The ODID blog

Lesson in a rural primary school in Guatemala.

28 March 2025

Flying blind: losing our data on poverty

OPHI Director Sabina Alkire highlights some less well-known implications of the recent cuts to USAID, focusing on the flagship Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program.

08 August 2024

New Director sets out ambitious plans for Young Lives

Newly appointed Young Lives Director Marta Favara reflects on the study's successes so far, outlines three new areas of work and highlights plans for the longer term.

25 July 2024

Decolonising resilience: the urgent need to think beyond ‘inclusion’

Local communities and Indigenous peoples must be seen as agents, rather than as passive subjects of Eurocentric resilience policies.

A wooden structure with corrugated iron roof with a solar panel propped outside against a backdrop of trees

02 July 2024

Cutting-edge steps towards a fair energy transition in Amazonia

A recent ODID panel event highlighted pioneering work by the University of Campinas in Brazil in developing sustainable energy solutions.

A woman in a brightly coloured headdress having her iris scanned

13 June 2024

How digital technologies are transforming refugees’ experiences

The latest issue of Forced Migration Review considers the double-sided nature of digital technologies and their implications for displaced people across the globe.

Agricultural workers in a strawberry field

31 May 2024

Mexican government failing to provide decent jobs for vulnerable youth – leaving the door open to cartel recruitment

New research has overturned assumptions about why young Mexican men are vulnerable to recruitment into violent gangs, with implications for government policy.

Workers sorting produce on a factory floor

13 May 2024

Understanding the world through the lens of ‘work’

From Ugandan scientists to Syrian refugee educators, South African state officials to former US coalminers, a recent roundtable highlighted ODID’s richly diverse ethnographic research into “work”.

People marching holding placards and a banner reading 'Climate reparations now'

25 April 2024

Climate migrants: victims or agents of change?

The latest event in our Climate Change and the Challenges of Development series challenged the notion that climate migrants are primarily victims and focussed on the ways in which they can also help bring about change.

Hands working at a laptop with data graphics superimposed

12 April 2024

Expanding horizons: the role of digital methods in development research

From profiling political emotions to putting a value on intellectual property, emergent digital research tools offer unprecedented insights and potential to support global development.

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