We are delighted to announce that the 2024 ODID Annual Report has now been published. The report brings together highlights, events and publications from the last year.

We are thrilled to announce that, 16 years after its foundation, TMCD has now become the Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre (TIDE), heralding a change of direction in terms of focus areas and a change of director with Professor Amir Lebdioui. Visit the TIDE website.

ODID are pleased to announce that after providing crucial early funding for the Refugee-Led Research Hub (based at the Refugee Studies Centre), the IKEA Foundation has given an additional grant of £2 million to support the project as it expands its work with displaced scholars. Full details

How can research into new forms of inclusive digital business models directly benefit those who need them most? Professor Xiaolan Fu’s IDModel project is paving the way with an app-based solution that empowers users in developing countries to generate income. Watch the video here

OPHI Advanced Course: The OPHI Advanced Course on Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis is a new course taking place on 4-8 August 2025 at the University of Oxford. It is aimed at those who are interested in deepening their knowledge and skills in the use of multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis, from academic institutions to governments and international organisations.

International Online School in Forced Migration: Applications are open for the International Online School in Forced Migration run by the Refugee Studies Centre. This academic year, the five-day course will take place on 17-21 March and 23-27 June via Zoom and the virtual learning platform Canvas.

Palestine Refugees and International Law:This two-day short course from the Refugee Studies Centre will be held in-person on Friday 14 March and Saturday 15 March 2025 at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey.

Sabina Alkire and Rizwan Ul Haq (2025) ‘Analyzing individual disadvantages alongside household poverty to illuminate gendered and intrahousehold disparities’, OPHI Working Paper 146, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Sabina Alkire, Ana Vaz and Christian Oldiges (2025) ‘Strengthening the policy impact of multidimensional metrics given attention constraints: Constructing linked metrics’, OPHI Working Paper 145, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Xiaolan Fu, Pervez Ghauri and Jianan Lu (2025) ‘Digital technology and inclusive development during global crisis: Evidence from a randomised experiment in Bangladesh’, Research Policy, 54, 105173.

Amir Lebdioui, Angel Melguizo and Victor Muñoz (2025) ‘Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity & Energy: From a Resource-Intensive to a Symbiotic Tech’, TIDE Working Paper 90, TIDE, University of Oxford.

MPDSI Pakistan, UNICEF and OPHI (2024) Multidimensional Poverty Index Report 2019-20, Ministry of Planning Development and Special Initiatives, Government of Pakistan (MPDSI Pakistan), UNICEF, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).

Suman Seth and Sabina Alkire (2025) ‘Accessing inclusive well-being to leave no one behind’, OPHI Working Paper 147, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

SNBS and MoLSA (2024). Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for Somalia Report 2024, Somalia National Bureau of Statistics (SNBS) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA).

Nicolai Suppa and Usha Kanagaratnam (2025) ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Harmonised level estimates and their changes over time’, Scientific Data, 12, 153.

UNDP and OPHI (2024) How to Use National MPIs as a Policy Tool: From Metrics to Policy, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), New York.