New Handbook Launch
This month The Routledge Handbook of Global Development was published. Listen to an exclusive series of podcasts with the core-editorial team, including Nicola Banks on her section ‘Game Changers for Global Development?‘ 

African Cities Research Consortium: Keep an eye out next month for outputs from the Covid Collective, with research centred in four of ACRC’s focus cities: Kampala, Nairobi, Lilongwe and Mogadishu. 

Johan Oldekop has been awarded a grant of €2 million to investigate sustainable forest transitions. Over the next five years, the project will investigate the environmental and social outcomes of reforestation processes. Find out more.

The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers, edited by Tom Lavers is a new open-access publication that provides a systematic analysis of the political processes shaping social transfers.

GDI Lecture Series: There are two events remaining in the 2021-22 GDI Lecture Series.

Hybrid lecture on Global Covid Vaccines Inequalities on Wed 16^th March (4pm GMT)

Hybrid lecture on the recently concluded “Shifting South” research project on Wed 23^rd March (4.30pm GMT)

To register and for full details, please use the above links.

FutureDAMS Final Webinar Series: this large research project comes to an end, there is a closing seminar series summarising the research done. The next webinar on Tues 9^th March at 4pm GMT, when contested baselines and transboundary water resources are explored through the case of the Nile river. Use the link to register.

Diana Mitlin has recently authored two papers addressing the crisis in urban water access and understanding the sanitation crisis in global South cities.