IDD Birmingham December news
New publications
Niheer Dasandi and Slava Jankin (with Marina Romanello et al) ‘The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action’, The Lancet
Slava Jankin and Niheer Dasandi (with Alex Baturo) ‘Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present’, Journal of Peace Research
Chris Lyons published ‘Between Realism and Idealism in the Politics of Development’ Progress in Development Studies
Fiona Nunan (ed.) published ‘Researching Institutions in Natural Resource Governance: Methods and Frameworks’, Routledge (6th Dec)
Podcasts
Check out new episodes on 2 podcasts coming out of IDD:
Other project news
Niheer Dasandi appeared on NDTV to discuss the findings of the new Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report on 30th October.
The Thinking and Working Politically (TWP) Community of Practice have published two new publications and their Nov-Dec Newsletter:
- Political Economy Analysis in Sudan: Handy Tools for Everyone? by Beverley Jones and Daniel Oosthuizen, with Dr Abdelgalil Elmekki and Esraa Ahmed.
- Ripple Effects: Politicians and the Political Economy of International Development by Nicola Nixon, Leni Wild, Sumaya Saluja and Adam Burke.
IDD PGR, Krisna Puji Rahmayanti, was awarded the Public Administration Prize for the most publishable paper to her work, ‘Patterns of Collaboration in Disaster Response: A Case Study of Health Services during the West Nusa Tenggara Earthquake Response 2018’ at the UK Association for Public Administration’s conference. Krisna won a cash award and will be mentored by the journal Public Administration in developing her work for publication.
IDD PGR, Mia Hyun, in her role as the USAID Senior Regional Gender and Inclusive Development Advisor – organised the delegation from the US government (USAID and State Dept) representation to the UN-ESCAP Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review Thirtieth Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action (1995) (19 ─ 21 November 2024, United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok). She drafted the interventions delivered by the US government during the plenary and organised and moderated a side event on Accelerating Investment in Gender Equality: Financing and Policy Reforms, featuring a panel of experts from the World Bank, UN Women, and UNFPA. Links to materials here.