The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is the UK's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.
Mission
Our mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries.
We do this by locking together high quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate.
We work with partners in the public and private sectors, in both developing and developed countries.
Values
- Independence: ODI’s research, public affairs and policy advice are independent from its funders, and staff are able to challenge donor thinking and policy and the wider development consensus.
- High quality: Best practice, innovative approaches and continuous improvement are ensured in research, policy advice and public affairs.
- Fairness, diversity and equality: All staff and partners are treated fairly and with respect. ODI employment, disciplines and processes are appropriate for an institute focused on international development.
- Working together: There is continuous effort to foster better relationships throughout the organisation.
- Transparency and accountability: There is open reporting on the use of public funds, with full communication of our work to our donors, research subjects and partners.
- Sustainability: Resources are used in a sustainable way that reflects consciousness of the impact on the environment. The organisation works in a way that is sustainable, backed by commitment to its long-term viability.
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Resources
Displaying 106 - 110 of 111KV.RAH.LAIT/The World Bank, Donor Funded Staffing Program, DFSP
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The primary objective of the World Bank’s Donor Funded Staffing Program (DFSP) is to increase Finland’s influence in the World Bank by promoting the placement of Finnish experts in the World Bank. In addition to Finland, the DFSP is funded by a total of 18 countries. The financing agreement between Finland and the World Bank was signed 30 June 2004. Finland has funded the programme by approximately EUR 12 million. In 2004-2021, the World Bank employed 24 Finnish mid-career level experts (12 women and 12 men). Finnish experts have worked in the gender, human rights, forest, land use, environment, disability and education sectors. The DFSP is an effective tool for exerting influence, making it possible to incorporate Finnish expertise into the World Bank. The World Bank is a highly valued organization and global development policy knowledge hub, and the ministry and the relevant sector can make use of the work experience and contacts provided through DFSP placements in the World Bank. The mid-career level expert will initially work for two years at the World Bank, which can be extended by one year if the World Bank commits to paying for the next two years. The term of the expert will thus be 2-5 years in total. According to feedback from the World Bank, Finnish experts are highly esteemed, which demonstrates that many of them have been transferred to the World Bank’s payroll.
Reforming land at the resource frontier in the face of green economy expansion: Changing property regimes in E
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Climate change and biodiversity loss are increasingly presented as an interconnected environmental crisis in need of a global scaling up investments for its mitigation. While the urgency is based on ecological evidence and receives state, corporate and civil society support, the rolling out of green investments at the local level can be highly problematic. Green initiatives tend to be implemented in economically and politically marginalized regions, and reproduce existing social and environmental injustices through dynamics of dispossession. The proposed project’s purpose is to provide novel insights into emerging conflict dynamics over land-based resources in the wake of green investments in the East African drylands. Its specific aim is to study how multiple stakeholders engage in conflicts that emerge at the intersection of green energy investments and conservation efforts on one hand, and pastoralist community’s control over communal land resources through ongoing land reform policies that aim to provide tenure-security for local communities on the other. This will be achieved through a multi-site ethnography in two counties in northern Kenya, with data being collected through a strategic combination of questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups, supported by document analysis. The results are expected to produce advice and identify lessons for wider East African drylands, which share similar challenges to secure community land tenure in the face of green investments.
EU REDD Facility
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Support to REDD+ process in 10 tropical timber producing countries • Support to innovative approaches in legality of land allocation and forest conversion, land-use planning, Land use finance and transparency in forest-risk commodity supply chains
PRIndex
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Overseas Development Institute is an independent think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is an independent think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. ODI has partnered with Land Alliance to scale up PRIndex, the first global index that measures perceptions of property rights among communities. The aim of this index is to provide a global and national-level baseline of perceptions of property rights, that is comparable, cost-effective, and widely accessible. This baseline will provide the grounding for a global conversation and movement around securing the property rights of an estimated 2 billion people who currently lack them. Omidyar Network is funding ODI to scale PRIndex to reach an initial tranche of 35 countries, with aspirations to reach 140 countries in the years to come.