Talk:Overseas Development Institute

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Added criticism section to help balance the article. Jonpatterns (talk) 11:57, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Arbitrary to list only one REPORT. Likewise the CRITICISM seems obscure: there are far more valid candidates here to include surely? Respublicans (talk) 19:32, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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Please could this page be updated with the below text, which would give a fuller and more accurate representation the history and current issues ODI (formerly Overseas Development Institute) works on.

ODI

ODI, formerly the Overseas Development Institute, is an independent, non-partisan global affairs think tank based in London, Brussels and Washington DC. It was founded in 1960. ODI’s mission is ‘to inspire people to act on injustice and inequality through collaborative research and ideas that matter for people and the planet’. It does this through ‘research, convening and influencing, to lead new thinking and future agendas to deliver transformational change’.

ODI’s work responds to five overarching strategic priorities: (1) the future of global cooperation, (2) human rights, conflict and peace, (3) climate, environment and biodiversity, (4) the global economic system, (5) digitalisation.

Research and convening activities are structured around eight programmes: (1) climate and sustainability, (2) development and public finance, (3) digital societies, (4) gender equality and social inclusion, (5) global risks and resilience, (6) humanitarian policy (7) international economic development, and (8) politics and governance.

ODI manages or hosts projects, networks and consortia in specific thematic and policy areas, including:

ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action

AWBI: Adaptation Without Borders

GAGE: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence

GLOW: Gender Equality in a Low-Carbon World

HPN: Humanitarian Practice Network

MIGNEX: Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus

PRINDEX: Global Property Rights Index

RESI: Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative

SITA: Supporting Investment and Trade in Africa

SPARC: Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crisis

ODI edits and manages two peer-reviewed scholarly journals, Development Policy Review (first published November 1966) and Disasters (journal) (first published March 1977). Both journals are published quarterly by Wiley (publisher).

Research publications and blog

ODI publishes several hundred reports, briefing papers and other materials every year across all of its areas of research interest.

ODI also produces regular blogs, insights and op-eds presenting research findings, anticipating key moments or responding to major global events.

Convening

ODI convenes frequent in-person and online panel events, roundtables, in-conversations and closed-door discussions.

In 2023, speakers at ODI events included UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, Professor Adam Tooze, IDB President Ilan Goldfajn, Professor Stefan Dercon, EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso, ex-Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne.

Think Change podcast

In 2022 ODI launched a podcast, ‘Think Change’, convening ODI researchers and guests to discuss global issues. The opening episode looked at the disinformation campaigns in the Russia–Ukraine war. As of March 2024, 42 episodes had been produced, covering issues including the societal implications of AI, modern slavery, the international refugee response, food systems, climate loss and damage and fossil fuels, conflict, forgotten crises and the state of democracy.

Films

The documentary film ‘Climate Blueprint: Dominica’, produced by ODI and Twenty Twenty Studios in 2023, won ‘Best short documentary’ at the Albany Film Festival 2023. The film has been screened at Climate Week NYC, the Green Screen Environmental Festival and the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Fellowship Scheme

The ODI Fellowship Scheme places graduate economists and statisticians in public policy institutions around the world. Since its establishment in 1963, the Scheme has placed more than 1,000 young people in over 50 governments and international organisations. Fellowships are determined primarily by the needs of the Scheme’s partner governments.

Funding for the Fellowship Scheme is provided by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Office for National Statistics, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Namibia Nature Foundation, the EdTech Hub , the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the Global Fund, the Government of Timor Leste, the World Health Organization and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Tandem

Tandem is ODI’s Global Leadership Programme for senior executives in humanitarian, development and peacebuilding roles. It was launched in 2023.

ODI Global Advisory

ODI Global Advisory is ODI’s social enterprise arm. It is wholly owned by ODI. It engages in strategic consultancy work, providing convening, advisory, policy and research products and services to generate income for ODI. All profits are donated to ODI. The Director of ODI Global Advisory is Sasha Kapadia.

Staffing and governance

ODI has more than 200 staff, including researchers, public affairs and communications staff and specialist support staff.

ODI is governed by a Board of Trustees. The terms of reference for the Board are to maintain the values of the organisation and to set the overall strategy and direction. The Board monitors the performance of the organisation and its management and appoints the Chief Executive. The Chair of the Board is Suma Chakrabarti.

ODI’s Chief Executive is Sara Pantuliano. Hans Peter Lankes is ODI’s Deputy Chief Executive and Managing Director. The Chief Finance and Operations Officer is Amy Rodwell. The Chief People Officer is Michelle King.

Funding

ODI’s income in 2022 was £27,444,000. ODI is funded largely through grants and donations from foundations, NGOs, the private sector, governments, multilateral agencies and academia. In 2022–2023, ODI’s top funding sources by volume were the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

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