health, agriculture, environment, making technologies work for the poor, science and citizenship.

Participation, Power and Social Change Team
Participation in politics and governance, institutional learning and change, the theory and practice of participation.

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team
Social protection, work and vulnerability, climate change and disasters.

All projects of IDS research

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Access to Justice: Legal Processes, Institutions and the Poor - (1998 - 2000)
Action Learning, Networking and Support for Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) - Supporting the acceleration, spread and quality enhancement of community-led total sanitation (Ongoing)
Adaptation screening tools for development cooperation: Piloting ORCHID and other approaches - IDS is involved in a range initiatives to develop, test, discuss and disseminate tools for screening and assessment of climate and disaster risk. (Ongoing)
AfricaAdapt - The Network facilitates the flow of climate change adaptation knowledge for sustainable livelihoods between researchers, policy makers, civil society organisations and communities who are vulnerable to climate variability and change across the continent. (Ongoing)
Against the Odds - (2002 - 2005)
Agricultural Biotechnology & Policy Processes in Developing Countries - (Ongoing)
Aid for AIDS: How do community groups negotiate the new financial architecture? - What is the overall impact of current major vertical and bilateral international financing structures for HIV and AIDS on local and district-level responses? (Ongoing)
Aid Relationships - Exploring aid relationships to promote organisational learning (Ongoing)
Aid that Works: Successful Development Initiatives in Fragile States - (2004 - 2005)
ALINe - There is a new and widespread commitment within the development community to invest in agriculture as a way of reducing poverty and hunger. Three quarters of the one billion people surviving on less than $1 a day live and work in rural areas, and most rely on agriculture for their food and income. Investing in agriculture is key to lifting the world's poor out of hunger and poverty. (Ongoing)
Analysing the Effects from Non Tariff Measures (NTM) in the Global Agri-Food Trade - The project's objective is to collect and analyse new data on non-tariff measures, particularly on governmental standards and regulations that prescribe the conditions for importing agri-food products into the EU market and into the markets of the main competing players. (Ongoing)
Asbestos Diseases - (2005 - 2007)
Assessing Social Change - Exploring the opportunities and challenges for assessing and learning about social change (2005 - 2006)
Assessing the Impact of the Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement - The study analysed the trade and welfare implications of the Cariforum Economic Partnership Agreement using a multi-regional computable general equilibrium model as well as a single-region general equilibrium model of Jamaica. (2008 - 2008)
Assessing the Political Feasibility of Policy Reform in the Horn of Africa - The project investigated the ways in which local political organisation, interest group power, and institutional proclivities and capacities shape the reform initiatives that are most likely to be successful. (2006 - 2007)
Assessing the Tobin Tax - The current financial crisis has stirred up an old debate about whether it might make sense to impose a Tobin Tax, either on foreign exchange transactions or on all financial transactions. (Ongoing)
Assessment of large and small hydropower options - Global climate change requires climate-friendly low carbon energy options. Hydropower is a low carbon energy sources which is globally abundant and has a high potential. Hydropower has been used around the world for centuries. In recent years, both small and large hydropower developments have seen increased use. (Ongoing)
Assisting Climate Leaders in Vulnerable Developing Countries - This initiative involves four non-governmental organisations with a shared interest in supporting the efforts of vulnerable developing countries to secure a fair, ambitious and effective agreement at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen. (Ongoing)
Baseline Social Performance Survey Afghanistan - CGAP has contracted the IDS to develop several simple indicators based on the Afghan context, that will report on what degree MFIs serve poor people and access to basic health care services. (2007 - 2007)
BASIC - The BASIC Project is an action orientated research and capacity development project focusing on supporting the institutional capacity of key developing countries to undertake analytical work to determine what kind of national and international climate change actions best fit within their circumstances and priorities. (2005 - 2007)